Item: Avalanches and Snow Mobile Traffic Around Longyearbyen, Svalbard
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Title: Avalanches and Snow Mobile Traffic Around Longyearbyen, Svalbard
Proceedings: International Snow Science Workshop, Davos 2009, Proceedings
Authors:
- Markus Eckerstorfer [ Arctic Geology Department, The University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway ]
- Hanne H. Christiansen [ Arctic Geology Department, The University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway ]
- Ullrich Neumann [ Arctic Geology Department, The University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway ]
Date: 2009
Abstract: Longyearbyen is situated in a mountainous landscape, thus infrastructure, living and travelling in and around Longyearbyen is highly affected by mountain slope processes. This mountain landscape undergoes changes during the whole year as a consequence of freezing and thawing, snow melting, erosion, rock fall or snow avalanches, mainly due to the high arctic climate. The CRYOSLOPE Svalbard project marks the first systematic attempt to observe these mountain slope processes and investigate how they affect traffic and infrastructure. A year round observation program observes mainly snow avalanches, their spatial occurrence and timing as well as meteorological and snow pack factors controlling the slope processes. Subsequently this data is related with the amount of snow mobile traffic directly affected in the valleys.
Object ID: issw-2009-0044-0047.pdf
Language of Article: English
Presenter(s): Unknown
Keywords: high arctic, svalbard, snow avalanches, radar traffic counting
Page Number(s): 44-47
Subjects: avalanches longyearbyen, svalbard snow mobile traffic
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