Measurements of the pore-scale water flow through snow using Fluorescent Particle Tracking Velocimetry

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 7448-7456

  Walter, B ^a   Horender, S ^a   Gromke, C ^b   Lehning, M ^a,c  

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

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

flow in porous media; fluorescent tracer particles; laser imaging technique; particle trajectories; wet snow

Indexed keywords

FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA; FLUORESCENT TRACERS; LASER IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES; WET SNOW;

FLOW OF WATER; FLOW VELOCITY; FLUORESCENCE; HYDRAULICS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; POROUS MATERIALS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); VELOCIMETERS;

SNOW;

ALGORITHM; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; FLOW VELOCITY; GRAVITY FLOW; IMAGING METHOD; LASER METHOD; PORE SPACE; POROUS MEDIUM; SNOW; TRACER; VELOCITY PROFILE; WATER FLOW;

EID: 84887579455     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR013960     Document Type: Article

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