{"id":590,"date":"2020-08-23T18:13:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T18:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/?p=590"},"modified":"2020-11-23T18:42:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T18:42:15","slug":"snow-research-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/snow-research-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow science research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most snow does not lie flat. Instead, the wind shapes and organizes it into many patterns, like dunes, ripples, or anvil-shaped sastrugi. These features are widespread across ice caps and tundra, and where they form, they dramatically alter the surface energy fluxes and thermodynamics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See my 14-minute summary talk here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DOE CSGF 2020: Building Scalable Models of Self-Organized Snow\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RGpexgP53BU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also read about this work in my papers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>What are snow bedforms? What do they look like? How do they grow?<\/strong><br>&#8216;The evolution of snow bedforms in the Colorado Front Range&#8217;, <em>The Cryosphere<\/em>, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5194\/tc-13-1267-2019\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5194\/tc-13-1267-2019<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Can we predict when snow bedforms will form?<\/strong><br>&#8216;Statistical classification of self-organized snow surfaces&#8217;, <em>Geophysical Research Letters<\/em>, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2018GL077616\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2018GL077616<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Can we simulate snow bedform growth?<\/strong><br>&#8216;Rescal-snow: simulating snow dune growth with cellular automata&#8217;, <em>Journal of Open Source Software<\/em>, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/kellykochanski\/rescal-snow\">https:\/\/github.com\/kellykochanski\/rescal-snow<\/a><\/li><li><strong>How do dunes influence snow thermodynamics?<\/strong><br>&#8216;Snow dunes increase polar heat fluxes&#8217;, <em>under review.<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As a heads up, I am now working in a different field and not actively pursuing this line of research. However, I am delighted to talk about it and to support up-and-coming snow scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most snow does not lie flat. Instead, the wind shapes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,6,4],"tags":[67,65,64,26,29],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polar-climate","category-publications","category-research","tag-dunes","tag-research","tag-science","tag-snow","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","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=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}