Snow avalanche formation

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Schweizer, Jürg ^a   Jamieson, J Bruce ^b   Schneebeli, Martin ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Avalanche; Snow

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE; FORECASTING METHOD; FORMATION MECHANISM; HYDROLOGY; PREDICTION; SNOW;

EID: 1842713396     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002RG000123     Document Type: Article

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