Quantifying permafrost patterns using Minkowski densities

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 277-290

  Roth, Kurt ^a   Boike, Julia ^b   Vogel, Hans Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Density functions; Patterned ground; Permafrost

Indexed keywords

PATTERNED GROUND; PERIGLACIAL FEATURE; PERMAFROST;

EID: 24944547405     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppp.531     Document Type: Article

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