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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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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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