Extreme Avalanche Run-Out: Data from four Mountain Ranges
Open Access
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by International Glaciological Society in Annals of Glaciology
- Vol. 13, 180-184
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260305500007850
Abstract
Avalanche run-out distances have a prominent statistical character which is not usually featured in calculations derived from avalanche dynamics models. In order to predict run-out distances in a rational manner, the statistical element should be included. Here, we present and analyze data on extreme run-out from four mountain ranges. When the data are fitted to extreme-value distributions, we are able to show how (and why) extreme-value parameters vary with terrain properties of the different ranges.Keywords
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