Stochastic dynamics of snow avalanche occurrence by superposition of Poisson processes

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 468, Issue 2148, 2012, Pages 4193-4208

  Perona, Paolo ^a   Daly, Edoardo ^b   Crouzy, Benoit ^a   Porporato, Amilcar ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Snow avalanches; State dependent Poisson process; Stochastic dynamics

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; LANDFORMS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COMPOUND POISSON PROCESS; CONSTANT FREQUENCY; DYNAMICS OF SYSTEM; MODELLING FRAMEWORK; POISSON PROCESS; SNOW AVALANCHE; SNOW DEPTHS; STATE VARIABLES; STATE-DEPENDENT; STOCHASTIC DYNAMICS; TERRAIN SLOPE;

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES);

EID: 84872300063     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2012.0396     Document Type: Article

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