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Snowpack retaining techniques in the avalanche starting zones
(PONTIFICIA UNIV CATOLICA CHILE, ESCUELA CONSTRUCCION CIVIL, 2010)
Snow avalanches are events often involving serious risk to human beings and goods due to their destructive power This is why effective control measures are required to mitigate the risk for human settlements, goods and ...
Attribution of Declining Western U.S. Snowpack to Human Effects
(2008-12-01)
Observations show snowpack has declined across much of the western United States over the period 1950–99. This reduction has important social and economic implications, as water retained in the snowpack from winter storms ...
Attribution of Declining Western U.S. Snowpack to Human Effects
(2008-12-01)
Observations show snowpack has declined across much of the western United States over the period 1950–99. This reduction has important social and economic implications, as water retained in the snowpack from winter storms ...
Snowpack variations since AD 1150 in the Andes of Chile and Argentina (30°-37°S) inferred from rainfall, tree-ring and documentary records
(American Geophysical Union, 2012-06)
The Andean snowpack is the main source of freshwater and arguably the single most important natural resource for the populated, semi-arid regions of central Chile and central-western Argentina. However, apart from recent ...
Reconstructing the annual mass balance of the Echaurren Norte glacier (Central Andes, 33.5 S) using local and regional hydroclimatic data
(Copernicus Gesellschaft, 2016)
Despite the great number and variety of glaciers in southern South America, in situ glacier mass-balance records are extremely scarce and glacier-climate relationships are still poorly understood in this region. Here we ...