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Reliable predictions of sea level rise require a quantitative understanding of the mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet. Water vapor exchange between snow and the atmospheric boundary layer may be an important term in the mass balance equation but curre ...
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MDPI2023Characterizing airborne snow metamorphism using stable water isotope measurements in snow and vapor from ring wind tunnel experiments
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Drifting-blowing snow events are frequent phenomena in alpine and polar regions with direct effects on the local mass and energy balance that are difficult to quantify. In addition to this immediate impact of the blowing snow cloud the aeolian transport mo ...
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The snow surface morphology is shaped throughout a winter season by atmospheric conditions, like precipitation, wind, solar irradiance, air temperature or relative humidity. Changes in morphology affect the snow surface roughness which influences the turbu ...
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have benefited from a tremendous increase in popularity over the past decade, which has inspired their application toward many novel and unique use cases. One of them is the use of UAVs in meteorological research, in particu ...
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