Articles | Volume 18, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1653-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1653-2024
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09 Apr 2024
Research article |  | 09 Apr 2024

A rigorous approach to the specific surface area evolution in snow during temperature gradient metamorphism

Anna Braun, Kévin Fourteau, and Henning Löwe

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Simulation parameters and outputs for a rigorous approach to the specific surface area evolution in snow during temperature gradient metamorphism Anna Braun et al. https://doi.org/10.16904/envidat.492

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The specific surface of snow dictates key physical properties and continuously evolves in natural snowpacks. This is referred to as metamorphism. This work develops a rigorous physical model for this evolution, which is able to reproduce X-ray tomography measurements without using unphysical tuning parameters. Our results emphasize that snow crystal growth at the micrometer scale ultimately controls the pace of metamorphism.