Phys.org  December 16, 2024 Loose surface snow gets eroded and transported by wind, which influences the snow particles’ physical properties that determine the characteristics of the emerging wind-impacted snowpack layer. Researchers in Switzerland used cold-laboratory ring wind tunnel experiments to study the governing processes during airborne snow transport with stable water isotopes as tracers for these micro-scale processes. They documented the growing and rounding of snow particles with transport time, with a concurrent decrease in specific surface area and attributed this evolution to the process of airborne snow metamorphism. The changes showed a clear isotopic signature of metamorphic deposition, which […]