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Title: Avalanche Frequency and Magnitude: Using Power-Law Exponents to Investigate Snow Avalanche Size Proportions through Time and Space
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Adam Naisbitt, Richard Forster, Karl W. Birkeland, William L. Harrison
Description: Power-laws provide a means for investigating snow avalanche frequency-magnitude relationships and their contributing factors. This research uses power...
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Keywords: power-law exponent, snow avalanche size proportions, frequency and magnitude
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Title: The Avalanche Disaster of Galtür in 1999 - The Rescue Operation, Analyses with Recalculation and Countermeasures
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Gebhard H. Walter
Description: On the 23 of February a catastrophic avalanche disaster happened. It took place in the Tyrolean village of Galtür in the Austrian Alps. Heavy snows...
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Keywords: avalanche, size, recreationalists, killed, injured
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Title: Does Size Matter? A Comparison of Avalanche Dimensions for Recreationalists Injured/Killed or Not Injured/Killed
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Dale Atkins
Description: Conventional wisdom prescribes that larger avalanches pose a more serious danger to recreationists than smaller avalanches. However, this supposition ...
Object ID: P__8229.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, size, recreationalists, killed, injured
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