Brief communication: Weak control of snow avalanche deposit volumes by avalanche path morphology

Kern, Hippolyte; Eckert, Nicolas; Jomelli, Vincent; Grancher, Delphine; Deschatres, Michael; Arnaud-Fassetta, Gilles

doi:10.5194/tc-15-4845-2021

Articles | Volume 15, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-4845-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-4845-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 10

Brief communication

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14 Oct 2021

Brief communication |

| 14 Oct 2021

Brief communication: Weak control of snow avalanche deposit volumes by avalanche path morphology

Hippolyte Kern, Nicolas Eckert, Vincent Jomelli, Delphine Grancher, Michael Deschatres, and Gilles Arnaud-Fassetta

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