A Numerical Comparison of Dielectric based Measurement of Atmospheric Ice Using COMSOL

U. N. Mughal[1], M. S. Virk[1]
[1]Narvik University College, Narvik, Norway
Published in 2012

Atmospheric ice is a very complex material with varying electrical properties due to different polymorphs of ice itself. Also, if the medium to be considered is snow, then density becomes an additional parameter because it is a mixture of three dielectrics water, ice and air. The permittivity and loss tangent of naturally occurring ice and snow shows lot of variation at different conditions particularly temperature. This paper is a comparative study of some experimental results found from literature and simulations of dielectric properties of ice and snow in Comsol.