Tim Bardsley and Mark W. Williams
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and
Department of Geography, CB 450,
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Figure 6.
In an effort to calibrate the Belfort measurements
of solid precipitation amount at the Saddle,
event measurements were made in 1997
using a 1000 cc density cutter
and Acculab field scale (precision +- 1 gram).
For each event, a snowpit was excavated down to the old snow surface
or to the ground and density measurements were
made in the wall of the snowpit continuously
in 10-cm increments
from the snow-atmosphere interface to the
old snow surface.
Wind speed was measured continuously at a height of 2 meter
by a RM Young anemometer.
Here we report average wind speed for the duration of the snow event.
Access to the site involves a 2-hr ski which must be
made at the correct time in order to make
hand measurements of storm amounts,
explaining the scarcity of data points in this figure.