Water retention curve of snow with different grain sizes

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 87-93

  Yamaguchi, Satoru ^a   Katsushima, Takafumi ^b   Sato, Atsushi ^a   Kumakura, Toshiro ^b  

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

^b NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brooks and Corey model; Snow; Van Genuchten model; Water flow under unsaturated condition; Water retention curve

Indexed keywords

BROOKS AND COREY MODEL; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; GRAIN SIZE; GRAVITY DRAINAGE; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SNOW COVERS; SOIL PHYSICS; STANDARD MODEL; TWO PARAMETER; VAN GENUCHTEN MODEL; VOLUMETRIC WATER CONTENT; WATER FLOW UNDER UNSATURATED CONDITION; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER RETENTION CURVE;

EXPERIMENTS; FLOW OF WATER; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HYDRAULICS; SNOW; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; WATER CONTENT;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

DRAINAGE; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; GRAIN SIZE; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SNOW COVER; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 77957881442     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2010.05.008     Document Type: Article

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