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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2923-2018
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Research article
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14 Sep 2018
Research article |
| 14 Sep 2018
| 14 Sep 2018
Investigation of a wind-packing event in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica
Christian Gabriel Sommer
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, 7260 Davos, Switzerland
CRYOS, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, EPFL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Nander Wever
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, 7260 Davos, Switzerland
CRYOS, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, EPFL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Charles Fierz
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, 7260 Davos, Switzerland
Michael Lehning
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, 7260 Davos, Switzerland
CRYOS, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, EPFL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Short summary
Wind packing is how wind produces hard crusts at the surface of the snowpack. This is relevant for the local mass balance in polar regions. However, not much is known about this process and it is difficult to capture its high spatial and temporal variability. A wind-packing event was measured in Antarctica. It could be quantified how drifting snow leads to wind packing and generates barchan dunes. The documentation of these deposition dynamics is an important step in understanding polar snow.
Wind packing is how wind produces hard crusts at the surface of the snowpack. This is relevant...
