Distribution of Surface Features of Snow Cover in Mizuho Plateau

• Main Author: O. Watanabe
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Snow and Ice Studies, National research Center for Disaster Prevention 1978
• Subjects: Mizuho; Mizuho Plateau; Sastrugi; Ice Sheet; Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=854; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00000854/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=854&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

Studies have been made of surface features such as the sastrugi, the dune and the glazed surface which represent stages of deposition-erosion process of the snow surface of the ice sheet. A descriptive method is established on the surface features and surface conditions from a standpoint of these st...