Influence of snowpack layering on human-triggered snow slab avalanche release

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 176-182

  Habermann, Marijke ^a   Schweizer, Jürg ^a   Jamieson, J Bruce ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Avalanche formation; Numerical modeling; Skier triggering; Snow avalanche; Snow stability; Snow stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SLOPE STABILITY; SNOW; STRATIGRAPHY;

AVALANCHE FORMATION; NUMERICAL MODELING; SKIER TRIGGERING; SNOW AVALANCHE; SNOW STRATIGRAPHY;

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES);

AVALANCHE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE INITIATION; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHEAR STRESS; SLAB; SLOPE FAILURE; SNOWPACK;

EID: 54349117707     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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