DISTRIBUTION OF SNOW COVER DENSITY THROUGHOUT THE USSR

• Main Author: Lipovskaya,V. I.
• Other Authors: FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIV WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OHIO
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1968
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; (*SNOW; DISTRIBUTION); DENSITY; TERRAIN; ALTITUDE; THICKNESS; MOUNTAINS; WIND; VELOCITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; USSR; TRANSLATIONS; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0681269; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0681269

The principal factors, governing the distribution of the snow cover densities throughout the USSR, are reviewed. In general, the snow cover density was found to increase with the weight of the snow, the wind velocity and the temperature changes. Within the range of 0.27 to 0.36 g/cu cm, the density rises by 0.04 g/cu cm for every degree of positive temperature. It also depends on the length of time the snow cover exists. Thus, the density of snow cover triples from 0.05 to 0.15 g/cu cm while its thickness decreases by 8 to 10 times. (Author) Edited trans. of Glavnaya Geofizicheskaya Observatoriya, Leningrad. Trudy (USSR) n200 p53-58 1966, by L. Heenan. Also available as FSTC-HT-23-75-68A.