Dissipated work, stability and the internal flow structure of granular snow avalanches

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 51, Issue 172, 2005, Pages 125-138

  Bartelt, Perry ^a   Buser, Othmar ^a   Kern, Martin ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE; GRANULAR MEDIUM; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 27744447354     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756505781829638     Document Type: Article

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