Snow avalanche speed determination using seismic methods

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 2-10

  Vilajosana, I ^a   Khazaradze, G ^a   Surinach E ^a   Lied, E ^b   Kristensen, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b NORWEGIAN GEOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Seismic record; Snow avalanche; Speed; Time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; SEISMOLOGY; SPEED; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

SEISMIC RECORD; TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS;

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES);

AVALANCHE; CORRELATION; GEOPHONE; SEISMIC METHOD; SNOW; SNOWPACK;

EID: 34249068980     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2006.09.007     Document Type: Article

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