Odnim iz groznykh yavleniy prirody yavlyayutsya snezhnye laviny, kogda ogromnye massy snega, l'da i kamney stremitel'no sryvayutsya s gornykh vershin, smetaya i unichtozhaya vsye na svoyem puti. Lavinoopasnye mesta vsegda imeli durnuyu slavu i do nedavnego vremeni chelovek prosto storonilsya ikh. Razvitie sporta i turizma obostrili problemu prognozirovaniya lavinnykh protsessov i minimizatsii ekonomicheskogo ushcherba ot neupravlyaemogo skhoda snezhnykh mass. Yarkim primerom etogo yavlyaetsya organizatsiya olimpiady 2014 goda v Sochi. Dannaya kniga posvyashchena matematicheskomu modelirovaniyu nakopleniya i skhoda snezhnykh lavin v zavisimosti ot fizicheskikh svoystv snezhnoy massy. Issledovano vzaimodeystvie laviny s prepyatstviyami razlichnoy formy i razmerov. Razrabotana informatsionnaya sistema analiza dannykh, kotoraya pozvolyaet poluchat' znacheniya i graficheskoe izobrazhenie osnovnykh vykhodnykh kharakteristik laviny, analizirovat' proiskhodyashchie v snezhnoy masse protsessy, eye fragmentatsiyu i etapy skhoda laviny. Kniga budet polezna nauchnym rabotnikam, sotrudnikam gorno-spasatel'nykh sluzhb, studentam vysshikh uchebnykh zavedeniy.