The evolution of snow bedforms in the Colorado Front Range and the processes that shape them

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: K. Kochanski, R. S. Anderson, G. E. Tucker
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2019
• Subjects: geo; envir; Sastrugi; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1267-2019; https://www.the-cryosphere.net/13/1267/2019/tc-13-1267-2019.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/87876056101f44c9812d51abf2c8c1f5

When wind blows over dry snow, the snow surface self-organizes into bedforms such as dunes, ripples, snow waves, and sastrugi. These bedforms govern the interaction between wind, heat, and the snowpack, but thus far they have attracted few scientific studies. We present the first time-lapse document...