Regional snow-depth estimates for avalanche calculations using a two-dimensional model with snow entrainment

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 49, Issue , 2008, Pages 63-70

  Bianchi Janetti, Emanuela ^a,b   Gorni, Elisa ^a,b   Sovilla, Betty ^a   Bocchiola, Daniele ^b  

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

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE; ENTRAINMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIOLOGY; RETURN PERIOD; SNOW COVER; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 47849120165     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756408787814681     Document Type: Article

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