The Role of Preferential Flow in Modeling Liquid Water Transport and Ice Layer Formation in layered Snow Covers.

Sebastian Würzer1,2, Nander Wever2,3, Roman Juras4, Charles G Fierz1, Michael Lehning1,2 and Tobias Jonas1, (1)WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, (2)École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic