Evidence of chaos in slab avalanching

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 243-253

  Rosenthal, Walter ^a   Elder, Kelly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche forecasting; Avalanches; Chaos; Snow avalanches

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SLAB AVALANCHING;

SNOW;

AVALANCHE; CHAOS THEORY; SLAB;

EID: 0142218343     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-232X(03)00068-5     Document Type: Article

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