Influence of snow vertical structure on hydrothermal regime and snow-related economical aspects in Northern Eurasia

01.05.2004 - 30.04.2007
Research funding project
The project focused on multi-scale and multidisciplinary aspects of seasonal snow cover in landscape. The snow physics parameterization takes into account snow structure for the use in the Global Circulation Models (GCM). The geographic classification of snow classes is based on snow types, snow layers and crystal types. Numerical experiments with a GCM are performed. The outputs of the largescale models are linked to regional models and compared with measured data. The correlations between snow and hydrology are studied. The economical aspects of the snow, e.g. in tourism and transport are analyzed. Three years of working together was not enough to answer all questions that we put originally ahead. We could explore the potential of a longer lasting cooperation and contributed with some particular steps in exploring the interrelations of landscape and snow in different spatial scales. The research of this kind should go on in future. Link http://www.landscape.tuwien.ac.at/intas

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Project leader

Institute

Grant funds

  • European Commission (EU) INTAS - International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union European Commission Call identifier EU Intas Call 2003

Research focus

  • Beyond TUW-research focus: 100%

Keywords

GermanEnglish
SchneeSnow

External partner

  • Pavel Charamza

Publications