On the Relationship Between Stickiness in DMRT Theory and Physical Parameters of Snowpack: Theoretical Formulation and Experimental Validation With SNOWPACK Snow Model and X-Band SAR Data
Abstract:This study aims at relating the stickiness parameter (ฯ) of the Dense Media Radiative Transfer theory integrated with Sticky Hard Sphere (SHS) model (DMRT-QMS), to the physical parameters of the layered snowpack. A relationship has been derived to express ฯ, which modulates the attractive contact force between ice spheres, as a function of ice volume fraction (๐) and coordination number (nc). Since ฯ is not a measurable parameter, this is a step forward with respect to what is commonly made in literature, whe… Show more
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