Contradictory saltation height measurements and unphysical assumptions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 39, 2008, Pages

  Andreotti, Bruno ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; DYNAMICS; LETTER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL EROSION; VELOCITY;

EID: 55549139818     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0804431105     Document Type: Letter

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