Abstract
Field experiments were carried out to investigate a change in salinity of the snow cover on sea ice and of the snow ice. Snow which covered thin sea ice was flooded with the brine that was pushed out onto the sea ice surface, resulting in a rise in salinity to more than 32‰, which was higher than that of sea water. On the day after the salination of the snow, the flooded snow was found to have been either frozen into snow ice or kept unfrozen. In either case the brine was excluded in turn from the flooded snow. As a result, the wet snow or snow ice had a salinity somewhat above 20‰. It is suggested that subsequently the wet snow keeps the salinity at more than 20‰, while the salinity of the snow ice decreases gradually with time.
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