Snow research is an interdisciplinary field, as reflected in variety of books dedicated to snow and its various aspects, such as Handbook of Snow: Principles, Processes, Management and Use (Gray & Male, 1981), The Avalanche Handbook (McClung & Schaerer, 2006), Snow Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Snow-Covered Ecosystems (Jones et al., 2001) and Snow and Climate: Physical Processes, Surface Energy Exchange and Modeling (Armstrong & Brun, 2008) to cite only a few. Such a wide range of interest and knowledge in snow makes common descriptions of snow as well as common measurement practices very desirable. [...]