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Title: Recent Changes in Avalanche Activity in the French Alps and Their Links With Climatic Drivers: An Overview
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Nicolas Eckert, Aurore Lavigne, Hélène Castebrunet, Gérald Giraud, Mohamed Naaim
Description: This paper synthetizes our ongoing work on relations between natural avalanche activity and climate change in the French Alps and subregions. Firm res...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-25.pdf
Keywords: avalanche activity, climate change, time trends, french alps
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Title: Le Sappeyen Chartreuse Ski Resort: How it is Managed and How to Take into Account Climate Change?
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Hubert Gallée, Antoine Kévorkian, Thierry Grenet, Pascale Huyghe
Description: The Sappey-en-Chartreuse is situated in the Chartreuse mountains, in the French Alps. The low elevation ski resort spans a range of 1000 to 1300 m a.s...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-26.pdf
Keywords: ski resort, french alps, snow cover
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Title: Avalanche Warning Service without Frontiers in the Karavanks Along the Slovenian-Austrian Border
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Arnold Studeregger, Arnulf Wurzer, Hannes Rieder, Andreas Riegler, Willi Ertl, Manca Volk Bahun, Jaka Ortarand Miha Pavsek
Description: The avalanche warning service was established within the frames of Operational program SI–AT 2007–2013 project “Natural Hazards wi...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-16.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, avalanche bulletin, avalanche warning service, alps
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Title: Climate Change: A New Software to Study the Variations of Snow Images Shot by Web Cam
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Mauro Valt, Rosamaria Salvatori, Paolo Plini, Roberto Salzano, Marco Giusto, Mauro Montagnoli
Description: The seasonal Snow cover and its extension play a relevant role for environmental studies in mountain areas especially considering its variation during...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-16.pdf
Keywords: snow cover monitoring, climate change, digital images, software, alps, apennines
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Title: Preliminary Measurements and Survey of Snowdrift at the Seehore Avalanche Test Site – Aosta Valley (IT)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Maggioni M., Durand N., Frigo B., Pallara O., Freppaz M., Dellavedova P., Segor V., Naaim- Bouvet F., Bellot H.
Description: In high elevation areas drifting snow influences the snowpack spatial distribution and consequently its stability. The amount of snow drifted from th...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-65.pdf
Keywords: snowdrift, avalanche release zone, experimental data, nw italian alps
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Title: Avalanche Simulations in Forested Terrain: A Framework Towards a Bayesian Probabilistic Model Calibration
Date: 2012
Authors: Michaela Teich, Irene Vasella, Perry Bartelt, Peter Bebi, Thomas Feistl, Adrienne Grêt Regamey
Description: Avalanche dynamics models are used for hazard zoning and engineering to predict runout distances and impact pressures of snow avalanche events. The ef...
Object ID: issw-2012-628-632.pdf
Keywords: avalanche simulation, avalanche dynamics, avalanche runout, swiss alps
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Title: How to Detect Snow Fall Occurrence During Blowing Snow Event?
Date: 2012
Authors: Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Hervé Bellot, Kouichi Nishimura, Christophe Genthon, Cyril Palerme, Gilbert Guyomarc’h
Description: In mountainous areas, drifting snow influences the spatial distribution of the snow cover and consequently snowpack stability and avalanche risk. When...
Object ID: issw-2012-976-982.pdf
Keywords: blowing snow, drifting snow, snow fall, precipitation, sensor, alps, antarctic
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Title: Localization Map of Avalanche Phenomena (CLPA) and Collection of Eye Witness Accounts: Field Investigation Method, Biases, Alternatives and Limits, Data Quality
Date: 2010
Authors: M. Bonnefoy, S. Cabos, S. Escande, R. Gaucher, X. Pasquier, J.M. Tacnet
Description: A catastrophic avalanche occurred in 1970, killing 39 people in a tourist centre located in the Val d’Isère ski resort, Savoie, France. In r...
Object ID: ISSW_P-051.pdf
Keywords: clpa, eye witness accounts, alps and pyrenees, fatalities, photographic interpretation
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Title: The Lower Austria Avalanche Warning Service - The Youngest in the Alps
Date: 2009
Authors: Arnold Studeregger, Hannes Rieder, Fritz Salzer
Description: The avalanche warning service was established by the government of lower Austria together with the avalanche experts of the Institute for Meteorology ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0350-0352.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, avalanche warning service, alps
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Title: Regional Methods for Snow Avalanche Prediction: The Case of Italian Alps
Date: 2009
Authors: Daniele Bocchiola
Description: Regional statistical methods carry considerable bearing on prediction of natural events with low frequency of occurrence, including snow avalanches. ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0505-0508.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard, regional methods, long term simulation, italian alps
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Title: A Study of Snow Climates in the Japan Alps
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Shinji Ikeda, Ryuzo Wakabayashi
Description: The Japan Alps on Japan's main island of Honshu consist of 3 mountainous areas broken into the North, Central and South Alps that are located between ...
Object ID: P__8206.pdf
Keywords: snow climate, japan alps, snow-pack structure, snow grain type, weak layer
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Title: Soil Erosion Caused by Snow Avalanches: Preliminary Results of Two Case Studies in the Aosta Valley (NW-Italy)
Date: 2006
Authors: M. Freppaz, S. Lunardi , M. Maggioni, F. Valfrè, T. Bizzocchi, E. Zanini
Description: Snow avalanches exert considerable erosive forces on soils, which may be torn open and scraped away, especially in the transition zone, as a result o...
Object ID: issw-2006-880-886.pdf
Keywords: soil properties, avalanche deposits, alps, organic carbon, total nitrogen
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Title: Probabilistic Analysis of Recent Snow Avalanche Activity and Climate in the French Alps
Date: 2004
Authors: Vincent Jomelli, Cécile Delval, Delphine Grancher, Sebastien Escande, Daniel Brunstein, Bernard Hetu, Louise Filion, Pierre Pech
Description: The characterization of statistical relationships between snow avalanche occurrence and climate can be useful for avalanche prediction. We investigat...
Object ID: issw-2004-261-269.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, climate, statistic modelling, occurrence probability, french alps
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Title: Ten Years Experience with the Five Level Avalanche Danger Scale and the GIS Database in Switzerland
Date: 2004
Authors: Andreas Stoffel, Roland Meister
Description: In 1993 the European avalanche warning services agreed on a standardized, five level avalanche danger scale. Since then, this danger scale has been in...
Object ID: issw-2004-545-554.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger scale, swiss alps, mountain climate
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Title: Snowpack Characteristics Found in Hakuba, Northern Alps, Japan
Date: 2002
Authors: Shinji Ikeda
Description: Snowpack properties aiming at avalanche safety for backcountry recreations were investigated at Hakuba, NORTHAN ALPS, JAPAN. Snow profile results of t...
Object ID: issw-2002-361-365.pdf
Keywords: snow cover structure, snow cover distribution, avalanche, japan northan alps
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