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Articles | Volume 20, issue 5
Articles | Volume 20, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2923-2026
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2923-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 20, issue 5
Research article
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21 May 2026
Research article |  | 21 May 2026

Simulating liquid water distribution at the pore scale in snow: water retention curves and effective transport properties

Lisa Bouvet, Nicolas Allet, Neige Calonne, Frédéric Flin, and Christian Geindreau

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A quasi-static model is used to simulate the distribution of liquid water in the pore space of snow for various water contents. Liquid water is gradually introduced and then removed from a set of 34 3D tomography snow images by capillarity during wetting and drying simulations. This work constitutes an exploratory numerical work (i) to study the water retention curves and (ii) the effective transport properties of wet snow and how they are influenced by the water distribution at the pore scale.
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