Abstract
It was the first geographical symposium on snow and life held in snow country of Japan. The purposes of this symposium were to clarify the climatological features of snowfall and the distribution of snow accumulation, to deal with the relations between snow and rural/ urban communities, and between snow and recreation, electricity, transportation, and architecture, and to discuss the countermeasures for snow damage. From these discussions we intended to explain the characteristics of snow country and their changes through time. The following fifteen papers were presented:
SHITARA, H.: The distribution of snowfall in Japan.
KUROSAKA, H.: The visible image from the meteorological satellite and snow in the Japan Sea.
YOSHIDA, Y.: The snowfall on the mountain areas during the winter, 1978-1979.
FUKUORA, Y.: Snowfall and micro-topography.
