Fractal model for snow

Materials Science Forum

Volumn 638-642, Issue , 2010, Pages 2555-2560

  Carbone, A ^a   Chiaia, B ^a   Frigo, B ^a   Turk C ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fractal; Hurst exponent; Snow density

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; SNOW; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTION OF GRAINS; FRACTAL MODEL; HURST EXPONENTS; SNOW DENSITY; SNOW SAMPLES; VOID DISTRIBUTIONS;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

EID: 75849141771     PISSN: 02555476     EISSN: 16629752     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.638-642.2555     Document Type: Conference Paper

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