SNOWPACK model calculations for avalanche warning based upon a new network of weather and snow stations

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 145-157

  Lehning, Michael ^a   Bartelt, Perry ^a   Brown, Bob ^a   Russi, Tom ^a   Stöckli, Urs ^a   Zimmerli, Martin ^a  

^a WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Automatic measurements; Energy balance; Mass balance; Remote weather and snow stations; Snow conditions in avalanche starting zones; Snow cover structure; Snow metamorphism; Snowcover simulation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SNOW; STABILITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENERGY BALANCE; MASS BALANCE; SNOW METAMORPHISM;

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES);

AVALANCHE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS; MASS BALANCE; SNOW COVER; SNOWPACK; WARNING SYSTEM; WEATHER STATION;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0033509333     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-232X(99)00022-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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