Instruments and methods tomography-based determination of permeability and Dupuit-Forchheimer coefficient of characteristic snow samples

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 57, Issue 205, 2011, Pages 811-816

  Zermatten, Emilie ^a   Haussener, Sophia ^b   Schneebeli, Martin ^c   Steinfeld, Aldo ^a,d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

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

^d PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; MASS TRANSPORT; PERMEABILITY; SNOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 80655131352     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/002214311798043799     Document Type: Article

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