First experiments to determine snow density from diffuse near-infrared transmittance

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 81-86

  Gergely, Mathias ^a,b   Schneebeli, Martin ^a   Roth, Kurt ^b  

^a WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

DISORT; Grain size; Integrating sphere; Snow density; Transmittance

Indexed keywords

DISORT; GRAIN SIZE; INTEGRATING SPHERES; SNOW DENSITY; TRANSMITTANCE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; INFRARED DEVICES; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SNOWFALL MEASUREMENT; SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA; SPHERES;

SNOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAIN SIZE; LABORATORY METHOD; NEAR INFRARED; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SNOW COVER; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMITTANCE;

EID: 77957873699     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2010.06.005     Document Type: Article

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