Meteorological controls on wind erosion during foehn wind events in the eastern Southern Alps, New Zealand

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1477-1485

  McGowan, Hamish A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN PROCESSES; FOEHN WIND; METEOROLOGICAL CONTROL; WIND EROSION;

NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH ISLAND, SOUTHERN ALPS;

EID: 0031462631     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e17-120     Document Type: Article

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