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Title: Avalanche pressures at the Vallée de la test site: Interaction of avalanches and narrow structures studied with DEM
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Michael Kyburz, Betty Sovilla, Johan Gaume, Christophe Ancey
Description: Recent advances in full-scale avalanche measurements have led to a better understanding of the avalanche flow dynamics. However, the processes involve...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P01.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, pressure, obstacle, avalanche dynamics, discrete element method.
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Title: Granular flow on a chute: avalanche simulations on a rough inclined plane
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Giovanna Caramuta, Ingrid Reiweger
Description: Although lots of scientific investigations have been already conducted in order to understand the physical laws that govern snow avalanche flow, the d...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P01.17.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche dynamics, ballotini, inclined chute, runout, velocity, roughness.
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Title: Fast versus slow avalanche impact dynamics: insights from measurements at Lautaret pass avalanche test-site, France
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Jonathan Hugueny, Hervé Bellot, Thierry Faug, Emmanuel Thibert, Xavier Ravanat, Frédéric Ousset, Firmin Fontaine, Florence Naaim-Bouvet
Description: The present paper describes preliminary re-analyses of field-based data on past welldocumented snow avalanches that have impacted an instrumented trip...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P02.9.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, full-scale test-site, impact force, gravity-dominated regime.
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Title: Destructive avalanches in mediterranean region
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Vincenzo Romeo, Anselmo Cagnati, Mauro Valt
Description: In the winter of 2016 - 2017, in the heart of the Mediterranean (Apennins - Italy), during a period of abundant snowfalls, large and very large destru...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O03.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger, avalanche dynamics, apennins, rigopiano, climate change.
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Title: Analysis of two avalanche zones in the Southern Pyrenees (Andorra and Catalonia) using historical analysis, snow-climate data and mixed flowing/powder avalanche modelling.
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Sergi Riba Porras, Carles García-Sellés, Perry Bartelt, Lukas Stoffel
Description: Over the last 30 years, Andorra and northern Catalonia (Pyrenean regions) have frequently been affected by avalanche events having as result more than...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P06.8.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, avalanche modelling, snow climate, eastern pyrenees
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Title: Comparative analysis of avalanche seismic signals and Geodar data at the Vallée de la Sionne test site (2018)
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: P. Roig-Lafon, C. Pérez-Guillén, B. Sovilla, E. Suriñach, A. Köhler, M. Tapia, G. Furdada
Description: In this work, we analyze data from three seismic sensors located at strategic locations inside the avalanche path (starting zone, flowing zone and run...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O07.4.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, seismic data, geodar, flow regimes, avalanche dynamics
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Title: Estimated evolution of the speed of powder, wet and transitional avalanches between two widely spaced locations at the VDSL experimental site extracted from the analysis of seismic signals
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: E. Suriñach, Elsa Leticia Flores-Márquez, C. Pérez-Guillén, P. Roig-Lafon, M. Tapia, G. Furdada
Description: The evolution of a snow avalanche descending along a path is reflected in the evolution of the frequency content of the generated seismic signals (spe...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O07.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, seismogram, spectrogram, hough transform, speed, evolution
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Title: Avalanche Doppler Radar Monitoring - Long Term velocity measurements at the Vallée de la Sionne
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Michael Neuhauser, Andreas Kofler, Anselm Köhler, Helmut Schreiber, Thomas Gigele, Betty Sovilla, Lambert Rammer, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: In this contribution we present Doppler radar data obtained over multiple years in terms of total radar intensities and material velocities. These giv...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P07.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, radar measurement, velocity, avalanche head dynamics
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Title: 7 years of avalanche measurements with GEODAR radar
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Anselm Köhler, Betty Sovilla, Jim McElwaine
Description: Observations of snow avalanches using radar are becoming more and more common in the daily work of practitioners and their scientific uses are also in...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P07.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, radar measurements, flow regime, geodar data repository
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Title: Automated identification of forest with protective function against snow avalanches in the Trento Province (Italy)
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Fabiano Monti, Ruggero Alberti, Paola Comin, Alessandro Wolynski, Luca Vallata, Yves Buehler
Description: Forests have a very significant protective function against the impacts of natural hazards. Identifying the protective forests is therefore of crucial...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P08.4.pdf
Keywords: snow, avalanche, dynamics, hazard mapping, protection forest.
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Title: Automatic Dynamic Avalanche Modeling - An example of its application in an operational setting in Norway
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Cesar Vera, Nander Wever, Stian Langeland, Leif Øyvind
Description: The county road Fv. 53 at Tyin (Norway) is an important road for the inner parts of the Sogn region and especially the local community in Ã…rdal. I...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P08.7.pdf
Keywords: numeric modeling, avalanche dynamics, snowcover modeling, risk assessment.
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Title: Modelling snow avalanches with MWDiEM
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Katalin Gillemot, David Visontai
Description: MWDiEM is a new open-source, discrete element model based numerical tool, that is able to effectively model the dynamics of polyhedral and spherical g...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P08.20.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche dynamics, discrete element method, granular particles, runout zone, segregation, numerical simulation
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Title: Coupling Operational Snowcover Simulations With Avalanche Dynamics Calculations to Assess Avalanche Danger in High Altitude Mining Operations
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Cesar Vera, Nander Wever, Perry Bartelt
Description: The Codelco Andina copper mine is operating in high alpine terrain where avalanches pose a threat to the operations and the infrastructure. A dedicate...
Object ID: ISSW16_O7.02.pdf
Keywords: numeric modeling, avalanche dynamics, snowcover modeling, risk assessing
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Title: Front and Internal Velocity Distribution in Powder Snow Avalanches
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Jan-Thomas Fischer, Anselm Köehler, Andreas Kofler, Betty Sovilla, Jim McElwaine
Description: Accurate velocity measurements of avalanches are essential for testing simulation tools and for performing risk mitigating studies. However, the flow ...
Object ID: ISSW16_O9.04.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, radar measurement, velocity, avalanche head dynamics
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Title: Multivariate Parameter Optimization for Operational Application of Extended Kinetic Theory in Simulation Software
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Andreas Kofler, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Andreas Huber, Wolfgang Fellin, Matthias Rauter, Matthias Granig, Elisabeth Hainzer, Christian Tollinger, Karl Kleemayr
Description: State of the art avalanche simulation software is used for avalanche prediction and hazard mapping. Amongst other factors, the choice of an appropriat...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.37.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, computational avalanche dynamics, simulation optimization, design event
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