Avalanche forecasting in a heavy snowfall area using the snowpack model

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 191-203

  Hirashima, Hiroyuki ^a   Nishimura, Kouichi ^a   Yamaguchi, Satoru ^a   Sato, Atsushi ^a   Lehning, Michael ^b  

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

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

Author keywords

Avalanche forecasting; Heavy snow; SNOWPACK model; Stability index

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION; SHEAR STRENGTH; STABILITY;

AVALANCHE FORECASTING; HEAVY SNOW; STABILITY INDEX;

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES);

AVALANCHE; DATA ACQUISITION; FORECASTING METHOD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; ICE THICKNESS; PARAMETERIZATION; PREDICTION; SNOWPACK; SNOWSTORM; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 38349128853     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2007.05.013     Document Type: Article

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