STUDY ON SNOW DISPOSAL METHODS USING SNOW MELTING MACHINES DURING HEAVY SNOWFALL

On the evolution of the snow surface during snowfall

[1] The deposition and attachment mechanism of settling snow crystals during snowfall dictates the very initial structure of ice within a natural snowpack. In this letter we apply ballistic deposition as a simple model to study the structural evolution of the growing surface of a snowpack during its formation. The roughness of the snow surface is predicted from the behaviour of the time depende...

Determining the Snow Coefficient in order to simulate the snow melting in the Shemshak Watershed Using the WetSpa Model

In mountainous regions, snow forms a part of the precipitation. Therefore, snow melting is an important process in hydrology and hydraulic in these areas that its role should be considered independently in runoff generation. The Shemshak watershed basin located in Tehran province was selected as the study area of this research to examine the efficiency of the WetSpa hydrologic model to simulate...

Snowfall Measurement Using Lidar Ceilometers, Radars and Snow Gauges

1 School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kanazawa University Kakuma, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan ( † Tel: +81-76-234-4890; † E-mail: [email protected]) 2 Toyama National College of Technology Hongo, Toyama 939-8630, Japan 3 Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan 4 Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido Univ...

Snow melting bias in microwave mapping of Antarctic snow accumulation

Snow melting bias in microwave mapping of Antarctic snow accumulation O. Magand, G. Picard, L. Brucker, M. Fily, and C. Genthon Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, CNRS, Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble, 54 Rue Molière, BP 96, 38402 St Martin d’Hères Cedex, France Received: 13 February 2008 – Accepted: 4 March 2008 – Published: 24 April 2008 Correspondence to: G. Pic...

Correlations Between Analyses and Forecasts of Banded Heavy Snow Ingredients and Observed Snowfall