Transport of snow by the wind can have high impact on local glacier mass changes as it leads to non-uniform amounts of snow on the ground. In order to simulate and better understand this process we introduce a new modeling framework that is included into the widely used atmospheric ‘Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF)’ model. Test simulations and sensitivity experiments show the physical consistency of the model. Complex interactions between different processes like snow erosion, drifting snow sublimation and the wind field show the necessity of coupling the snow and atmospheric models.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023MS004007
Transport of snow by the wind can have high impact on local glacier mass changes as it leads to non-uniform amounts of snow on the ground. In order to simulate and better understand this process we introduce a new modeling framework that is included into the widely used atmospheric ‘Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF)’ model. Test simulations and sensitivity experiments show the physical consistency of the model. Complex interactions between different processes like snow erosion, drifting snow sublimation and the wind field show the necessity of coupling the snow and atmospheric models.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023MS004007