Outdoors modelling of snowdrift at SANAE IV Research Station, Antarctica

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 551-569

  Beyers, J H M ^a   Harms, T M ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Similarity analysis; Snowdrift modelling

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND EFFECTS;

RESEARCH STATIONS;

SNOW;

MODELING; SCALE MODEL; SIMILARITY; SNOW;

EID: 0037372359     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6105(02)00409-9     Document Type: Article

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