Item: Avalanche Observation at the Ryggfonn Test Site, Norway, with Correlation to Snow and Weather Conditions
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Title: Avalanche Observation at the Ryggfonn Test Site, Norway, with Correlation to Snow and Weather Conditions
Proceedings: International Snow Science Workshop 2014 Proceedings, Banff, Canada
Authors:
- Peter Gauer [ Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway ]
- Krister Kristensen [ Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway ]
Date: 2014-09-29
Abstract: The Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) has been running full-scale avalanche experiments at the Ryggfonn test-site in western Norway for close to 40 years. Data from this period involve observations from about 32 artificial avalanche releases and 158 natural ones. In this paper, we do an attempt to correlate avalanche observations and obtained measurements from the Ryggfonn path with snow and weather conditions at the time. In this way, we hope to obtain an improved dataset useful for model calibration and to obtain information on avalanche release probability. The final aim is to contribute to the further improvement of the quality of hazard zoning.
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P2.10.pdf
Language of Article: English
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Keywords: Avalanche observations, weather conditions, avalanche probability, hazard zoning
Page Number(s): 719-723
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