Collaborative Experiment for Pulsed Radar Visualization of Water Flow Paths in Snow
Abstract
Movement of liquid water through snowpacks is one of the least understood aspects of snow hydrology Richter-Menge and Colbeck 1991. It has an important influence on the timing and magnitude of snowmelt hydrographs Caine 1992 and on biogeochemical and geomorphological processes Williams and Melack. 1989: Caine. 1995. Adapting more physically-based approaches to understand and model flow through a snowpack should permit wider applications of operational snowpack models to more sites and allow for year-to-year variability within a site Melloh. 1999. Similarly. research on glacial hydrology has shown that the least-understood part of this system is the simplistic way that current models treat meltwater storage and routing through supraglacial snowpacks (Arnold et al.. 1998.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 22, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA389393
Entities
People
- M. Knoll
- M. W. Williams
- W. T. Pfeffer
Organizations
- University of Colorado Boulder