Table 1.

Initial values of the relative humidity in the enclosure, distance $h_l-h_b$ between the crust bottom surface and water table (Fig. 1), distance $h_t$ between the crust top surface and the cell top (Fig. 1), and evaporation rate-absorption rate ratio estimated from Fick’s laws assuming the crust pores occupied by a saturated NaCl aqueous solution for the four experiments considered in the discussion.

	${\mathit{RH}}_{\mathit{inf}}$	$h_l-h_b$(mm)	$h_t$(mm)	$J_{\mathit{evap}}/J_{abs.}$
Full dissolution regime	0.4	2.33	15.6	0.18
Branched regime	0.38	3	6	0.5
Stable regime16	0.38	9	16.9	0.67
Stagnant regime	0.39	47	16.9	3.4