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that compresses with time and melts seasonally, often at high elevation or high latitude. Snowpacks are an important water resource that feed streams and rivers as they melt, sometimes leading to flooding. Snowpacks provide water to down-slope communities for drinking and agriculture. High-latitude
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Snowpack modeling is done for snow stability, flood forecasting, water resource management, and climate studies. Snowpack modeling is either done by simple, statistical methods such as
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Vapor flux and recrystallization during dry snow metamorphism under a steady temperature gradient as observed by time-lapse micro-tomography
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Mousavi, Seyedmohammad (2016). "Dry snowpack and freshwater icepack remote sensing using wideband Autocorrelation radiometry".
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Advanced Concepts and Techniques in the Study of Snow and Ice Resources: An Interdisciplinary Symposium; [papers]
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Tobias Kurzeder, Holger Feist, Powderguide: Managing Avalanche Risk, Mountain Sports Press, 978-0972482738, 190 pages
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Assessing the formation and stability of snowpacks is important in the study and prediction of
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or complex, physically based energy balance models such as SNOWPACK, CROCUS or SNOWMODEL.
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Viallon-Galinier, Léo; Hagenmuller, Pascal; Lafaysse, Matthieu (2020-12-01).
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2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
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Santeford, Henry S.; Smith, James Leroy (January 1974).
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Snow pack

Taku Glacier
Snow Pack
snow
glaciers
accumulation zones
avalanches
metamorphism
hydrology
catchment hydrology
climate change
ice–albedo feedback
remote sensing
habitats
plant succession
hydrometeor

degree day
Advection
Glacial period
Glacier mass balance
Hydrology
Subnivean climate
"Definition of SNOWPACK"
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