Infrared thermography of evaporative fluxes and dynamics of salt deposition on heterogeneous porous surfaces

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Nachshon, Uri ^a   Shahraeeni, Ebrahim ^b   Or, Dani ^b   Dragila, Maria ^c   Weisbrod, Noam ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID AREA; CAPILLARY DRIVE; COMPLEX INTERACTION; DYNAMIC EFFECTS; ENERGY EXCHANGES; EVAPORATION RATE; EVAPORATIVE FLUX; MASS-LOSS MEASUREMENT; MATRIX; MATRIX PORE; MATRIX RESISTIVITY; PORE WATERS; POROUS SURFACE; PUMPING MECHANISM; SALINE SOLUTIONS; SALT CRUST; SALT DEPOSITION; SALT PRECIPITATION; SALT SOLUTION; SAND COLUMNS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEXTURED REGIONS; VAPOR FLOWS;

ARID REGIONS; DYNAMICS; EVAPORATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); WATER VAPOR;

PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

ARID REGION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; DEPOSITION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUX MEASUREMENT; HETEROGENEITY; INFRARED RADIATION; MAGNITUDE; MASS TRANSPORT; MATRIX; POROUS MEDIUM; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PUMPING; SALINITY; SALT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; VAPOR PRESSURE;

EID: 84055182945     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010776     Document Type: Article

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