Avalanches in Wood Compression [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 2015 5 pages, 5 ...
Mäkinen, T. +4 more
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Can model-based avalanche forecasts match the discriminatory skill of human danger-level forecasts? A comparison from Switzerland [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System SciencesIn recent years, physics-based snowpack models combined with machine-learning techniques have gained momentum in public avalanche forecasting. When integrated with spatial interpolation methods, these approaches enable fully model-driven predictions of ...
F. Techel +4 more
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Empirical prediction for travel distance of channelized rock avalanches in the Wenchuan earthquake area [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2017 Rock avalanches are extremely rapid, massive flow-like movements of fragmented rock. The travel path of the rock avalanches may be confined by channels in some cases, which are referred to as channelized rock avalanches.
W. Zhan +5 more
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Feedback Mechanisms for Self-Organization to the Edge of a Phase Transition
Frontiers in Physics, 2020 Scale-free outbursts of activity are commonly observed in physical, geological, and biological systems. The idea of self-organized criticality (SOC), introduced back in 1987 by Bak, Tang, and Wiesenfeld suggests that, under certain circumstances, natural
Victor Buendía +5 more
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Has fire policy decreased the return period of the largest wildfire events in France? A Bayesian assessment based on extreme value theory [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2018 Very large wildfires have high human, economic, and ecological impacts so that robust evaluation of their return period is crucial. Preventing such events is a major objective of the new fire policy set up in France in 1994, which is oriented towards
G. Evin, T. Curt, N. Eckert
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Size Distribution of Emitted Energies in Local Load Sharing Fiber Bundles
Frontiers in Physics, 2021 We study the local load sharing fiber bundle model and its energy burst statistics. While it is known that the avalanche size distribution of the model is exponential, we numerically show here that the avalanche size (s) and the corresponding average ...
Subhadeep Roy, Soumyajyoti Biswas
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Variations of Nivometeorological Parameters During the Winter Season 2023-2024 [PDF]
Aerul şi Apa: Componente ale MediuluiThe paper presents and analyze snow and meteorological parameters of the 2023-2024 winter, measured at the meteorological stations with nivological program (Predeal, Sinaia 1500, Parâng, Semenic, Vlădeasa, Ceahlău-Toaca, Iezer, Călimani, Țarcu, Bâlea-Lac,
Narcisa MILIAN +3 more
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Scaling of causal neural avalanches in a neutral model
Physical Review Research, 2021 Neural avalanches are collective firings of neurons that exhibit emergent scale-free behavior. Understanding the nature and distribution of these avalanches is an important element in understanding how the brain functions.
Sakib Matin, Thomas Tenzin, W. Klein
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Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, 2019 The aim of the investigation was assessment of spatial variability of the characteristics of snowpack, including the snow water equivalent (SWE) as the main hydrological characteristic of a seasonal snow cover.
Komarov Anton Yu. +3 more
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Comparison of simulated powder snow avalanches with photogrammetric measurements
Annals of Glaciology, 2016 Photogrammetric measurements of powder-cloud surfaces from large avalanches enable the observation of cloud evolution and dispersion as well as quantification of cloud velocities and powder volumes. Since 2002, a total of six large powder avalanches have
Lisa Dreier +3 more
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