Modelling of the densification of polar firn: characterization of the snow-firn transition
International audience The transformation of dry snow to firn is described by the transition between densification by deformationless restacking and densification by power-law creep.The observed decrease with temperature of the density at the snow- firn transition seems to result from the competitio...
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Format: | Conference Object |
Language: | English |
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1997
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Online Access: | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00927005 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00927005/document https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00927005/file/igs_annals_vol26_year1998_pg39-44.pdf |
Summary: | International audience The transformation of dry snow to firn is described by the transition between densification by deformationless restacking and densification by power-law creep.The observed decrease with temperature of the density at the snow- firn transition seems to result from the competition between grain-boundary sliding and power-law creep. These two densification processess occur concurrenLly in snow, although there are probably micro-regions in which sliding alone occurs. Validation ofa geometrical densifi- cation model developed for ceramics has been obtained from densification data from several Antarctic and Greenland sites and from the characterization of the structure of polar firn. |
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