Assessing changes in the spatial variability of the snowpack fracture propagation propensity over time

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 152-160

  Hendrikx, Jordy ^a   Birkeland, Karl ^b   Clark, Martyn ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche forecasting; Propagation; Snowpack; Spatial variability

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES);

AVALANCHE FORECASTING; COLUMN TESTS; DATA COLLECTIONS; FRACTURE INITIATIONS; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; OVERLAPPING GRIDS; PROPAGATION; RANDOM DISTRIBUTIONS; SNOWPACK; SPATIAL CLUSTERING; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL CHANGES; TEST RESEARCHES; WEAK LAYERS;

FRACTURE;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; AVALANCHE; FRACTURE INITIATION; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; SLOPE STABILITY; SNOWPACK; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 62949241966     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2008.12.001     Document Type: Article

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