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Title: AVALANCHE SCENARIO MAPS: FROM TERRAIN IDENTIFICATION TO DECISION SUPPORT TOOL
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Christoph Hesselbach, Jakob Schwarz, Paula Spannring, Anna Wirbel, Andreas Huber, Michael Winkler, Christoph Mitterer, Harald Riedl, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: Site-specific avalanche warning requires spatially explicit estimates of where avalanches may release, how they may propagate, and what size they may ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain identification, avalanche scenario maps, site-specific avalanche warning, avalanche size, avalanche simulation, decision support
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Title: ON THE POTENTIAL OF PARTICLE TRACKING IN SNOW AVALANCHES
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Jan-Thomas Fischer, Michael Neuhauser, Anselm Köhler, Felix Oesterle, Anna Wirbel, Oscar Dick, Wolfgang Fellin, Robert Winkler, Rene Neurauter, Johannes Gerstmayr, Jonas Kuß, Falko Dressler
Description: Knowledge of particle motion in snow avalanches is crucial to understand the driving processes, determining transport phenomena or to quantify the ava...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O2.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, avalanche simulation, sensor nodes, particle tracking, avaframe com1dfa, thalweg-time, thalweg-altitude
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Title: RAMMS::EXTENDED - SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF NUMERICAL FLUIDIZED POWDER AVALANCHE SIMULATION IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL TERRAIN
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: J. Glaus , K. Wikstrom Jones , Y. Bühler, M. Christen , P. Ruttner-Jansen , J. Gaume , P. Bartelt
Description: In this paper, we present a sensitivity analysis of RAMMS::EXTENDED, a numerical software for avalanche simulations that includes the reconstruction o...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.26.pdf
Keywords: avalanche simulation, powder avalanche, entrainment, road safety
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Title: Braking mounds in avalanche simulations - a SamosAT case study
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Andreas Kofler, Christian Tollinger, Annegret Jenner, Matthias Granig, Marc Adams
Description: The town of Innsbruck is characterised by the mountain range ‘Nordkette’, which comprises some major avalanche tracks. The Arzler-Alm ava...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P02.2.pdf
Keywords: avalanche simulation, defence structures, braking mounds.
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Title: Monitoring Forces on a Laterally Anchored Snow Net System
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Martin Haidegger, Thomas Gigele, Stefan Brandauer, Matthias Granig, Andreas Kofler, Reinhard Fromm
Description: Glide snow avalanches are a prevalent natural hazard in the Alps. This contribution centers around one specific protection measure, a snow net system ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P03.6.pdf
Keywords: avalanche simulation, defense structures, braking mounds, flexible steel rope nets.
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Title: Determining forest parameters for avalanche simulation using remote sensing data
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Natalie Brožová, Peter Bebi, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: Mountain forests offer effective, natural and cost-efficient protection against avalanches. Trees stabilize snowpack and therefore reduce the avalanch...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P04.1.pdf
Keywords: forest avalanche, remote sensing, vegetation height model, avalanche simulation, ramms.
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Title: Topographic uncertainty in avalanche simulations
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Julia Kowalski, Hu Zhao, Yiting Cai
Description: Snow avalanches can develop a massive destructive power in mountainous regions. An intensive effort has therefore led to the development of simulation...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O08.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche simulation, uncertainty quantification, simulation data mining, topographic uncertainty
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Title: Applying numerical snow avalanche simulations for hazard assessment in the Kamchik pass area, Uzbekistan
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: E. Semakova, V. Safronov, A. Mamaraimov, B. Nurtaev, D. Semakov, Y. Bühler
Description: This paper presents new results of snow avalanche simulations using the RAMMS software for the Kamchik pass area located in the Ahangaran River basin,...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O08.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche simulation, ramms, dems, kamchik pass, uzbekistan
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Title: Simulation of dense snow avalanches with open-source software
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Andreas Huber, Andreas Kofler, Matthias Rauter, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Marc Adams
Description: In this contribution, we apply the recently published open-source model faSavageHutterFOAM 1.0 to back-calculating a documented avalanche event. faSav...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P08.11.pdf
Keywords: open-source, avalanche simulation, openfoam, fasaavagehutterfoam 1.0.
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Title: Model fusion - from weather activity to avalanche length
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Lisa Jöbstl, Matthias Granig, Arnold Studeregger
Description: For a technical improvement of forecasting the snow situation and possible avalanches in single slopes the Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geod...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P08.17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche modeling, forecast, model chain, avalanche simulation.
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Title: Simulating snow process chains: avalanche-river interactions with r.avaflow
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Tommaso Baggio, Martin Mergili, Shiva Pudasaini, Sarah Carter, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: r.avaflow is an open source tool for the simulation of gravitational mass flows and related complex process chains. Simulations can be performed using...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P08.18.pdf
Keywords: process chains, damalanche, snow river interaction, avalanche simulation, open source, r.avaflow.
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Title: Analysis of the Hazard Caused by Ice Avalanches From the Hanging Glacier on the Eiger West Face
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Stefan Margreth, Martin Funk, Daniel Tobler, Pierre Dalban, Lorenz Meier, Juerg Lauper
Description: The Eiger hanging glacier is located in the west face of the Eiger in the Bernese Alps (Swit-zerland). Large ice avalanches, especially if they trigge...
Object ID: ISSW16_O7.04.pdf
Keywords: risk management, ice avalanche, avalanche simulation, hazard assessment
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Title: Systematic Practical Evaluation of Snow Entrainment With the Avalanche Simulation Model SamosAT
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Matthias Granig, Philipp Jorg, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: In computational avalanche simulations snow entrainment is one of the key criteria. This fact is displayed for many observed avalanches that could rea...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-22.pdf
Keywords: avalanche simulation, samosat, frontal ploughing, basal erosion, snow entrainment, avalanche case study
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Title: Towards a Better Understanding of Glide-Snow Avalanche Formation
Date: 2012
Authors: Christoph Mitterer, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Full-depth avalanches (i.e. glide-snow avalanches) often release due to either a failure in the basal layer (e.g. depth hoar) or a failure at the snow...
Object ID: issw-2012-610-616.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanche, full depth avalanche, avalanche simulation, temperature gradients, rain on snow
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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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