Modeling Dry-Snow Densification without Abrupt Transition

• Published in: Geosciences
• Main Author: Elizabeth Morris
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: snow models; densification; Greenland; Pine Island Glacier; Langway; Antarc*; Antarctica; glacier; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8120464

An empirical model for the densification of dry snow has been calibrated using strain-rate data from Pine Island Glacier basin, Antarctica. The model provides for a smooth transition between Stage 1 and Stage 2 densification, and leads to an analytical expression for density as a function of depth....