Numerical and experimental investigations of the effective thermal conductivity of snow

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 2011, Pages

  Calonne, N ^a   Flin, F ^a   Morin, S ^a   Lesaffre, B ^a   Du Roscoat, S Rolland ^b   Geindreau, C ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE SOLS SOLIDES STRUCTURES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HEAT FLUX; NEEDLES; PROBES; SNOW; SNOWFALL MEASUREMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EFFECTIVE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; MICROTOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; REGRESSION CURVE; SNOW DENSITY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCIES; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; VERTICAL COMPONENT;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ANISOTROPY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEAT FLUX; ICE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SNOW; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 82955184578     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049234     Document Type: Article

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