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Metamorphosis of the snow cover in South Spitsbergen in the season 1992-1993
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Winter snow cover in south Spitsbergen is modelled by three main factors: snow precipitation, strong winds which blow out large amounts of snow (locally snow deposition occurs) and winter thaws of short duration. Slight snow melting during thaws causes development of ice-crust layers in a frozen snow cover. The ice-crust protects snow cover from blowing out. Moreover, ice-crust layers are very important in the investigations of snow stratigraphy. In the winter snow cover of 1992/1993, eight layers of ice-crust were observed. The occurrence of atmospheric precipitation is highly associated with the type of atmospheric circulation in the area of south Spitsbergen. In the analysis of statistic relations between circulation and precipitation, circulation typology of Niedźwiedź (1997) was applied. In the period June 1992 - May 1993, as many as 74% of annual solid precipitation was associated with the occurrence of three types of circulation (C-10, C-8 and C-3). The circulations C-4, C-6 and C-1 gave only 4% of annual precipitation. The winter season 1992/1993 is connected with typical meteorological conditions that occur in the south part of Spitsbergen. In the area of Polish Polar Station, four phases of development and degradation of snow cover were distinguished: - intensive blowing out of snow (October - January), - small increase of snow cover thickness (February - March), - considerable increase of snow cover thickness (March - May), - thaws (May, 25th - June, 28th). The thickness of snow cover depended on the altitude and local conditions. Considerable differences were determined in snow thickness at two sites located in small distance from each other (500 m), both close to the seacoast (Fig. 1). Water equivalent of the snow cover at Polish Polar Station (8 m a.s.l.) at the end of winter was only 150 mm, whereas at Fugle site (5 m a.s.l.) it was 2.5 times higher (378 mm). These values were much higher on the glaciers; Hans Glacier in the ELA zone (300 m a.s.l.) - 276 mm and in the accumulation zone (450 m a.s.l.) - 1459 mm; Amundsenisen Plateau (700 m a.s.l.) - 1293 mm.
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41--54
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Bibliogr. 10 poz., rys., tab.
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- Katedra Klimatologii, Wydział Nauk o Ziemi, Uniwersytet Śląski, Sosnowiec
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Bibliografia
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bwmeta1.element.baztech-article-BWM3-0020-0003
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