Modeling the Evolution of the Structural Anisotropy of Snow

• Main Authors: Leinss, Silvan, Löwe, Henning, Proksch, Martin, Kontu, Anna
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Sodankylä; Northern Finland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2019-63; https://www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net/tc-2019-63/

The structural anisotropy of snow that originates from a spatially anisotropic distribution of the ice matrix and the pore space, is a key quantity to understand physical snow properties and to improve their parameterizations. To this end we propose a minimal empirical model to describe the temporal...