Observation and Spatial Modeling of Snow- and Ice-Related Mass Movement Hazards
Snow- and ice-related hazardous processes threaten society in tropical to high-latitude mountain areas worldwide and at highly variable time scales. On the one hand, small snow avalanches are recorded in high numbers every winter. On the other hand, glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) or large-scal...
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Oxford University Press
2016
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199389407.013.70 |