{"id":472,"date":"2019-06-16T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/?p=472"},"modified":"2020-07-14T20:50:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T20:50:27","slug":"rescal-snow-simulating-wind-blown-snow-with-cellular-automata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/rescal-snow-simulating-wind-blown-snow-with-cellular-automata\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescal-snow: simulating wind-blown snow with cellular automata"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When wind blows over snow, it self-organizes. This forms surface \nfeatures, such as ripples and dunes, that alter the reflectivity and \nthermal conductivity of the snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These features have just begun to be studied by the snow and climate science communities\n(see <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/2015JF003529\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5194\/tc-13-1267-2019\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5194\/tc-2019-45\">3<\/a> for recent work).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I created rescal-snow, with a group of other students and staff at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, to provide a highly capable snow dune  modelling toolkit, to enable snow scientists to study snow features in  controlled numerical experiments, and produce high-quality quantitative  output. We hope that this model will be useful to researchers in snow science,  geomorphology, and polar climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read more and download the model from <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/kellykochanski\/rescal-snow\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/kellykochanski\/rescal-snow\">https:\/\/github.com\/kellykochanski\/rescal-snow<\/a><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/snowfall_example.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-473\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When wind blows over snow, it self-organizes. This forms surface&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,76,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-updates","category-simulations","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}