On the evolution of the snow surface during snowfall

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 21, 2007, Pages

  Lowe H ^a   Egli, L ^a   Bartlett, S ^a   Guala, M ^a   Manes, C ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); PHOTOGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY; SNOWPACK;

SNOW;

CORRELATION; DEPOSITION; ICE MECHANICS; MODELING; SNOWPACK;

EID: 38549132497     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031637     Document Type: Article

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