Item: Snow Water Studies and Comparative Electromagentic Measurements in the Austrian Alps: A 15 Year Field Study
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Title: Snow Water Studies and Comparative Electromagentic Measurements in the Austrian Alps: A 15 Year Field Study
Proceedings: Proceedings of the 2006 International Snow Science Workshop, Telluride, Colorado
Authors:
- A. Denoth [ LFU Innsbruck, Institute of Experimental Physics, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria ]
Date: 2006
Abstract: Various methods for measuring the liquid water content of a natural snow cover have been tested extensively under field conditions: hot- and freezing calorimetry, dielectric methods operating in the low- and mid frequency regime, resonator/antenna methods and free-wave-methods operating in the VHF up to the microwave frequency regime; both thermo-gravimetry and resonator methods have been used for soil water measurements near the snow-soil interface. Comparative measurements of the vertical distribution of water in a natural snow cover, long-term water flow recordings with the detection of melt water shock-waves, and comparative measurements of the water saturation gradient near the snow-soil interface, and its variation with time, have been carried out. From a 15 year field research program relations between snow geometric structure parameters derived from electromagnetic studies and characteristic snow hydraulic parameters derived from drainage and percolation studies are presented.
Language of Article: English
Presenters: Unknown
Keywords: snow physics, electromagnetic properties, hydraulic properties, snow texture
Page Number(s): 389-392
Subjects: snow water equivalent electromagnetic measurements snow physics and mechanics
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