Articles | Volume 16, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-2325-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-2325-2016
Research article
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03 Nov 2016
Research article |  | 03 Nov 2016

Snow avalanche friction relation based on extended kinetic theory

Matthias Rauter, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Wolfgang Fellin, and Andreas Kofler

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