Statistical properties of fresh snow roughness

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; CRYSTALS; GAS DYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMIC ROUGHNESSES; CROSSOVER LENGTHS; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHIES; EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES; LENGTH SCALES; MICROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; RANDOM FIELDS; ROUGHNESS LENGTHS; SCALING BEHAVIORS; SCALING PROPERTIES; SCALING REGIMES; SNOW CRYSTALS; SNOW GRAIN SIZES; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; SURFACE GEOMETRIES;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

AERODYNAMICS; GRAIN SIZE; PHOTOGRAPHY; SNOW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 58149084088     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006689     Document Type: Article

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