Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-759-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-759-2018
07 Mar 2018
 | 07 Mar 2018

Dynamic magnification factors for tree blow-down by powder snow avalanche air blasts

Perry Bartelt, Peter Bebi, Thomas Feistl, Othmar Buser, and Andrin Caviezel

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