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Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics

2018 year, number 2

The parameterization of blowing snow beginning and evolution

V.I. Bychkova, K.G. Rubinstein
Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia, 11-13, Bol'shoj Predtechenskij per., 123242, Moscow, Russia
Keywords: прогноз метелей, физика приземного слоя, взаимодействие снежной поверхности и нижнего слоя атмосферы, blizzards forecast, physics of the surface air layer, interaction of the snow surface and lower layer of the atmosphere

Abstract

A parameterization of blowing snow beginning and evolution is suggested with accounting for all basic physical mechanisms of snow drifting, dynamics of air and snow particles, and evaporation of suspended particles.