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Record #88942:

Observations on floating snowpacks: lakes, rivers and the sea / W. Peter Adams, Terry D. Prowse, Hardy Granberg.

Title: Observations on floating snowpacks: lakes, rivers and the sea / W. Peter Adams, Terry D. Prowse, Hardy Granberg.
Author(s): Adams, W. Peter.
Prowse, Terry D.
Granberg, Hardy.
Date: 1987.
Publisher: Ottawa: National Research Council Canada. Associate Committee on Geotechnical Research
In: National Research Council of Canada. Associate Committee on Geotechnical Research. Technical Memorandum. (1987.), Vol. 140 (1987)
Abstract: Points out that remarkable proportion of total global snowpack at any one time is afloat. Describes special character and discusses significance, with examples which demonstrate broad range of implications associated with such snowpacks.
Notes:

National Research Council of Canada. Associate Committee on Geotechnical Research. Technical Memorandum. Vol. 140 :313-346 (1987).

Keywords: 551.578.46 -- Snow cover and snow patches.
551.326 -- Floating ice.
E10 -- Glaciology: snow and avalanches.
SPRI record no.: 88942

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