Production and decay of random kinetic energy in granular snow avalanches

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 55, Issue 189, 2009, Pages 3-12

  Buser, Othmar ^a   Bartelt, Perry ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE; DECOMPOSITION; EQUATION; KINETIC ENERGY; RHEOLOGY; SNOW;

EID: 67651165371     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/002214309788608859     Document Type: Article

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