Exploring multi-scale spatial patterns in historical avalanche data, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Wyoming

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 299-313

  McCollister, C ^a,b   Birkeland, K ^a,c   Hansen, K ^a   Aspinall, R ^a   Comey, R ^b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BridgerTetonNatlForestAvalancheCtr   (United States)

^c USForestServiceNatlAvalancheCtr   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche forecasting; Geographic Knowledge Discovery; Geographic Visualization; GIS; Nearest neighbors

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SPATIAL PATTERNS;

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES);

AVALANCHE; FORECASTING METHOD; HISTORICAL RECORD;

EID: 0142249312     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-232X(03)00072-7     Document Type: Article

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