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Articles | Volume 14, issue 1
Articles | Volume 14, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-51-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-51-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 14, issue 1
Research article
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14 Jan 2020
Research article |  | 14 Jan 2020

Modeling the evolution of the structural anisotropy of snow

Silvan Leinss, Henning Löwe, Martin Proksch, and Anna Kontu

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The anisotropy of the snow microstructure, given by horizontally aligned ice crystals and vertically interlinked crystal chains, is a key quantity to understand mechanical, dielectric, and thermodynamical properties of snow. We present a model which describes the temporal evolution of the anisotropy. The model is driven by snow temperature, temperature gradient, and the strain rate. The model is calibrated by polarimetric radar data (CPD) and validated by computer tomographic 3-D snow images.
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