Accession Number:

AD0711907

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF SNOW THAWING USING RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H

Personal Author(s):

• Agashkin,Yu. N.

Report Date:

1970-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

9.0

Abstract:

Study of the influence of agrotechnical measures on runoff is one of the themes on which experimental work is being done for study of slope runoff in special runoff areas and drainage gullies. In the investigations of the course of springtime snow thawing, as one of the factors involved in runoff, a method was used which made it possible to study this process without disrupting its natural course, which is inevitable when using an instrument based on the snow-weighing principle. This requirement now is satisfied best by use of the radioactive isotopes method. Using this method it is possible with sufficient accuracy to study the change of the water reserves in the snow at the time of thawing, tracing its diurnal variation on different underlying surfaces and under different conditions forest, glade, open plowed land. Author

Descriptors:

• (*SNOW
• TRACER STUDIES)
• MELTING
• RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES
• DRAINAGE
• COBALT
• DETECTORS
• TERRAIN
• TREES
• USSR

Subject Categories:

• Hydrology, Limnology and Potamology
• Snow, Ice and Permafrost

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE