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Experiments on the Heaving Force of Freezing Soil
Authors: Kinosita Seiiti 
Published: September 2017

AbstractFrost heaving of soil is accompanied by a force which often causes severe damage to structures. It was suggested by Everett that this so-called “heaving force" can be attributed to the coexistence of ice and water in micropores among soil particles which characterize the soil type and can be computed thermodynamically. However, the actual heaving force changes in a complicated manner depending on various factors including freezing speed, constraining condition for a soil block, and, of course, soil type.Measurements of heaving force were carried out on various soil samples (sand, sandy loam, sandy clay loam, and two kinds of clays) under various freezing conditions: freezing speed in a range from 0.10 cm/h to 0.35 cm/h, presence or absence of water supply, complete or loose axial constraint applied to a soil block. In each experiment, soil was packed in a cylindrical container with a diameter of 11 cm and a height of 10 cm. A disk was placed on top of the soil contained in the container to constrain the sample either rigidly (a complete axial constraint) or less rigidly through a spring (a loose axial constraint). Main results of the measurements were as follows:
(1)Under complete axial constraint, the heaving force decreased with decrease in the freezing speed and with the increase in the size of soil particles (from 6 bars to 1 bar for clay; from 4 bars to 1 bar for sandy clay loam; from 4 bars to 0.8 bar for sandy loam; from 1.5 bars to 0.6 bar for sand).(2)Without the constraint, the heave amount was almost independent of the freezing speed when there was no water supply (8 mm for clay; 6.5 mm for sandy clay loam; 3.5 mm for sandy loam; 1 mm for sand).(3)The heaving force decreased very rapidly with the loosening of the axial constraint by weakening the spring.The results indicate that it is practical to treat the heaving force phenomenologically as a kind of resistive force exerted by freezing soil on a container holding the soil. Because of a volumetric increase due to the transformation of water into ice at the freezing front, both unfrozen and frozen parts of the soil suffer some strain if the soil is somehow constrained by the container. The strains cause stresses which appear as the heaving force. A formula for the heaving force is given in which both the frozen and the unfrozen soil are treated as viscoelastic bodies.
Using Linear Discriminant Analysis to Classify Snowfall Situations into Avalanching and Non-Avalanching Ones
Authors: Drozdovskaya N.F. 
Published: September 2017

AbstractThe existing methods of predicting avalanche danger often do not meet users’ demands because of the empiric character of the insufficient volume of information used. In such forecasts the contribution of each individual parameter into the prognostic information is unknown, and this is very important when studying such an event as avalanche formation, which is conditioned by a complex interaction of numerous factors, including snow accumulation, the state of snow thickness, and the conditions of its development.It is obvious that such problems can be successfully solved by statistical methods, and that explains the growing interest in numerical methods of avalanche forecasting. Problems of multi-dimensional observations arises in many scientific fields. The method suited for this problem is discriminant analysis, the purpose of which is to divide a multi-dimensional observation vector into predetermined classes.This study considers the prognostic (diagnostic) problems of fresh-snow avalanches released during snowfall or in the two days after it has ceased. The theoretical basis is a complex of statistical methods: correlation and dispersion analysis, “sifting" for the choice of predictors’ informative groups, construction of linear parametric discriminant functions, predictions based on training sample, and verification of discriminant functions based on independent material.The archive used in the study consisted of 500 avalanching cases and 1 300 non-avalanching ones. All situations were grouped according to geomorphological characteristics. Each situation is described by eight meteorological characteristics. The results of classification of snowfall situations into avalanching and non-avalanching ones are as follows: reliability of ρ is from 75% to 91%, H from 0.15 to 0.51; based on independent material the reliability of ρ is from 63% to 85%, H from 0.10 to 0.56.This paper has been accepted in revised form for publication in a later issue of the Journal of Glaciology.
A Study of the Fluctuations in Sea-Ice Extent of the Bering and Okhotsk Seas with Passive Microwave Satellite Observations (Abstract)
Authors: Cavalieri D.J. , Parkinson C.L. 
Published: September 2017

The seasonal sea-ice cover of the combined Bering and Okhotsk Seas at the time of maximum ice extent is almost 2 × 106 km2 and exceeds that of any other seasonal sea-ice zone in the Northern Hemisphere. Although both seas are relatively shallow bodies of water overlying continental shelf regions, there are important geographical differences. The Sea of Okhotsk is almost totally enclosed, being bounded to the north and west by Siberia and Sakhalin Island, and to the east by Kamchatka Peninsula. In contrast, the Bering Sea is the third-largest semi-enclosed sea in the world, with a surface area of 2.3 × 106 km2, and is bounded to the west by Kamchatka Peninsula, to the east by the Alaskan coast, and to the south by the Aleutian Islands arc.While the relationship between the regional oceanography and meteorology and the sea-ice covers of both the Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk have been studied individually, relatively little attention has been given to the occasional out-of-phase relationship between the fluctuations in the sea-ice extent of these two large seas. In this study, we present 3 day averaged sea-ice extent data obtained from the Nimbus-5 Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer (ESMR-5) for the four winters for which ESMR-5 data were available, 1973 through 1976, and document those periods for which there is an out-of-phase relationship in the fluctuations of the ice cover between the Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk. Further, mean sea-level pressure data are also analyzed and compared with the time series of sea-ice extent data to provide a basis for determining possible associations between the episodes of out-of-phase fluctuations and atmospheric circulation patterns.Previous work by Campbell and others (1981) using sea-ice concentrations also derived from ESMR-5 data noted this out-of-phase relationship between the two ice packs in 1973 and 1976. The authors commented that the out-of-phase relationship is “... surprising as these are adjacent seas, and one would assume that they had similar meteorologic environments”. We argue here that the out-of-phase relationship is consistent with large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns, since the two seas span a range of longitude of about 60°, corresponding to a half wavelength of a zonal wave-number 3, and hence are quite susceptible to changes in the amplitude and phase of large-scale atmospheric waves.
Glacier Volume Estimation on Cascade Volcanoes: An Analysis and Comparison with Other Methods
Authors: Driedger C.L. , Kennard P.M. 
Published: September 2017

During the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, the occurrence of floods and mudflows made apparent a need to assess mudflow hazards on other Cascade volcanoes. A basic requirement for such analysis is information about the volume and distribution of snow and ice on these volcanoes.An analysis was made of the volume-estimation methods developed by previous authors and a volume- estimation method was developed for use in the Cascade Range. A radio echo-sounder, carried in a backpack, was used to make point measurements of ice thickness on major glaciers of four Cascade volcanoes (Mount Rainier, Washington; Mount Hood and the Three Sisters, Oregon; and Mount Shasta, California), These data were used to generate ice-thickness maps and bedrock topographic maps for developing and testing volume-estimation methods. Subsequently, the methods were applied to the unmeasured glaciers on those mountains and, as a test of the geographical extent of applicability, to glaciers beyond the Cascades having measured volumes.Two empirical relationships were required in order to predict volumes for all the glaciers. Generally, for glaciers less than 2.6 km in length, volume was found to be estimated best by using glacier area, raised to a power. For longer glaciers, volume was found to be estimated best by using a power law relationship, including slope and shear stress. The necessary variables can be estimated from topographic maps and aerial photographs.
Photogrammetric and Satellite Mapping of the Margin of the Inland Ice, West Greenland
Authors: Thomsen H.H. 
Published: September 2017

Glaciological investigations have been carried out in areas proposed for local hydro-power stations in Greenland, A mapping programme was set up, to provide data for mass balance and simulation of run-off, as well as glacier dynamics.Two types of glacier map have been produced, covering the margin of the Inland Ice: detailed photogrammetric maps, based on plotting from vertical aerial photographs and a new type of surface feature map, based on digitally-processed Landsat data. The photogrammetric maps, plotted on a scale of 1:25 000, include surface topography and surface features, such as crevasses, lakes, moraines etc. The surface feature maps, plotted on a scale of 1:100 000, show surface features related to ice and melt-water drainage, as well as subtle, topographic features, related to the subglacial topography.The maps have so far been used for preliminary delineation of drainage areas on the Inland Ice and for planning tracks of radio echo-soundings.
The Role of Debris-Rich Ice in Flow Near the Margins of Glaciers (Abstract)
Authors: Baker R.W. 
Published: September 2017

The margins of many ice sheets and ice caps are marked by the presence of alternating layers of debris-laden and clean ice. The role of this ice in flow and sediment transport near the margins of glaciers has been the subject of considerable controversy between glacial geologists and glaciologists for over three decades.Glacial geologists (Goldthwait, 1951, 1960, 1971, 1975; Bishop, 1957; Souchez, 1967, Boulton, 1970, 1972; Hambrey, 1976) commonly refer to the debris-bearing ice bands as “thrust planes” or “shear planes”, apparently seeing them as reverse faults which transport rock debris from the glacier bed to the surface in a “conveyor-belt-like” manner (Goldthwait, 1975, p. 192). As supporting evidence for the shear-plane mechanism, glacial geologists have offered only qualitative observations and none seem to have actually observed it in action. Glaciologists on the other hand, particularly Weertman (1961), Hooke (1968; 1973), and Hooke and Hudleston (1978), have objected to this concept on physical grounds and have presented convincing arguments for doubting that it is mechanically sound. In spite of the controversy surrounding it, the shear-plane mechanism has gained wide acceptance among geologists and physical geographers and has been perpetuated in recent years through a number of popular introductory geology and physical geography textbooks (e.g. Embleton and King, 1975; Judson, Deffeyes, and Hargraves, 1976; Leet, Judson, and Kauffman, 1978; Press and Siever, 1982; Hamblin; 1982).
Strain Rates On Rutford Ice Stream, Antarctica (Abstract)
Authors: Stephenson N. , Doake C.S.M. 
Published: September 2017

In a study of the Rutford Ice Stream, strain rates were measured on a transverse section. Magnitudes ranged up to 40 × 10−3 a−1 but were typically in the order of 3 × 10−3 a−1 with an error of 0.1 χ 10−3 a−1. Variations in the strain rate between adjacent stakes of 0.2 χ 10−3 a−1 to 2 × 10−3 a−1 were matched to the thickness variations on the glacier.For each set of three adjacent stakes, the velocity gradient components of the surface strain rate tensor were calculated by assuming that the gradients were linear over the distance between adjacent stakes. When plotted against distance across the ice stream, each strain rate component revealed different aspects of the flow field. The longitudinal strain rate was compressive, with an almost constant magnitude of 10−3 a−1. The lateral strain rate is extensive, with an average value of 1.1 × 10−3 a−1 which agreed with the angle between the divergent flow lines observed on a Landsat image. Peaks in the lateral strain rate, corresponding to longitudinal bands of thicker ice, showed that these thicker bands were spreading more rapidly at the expense of thinner areas. The two velocity gradient components of the shear rate tensor also reflected differences in ice thickness.
An Evaluation of Shock Waves in Unsaturated Wet Snow
Authors: Sato A. , Brown R. L. 
Published: September 2017

The propagation of shock waves in unsaturated wet snow is investigated, both analytically and experimentally.The experimental program was carried out in the laboratory with an electromagnetic stress-wave generator. During each test, impact velocity was measured at the base of the specimen by means of a contacting wire system. Also, pressure was measured at the opposite end with a piezo-resistive pressure transducer with a flat response from below 0.5 to above 100 kHz.Densities of snow samples in the range from 200 to 500 kg m−3 were tested. Impact velocities at the base were varied from 20 to as high as 100 rns −1. Propagation distances (specimen lengths) were varied from 2 to 5 cm. Also, for each test, the free water moisture content in the test specimen was carefully measured so that the effect of this property could be evaluated. The test results are reported and the wave attenuation rates are characterized in terms of the parameters discussed above. In addition, these results are compared to test results for dry snow.Finally, wave propagation theory is used to evaluate the material tangent modulus. The theory is also used to calculate particle velocity and density increases produced by the shock waves. The results are compared to those obtained earlier for dry snow.
Properties of Debris-Laden Ice: Application to the Flow Response of the Glaciers on Mount St Helens
Authors: Brugman Melinda M. 
Published: September 2017

Intense deformation within an extensive englacial debris layer appears to be a dominant flow mechanism for glaciers on Mount St Helens, Washington. Observations of this phenomenon have been made on Shoestring Glacier and more recently on other glaciers on the volcano. Transverse velocity profiles on Shoestring Glacier have shown a marked plug flow behavior occurring between narrow marginal zones of crevassing. Both longitudinal and transverse velocity profiles on Shoestring Glacier were measured during the year before and the two years after the cataclysmic eruption of the volcano on 18 May 1980.The geometry and regime of every glacier on Mount St Helens dramatically changed during the eruption. The entire accumulation area of Shoestring Glacier was removed by a volcanic landslide and blast, and the glacier surface was deeply incised through the action of pyroclastic flows and mudflows. Surface velocity measurements were supplemented by vertical profiles taken along the newly exposed ice cliffs. Large velocity gradients seen in the transverse, longitudinal and vertical profiles coincided with the mapped location of a recently exposed englacial debris layer. Further detailed measurements on the vertical profiles show that the intense shear occurs by deformation internal to the debris layer, A study of the properties of debris-laden ice was undertaken to determine the mechanism for localization of deformation to the debris layer and for the associated response of the glacier to a sudden change in stress.
Trace Elements in Antarctic Air and Snowfall
Authors: Dick A.L. , Peel D.A. 
Published: September 2017

Measurements of trace elements in snow and ice are frequently used to describe past atmospheric composition although there is no firm basis for assuming a direct connection. Trace-element concentrations have been measured on samples of aerosol and freshly fallen snow collected simultaneously from two sites in the Antarctic Peninsula during summer. Following improvements in contamination control, the reported concentrations and crustal enrichment factors of Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn in the aerosol are lower than any values previously reported from Antarctica. Even tighter controls will be required in the future.For a crustal element (A1) and for the marine cations (Na, Ca and K) a consistent ratio (0.48±0.31) for the concentration in air (pg m−3)/concentration in snow (pg g−1) is obtained for simultaneously collected samples. This supports a simple model of aerosol scavenging proposed by Junge which considers aerosol removal over polar ice sheets to be dominated by in-cloud processes. Averaged data for Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn from samples collected at different times appear to behave similarly. These findings suggest that there is no preferential scavenging by snowfall of either crustal or heavy metal components in contemporary aerosol. If proved more general in Antarctica this may help to simplify the interpretation of time series data from ice cores.
Volcanic Ash Layers in Bare Ice Areas near the Yamato Mountains, Dronning Maud Land and the Allan Hills, Victoria Land, Antarctica
Authors: Nishio Fumihiko , Katsushima Takayoshi , Ohmae Hirokazu 
Published: September 2017

Dirt layers of tephra were found on the bare ice surface in the Meteorite Ice Field near the Yamato Mountains, Dronning Maud Land, and near the Allan Hills, Victoria Land, Antarctica. The grain-size analyses of volcanic ash fragments show that the mean grain size in the Allan Hills region is larger than that in the Yamato Mountains region. This fact indicates that the volcanic sources of the dirt layers in the Yamato Mountains region are farther away than those in the Allan Hills. Their constituent fragments are well-sorted and composed mainly of volcanic glass shards with minor amounts of crystal fragments.Glass shards of the tephra from the Yamato Mountains region have a composition of tholeiitic andesite which is low in alkali and high in iron but not so enriched in titanium, and the associated crystal fragments consist of calcic plagioclase, subcalcic clinopyroxene, orthopyroxene and magnetite. The nature of island arc tholeiite of the tephra indicates that its source is some volcano in the South Sandwich Islands.On the other hand, the tephra from the Allan Hills region is composed of glass shards of trachybasaltic composition and crystal fragments of titanaugite calcic plagioclase, kaersutite, olivine, rhönite and titanomagnetite. A young volcano of the McMurdo volcanic group is suggested as a possible source of this tephra.
Particle Morphology, Composition and Associated Ice Chemistry of Tephra Layers in the Byrd Ice Core: Evidence for Hydrovolcanic Eruptions
Authors: Palais J.M. 
Published: September 2017

In 1968 an ice core 2164 m long was recovered from Byrd station in West Antarctica. About 2000 tephra layers were observed in the core and have been differentiated into ash and dust bands according to the grain size and concentration of particles in the layers. Mount Takahe, a local volcano in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica is the probable source.Detailed examinations of the particle morphology, composition and ice chemistry associated with some of the tephra layers have led to the conclusion that the eruptions which produced the layers were probably hydrovolcanic. Melted glacier ice is considered the most likely source of the water involved in the eruptions.Processes associated with hydrovolcanism such as particle aggregation (causing premature deposition of fine particles), rapid conversion of sulfur dioxide to sulfuric acid (in the presence of abundant moisture) and scavenging of acid droplets by the fine dust particles are inferred to have taken place. Such processes would greatly reduce the atmospheric residence time of the eruptive products and thus their atmospheric and climatic impact.
Distribution of Grain Sizes and Internal Surface Area and their Role in Snow Chemistry in A Sub-Arctic Snow Cover
Authors: Granberg H.B. 
Published: September 2017

The variations in grain size and internal surface area in a seasonal snow cover have been studied near Schefferville, Quebec. Sieve analysis was applied to snow in very cold conditions and gave closely reproducible results.The studies show that grain-size distributions vary greatly with depth but show a pattern that is closely repeatable between sites in similar environments and which is also closely repeatable from one year to the next. Different environments produce variations on the general pattern.The measurements enable estimation of the internal surface area and its variations with depth in different snow covers. The effects of this variation in surface area on contaminants of the snow cover are discussed.
Hydrometeorological Interpretation of Isotopic Data On Atmospheric Moisture and Precipitation
Authors: Saxena R.K. , Eriksson E. 
Published: September 2017

The influence of advective and eddy transport of atmospheric moisture on the 18O content of atmospheric vapour and precipitation is discussed. Measurements of the 18O content of atmospheric vapour and precipitation have been carried out since July 1981 in Uppsala, Sweden. The removal of water from atmospheric vapour is accomplished by freezing it out of a stream of air passed at the rate of 60 1 h−1 through cooling traps maintained at a temperature of −60°C. The method is practically non-fractionating. The observed slopes of the regression equations defining the linear relationship between weighted monthly δ18O of precipitation and mean monthly temperatures at the ground level agree fairly well with the predicted slopes assuming that the transport of atmospheric moisture is due to eddy motion. Similarly the slope of the linear relationship between δ18O in atmospheric vapour and vapour density at ground level is also closely predicted by the eddy transport model. However, if it is assumed that the transport of atmospheric moisture is advective, the predicted slopes are nearly double those observed.It was also observed that precipitation and atmospheric vapour are in isotopic equilibrium during summer, but not during winter. Results obtained confirm the strong large-scale eddy diffusive nature of the transport of atmospheric moisture.
Spatial and Temporal Variability of Surface Snowfall and Snowpack Chemistry in Central Ontario
Authors: Schemenauer R.S. , Summers P.W. , Wiebe H.A. , Anlauf K.G. 
Published: September 2017

The physical and chemical structure of the snowpack near North Bay, Ontario was examined during the winter of 1984. precipitation chemistry measurements were also made. A marked areal uniformity was noted in the layered structure of the snowpack and in the vertical variation of the chemical composition. In late January, pH values of the snowpack varied from ∼4.1 at the surface to ∼4.8 near the ground. After rain and a major thaw in February the pH was near 4.8 throughout. Nitrate concentrations exceeded those of sulfate in the snowpack. The molar concentration ratio of / was typically 0.5.Samples of precipitation from six sites had pH values ranging from 3.4 to 5.2. to equivalent ratios were <1 in snow and near 1 or >1 in rain. The chemical composition of the precipitation was closely related to the airmass trajectory. Southerly trajectories yielded the lowest pH values and highest pollutant concentrations. The one-month period from 20 January to 21 February had a deposition of 0.2 g m−2 and a deposition of 0.35 g m−2. For , this deposition would be about one-twelfth the expected annual deposition and for about one-fifth.