Modeling the evolution of the structural anisotropy of snow

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Leinss, Silvan, Löwe, Henning, Proksch, Martin, Kontu, Anna
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2020
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Sodankylä; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-51-2020; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00050041; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00049658/tc-14-51-2020.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/14/51/2020/tc-14-51-2020.pdf

The structural anisotropy of snow characterizes the spatially anisotropic distribution of the ice and air microstructure and is a key parameter for improving parameterizations of physical properties. To enable the use of the anisotropy in snowpack models as an internal variable, we propose a simple...