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 [ Centre of Avalanche Safety of "Apatit" JSC, 33a, 50 years of October st, Kirovsk, Murmansk Region 184230, Russia ]
- Yury V. Fedorenko [ Institute of Ecology, Kola Scientific Centre of Academy of Science, f. 39, 35 Stroitelei st. Apatity, 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.
Object ID: issw-1996-104-106.pdf
Language of Article: English
Presenter(s): Unknown
Keywords: avalanche, stochastic model, snowpack stability
Page Number(s): 104-106
Subjects: snow stability snow models avalanche release
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