Statistical forecasting of regional avalanche danger using simulated snow-cover data

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 55, Issue 193, 2009, Pages 761-768

  Schirmer, Michael ^a   Lehning, Michael ^a   Schweizer, Jürg ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AVALANCHE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA MINING; GLACIOLOGY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW COVER; SNOWPACK;

DAVOS; GRAUBUNDEN; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 70350111451     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/002214309790152429     Document Type: Article

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