Application of the snow cover model SNOWPACK to snow avalanche warning in Niseko, Japan

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 62-70

  Nishimura, Kouichi ^a   Baba, Emiko ^b   Hirashima, Hiroyuki ^a   Lehning, Michael ^c  

^a National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Snow avalanche warning; Snow cover simulation; Snow stability evaluation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS; WIND EFFECTS;

SNOW AVALANCHE WARMING; SNOW COVER SIMULATION; SNOW STABILITY EVALUATION;

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES);

AVALANCHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SNOW COVER; WARNING SYSTEM;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; WORLD;

EID: 27744452813     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2005.05.007     Document Type: Article

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