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Physics-Based Models of Snow

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Recent Advances in the Modeling of Hydrologic Systems

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This chapter is a review of current physics-based techniques for modeling snowmelt. Mixture theory is used to develop the equations of conservation of mass, momentum and energy for snow treated as a two-component, three-phase mixture of ice, water, water vapor, and air. The constitutive laws and boundary conditions required to complete a general snowmelt model are then described, with particular attention to the energy balance at the upper boundary of a snowpack.

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  1. Ice and Climate Division, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK

    E. M. Morris

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  1. Utah Water Research Laboratory, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA

    David S. Bowles

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Claremont Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

    P. Enda O’Connell

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Morris, E.M. (1991). Physics-Based Models of Snow. In: Bowles, D.S., O’Connell, P.E. (eds) Recent Advances in the Modeling of Hydrologic Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 345. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3480-4_5

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