A new top boundary condition for modeling surface diffusive exchange of a generic volatile tracer: Theoretical analysis and application to soil evaporation

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 873-893

  Tang, J Y ^a   Riley, W J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-WATER; ATMOSPHERIC RESISTANCE; CONTROL VOLUMES; DESORPTION PROCESS; DIFFUSIVE TRACERS; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; HYDRAULIC PRESSURE GRADIENT; LAND MODEL; MASS FLOW; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; NUMBER OF DATUM; SMOOTH TRANSITIONS; SOIL EVAPORATIONS; SOIL SURFACES; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TRACER EXCHANGE; WET AND DRY;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DESORPTION; EFFICIENCY; EVAPORATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SOILS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; BARE SOIL; BOUNDARY LAYER; DESORPTION; DIFFUSION; ERROR ANALYSIS; EVAPORATION; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; PH; SOLUBILITY; SORPTION; SURFACE FLUX; THEORETICAL STUDY; TOPSOIL; TRACER;

EID: 84874452928     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-873-2013     Document Type: Article

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