Crocus and Snowpack in a nutshell

There is not an enormous choice of process based models that treat snow Among them, two that are a reference for us are Snowpack and Crocus. Here it is their essential references.

SNOWPACK

• Bartelt, P., & Lehning, M. (2002). A physical SNOWPACK model for the Swiss avalanche warning Part I. Numerical model. Cold Regions Science and Technology, 35(3), 123–145. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0165-232X(02)00073-3
• Lehning, M., Bartelt, P., Brown, B., Fierz, C., & Satyawali, P. (2002). A physical SNOWPACK model for the Swiss avalanche warning Part II. Snow microstructure. Cold Regions Science and Technology, 35(3), 147–167. Retrieved from www.elsevier.com/locate/coldregions
• Lehning, M., Bartelt, P., Brown, B., & Fierz, C. (2002). A physical SNOWPACK model for the Swiss avalanche warning Part III: meteorological forcing, thin layer formation and evaluation. Cold Regions Science and Technology, 35(3), 169–184. Retrieved from www.elsevier.com/locate/coldregions

CROCUS

• Brun, E., David, P., Sudul, M., & Brunot, G. (1992). A numerical model to simulate snow-cover stratigraphy for operational avalanche forecasting. Journal of Glaciology (Vol. 38).
• Brun, E., Martin, E., Simon, V., Gendre, C., & Coleou, C. (1989). AN ENERGY AND MASS MODEL OF SNOW COVER SUITABLE FOR OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE FORECASTING. Journal of Glaciology (Vol. 35)
• Vionnet, V., Brun, E., Morin, S., Boone, A., Faroux, S., Le Moigne, P., … Willemet, J. M. (2012). The detailed snowpack scheme Crocus and its implementation in SURFEX v7.2. Geoscientific Model Development. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-5-773-2012