Item: The stochastic model of snow cover stability on mountain slopes
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Title: The stochastic model of snow cover stability on mountain slopes
Proceedings: Proceedings of the 1996 International Snow Science Workshop, Banff, Canada
Authors: Pavel A. Chernouss and Yury V. Fedorenko, Centre of Avalanche Safety of "Apatit" JSC, Institute of Ecology, Kola Scientific Centre of Academy of Science, Murmansk Region 184210, Russia
Date: 1996
Abstract: Three-dimensional deterministic model of thin elastic shell on a rigid underlying surface of arbitrary configuration is used as approach to a snow slab on the mountain slope. The finite difference method is used for calculation of stress distributions in the snow cover. Spatial distributions of snow cover characteristics are represented as stochastic fields which realizations are simulated with Monte Carlo method. Such characteristics as snow thickness, density and cohesion were simulated on a base of information about spatial statistical structure of these parameters to obtain a stress field over a slope.
Presenters: Unknown
Keywords: avalanche, stochastic model, snowpack stability
Subjects: snow stability snow models avalanche release
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