Micrometeorological and morphological observations of surface hoar dynamics on a mountain snow cover

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Stossel F ^a   Guala, M ^a,b   Fierz, C ^a   Manes, C ^a,c   Lehning, M ^a  

^a WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF   (Switzerland)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS; SNOW COVERS;

EID: 84877124071     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008198     Document Type: Article

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