Characteristics and growth of a snowdrift in Arctic Alaska, U.S.A.

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 319-329

  Sturm, M ^a   Liston, G E ^a   Benson, C S ^a   Holmgren, J ^a  

^a Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOWING SNOW; SNOWPACK; STRATIGRAPHY;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034818947     PISSN: 15230430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1552239     Document Type: Article

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