Christine Dorothea Groot Zwaaftink - Personal Homepage

Organisational unit: Snow and Permafrost Snow cover and Micrometeorology Phone: +41 81 4170 369 Fax: +41 81 4170 110 Room: Da C 1 47 E-Mail: , Address: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF Flüelastrasse 11 7260 Davos Dorf

Education

• Bachelor Soil, Water, Atmosphere. Wageningen University, Netherlands.
  
• Master Meteorology. Wageningen University, Netherlands.
  

Research interests

• Drifting and blowing snow
• Boundary layer meteorology
• Mountain meteorology
• Snow cover
  

Publications

• Groot Zwaaftink, C.D. and M. Lehning (2010). Sublimation of drifting snow in an Alpine catchment. Extended abstracts, 14th Conference on Mountain Meteorology, Lake Tahoe Vicinity, USA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Paper 8.3
  
  
• Steeneveld, G. J., M. J. J. Wokke, C. D. Groot Zwaaftink, S. Pijlman, B. G. Heusinkveld, A. F. G. Jacobs, and A. A. M. Holtslag (2010), Observations of the radiation divergence in the surface layer and its implication for its parameterization in numerical weather prediction models, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D06107, doi:10.1029/2009JD013074.
  
  

• Steeneveld, G.J., C. D. Groot Zwaaftink, M. Wokke, S. Pijlman, B.G. Heusinkveld, A.F.G. Jacobs, and A.A.M. Holtslag, 2008: Long Term Observations of Long wave Radiative Flux Divergence in the Stable Boundary Layer over Land, 9-13 June 2008, 18th Symp. On Bound.-Layer Turb., Stockholm, Sweden, paper 17.B6.

Abstracts

• Groot Zwaaftink, C. and M. Lehning, 2010: Modelling sublimation of drifting snow in an Alpine catchment and investigating temperature and moisture feedbacks. 10th EMS Annual Meeting, 13 – 17 September 2010, Zürich, Switzerland. EMS Annual Meeting Abstracts, Vol. 7, EMS2010-295.
  
  
• Lieberherr, G., C. Groot Zwaaftink, J. Overney, M. Diebold, N. Vercauteren, M. Lehning,and M.B. Parlange, 2010: Modeling snow drift in the turbulent boundary layer. 10th EMS Annual Meeting, 13 – 17 September 2010, Zürich, Switzerland. EMS Annual Meeting Abstracts, Vol. 7, EMS2010-566.
  
  
• Groot Zwaaftink, C.; Cagnati, A.; Crepaz, A.; Fierz, C.; Lehning, M.; Valt, M., 2009: Surface snow modeling at Dome C, Antarctica. In: 7th Swiss Geoscience Meeting. Open Cryosphere session. Neuchâtel, 20th-21st November 2009. Abstract Volume. 168.
  
  
• Groot Zwaaftink, C.; Cagnati, A.; Fierz, C.; Lehning, M.; Valt, M., 2009: Surface snow modeling at Dome C, Antarctica. In: Proceedings of MOCA-09 (the IAMAS, IAPSO and IACS Joint Assembly), July 19-29, 2009, Montreal, Quebec.