Soil erosion and organic carbon export by wet snow avalanches

Cryosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 651-658

  Korup, O ^a   Rixen, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON FLUX; CRYOSPHERE; DAMAGE; DEBRIS FLOW; EROSION RATE; ORGANIC CARBON; SNOW AVALANCHE; SNOW COVER; SOIL EROSION; TERRAIN;

ALPS; DAVOS; GRAUBUNDEN; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84925460576     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-8-651-2014     Document Type: Article

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