Thermo-evaporative fluxes from heterogeneous porous surfaces resolved by infrared thermography

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Shahraeeni, Ebrahim ^a   Or, Dani ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; COARSE TO FINE; DRYING PATTERN; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; EVAPORATION FLUX; EVAPORATIVE FLUX; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; IN-SITU; INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY; MASS LOSS; MODEL VALIDATION; POROUS SURFACE; SATURATED SAND; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE; SURFACE EVAPORATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE FIELD; TERRESTRIAL SURFACE; THERMAL IMAGES; THERMAL SIGNATURES; UNOBSERVABLE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FOOD PROCESSING; POTENTIAL FLOW; SAND; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

THERMAL EVAPORATION;

ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPORATION; FOOD PROCESSING; HETEROGENEITY; INFRARED IMAGERY; MODEL VALIDATION; POROUS MEDIUM; SURFACE FLUX; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77957559698     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008455     Document Type: Article

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