Reconstructing snow avalanches in the Southeastern Pyrenees

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1599-1612

  Muntaa E ^a   Garcia C ^b   Oller, P ^b   Marti G ^b   Garcia A ^a   Gutierrez E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Geological Institute of Catalonia   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; AIR MASS; AVALANCHE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; SNOW; SNOWPACK; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WINTER;

PYRENEES;

EID: 66149129072     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-9-1599-2009     Document Type: Article

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