THE NUMBER FLUX OF SNOW CRYSTALS AT THE GROUNDSource: Monthly Weather Review:;1967:;volume( 095 ):;issue: 012::page 921Author:GUNN, K. L. S.
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1967)095<0921:TNFOSC>2.3.CO;2Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Many measurements of the snowfall rate R and the average mass per crystal m? have provided values of R/m?, the number of snow crystals reaching unit area of the surface per unit time. A typical number is 1 per cm.2 per sec. Over a whole season's data, the flux is proportional to the snowfall rate. Specifically, two-thirds of the measurements lie within a factor two of a locus R/m? (cm.?2 sec?1) = 1.5 R1,0 where R is in millimeters of water per hour. Thus the principal contribution to any increase in the snowfall rate is the formation of new crystals, rather than the growth of existing ones.
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| contributor author | GUNN, K. L. S. | |
| date accessioned | 2017-06-09T15:58:35Z | |
| date available | 2017-06-09T15:58:35Z | |
| date copyright | 1967/12/01 | |
| date issued | 1967 | |
| identifier issn | 0027-0644 | |
| identifier other | ams-57915.pdf | |
| identifier uri | http://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4198304 | |
| description abstract | Many measurements of the snowfall rate R and the average mass per crystal m? have provided values of R/m?, the number of snow crystals reaching unit area of the surface per unit time. A typical number is 1 per cm.2 per sec. Over a whole season's data, the flux is proportional to the snowfall rate. Specifically, two-thirds of the measurements lie within a factor two of a locus R/m? (cm.?2 sec?1) = 1.5 R1,0 where R is in millimeters of water per hour. Thus the principal contribution to any increase in the snowfall rate is the formation of new crystals, rather than the growth of existing ones. | |
| publisher | American Meteorological Society | |
| title | THE NUMBER FLUX OF SNOW CRYSTALS AT THE GROUND | |
| type | Journal Paper | |
| journal volume | 95 | |
| journal issue | 12 | |
| journal title | Monthly Weather Review | |
| identifier doi | 10.1175/1520-0493(1967)095<0921:TNFOSC>2.3.CO;2 | |
| journal fristpage | 921 | |
| journal lastpage | 924 | |
| tree | Monthly Weather Review:;1967:;volume( 095 ):;issue: 012 | |
| contenttype | Fulltext |