Instruments and methods: An improved machine to produce nature-identical snow in the laboratory

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 60, Issue 219, 2014, Pages 94-102

  Schleef, Stefan ^a   Jaggi, Matthias ^a   Löwe, Henning ^a   Schneebeli, Martin ^a  

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

Author keywords

Snow; Snow physics

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ICE CRYSTAL; ICE MECHANICS; LABORATORY METHOD; MACHINERY; PARAMETERIZATION; SUPERSATURATION;

EID: 84896844406     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/2014JoG13J118     Document Type: Article

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