Gear-Type Glide-Meter as an Instrument For Forecasting Full-Depth Avalanches
Abstract This paper is concerned with the variation of snow glide and its predictability in full-depth avalanches. From field measurements of snow glide using a newly developed gear-type glide-meter which is fixed to the ground and which measures the amount of glide as the angle of rotation of a gea...
| Published in: | Journal of Glaciology |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
1980
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022143000011163 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022143000011163 |
| Summary: | Abstract This paper is concerned with the variation of snow glide and its predictability in full-depth avalanches. From field measurements of snow glide using a newly developed gear-type glide-meter which is fixed to the ground and which measures the amount of glide as the angle of rotation of a gear, the following characteristics are deduced: (1) the variation of gliding rate is composed of both short-term and long-term variations, and (2) the existence of correlation between the short-term variation and the relative frequency of avalanches is recognized. |
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