Dry snow is an air-ice mixture that is subjected to thermal gradients causing water vapour fluxes throughout the entire snowpack. They result in physical transformations in snow crystal size and shape and can entrain and release chemical species to the atmosphere. These phenomena are regrouped under the term “snow metamorphism”. They can lead to major modifications in physical variables of the snowpack and in the chemical composition of the atmosphere.To better understand the influence of the metamorphism intensity on snow/air exchanges, we have performed laboratory studies, successively under isothermal and temperature gradient conditions, and field studies during a whole winter in Alaska. Snowpack physical properties were monitored, espec...