Role of pore pressure gradients in sustaining frontal particle entrainment in eruption currents: The case of powder snow avalanches

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Louge, M Y ^a   Carroll, C S ^a   Turnbull, B ^b  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTRAINMENT; FLOW VELOCITY; ICE MECHANICS; PORE PRESSURE; PRESSURE FIELD; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SNOW AVALANCHE; SNOW COVER; SNOWPACK; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

SIONNE VALLEY; SWITZERLAND; VALAIS;

EID: 84855301579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JF002065     Document Type: Article

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