Flying avalanches

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 2003, Pages

  Hákonardóttir, Kristin Martha ^a   Hogg, Andrew J ^a   Batey, Jenny ^a   Woods, Andrew W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; DAMS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; JETS; SNOW; CONFINED FLOW; DESIGN; GRANULAR MATERIALS;

GRANULAR FLOW; GRANULAR JETS; FLOW DEPTH; GRANULAR FLOWS; MAN-MADE STRUCTURES; NATURAL PHENOMENA; RAPID GRANULAR FLOWS; SNOW AVALANCHE;

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES);

AVALANCHE; SLOPE FAILURE; TURBULENCE;

EID: 1542441017     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018172     Document Type: Article

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