Velocities for the dry and wet snow avalanches at Makunosawa valley in Myoko, Japan

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 483-486

  Takeuchi, Y ^a   Yamanoi, K ^a   Endo, Y ^a,b   Murakami, S ^a   Izumi, K ^b  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Avalanche velocity; Dry snow avalanche; Makunosawa valley; Wet snow avalanche

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; SNOWFALL MEASUREMENT; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

GEOPHONES;

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES);

AVALANCHE; VELOCITY;

JAPAN;

EID: 0142187152     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-232X(03)00086-7     Document Type: Article

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