Articles | Volume 10, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2013-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2013-2016
Research article
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09 Sep 2016
Research article |  | 09 Sep 2016

Observations of capillary barriers and preferential flow in layered snow during cold laboratory experiments

Francesco Avanzi, Hiroyuki Hirashima, Satoru Yamaguchi, Takafumi Katsushima, and Carlo De Michele

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RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (09 Jun 2016)
RR by Christoph Mitterer (21 Jul 2016)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (23 Jul 2016) by Guillaume Chambon
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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (10 Aug 2016) by Guillaume Chambon
AR by Francesco Avanzi on behalf of the Authors (14 Aug 2016)  Manuscript 
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Short summary
We investigate capillary barriers and preferential flow in layered snow during nine cold laboratory experiments. The dynamics of each sample were replicated solving Richards equation within the 1-D multi-layer physically based SNOWPACK model. Results show that both processes affect the speed of water infiltration in stratified snow and are marked by a high degree of spatial variability at cm scale and complex 3-D patterns.