Polar bears observed climbing steep slopes to graze on scurvy grass in Svalbard
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Antidunes on steep slopes
16 When increasing the rates of subcritical flow on gentle slopes, the bed successively produces 17 ripples, dunes and flat beds. Antidunes (defined here as all bed undulations for which the 18 surface gravity waves are in phase with the bed profile) appear only in high flow rates and 19 may be found in some extreme natural flow events. Inversely, on steep slopes flume 20 experiment (S≥1% appro...
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عنوان ژورنال: Polar Research
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1751-8369
DOI: 10.1080/17518369.2017.1326453