Abstract
A buried-type snowgage is introduced which measures and records the amount of snow-cover in the natural state as snow lies on the ground. A pit is dug with 4 m diameter and with 30 cm depth and a loop-type strain-meter is installed on a foundation at its center. Foundations are also made along the circumference, and beams are put circularly and radially between these foundations and from them to the strain-meter at the center. The beams support plates on them, on which soil coverage is spread until its surface is level with the surrounding ground. The strain at the center, which is equal to 1/3of the weight of snow-cover on the circle, is magnified and transferred with links to a recorder 4 m apart from the center. From the fact that the result of the test measurement made at Hokkaido University campus agrees very well with that of the simultaneous observations with a snow-sampler, the gage seems quite satisfactory for practical use for the measurement of snow-cover.
