Kulikovskiy - Sveshnikova - Beghin model of power snow avalanches: Development and application

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Turnbull, B ^a,b   McElwaine, J N ^b   Ancey, C ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; ENTRAINMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE MOTION; SNOW;

EID: 34249744433     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JF000489     Document Type: Article

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