Impact of ambient temperature on evaporation from surface-exposed fractures

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Kamai, Tamir ^a,b   Weisbrod, Noam ^a   Dragila, Maria Inés ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVAPORATION; FRACTURE; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEN EMBRITTLEMENT; HYDROGEOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); VAPORS;

ACCUMULATION RATES; AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; CONTROLLED CONDITIONS; EVAPORATION RATES; FRACTURE SURFACES; INITIAL RATES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MATRIX PORES; MODEL RESULTS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SALT PRECIPITATIONS; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; THEORETICAL MODELS; VADOSE ZONES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AMBIENT AIR; EVAPORATION; FRACTURE ZONE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY METHOD; MATRIX; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SALINIZATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VADOSE ZONE;

EID: 62949157963     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007354     Document Type: Article

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