@article{oai:kitami-it.repo.nii.ac.jp:00008077,
 author = {KAMEDA, Takao and HARADA, Yasuhiro and TAKAHASHI, Shuhei},
 issue = {224},
 journal = {Journal of Glaciology},
 month = {},
 note = {Many curious white spots of 1?10cm diameter were found on wet snow (~10mm thick)
on the morning of 1 November 2009 in Kitami and Oketo in Hokkaido, Japan. At first glance, the white
spots appeared to be made of spherically gathered snow; however, they had actually been formed by
the scattering of sunlight over wet snow. Thin air bubbles enclosed in the wet snow caused a diffuse
reflection of sunlight and formed the white spots. We refer to this phenomenon as white spotted wet
snow. Although this type of snow has been briefly described previously, the formation process,
meteorological conditions that lead to its formation, its vertical structure and the horizontal
distribution of the white spots are unknown. Our study addresses these issues. In addition, three
independent methods (a nearest-neighbour method, Voronoi diagram and two-dimensional correlation
function) demonstrate that the white spots are not randomly distributed but tend to be surrounded by
six other spots.},
 pages = {1075--1083},
 title = {Characteristics of white spots in saturated wet snow},
 volume = {60},
 year = {2014}
}