Soil moisture, wind speed and depth hoar formation in the Arctic snowpack
Basal depth hoar that forms in Arctic snowpacks often has a low thermal conductivity, strongly contributing to the snowpack thermal insulance and impacting the permafrost thermal regime. At Ward Hunt Island (Canadian high Arctic, 83°05′N, 74°07′W) almost no depth hoar was observed in spring 2016 des...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Glaciology |
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| Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0022143018000898/type/journal_article |