Predicting snow velocity in large chute flows under different environmental conditions

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 737-760

  Rougier, Jonathan ^a   Kern, Martin ^b  

^a BFW Institute for Natural Hazards and Alpine Timberline   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avalanche; Bayes linear approach; Computer experiment; Herschel Bulkley rheology; Model discrepancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958579729     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2010.00717.x     Document Type: Article

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