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Title: EXPANDING THE KNOWLEDGE OF WEAK-LAYER FRACTURE INTO CROSS-SLOPE DIRECTION
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Florian Rheinschmidt, Valentin Adam, Bastian Bergfeld, Melin D. E. Walet, Jakob Schöttner, Philipp Weißgraeber, Alec van Herwijnen, Philipp L. Rosendahl
Description: Fracture toughness, a critical material parameter for assessing resistance to crack growth, has been extensively studied in weak snow layers for mode ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O3.5.pdf
Keywords: dry-snow slab avalanches, fracture toughness, cross-slope-propagation, out-of-plane loading, weak snow layers
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Title: ON TRIGGERING AVALANCHES, WHAT HAPPENS BETWEEN EXPLOSION AND RELEASE
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Benjamin Meier
Description: Triggering avalanches with explosives has been a well-established method for a long time, earliest records date back to the 1920ies. At least since Gu...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O3.8.pdf
Keywords: explosives, avalanches, pressure, shockwave, experiments
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Title: DEVELOPING TWO MULTIAXIAL TESTING MACHINES TO LINK STRENGTH AND MICROSTRUCTURE OF WEAK SNOW LAYERS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Jakob Schöttner, Eduardo Marques, Benjamin Eggert, Melin Walet, Ricardo Carbas, Valentin Adam, Michael Hohl, Philipp Weißgraeber, Philipp Rosendahl, Sirah Kraus, Florian Rheinschmidt, Michelle Hedvard, Lucas F.M. da Silva, Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Avalanche forecasting increasingly relies on snow cover models. In this context, accurate information on the mechanical properties of weak layers is r...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P3.11.pdf
Keywords: snow slab avalanches, weak snow layers, snow strength, experimental testing, microstructure
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Title: ASYMMETRICAL THREE-POINT BEND TEST FOR INVESTIGATING MIXED-MODE FRACTURE TOUGHNESS IN WELL-BONDED SNOW
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Valentin Adam, Florian Rheinschmidt, Melin D. E. Walet, Jakob Schöttner, Dr.-Ing. Bastian Bergfeld, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Philipp Weißgraeber, Dr. Alec van Herwijnen, Dr.-Ing. Philipp L. Rosendahl
Description: Slab fracture plays a crucial role in the release of dry-snow slab avalanches, affecting the size of the release area. However, there is a lack of fr...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P3.16.pdf
Keywords: dry-snow slab avalanches, fracture toughness, mixed-mode loading, slab fracture, bending test, finite element analysis
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Title: CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON SNOW AVALANCHE ACTIVITY AND RELATED RISKS: OUTCOMES FROM A RECENT REVIEW
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Nicolas Eckert, Christophe Corona, Florie Giacona, Johan Gaume, Stephanie Mayer, Alec van Herwijnen, Pascal Hagenmuller, Markus Stoffel
Description: In a recent review of the available scientific literature, impacts of climate change on avalanche activity and the associated risks were analyzed. The...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O5.1.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, avalanche risk, climate change impact, review, research gaps
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Title: TRENDS IN HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL AVALANCHE INDICATORS IN NORWAY AND SVALBARD IN 1961-2020
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Tuomo Saloranta, Karsten Müller, Siiri Wickström
Description: Hydrometeorological factors, such as snow depth, length of the snow season, wind speed and direction, air temperature, as well as the amount and inten...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P5.2.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, climate change, modelling
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Title: SLUSHFLOW DOCUMENTATION: POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITATIONS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Sunniva Svendsen, Endre Gjermundsen, Monica Sund, Johanna Anjar
Description: Slushflows are rapid mass movements of water-saturated snow that annually cause damage to roads and infrastructure in Norway. This mass movement type ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P6.6.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, slushflows, documentation, uavs.
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Title: LOADING ON STRUCTURES FROM FLUIDIZED AVALANCHE FRONTS OVERFLOWING DEFLECTING DAMS AT FLATEYRI, ICELAND, JANUARY 2020
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Kristín Martha Hákonardóttir, Ragnar Lárusson, Árni Kristjánsson, Gunnlaugur Pétursson
Description: This study back-calculates impact pressures in two dry slab avalanches that were released on a 700 m high mountain above the village of Flateyri in No...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P7.10.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches; powder-snow avalanches; snow avalanche deposit; fluidized front; field observations
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Title: ON THE INFLUENCE OF SNOW DEPTH ON SURFACE SHAPE AND ROUGHNESS IN THE RELEASE AREAS OF OBSERVED SKIER-TRIGGERED AVALANCHES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Andreas Stoffel, Stephan Harvey, Yves Bühler
Description: The snow-covered winter surface differs significantly from its snow-free equivalent due to the smoothing caused by progressive snow accumulation and e...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P9.1.pdf
Keywords: snow depth, surface shape, surface roughness, snow avalanches, remote sensing
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Title: BACK-ANALYSIS OF THE JANUARY 2017 EARTHQUAKE-AVALANCHE CYCLE IN THE CENTRAL APENNINES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Massimiliano Barbolini, Paolo Gasperini
Description: On January 18th, 2017, a sequence of relevant seismic shocks affected the Central Italian Apennines, with twelve shocks having a Magnitude Mw>4 and fo...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P10.14.pdf
Keywords: earthquakes, avalanches, central italian apennines, rigopiano
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Title: AVALANCHE HAZARD MAPPING USING THE AVALANCHE TERRAIN EXPOSURE SCALE (ATES) IN THE HIGH MOUNTAIN RANGES OF BULGARIA
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Momchil Panayotov, Kalin Markov, Nickolay Tsvetanov, Andreas Huber, Christoph Hesselbach, Michaela Teich
Description: Backcountry skiing and touring has become more popular in Bulgaria in the past decade. Unfortunately, the rise in popularity of these activities has a...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P12.5.pdf
Keywords: ates maps, avalanches, bulgaria, autoates, forest protection
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Title: BUILDING RESILIENCE TO AVALANCHES AND OTHER CLIMATE-DRIVEN GEOHAZARDS THROUGH INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION IN EDUCATION: EXPERIENCE FROM THE GEOMME PARTNERSHIP
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Yoichi Ito, Graham Gilbert, Dieter Issler, Callum Tregaskis, Louise Vick, Carly Faber, Christopher D’Amboise, Satoru Yamaguchi, Takahiro Tanabe, Ryoko Nishii, Hirofumi Niiya, Joon-Young Park, Tae-Hyuk Kwon, Enok Cheon
Description: The GEOMME international partnership for ‘Climate-driven GEOhazards Mitigation, Management, and Education’ fosters collaboration in research and ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P13.13.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, geohazards, resilience, education, international collaboration
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Title: AN OPERATIONAL TOOL FOR MANAGING EMERGENCIES BY CIVIL PROTECTION IN CASE OF HIGH AVALANCHE HAZARD
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Carles García-Sellés, Manuel Bertrán, Glòria Martí, Santiago Manguán, Jordi Pons, Francesc Vilar
Description: In the framework of the European RECIPE Project (Reinforcing Civil Protection capabilities into multi-hazard risk assessment under climate change - DG...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.10.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, risk assessment, emergency, major avalanches, pyrenees
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Title: AVALANCHE SIZE AND AVALANCHE PROBLEMS: ANALYSIS OF THE AOSTA VALLEY AVALANCHE CADASTRE DATABASE
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Andrea Debernardi, Simone Roveyaz, Eloïse Bovet, Valerio Segor
Description: Over the last few years one of the main wills of all the European avalanche warning services has been to share their experiences and try as much as po...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.50.pdf
Keywords: avalanche problems, avalanches size, historical avalanches, avalanche cadaster, improve knowledge of the avalanches, compared avalanche data
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Title: QUANTIFYING SHORT-TERM CHANGES IN SNOW STRENGTH DUE TO INCREASING LIQUID WATER CONTENT ABOVE HYDRAULIC BARRIERS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Mikael Schlumpf, Jordy Hendrikx, John Stormont, Ryan Webb
Description: The rapid weakening of snow layers that accumulate infiltrating liquid water is a well-known, but poorly quantified, mechanism for wet slab avalanche ...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.63.pdf
Keywords: wet snow, wet slab avalanches, blade hardness, liquid water content
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