Effective water vapor diffusion coefficient of snow under a temperature gradient

Water Resources Research

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1269-1276

  Sokratov, Sergey A ^a,c,d   Maeno, Norikazu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; SNOW; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 0034020541     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000WR900014     Document Type: Article

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