Study of a temperature gradient metamorphism of snow from 3-D images: Time evolution of microstructures, physical properties and their associated anisotropy

Cryosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2255-2274

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

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; ISOTROPY; METAMORPHISM; MICROSTRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; SNOW; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84908069589     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-8-2255-2014     Document Type: Article

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