Ground temperatures under ski pistes with artificial and natural snow

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 419-427

  Rixen, Christian ^a,b   Haeberli, Wilfried ^b   Stoeckli, Veronika ^a  

^a WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNOW COVER; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

EID: 15044357506     PISSN: 15230430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1657/1523-0430(2004)036[0419:GTUSPW]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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