Elevation-dependent behavior of hoar-prominent snowpack on forest slopes in the Japanese Central Alps based on a decade of observations

• Published in: Annals of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Yusuke Harada, Ryuzo Wakabayashi, Yoshikage Inoue
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2018
• Subjects: snow metamorphosis; snow physics; wind-blown snow; Meteorology. Climatology; QC851-999; Midwinter; Annals of Glaciology
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2018.33; https://doaj.org/article/c86dc838abe04f32909547617e90b064

Full snow-pit observations were performed on a monthly basis over ten winter seasons from 1995 to 2004, at 15 study plots spaced at 100 m elevation intervals (1300–2700 m a.s.l.) in the mountainous forest of the Japanese Central Alps. We observed 514 pits with an average depth of 1.12 m. Density mea...