Snow avalanche mass-balance calculation and simulation-model verification

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 48, Issue , 2008, Pages 183-192

  Sailer, Rudolf ^a   Fellin, Wolfgang ^b   Fromm, Reinhard ^a   Jörg, Philipp ^a   Rammer, Lambert ^a   Sampl, Peter ^c   Schaffhauser, Andreas ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE FOR FORESTS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c AVL LIST GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DOPPLER RADAR; MASS BALANCE; SIMULATION; SNOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 45249099361     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756408784700707     Document Type: Conference Paper

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