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Christian Gabriel Sommer

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Wind Tunnel Experiments: Influence of Erosion and Depositionon Wind-Packing of New Snow

Michael Lehning, Christian Gabriel Sommer, Charles Fierz

2018

Wind-packing of snow: How do wind crusts form?

Christian Gabriel Sommer

Wind-packing of snow is the process responsible for the formation of wind slabs and wind crusts. These are hard layers of well-sintered snow often found in the snowpack in mountains as well as in polar regions. Wind-packing affects the local mass balance, ...

EPFL2018

Investigation of a wind-packing event in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica

Michael Lehning, Nander Wever, Christian Gabriel Sommer, Charles Fierz

Surface snow in polar and mountainous regions is often mobile and this mobility influences surface mass balance and isotopic composition before final deposition, which is poorly understood thus far. In December 2016 and January 2017, during a field campaig ...

COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH2018