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Title: TOWARDS A TECHNICAL AND COMMUNICATION SCHEME FOR AVALANCHE SIZE CLASSIFICATION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jan-Thomas Fischer, Paula Spannring, Christoph Hesselbach, Andreas Huber, Anna Wirbel, Anselm Koehler, Betty Sovilla, Peter Gauer, Scott Thumlert
Description: The 1981 Avalanche Atlas is a landmark achievement in snow and avalanche science. It provides a unified, multilingual framework for describing and cla...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche atlas, avalanche size, avalanche classification, avalanche dynamics, iacs
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Title: THE AVALANCHE MODELLING ATLAS – A FRAMEWORK FOR THE COLLECTION, ORGANISATION AND ANALYSIS OF AVALANCHE PATH AND EVENT DATA
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Marc S. Adams, Magdalena Fischer, Laura Stephan, Christian Demmler, Anna Wirbel, Felix Oesterle, Christoph Hesselbach, Christoph Mitterer, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: An extensive, detailed and reliable identification of avalanche paths and documentation of past avalanche events is the backbone of avalanche model de...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P2.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche modelling, past events cadastre, avalanche classification
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Title: WHY OBSERVERS' MAY NOT AGREE ON THE DESTRUCTIVE POTENTIAL SIZE RATING AND A DRAFT SCALE FOR MORE CONSISTENT RATINGS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Tyler Carson, Lisa Larson, Brendan Martland, Bruce Jamieson
Description: When looking at the same avalanche, observers sometimes rate the size differently on the Destructive scale. Different ratings for similar avalanches a...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O1.05.pdf
Keywords: avalanche size, destructive potential, damage potential, avalanche classification
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Title: A New Scale for Avalanche Intensity
Date: 2002
Authors: Franyois Rapin
Description: After different natural disasters occurred in France these last years, French Ministry of Environment wanted to build new scales about of natural phen...
Object ID: issw-2002-090-096.pdf
Keywords: avalanche classification, avalanche types, avalanche intensity, avalanche accidents
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Title: Snow Avalanche Size Classification
Date: 1980
Authors: David M. McClung, Peter A. Schaerer
Description: When avalanche events are reported, it is necessary to include an estimate or measure of their size. If a simple, consistent method of sizing avalanch...
Object ID: issw-1980-012-030.pdf
Keywords: storm cycles, runout, avalanche classification
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