Coupled Water and Heat Transfer in Permafrost Modeling
Permafrost degradation in high mountain environments is one of the effects of climate change in the Alpine region (IPCC, 2007). The consequences may be manyfold, ranging from rock falls and debris flows, to structural damages in infrastructures located on high mountains. The exceptional rock-fall a...
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ftutrentoiris:oai:iris.unitn.it:11572/368056 2024-02-11T10:04:39+01:00 Coupled Water and Heat Transfer in Permafrost Modeling Dall'Amico, Matteo Dall'Amico, Matteo Rigon, Riccardo 2010 https://hdl.handle.net/11572/368056 eng eng Università degli studi di Trento place:TRENTO firstpage:1 lastpage:159 numberofpages:159 https://hdl.handle.net/11572/368056 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Settore ICAR/02 - Costruzioni Idrauliche e Marittime e Idrologia info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis 2010 ftutrentoiris 2024-01-16T23:06:38Z Permafrost degradation in high mountain environments is one of the effects of climate change in the Alpine region (IPCC, 2007). The consequences may be manyfold, ranging from rock falls and debris flows, to structural damages in infrastructures located on high mountains. The exceptional rock-fall activity during the summer 2003 is likely an indication of this rapid destabilization that takes place as an almost immediate reaction to extreme warming (Gruber et al., 2004a). The understanding and prediction of such phenomena requires ï¬ rst the localization of permafrost affected areas, and then the monitoring of permafrost sites through proper measurement and modeling techniques. However, the modeling of alpine permafrost is not an easy task because of a variety of causes that contribute to increase the complexity. In particular, the crucial factors dominating alpine permafrost are (1) topography and soil type heterogeneity, (2) snow insulating effect, (3) presence of ice in the ground and (4) high thermal inertia for temperature change at depth. These disturbances could be dealt with through a physically based approach that accounts for the topographical characteristics of the basin, allows heterogeneous parameterization of thermal and hydraulic properties of the ground, solves snow accumulation and melting, and calculates temperature, water and ice content in the ground. GEOtop (Rigon et al., 2006) is a distributed physically-based hydrological model that appears suitable to deal with the above outlined requirements, as it solves coupled water and energy budgets, allows heterogeneous input parameters in the form of maps and includes a snow module that calculates accumulation-melting of snow through a multilayer discretization of the snowpack (Endrizzi, 2007). The model, at the beginning of this work, was lacking of a freezing-soil module capable to account for phase change and heat advection in the soils, extremely important in permafrost affected areas (Roth and Boike, 2001). The inclusion of this part, ... Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Ice permafrost Università degli Studi di Trento: CINECA IRIS |
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Permafrost degradation in high mountain environments is one of the effects of climate change in the Alpine region (IPCC, 2007). The consequences may be manyfold, ranging from rock falls and debris flows, to structural damages in infrastructures located on high mountains. The exceptional rock-fall activity during the summer 2003 is likely an indication of this rapid destabilization that takes place as an almost immediate reaction to extreme warming (Gruber et al., 2004a). The understanding and prediction of such phenomena requires ï¬ rst the localization of permafrost affected areas, and then the monitoring of permafrost sites through proper measurement and modeling techniques. However, the modeling of alpine permafrost is not an easy task because of a variety of causes that contribute to increase the complexity. In particular, the crucial factors dominating alpine permafrost are (1) topography and soil type heterogeneity, (2) snow insulating effect, (3) presence of ice in the ground and (4) high thermal inertia for temperature change at depth. These disturbances could be dealt with through a physically based approach that accounts for the topographical characteristics of the basin, allows heterogeneous parameterization of thermal and hydraulic properties of the ground, solves snow accumulation and melting, and calculates temperature, water and ice content in the ground. GEOtop (Rigon et al., 2006) is a distributed physically-based hydrological model that appears suitable to deal with the above outlined requirements, as it solves coupled water and energy budgets, allows heterogeneous input parameters in the form of maps and includes a snow module that calculates accumulation-melting of snow through a multilayer discretization of the snowpack (Endrizzi, 2007). The model, at the beginning of this work, was lacking of a freezing-soil module capable to account for phase change and heat advection in the soils, extremely important in permafrost affected areas (Roth and Boike, 2001). The inclusion of this part, ... |
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Coupled Water and Heat Transfer in Permafrost Modeling |
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Coupled Water and Heat Transfer in Permafrost Modeling |
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Coupled Water and Heat Transfer in Permafrost Modeling |
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Coupled Water and Heat Transfer in Permafrost Modeling |
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Coupled Water and Heat Transfer in Permafrost Modeling |
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