Statistical Classification of Self‐Organized Snow Surfaces

• Main Authors: Kochanski, K., Anderson, R.S., Tucker, Gregory E.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: CU Scholar 2018
• Subjects: snow; bedform; snow on sea ice; aeolian; snow transport; wind blown; Sastrugi; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://scholar.colorado.edu/geol_facpapers/28; https://scholar.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1025&context=geol_facpapers

Wind‐swept snow self‐organizes into bedforms. These bedforms affect local and global energy fluxes but have not been incorporated into Earth system models because the conditions governing their development are not well understood. To address this difficulty, we created statistical classifiers, drawn...