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Title: Understanding the relative importance of vertical and horizontal flow in ice-wedge polygons

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [4]; ORCiD logo [4];  [4];  [5]
  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM (United States)
  2. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM (United States); Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States)
  3. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  4. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  5. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1632763
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1666002; OSTI ID: 1688778; OSTI ID: 1695720
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-17-28853
Journal ID: ISSN 1607-7938
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725; AC52-06NA25396; 89233218CNA000001
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Online) Journal Volume: 24 Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1607-7938
Publisher:
European Geosciences Union (EGU)
Country of Publication:
Germany
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Earth Sciences

Citation Formats

Wales, Nathan A., Gomez-Velez, Jesus D., Newman, Brent D., Wilson, Cathy J., Dafflon, Baptiste, Kneafsey, Timothy J., Soom, Florian, and Wullschleger, Stan D. Understanding the relative importance of vertical and horizontal flow in ice-wedge polygons. Germany: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.5194/hess-24-1109-2020.
Wales, Nathan A., Gomez-Velez, Jesus D., Newman, Brent D., Wilson, Cathy J., Dafflon, Baptiste, Kneafsey, Timothy J., Soom, Florian, & Wullschleger, Stan D. Understanding the relative importance of vertical and horizontal flow in ice-wedge polygons. Germany. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-1109-2020
Wales, Nathan A., Gomez-Velez, Jesus D., Newman, Brent D., Wilson, Cathy J., Dafflon, Baptiste, Kneafsey, Timothy J., Soom, Florian, and Wullschleger, Stan D. Tue . "Understanding the relative importance of vertical and horizontal flow in ice-wedge polygons". Germany. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-1109-2020.
@article{osti_1632763,
title = {Understanding the relative importance of vertical and horizontal flow in ice-wedge polygons},
author = {Wales, Nathan A. and Gomez-Velez, Jesus D. and Newman, Brent D. and Wilson, Cathy J. and Dafflon, Baptiste and Kneafsey, Timothy J. and Soom, Florian and Wullschleger, Stan D.},
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doi = {10.5194/hess-24-1109-2020},
journal = {Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Online)},
number = 3,
volume = 24,
place = {Germany},
year = {Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-1109-2020

Figures / Tables:

Table 1 Table 1: Response and recovery data from observation wells. Bold font indicates wells in polygon centers. Change in head Δh (m), time to peak Tpeak (d), and characteristic response λ (d). N/A = not available; the data necessary to make this estimate was not available.

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