Dynamics of water vapor flux and water separation processes during evaporation from a salty dry soil

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 396, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 215-220

  Gran, Meritxell ^a,b   Carrera, Jesús ^a   Massana, Jordi ^c   Saaltink, Maarten W ^b   Olivella, Sebastia ^b   Ayora, Carlos ^a   Lloret, Antonio ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c Users Water Community of Llobregat Delta (CUADLL)   (Spain)

Author keywords

Column experiment; Dilution; Heat flow; Salinization; Unsaturated flow; Vapor flow

Indexed keywords

COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; HEAT FLOWS; SALINIZATION; UNSATURATED FLOWS; VAPOR FLOW;

EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTS; HEAT TRANSFER; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOILS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

WATER VAPOR;

ACCUMULATION; DILUTION; EVAPORATION; HALITE; HEAT FLOW; LABORATORY METHOD; SALINE SOIL; SALINIZATION; SILT; SOIL QUALITY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; UNSATURATED FLOW; WATER FLOW; WATER VAPOR;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 78650309203     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.11.011     Document Type: Article

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