A theoretical assessment of heat transfer by ventilation in homogeneous snowpacks

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Bartlett, S J ^a,b   Lehning, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; FLUID FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA; LIMITING CASE; MONIN-OBUKHOV THEORIES; PENETRATION DEPTH; ROUGHNESS ELEMENTS; SATURATED AIR; SENSIBLE HEAT; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SNOW COVERS; SURFACE FLUX; VENTILATION HEAT TRANSFER;

FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT TRANSFER; POROUS MATERIALS; SNOW;

VENTILATION;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLUID FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; HOMOGENEITY; MAGNITUDE; MOISTURE CONTENT; MONIN-OBUKHOV THEORY; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SNOW COVER; SNOWPACK; STEADY FLOW; THEORETICAL STUDY; TOPOGRAPHY; VENTILATION;

EID: 79954545091     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010008     Document Type: Article

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