Articles | Volume 25, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-12535-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-12535-2025
Research article
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09 Oct 2025
Research article |  | 09 Oct 2025

Snow particle fragmentation enhances snow sublimation

Ning Huang, Jiacheng Bao, Hongxiang Yu, and Guang Li

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Snow particle fragmentation enhances snow sublimation - data N. Huang et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17278746

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Particle fragmentation makes snowflakes spherical during wind-drifting snow. However, no drifting snow model has presented this process so far. We established a drifting snow model considering particle fragmentation and investigated the effects of snow particle fragmentation on drifting and blowing snow. Our results show that fragmentation intensifies the sublimation of blowing snow and changes the airborne particle size distribution, which should not be ignored in current blowing snow models.
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