Fascination of Snow Crystals
−How are their beautiful patterns created?

1. A letter from the sky

2. Fundamental patterns of snow crystals

3. Temperature-dependent structures of ice surfaces

4. Model for habit change of snow crystal

5. Experimental evidence for anisotropic surface melting on ice crystal

6. Molecular level structures of ice surfaces

7. Mechanism of morphological instability

8. Acknowledgments

We thank Late Professors T. Kobayashi and T. Kuroda of Hokkaido University, who led the author to this elegant field of study. We would particularly like to thank Dr. H. Nada of National Institute for Resources and Environment, for his effort to conduct the computer simulations of ice surfaces, and Prof. J. S. Wettlaufer of University of Washington, for his insightful reviews of the manuscript.

Literature and Notes

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