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D'OOGE has reported1 a correlation between amount of snowfall in inches and temperature at the time of snowfall. His data showed that maximum depth of snowfall occurred at a daily mean temperature of − 11° C. ; Bossolasco2 correlated frequency of occurrence of snowfall with temperature and found maximum occurrence at approximately the same temperature. These observers assumed that the mean daily temperature recorded at the level of observation was a reasonable estimate of the temperature at the level of formation of the snow. From the data presented, conclusions were drawn concerning nucleation of snow crystals.
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GOLD, L., WILLIAMS, G. Dependence of Snowfall on Temperature. Nature 177, 1137–1138 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/1771137a0
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