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PIV measurements of saltating snow particle velocity in a boundary layer developed in a wind tunnel

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  1. Department of Architecture and Building Engineering, Niigata Institute of Technology, 1719 Fujihashi, Kashiwazaki, Niigata, 945-1195, Japan

    Yoshihide Tominaga

  2. Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

    Tsubasa Okaze, Akashi Mochida & Yasutomo Sasaki

  3. Shinjo Branch, Snow and Ice Research Center, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Shinjo, Japan

    Masaki Nemoto & Takeshi Sato

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Tominaga, Y., Okaze, T., Mochida, A. et al. PIV measurements of saltating snow particle velocity in a boundary layer developed in a wind tunnel. J Vis 16, 95–98 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12650-012-0156-8

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