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DOI	10.5194/tc-10-743-2016
	Brief communication: Two well-marked cases of aerodynamic adjustment of sastrugi
	Amory C.; Naaim-Bouvet F.; Gallée H.; Vignon E.
发表日期	2016
ISSN	19940416
卷号	10 期号:2
英文摘要	In polar regions, sastrugi are a direct manifestation of drifting snow and form the main surface roughness elements. In turn, sastrugi alter the generation of atmospheric turbulence and thus modify the wind field and the aeolian snow mass fluxes. Little attention has been paid to these feedback processes, mainly because of experimental difficulties. As a result, most polar atmospheric models currently ignore sastrugi over snow-covered regions. This paper aims at quantifying the potential influence of sastrugi on the local wind field and on snow erosion over a sastrugi-covered snowfield in coastal Adélie Land, East Antarctica. We focus on two erosion events during which sastrugi responses to shifts in wind direction have been interpreted from temporal variations in drag and aeolian snow mass flux measurements during austral winter 2013. Using this data set, it is shown that (i) neutral stability, 10 m drag coefficient (CDN10) values are in the range of 1.3-1.5 × 10-3 when the wind is well aligned with the sastrugi, (ii) as the wind shifts by only 20-30° away from the streamlined direction, CDN10 increases (by 30-120 %) and the aeolian snow mass flux decreases (by 30-80 %), thereby reflecting the growing contribution of the sastrugi form drag to the total surface drag and its inhibiting effect on snow erosion, (iii) the timescale of sastrugi aerodynamic adjustment can be as short as 3 h for friction velocities greater than 1 m s-1 and during strong drifting snow conditions and (iv) knowing CDN10 is not sufficient to estimate the snow erosion flux that results from drag partitioning at the surface because CDN10 includes the contribution of the sastrugi form drag. © Author(s) 2016.
学科领域	aerodynamics; atmospheric modeling; drag coefficient; eolian process; feedback mechanism; flux measurement; ice ridge; polar region; snow cover; surface roughness; turbulence; wind direction; wind erosion; wind field; Adelie Coast; Antarctica; East Antarctica
语种	英语
scopus关键词	aerodynamics; atmospheric modeling; drag coefficient; eolian process; feedback mechanism; flux measurement; ice ridge; polar region; snow cover; surface roughness; turbulence; wind direction; wind erosion; wind field; Adelie Coast; Antarctica; East Antarctica
来源期刊	Cryosphere
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/119666
作者单位	Univ. Grenoble Alpes, LGGE, Grenoble, 38041, France; CNRS, LGGE, UMR5183, Grenoble, 38401, France; Univ. Grenoble Alpes, IRSTEA, UR ETNA, St-Martin-d'Hères, 38042, France
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Amory C.,Naaim-Bouvet F.,Gallée H.,et al. Brief communication: Two well-marked cases of aerodynamic adjustment of sastrugi[J],2016,10(2).
APA	Amory C.,Naaim-Bouvet F.,Gallée H.,&Vignon E..(2016).Brief communication: Two well-marked cases of aerodynamic adjustment of sastrugi.Cryosphere,10(2).
MLA	Amory C.,et al."Brief communication: Two well-marked cases of aerodynamic adjustment of sastrugi".Cryosphere 10.2(2016).