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Parameterizations of Snow Cover, Snow Albedo and Snow Density in Land Surface Models: A Comparative Review
Snow plays a vital role in the interaction between land and atmosphere in the state-of-the-art land surface models (LSMs) and the real world. While...
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Unraveling the optical shape of snow
The reflection of sunlight off the snow is a major driver of the Earth’s climate. This reflection is governed by the shape and arrangement of ice...
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Simulation of roof snow loads based on a multi-layer snowmelt model: Impact of building heat transfer
To investigate the impact of building heat transfer on roof snow loads, roof snow loads and snow load thermal coefficients from 61 Chinese sites over...
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Climate change exacerbates snow-water-energy challenges for European ski tourism
Ski tourism is a substantial component of the economy of mountainous regions in Europe and is highly vulnerable to snow scarcity, which is increasing...
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A Database of Snow on Sea Ice in the Central Arctic Collected during the MOSAiC expedition
Snow plays an essential role in the Arctic as the interface between the sea ice and the atmosphere. Optical properties, thermal conductivity and mass...
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Lemming winter habitat: the quest for warm and soft snow
During the cold arctic winter, small mammals like lemmings seek refuge inside the snowpack to keep warm and they dig tunnels in the basal snow layer,...
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Analyzing Snow Parameters Dynamics in Arunachal Pradesh’s Glaciated River Basins Through Spatially Distributed Snowmelt Runoff Model (SDSRM): Dibang, Mago and Subansiri
Considering the importance of snow parameters on ecological balance and hydrological systems and their variation and response with respect to climate...
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Black Carbon Size in Snow of Chinese Altai Mountain in Central Asia
Black carbon (BC) in snow plays an important role to accelerate snow melting. However, current studies mostly focused on BC concentrations, few on...
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Evaluating the Thermal Resistance of Snow Cover by Ground Temperature
AbstractA procedure is proposed for determining the thermal resistance of snow cover and the effective thermal conductivity of snow by ground...
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Geological setup, structure and metamorphism of south-eastern part of Sandur Schist Belt around Obulapuram area, Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh
Geological map** of over 50 km 2 area has been carried out in and around Obulapuram area, SE of Sandur Schist Belt. The Sandur Schist Belt (SSB), a...
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Enstatite chondrites: condensation and metamorphism under extremely reducing conditions and contributions to the Earth
Enstatite chondrites are a small clan of meteorites, only ~ 1% out of all meteorite collection. However, they are the most reduced meteorites and...
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Surface area change detection of snow/ice cover over Zemu Glacier of Sikkim Himalaya
This study assessed the snow/ice surface area changes over the Zemu Glacier in the Eastern Himalayas. Zemu is considered to be the largest glacier in...
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Sámi Traditional Reindeer Herding Knowledge Throughout a Year: Herding Periods on Snow-Covered Ground
Sámi traditional reindeer herding knowledge is the basis decisions in time and space made by Sámi reindeer herders with emphasis on periods and...
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Possible impacts of vegetation cover increment on the relationship between winter snow cover anomalies over the Third Pole and summer precipitation in East Asia
Snow cover over the Tibetan Plateau (TP)–the Third Pole of the earth has been recognized as a reliable signal of summer floods or droughts in East...
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Development of Processing Algorithms for the Retrieval of Snow/Ice Parameters from SAR Data
The primary objective of this project is to extract wet/dry snow parameters which helps in snow avalanche effect. The most powerful way to evaluate...
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Calibration of Snow and Met Sensors for Avalanche Forecasting
Accurate avalanche forecasting is imperative for the safety of man-machine and habitations and operations including snow removal, road clearance,...
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Calibration of Snow and Met Sensors for Avalanche Forecasting
Accurate avalanche forecasting is imperative for the safety of man-machine and habitations and operations including snow removal, road clearance,...
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Impacts of physical parameterization scheme of snow and soil properties over the Tibetan Plateau on the simulation of summer rainfall in China
Accurate representation of soil and snow state variables in the land surface model is crucial for good simulation results. In order to investigate...
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Asymmetric emergence of low-to-no snow in the midlatitudes of the American Cordillera
Societies and ecosystems within and downstream of mountains rely on seasonal snowmelt to satisfy their water demands. Anthropogenic climate change...
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Some Improvements of a Visco-Plastic Constitutive Model for Snow
Snow is a peculiar example of a granular and low density geomaterial that exists at environmental conditions very close to its melting point. Once...