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Risk of snow damage Snow loading may reduce the critical wind speed if snow is not dislodged by wind. Whenever there is a snowfall with excessive wet snow under a moderate wind speed (< 9 m s-1), trees will tend to turn and break (Figure 1). The accumulation of snow on tree crowns will be

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Seppo Kellomäki, Pekka Niemelä, Heli Peltola, Veikko Koski and Pertti Pulkkinen

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