A lateral snow sampler

Submitted by Armida on Fri, 02/15/2013 - 16:49

Title	A lateral snow sampler
Publication Type	Conference Proceedings
Year of Conference	1944
Authors	Work, R. A., Childreth R. W., and Frost W. T.
Conference Name	12th Annual Western Interstate Snow Survey Conference
Series Title	Proceedings of the 12th Annual Western Interstate Snow Survey Conference
Date Published	February 1944
Publisher	American Geophysical Union, Transactions, Part I:
Conference Location	Berkeley, California
Keywords	Snow sampler lateral sampler
Abstract	The sections of duraluminum snow sampler tubing were screwed together. A strip of cold-rolled steel 1/16 X 1/2 inch moved freely through guides supported on the inside of the tubing. The slide bar was permanently bent at the cutter end so that it would lay flat against the tubing when driving but would curve inward when pushed towards the cutter end. The tube was then rotated one turn to cut the core free from the vertical face of the hole face. The tube and core withdrawn and weighted to obtain the snow water equivalent of the driver and by noting the length of drive it was possible to compute the density of the snow in the horizontal section. The sampler with this modification cut the retained core within 05% of the sampler drive.

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