Experimental analysis of preferential flow in dry snowpack

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 85, Issue , 2013, Pages 206-216

  Katsushima, Takafumi ^a   Yamaguchi, Satoru ^c   Kumakura, Toshiro ^b   Sato, Atsushi ^c  

^a TOYAMA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

Author keywords

Capillary pressure overshoot; Homogeneous dry snow; Preferential flow; Tensiometer; Water infiltration; Water entry value

Indexed keywords

DRY SNOW; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; TENSIOMETER; WATER INFILTRATION; WATER-ENTRY VALUE;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; INFILTRATION; POROUS MATERIALS; SNOW;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; INFILTRATION; POROSITY; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; SNOWPACK; TENSIOMETER;

EID: 84868676029     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2012.09.012     Document Type: Article

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