Size of snow particles in a powder-snow avalanche

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 57, Issue 201, 2011, Pages 151-156

  Rastello, Marie ^a,b   Rastello, Fabrice ^c   Bellot, Hervé ^b   Ousset, Frédéric ^b   Dufour, François ^d   Meier, Lorenz ^d  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

^b Cemagref   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SNOW; SNOW AVALANCHE; TESTING METHOD;

SIONNE VALLEY; SWITZERLAND; VALAIS;

EID: 79958833469     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/002214311795306637     Document Type: Article

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