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Title: AVALANCHE PROBABLE RELEASE AREAS (PRA) – TESTING THE PROCEDURE IN NW ITALY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Chiambretti Igor, Bovet Eloïse, Debernardi Andrea, Lanteri Luca Maria
Description: Snow avalanche hazard mapping has been well-established in the Italian Alps for 40 to 60 years. Cadastre and CLPA-CLPV maps (Probable Avalanche Locati...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.23.pdf
Keywords: probable release areas, avalanche hazard mapping
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Title: REFINED SWISS AVALANCHE TERRAIN MAPPING CATV2 / ATHV2
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Marc Christen, Yves Bühler, Cyrill Hänni, Noel Boos, Boris Bernegger
Description: Avalanche terrain maps are becoming increasingly common for large areas due to the availability of high-resolution and high-quality digital elevation...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P12.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain maps, white risk, avalanche terrain, avalanche hazard mapping, backcountry tour planning
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Title: AUTOMATIC CRUX DETECTION FOR PLANNING BACKCOUNTRY TOURS IN AVALANCHE TERRAIN
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Cyrill Hänni, Noel Boos, Jorim Urner
Description: For travelling in the backcountry, good planning is crucial. Besides the current weather and avalanche forecast, terrain characteristics must be asses...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O8.02.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain, crux detection, avalanche hazard mapping, white risk, backcountry tour planning, decision making
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Title: AVALANCHE RISK OF HIGH MOUNTAIN HUTS IN SWITZERLAND AND ITS EVOLUTION DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Stefan Margreth, Mark Schaer
Description: The Swiss Alpine Club SAC operates 153 mountain huts in the Swiss Alps. Some of these huts are located at locations exposed to avalanches. In the past...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.31.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard mapping, climate change, avalanche mitigation, avalanche risk
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Title: Avalanche terrain maps for backcountry skiing in Switzerland
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Günter Schmudlach, Yves Bühler, Lukas Dürr, Andreas Stoffel, Marc Christen
Description: Terrain characteristics are one of the main factors contributing to avalanche formation. Hence, terrain assessment is crucial for planning and decisio...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O19.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain, avalanche terrain map, avalanche hazard mapping, backcountry touring
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Title: Slab Avalanche Release Area Estimation: A new GIS Tool
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Jochen Veitinger, Betty Sovilla, Ross S. Purves
Description: Location and extent of avalanche starting zones are of crucial importance to correctly estimate the potential danger that avalanches pose to roads, ra...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O10.04.pdf
Keywords: release area, slab avalanche, hazard mapping, risk management, fuzzy logic
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Title: Avalanche Hazard Mapping Plan for the Catalan Pyrenees
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Pere Oller, Marc Janeras, Olga Costa, Carles García-Sellés, Elena Muntán, Glòria Martí, Pere Martínez
Description: The avalanche cartographic information collected up to present for the Catalan Pyrenees pointed out the existence of localities at risk because of thi...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-23.pdf
Keywords: pyrenees of catalonia, avalanche hazard mapping, hazard zoning, risk
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Title: Avalanche Hazard Mapping in Kazakhstan
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Blagovechshenskiy V., Gulyayeva T.
Description: Avalanche hazard maps in Kazakhstan are produced in small (< 1/500 000), medium (1/100 000 - 1/300 000), and large (> 1/100 000) scales. Avalanche ha...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-25.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard mapping
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Title: Identification of Areas Potentially Affected by Extreme Snow Avalanche Combining Expert Rules, Flow-Routing Algorithms and Statistical Analysis
Date: 2009
Authors: Matteo Pagliardi, Massimiliano Barbolini, Paolo Corradeghini, Francesco Ferro
Description: An innovative methodology to perform avalanche hazard mapping that combines open source GIS tools, expert rules, computational routines, and statisti...
Object ID: issw-2009-0468-0471.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, hazard mapping, grass geographic information systems (gis), flow-routing algorithm, run-out angle
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Title: The Current State of Avalanche Risk Analysis and Hazard Mapping in Uzbekistan
Date: 2009
Authors: Eleonora Semakova, Sergey Myagkov, Richard L. Armstrong
Description: This paper includes new results of avalanche mapping in Uzbekistan. The avalanche caused damage distribution in Uzbekistan is presented. The descript...
Object ID: issw-2009-0509-0513.pdf
Keywords: potential danger territories, avalanche risk, avalanche hazard mapping
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Title: Avalanche Hazard Mapping for Snowmobiles and Other Winter Trail Users
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Bob Comey, Chris McCollister
Description: Snowmobilers have become the most likely user group in the United States to become involved in a fatal avalanche (Utah Avalanche Center, 2008). Greate...
Object ID: P__8137.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard mapping, snowmobile trails, geographic information systems (gis)
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Title: Application and Limitations of Dynamic Models for Snow Avalanche Hazard Mapping
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Stefan Margreth, Alan Jones
Description: Dynamic models, initially based on fluid flow, have been used since the 1950s for modelling the motion and runout of extreme snow avalanches. The fric...
Object ID: P__8052.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, hazard mapping, runout, dynamic model, uncertainty, friction coefficients
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Title: Avalanche Hazard Mapping - 30 Years Experience in Austria
Date: 2006
Authors: Siegfried Sauermoser
Description: Natural hazards are increasingly a limiting factor in mountainous countries in connection with the growing population and economical development. Peop...
Object ID: issw-2006-314-321.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard mapping, austrian service in torrent and avalanche control, natural hazard
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Title: Study of the 1999 Avalanches in the Obergoms Valley, Switzerland, With Respect to Avalanche Hazard Mapping
Date: 2000
Authors: Urs Gruber, Perry Bartelt
Description: The Obergoms valley is a highly visited tourist region in south-western Switzerland. It was dramatically struck by avalanches during the Winter of 199...
Object ID: issw-2000-495-500.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard mapping, avalanche dynamics, deflecting dams, deposition depths
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Title: Hazard Mapping for Ice and Combined Snow/Ice Avalanches - Two Case Studies from the Swiss and Italian Alps
Date: 1998
Authors: Stefan Margreth, Martin Fun
Description: In September 1996 210'000 m3 of glacier ice broke off from the Gutzgletscher which is situated in the north-west face of the Wetterhorn above Grindelw...
Object ID: issw-1998-368-380.pdf
Keywords: avalanche run-out, hanging glacier, ice avalanche, hazard mapping
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