Compactive Viscosity of Snow and Its Climatic Implications at Mizuho Station, Antarctica (Special Issue of the Proceedings of the First Symposium on Antarctic Meteorology and Glaciology)

• Main Authors: Norikazu MAENO, Hideki MAEDA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: National Institute of Polar Research 1979
• Subjects: geo; envir; Antarctic; Mizuho; Mizuho Station; Sharp Peak; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15094/00008092; https://doaj.org/article/7b4ec842d2694bd8a0ce23ef963a85c9

The compactive viscosity coefficient of snow was obtained from a density profile at Mizuho Station, Antarctica The value of the compactive viscosity coefficient was by two orders of magnitude larger than that of ordinary seasonal snow. The large value was attributed to strong bonds between constitue...