Velocity measurements of wet snow avalanche on the Dhundi snow chute

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 51, Issue 54, 2010, Pages 139-145

  Upadhyay, Agraj ^a   Kumar, Amod ^a   Chaudhary, Arun ^a  

^a Ministry of Defence   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW VELOCITY; RHEOLOGY; SNOW AVALANCHE; VELOCITY PROFILE; WINTER;

HIMACHAL PRADESH; INDIA;

EID: 77957875921     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756410791386580     Document Type: Article

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