Collaborative Experiment for Pulsed Radar Visualization of Water Flow Paths in Snow

Movement of liquid water through snowpacks is one of the least understood aspects of snow hydrology Richter-Menge and Colbeck 1991. It has an important influence on the timing and magnitude of snowmelt hydrographs Caine 1992 and on biogeochemical and geomorphological processes Williams and Melack. 1...

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Main Authors: Williams, M. W., Pfeffer, W. T., Knoll, M.
Other Authors: COLORADO UNIV AT BOULDER
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2000
Subjects:
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
*SNOW
WATER FLOW
HYDROLOGY
DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES
FLOW FIELDS
ICE
MELTING
RADAR REFLECTIONS
GLACIERS
SNOWPACKS
SNOWPACK WATER CONTENT
SNOWMELT
RADAR TOMOGRAPHY
Colbeck
Ice
permafrost
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA389393
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Summary:Movement of liquid water through snowpacks is one of the least understood aspects of snow hydrology Richter-Menge and Colbeck 1991. It has an important influence on the timing and magnitude of snowmelt hydrographs Caine 1992 and on biogeochemical and geomorphological processes Williams and Melack. 1989: Caine. 1995. Adapting more physically-based approaches to understand and model flow through a snowpack should permit wider applications of operational snowpack models to more sites and allow for year-to-year variability within a site Melloh. 1999. Similarly. research on glacial hydrology has shown that the least-understood part of this system is the simplistic way that current models treat meltwater storage and routing through supraglacial snowpacks (Arnold et al. 1998.

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