Verification of moisture budgets during drifting snow conditions in a cold wind tunnel

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Wever, N ^a,b   Lehning, M ^a   Clifton, A ^a   Ruedi J D ^a   Nishimura, K ^c,d   Nemoto, M ^c   Yamaguchi, S ^c   Sato, A ^c  

^a WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^d NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLING FACTORS; DIFFUSION MODEL; DRIFTING SNOW; FLOW PATH; MODEL STUDY; MOISTURE BUDGET; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; PARTICLE NUMBER DENSITY; PROFILE MEASUREMENT; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SNOW CRYSTALS; SUBLIMATION RATES; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; THEORETICAL VALUES; WATER VAPOR CONTENTS;

AERODYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; SUBLIMATION; SUN; TUNNELS; WATER CONTENT; WATER VAPOR; WIND TUNNELS;

SNOW;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW PATTERN; MOISTURE CONTENT; RADIATIVE FORCING; SNOW; SOLAR RADIATION; SUBLIMATION; WATER VAPOR; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 69249098231     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007522     Document Type: Article

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