Effects of Solar Radiation on the Formation of Weak Wet Snow
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- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by International Glaciological Society in Annals of Glaciology
- Vol. 13, 120-123
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260305500007746
Abstract
Laboratory and field experiments on hardness of snow have shown that the free water contained in snow decreases its hardness, and that solar radiation further decreases hardness down to a value below the limit of that which would result only from the influence of the water content of snow. A quantitative relationship between the amount of solar radiation absorbed by snow and decrease in snow hardness was derived. Thin-section analyses of snow were used to reveal the mechanism of decrease in snow hardness which had been caused by solar radiation.Keywords
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