Numerical modeling of liquid water movement through layered snow based on new measurements of the water retention curve

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 94-103

  Hirashima, Hiroyuki ^a   Yamaguchi, Satoru ^a   Sato, Atsushi ^a   Lehning, Michael ^b  

^a National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Capillary pressure; Hydraulic conductivity; SNOWPACK model; Water transport model

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY BARRIERS; CAPILLARY PRESSURES; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; COMPUTATION TIME; GRAIN SIZE; GRAVITY DRAINAGE; LIQUID WATER; LIQUID WATER CONTENT; NUMERICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODELS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SIMULATION RESULT; SNOW LAYER; SNOWPACK MODEL; TIME INCREMENTS; WATER CONTENT PROFILES; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER RETENTION CURVE; WATER TRANSPORT MODEL; WATER TRANSPORT MODELS; WET SNOW;

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); BLOOD VESSELS; CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; LIQUIDS; MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS;

WATER CONTENT;

AVALANCHE; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MODELING; GRAIN SIZE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MELTWATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SNOW; TRANSPORT PROCESS; WATER CONTENT; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 77957873351     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2010.09.003     Document Type: Article

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