Dependence of the water retention curve of snow on snow characteristics

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 53, Issue 61, 2012, Pages 6-12

  Yamaguchi, Satoru ^a   Watanabe, Kunio ^b   Katsushima, Takafumi ^c   Sato, Atsushi ^a   Kumakura, Toshiro ^d  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOYAMA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; DRY DENSITY; GRAIN SIZE; SNOW; SNOW COVER; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 84879304768     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/2012AoG61A001     Document Type: Article

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