Predicting snow density using meteorological data

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 413-423

  Meløysund, Vivian ^a,b   Leira, Bernt ^b   Høiseth, Karl V ^b   Lisø, Kim Robert ^a,b  

^a SINTEF   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Buildings; Density measurements; Meteorological data; Norway; Snow; Snow loads; Structural design

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; DENSITY MEASUREMENT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SNOWFALL MEASUREMENT; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

INTERNATIONAL REGULATIONS; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION EQUATIONS; NORWAY; SNOW LOADS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

SNOW;

BUILDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SNOW; WEATHER STATION;

NORWAY;

EID: 38349096421     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.40     Document Type: Review

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