WG Co-chairs :	Samuel Morin (samuel.morin(at)meteo.fr)
	Henning Löwe (loewe(at)slf.ch)
WG members :	list available on request.

 
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News :

From 02-05 April 2013 the first international „Snow Grain Size Workshop - Measurements and Applications“ was held in Grenoble, France. The workshop was organized by G. Picard (LGGE), H. Löwe (WSL/SLF) and S. Morin (CNRM-GAME/CEN), with local support from LGGE and CNRM-GAME/CEN. The 50 participants came from France, Switzerland, Japan, Finland, USA, United Kingdom, Netherlands, White Russia, Canada, Luxembourg, Norway, Germany and Turkey. The goal of the workshop was to gather snow grain size specialists and initiate discussions and activities about i) the accuracy and comparability of existing methods, which provide objective grain size estimates in the field ii) the scope and limitations of commonly used grain size variables. Measurement devices brought by the participants were demonstrated by the experts during the field excursion to La Grave. For details of the program cf. (http://snowgrain2013.sciencesconf.org/). The workshop was sponsored by Labex OSUG@2020, Microdice (ESF), IACS, Meteo-France and LGGE. [top] In front of LGGE in Grenoble In the field on "glacier de la Girose" [top]

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Events :

• 21 April 2016, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria "Snowpack modelling revisited" Splinter meeting, room 2.42, 12:15 - 13:15 Download announcement

• 9-14 March 2014, Davos, Switzerland Measurement intercomparison for objective grain size methods
• 4-5 August 2014,University of Reading, UK Follow-up workshop Contact: Martin Schneebeli (schneebeli(at)slf.ch)

• 6-8 August 2014, University of Reading, UK Microstructure in Snow Microwave Radiative Transfer (MICROSNOW) Workshop
  Contact: Melody Sandells (melody.sandells(at)northumbria.ac.uk)

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