Unraveling driving factors for large rock-ice avalanche mobility

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 36, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1948-1966

  Schneider, D ^a   Huggel, C ^a   Haeberli, W ^a   Kaitna, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

Climate change; Glacial and periglacial high mountain environment; Hazard assessment; Mobility; Rock ice avalanche

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF FRICTIONS; CRITICAL FACTORS; DRIVING FACTORS; EMPIRICAL DATA; FLOW CHARACTERISTIC; FLOW PATH; FRICTION PARAMETERS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HIGH MOUNTAINS; ICE CONTENT; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOW FRICTION; MASS MOVEMENT; MOVING MASS; PERIGLACIAL; PHYSICAL LABORATORY; ROCK SLOPE; ROCK-ICE AVALANCHE; SATURATED MATERIALS; SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTS; FRICTION; HAZARDS; LABORATORIES; LANDFORMS; RATING; ROCKS; TRIBOLOGY; WATER CONTENT;

ICE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; GLACIER; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MASS MOVEMENT; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; ROCK AVALANCHE; SLOPE STABILITY; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 80054913454     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2218     Document Type: Article

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