COLD REGIONS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. PART II. PHYSICAL SCIENCE. SECTION B. THE PHYSICS AND MECHANICS OF SNOW AS A MATERIAL

Snow is a porous. permeable aggregate of ice grains. The grains can be predominantly single crystals or close groupings of several crystals. The pores are filled with air and water vapor. In wet snow the grains are coated with liquid water. The characteristic property of snow is its inherent thermod...

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Main Authors: BADER, HENRI, KUROIWA, DAISUKE
Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER NH
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1962
Subjects:
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
*CRYSTAL STRUCTURE
*CRYSTALS
*SNOW
*ICE
STRESSES
DENSITY
DEFORMATION
ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES
DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES
SHEAR STRESSES
CLASSIFICATION
TABLES(DATA)
ABSORPTION
CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION
Ice
permafrost
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0287052
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Summary:Snow is a porous. permeable aggregate of ice grains. The grains can be predominantly single crystals or close groupings of several crystals. The pores are filled with air and water vapor. In wet snow the grains are coated with liquid water. The characteristic property of snow is its inherent thermodynamic instability. Consequently most of the interesting physical parameters inevitably change with time. This process of change is called snow metamorphism.

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