Combining snow drift and SNOWPACK models to estimate snow loading in avalanche slopes

Snow Engineering 2000: Recent Advances and Developments

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 113-122

  Lehning, Michael ^a   Doorschot, Judith ^a   Raderschall, Norbert ^a   Bartelt, Perry ^a  

^a Swiss F ederallnstitute for Snow and Avalanche Research   (Switzerland)

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DEPOSITION; LANDFORMS; SLOPE STABILITY;

AVALANCHE FORMATION; COMPARISON WITH MEASUREMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; DISTRIBUTED MODELING; INTEGRATED MODELING APPROACHES; OPERATIONAL ASSESSMENT; SNOW - VEGETATION INTERACTIONS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT;

SNOW;

EID: 58049203155     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9780203739532     Document Type: Chapter

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