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- Title: Avalanches on Mt. Fuji, Japan: Seismic detection and tracking combined with numerical simulations
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Pérez-Guillén Cristina, Tsunematsu Kae, Nishimura Kouichi, Issler Dieter
- Description: Avalanches from Mt. Fuji may attain run-out distances of up to 3km and represent a major natural hazard. These avalanches exhibit different flow types...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O01.3.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanches, seismic detection, avalanche location, numerical simulations.
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- Title: Avalanche pressure at the Vallée de la Sionne test site: Comparison of maximum measured loads with design loads
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Betty Sovilla, Micheal Kyburz, Mark Schaer, Stefan Margreth
- Description: The assessment of the impact pressure exerted by avalanches on structures is an important task in avalanche engineering. Impact pressures of more than...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O01.5.pdf
- Keywords: maximum impact pressure, maximum bending moment, snow avalanches.
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- Title: Snow and soil-mixed avalanches induced by a large earthquake
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Yoichi Ito, Satoru Yamaguchi, Naoto Abe
- Description: A large earthquake hit heavy snowfall regions of Japan on March 12, 2011. A large number of snow and soil-mixed avalanches were observed after the ear...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P01.7.pdf
- Keywords: earthquake, snow avalanches, soil-mixed avalanches.
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- Title: Ice/snow avalanches from the hanging snout of the Palòn de la Mare glacier (Central Italian Alps)
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Margherita Maggioni, Giuseppe Cola, Riccardo Scotti, Michele Freppaz, Fabiano Monti
- Description: In latter years, because of the climate change and the related transition from cold to warm based ice in high elevation glaciers, avalanches due to th...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P01.10.pdf
- Keywords: hanging glacier, ice/snow avalanches, dynamical modeling, ice temperature.
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- Title: Retrieving Ice-avalanche basal friction law parameters from a back-analysis of the collapse of Altels glacier (1895, Bernese Alps, Switzerland). Application to Taconnaz glacier instability (French Alps)
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Emmanuel Thibert, Thierry Faug, Mohamed Naaim, Mylène Bonnefoy-Demongeot, Adrien Gilbert, Christian Vincent, Olivier Gagliardini, Martin Funk
- Description: High-elevation glaciers are undergoing substantial warming in response to current climate change. This warming is affecting the ice/rock interface tem...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P01.11.pdf
- Keywords: glacier collapse, volume scenarios, ice avalanches, depth-averaged flow model.
- View additional details about Retrieving Ice-avalanche basal friction law parameters from a back-analysis of the collapse of Altels glacier (1895, Bernese Alps, Switzerland). Application to Taconnaz glacier instability (French Alps)
- Title: Historic snow avalanches in the Pyrenees: the destruction of the small village of Àrreu (Pallars Sobirà )
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Elena Muntán, Pere Oller
- Description: Snow-avalanche events which cause destruction and loss of human lives stand out in the memory of people. In the Pyrenees several such avalanches are h...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P03.14.pdf
- Keywords: historical snow avalanches, pyrenees, dendrogeomorphology, snow avalanche modeling.
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- Title: 240 years of climatic trends in avalanche activity in the Vosges Mountains, north-east France
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Florie Giacona, Nicolas Eckert, Christophe Corona, Robin Mainieri, Samuel Morin, Brice Martin, Markus Stoffel, Mohamed Naaim
- Description: Studies addressing the link between snow avalanches and climate change remain to date rare and often inconclusive. This work grounds on more than 700 ...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O05.5.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanches, climate change, historical data, hierarchical bayesian modelling, vosges mountains, time trends.
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- Title: Global warming reduces the consequences of snow-related hazards
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Erik Hestnes, Christian Jaedicke
- Description: Most recent publications dealing with consequences related to avalanches and slushflows state that their impact on mankind will increase. That is a hi...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P05.17.pdf
- Keywords: global warming, avalanches, slushflows, consequences, mankind, demography.
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- Title: Looking to the Future: Predictions of Climate Change Effects on Avalanches by North American Practitioners
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Chris Wilbur, Sue Kraus
- Description: Meteorological data provide a well-defined record of historic climates and climatic trends. Snow avalanche activity, in contrast, has complex contribu...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P06.7.pdf
- Keywords: climate change, snow avalanches, north america
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- Title: The extraordinary 2017-2018 winter season in Aosta Valley
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: A. Debernardi, G. Burelli, N. Durand, V.Segor
- Description: In this work we will focus in particular on the exceptional avalanche events that occurred in January. The start of the winter season was not promisin...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P06.13.pdf
- Keywords: danger avalanches, avalanches bulletin, surface hoar, spontaneous and triggered avalanche, avalanche cadastre
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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: Evaluating the performance of operational infrasound avalanche detection systems at three locations in the Swiss Alps during two winter seasons
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Stephanie Mayer, Alec van Herwijnen, Giacomo Ulivieri, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Avalanche occurrences are unambiguous indicators of unstable snow conditions. Information on past and current avalanche activity is therefore crucial ...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O07.6.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanches, infrasound, array processing, monitoring of avalanche activity
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- Title: Monitoring of the Weissmies Glacier before the failure event of September 10, 2017 with Radar Interferometry and High-Resolution Deformation Camera
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Lorenz Meier, Mylène Jacquemart, Richard Steinacher, Dominik Jäger, Martin Funk
- Description: When parts of the glacier on the northwest face of Weissmies in the Saas valley in Switzerland showed first signs of instability in the summer of 2014...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P07.6.pdf
- Keywords: ice avalanches, warning system, alarm system, radar, feature tracking
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- Title: Operational model-based forecast of wet snow avalanche activity: Experiences from two seasons
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Andreas Gobiet, Lisa Jöbstl, Veronika Hatvan, Hannes Rieder
- Description: The avalanche warning service of Styria (Austria) developed a model-based prototype warning system for the onset of wet snow avalanche activity and op...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P08.10.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecast, wet snow avalanches, lwcindex, snowpack.
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- Title: Indicators for snow gliding: a case study at the Wildkogel, Salzburg
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Georg Leitinger, Michael Butschek, Reinhard Fromm, Peter Höller, Matthias Kammerlander, Erich Tasser
- Description: The release of glide avalanches is very difficult to predict and a great challenge for local forecasters, especially in ski areas. There are reasonabl...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P10.7.pdf
- Keywords: glide avalanches, snow-gliding, winter soil erosion
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