Variations in snow surface properties at the snowpack-depth, the slope and the basin scale

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 54, Issue 188, 2008, Pages 846-856

  Schweizer, Jürg ^a   Heilig, Achim ^a,b   Bellaire, Sascha ^a   Fierz, Charles ^a  

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

^b AlpS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE; FORMATION MECHANISM; ICE THICKNESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PENETROMETER; SLOPE STABILITY; SNOW COVER; SNOWPACK; SPATIAL VARIATION; TERRAIN;

CENTRAL EUROPE; DAVOS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAUBUNDEN; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 61349099552     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/002214308787780058     Document Type: Article

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