Environmental conditions for snow cornice formation in a wind tunnel

• Main Authors: Yu, H., Li, G., Walter, B., Michael, L., Zhang, J., Huang, N.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Gruvefjellet; Svalbard
• Online Access: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5016693

Snow cornices are common snow patterns in mountain ridge, which have potential to trigger snow avalanches. In this work, we present a series of wind tunnel experiments in a cold laboratory to simulate the formation processes of snow cornices. We quantitatively investigated the growth rates of snow c...