Development and validation of a spatial snow-glide model

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 211, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 363-374

  Leitinger, Georg ^a,b   Höller, Peter ^c   Tasser, Erich ^b   Walde, Janette ^a   Tappeiner, Ulrike ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^c Federal Office and Research Centre for Forests   (Austria)

Author keywords

Avalanche; Erosion; Impact factor; Snow gliding model; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); EROSION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

GLOBAL CHANGES; IMPACT FACTOR; NATURAL HAZARDS; SNOW-GLIDING MODEL;

ECOLOGY;

AVALANCHE; EROSION; GLIDING; GLOBAL CHANGE; MODEL VALIDATION; NATURAL HAZARD; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SNOW; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 38349174490     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.09.015     Document Type: Article

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