Morphogenesis of typical winter and summer snow surface patterns in a continental alpine environment

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 619-649

  Herzfeld, Ute C ^a,b   Mayer, Helmut ^a,b   Caine, Nel ^b   Losleben, Mark ^b   Erbrecht, Tim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Geostatistical classification; Glacier Roughness Sensor; Sastrugi; Self organizational processes; Snow surface roughness; Sun cups; Vario functions

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; EROSION; SENSORS; SNOW;

SURFACE-ATMOSPHERE EXCHANGES;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

GEOSTATISTICS; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; MORPHOGENESIS; SEASONALITY; SNOW COVER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

UNITED STATES;

CAMISSONIA;

EID: 0037470348     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.1158     Document Type: Article

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