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Quantitative Analysis of Snow Particles Using a Multi-Angle Snowflake Camera in the Yeongdong Region

영동지역에서 눈결정 카메라를 활용한 눈결정의 정량 분석

  • Kim, Su-Hyun (Department of Atmospheric Environmental Sciences, Gangneung-Wonju National University) ;
  • Ko, Dae-Hong (Department of Atmospheric Environmental Sciences, Gangneung-Wonju National University) ;
  • Seong, Dae-Kyung (Climate and Air Quality Research Department, National Institute of Environmental Research) ;
  • Eun, Seung-Hee (Department of Atmospheric Environmental Sciences, Gangneung-Wonju National University) ;
  • Kim, Byung-Gon (Department of Atmospheric Environmental Sciences, Gangneung-Wonju National University) ;
  • Kim, Baek-Jo (High Impact Weather Research Center, National Institute of Meteorological Sciences) ;
  • Park, Chang-Geun (High Impact Weather Research Center, National Institute of Meteorological Sciences) ;
  • Cha, Ju-Wan (Applied Meteorology Research Division, National Institute of Meteorological Sciences)
  • 김수현 (강릉원주대학교 대기환경과학과) ;
  • 고대홍 (강릉원주대학교 대기환경과학과) ;
  • 성대경 (국립환경과학원 기후대기연구부) ;
  • 은승희 (강릉원주대학교 대기환경과학과) ;
  • 김병곤 (강릉원주대학교 대기환경과학과) ;
  • 김백조 (국립기상과학원 재해기상연구센터) ;
  • 박창근 (국립기상과학원 재해기상연구센터) ;
  • 차주완 (국립기상과학원 응용기상연구과)
  • Received : 2019.06.10
  • Accepted : 2019.09.08
  • Published : 2019.09.30
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Abstract

We employed a Multi-Angle Snowflake Camera (MASC) to quantitatively analyze snow particles at the ground level in the Yeongdong region of Korea. The MASC captures high-resolution photographs of hydrometeors from three angles and simultaneously measures fallspeed. Based on snowflake images of the several episodes in 2017 and 2018, we derived statistics of size, aspect ratio, orientation, complexity, and fallspeed of snow crystals, which generally showed similar characteristics to the previous studies in other regions of the world. Dominant snow crystal habits of January 22, 2018 generated by northerly were melted aggregates when 850 hPa temperature was about $-6{\sim}-8^{\circ}C$. Average fallspeed of snow crystals was $1.0m\;s^{-1}$ though its size gradually increased as temperature decreased. Another snowfall event (March 8, 2018) was driven by the baroclinic instability as accompanied with a deep trough. Snow crystal habits were largely rimed aggregates (complexity ~1.8) and melting particles of dark images. Meanwhile, in the extreme snowfall event whose snow rate was greater than $10cm\;hr^{-1}$ on January 20, 2017, main snow crystals appeared to be heavily rimed particles with relatively smaller size when convective clouds developed vertically up to 9 km in association with tropopause folding. MASC also could successfully measure a decrease in snow crystal size and an increase in riming degree after AgI seeding at Daegwallyeong on March 14, 2017.

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