A two-dimensional snow creep model for alpine terrain

Natural Hazards

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 481-497

  Teufelsbauer, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Snow creep; Snow pressure; Snow viscosity; Snowpack model; Viscous Poisson ratio

Indexed keywords

CREEP; DEBRIS AVALANCHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POISSON RATIO; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SNOW AVALANCHE; SNOWPACK; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISCOSITY;

ALPS;

EID: 79551604482     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-010-9515-8     Document Type: Article

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