Meltwater infiltration into the frozen active layer at an alpine permafrost site

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 325-334

  Scherler, Martin ^a   Hauck, Christian ^a   Hoelzle, Martin ^a   Stähli, Manfred ^b   Völksch, Ingo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active layer; Electrical resistivity tomography; Frozen ground; Infiltration; Modelling; Non conductive heat transfer; Permafrost

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FROZEN GROUND; HEAT TRANSFER; INFILTRATION; MELTWATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATTERNED GROUND; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PERIGLACIAL PROCESS; PERMAFROST; SNOWMELT;

ALPS; BERNESE ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; SCHILTHORN; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 78650690079     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: 10991530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppp.694     Document Type: Article

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