Revue de Géographie Alpine, 2020 This study presents the evolution of the snow reliability in the 24 alpine ski resorts of the Isère département (Northern French Alps, around Grenoble) over the last decades and its projection into the 21st century, taking into account grooming and ...
Martin Gerbaux +4 more
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Implementing spatially and temporally varying snow densities into the GlobSnow snow water equivalent retrieval [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2023 Snow water equivalent (SWE) is a valuable characteristic of snow cover, and it can be estimated using passive spaceborne radiometer measurements. The radiometer-based GlobSnow SWE retrieval methodology, which assimilates weather station snow depth ...
P. Venäläinen +7 more
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EVALUATING THE CONSISTENCY OF REMOTE SENSING BASED SNOW DEPTH PRODUCTS IN ARID ZONE OF WESTERN CHINA [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2012 Snow cover is a sensitive indicator of global climate change. Among various snow cover parameters, snow depth which can indicate snow accumulation is essential for retrieving snow water equivalent.
Q. Zhou, B. Sun
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 Uneven snow distribution plays a main role in the collapse of two-span single-pitched roofs because of the intensified snow accumulation in the valleys and eaves.
Guolong Zhang +11 more
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Implementing Snow Load Monitoring to Control Reliability of a Stadium Roof [PDF]
, 2019 This contribution shows how monitoring can be used to control reliability of a structure not complying with the requirements of Eurocodes. A general methodology to obtain cost-optimal decisions using limit state design, probabilistic reliability ...
Diamantidis, Dimitris, Sýkora, Miroslav
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Reliability analysis of a glulam beam [PDF]
, 2007 The present case study is an example of the use of reliability analysis to asses the failure probability of a tapered glulam beam. This beam is part of a true structure built for a super market in the town of Kokemaki in Finland. The reliability analysis
Schnabl, Simon +2 more
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Fire analysis of steel frames with the use of artificial neural networks [PDF]
, 2007 The paper presents an alternative approach to the modelling of the mechanical behaviour of steel frame material when exposed to the high temperatures expected in fires.
Anderberg +26 more
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Experts’ Opinion on the Validation of Socio-Environmental Design Factors (SEDeF) Model as a Residential Neighbourhood Crime Prevention Technique in Nigeria [PDF]
, 2017 This article centres on validating a proposed model, socio-environmental design factors (SEDeF) meant to complement the penal system in the area of combating residential neighbourhood crime within the Nigerian residential estates.
Lizam, Mohd, Olajide, Sunday Emmanuel
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An innovative construction for regulating snow avalanches and developing a method for its design
Budownictwo o Zoptymalizowanym Potencjale Energetycznym, 2022 The article discusses the sensitive areas of snow avalanches formed in the mountain landscapes of Georgia and presents their brief geographical, climatic-meteorological and hydro logical assessments.
Givi Gavardashvili +4 more
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Effect of Hedging-Integrated Rule Curves on the Performance of the Pong Reservoir (India) During Scenario-Neutral Climate Change Perturbations [PDF]
, 2015 This study has evaluated the effects of improved, hedging-integrated reservoir rule curves on the current and climate-change-perturbed future performances of the Pong reservoir, India.
Adeloye, Adebayo J. +3 more
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