Computing extreme avalanches

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 161-180

  Ancey, Christophe ^a   Gervasoni, Christian ^b   Meunier, Maurice ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c Cemagref   (France)

Author keywords

Avalanche; Calibration; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); CALIBRATION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

FIELD DATA; FITTING PARAMETERS; FRENCH ALPS; MODEL PARAMETERS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; RETURN PERIODS; RUNOUT DISTANCES; ZONING METHOD;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 33646684531     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2004.04.004     Document Type: Article

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