Your search for Keyword "criticality"resulted in 5 records.
- Title: SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION OF THE LOCAL CRITICALITY OF RECENT OVERLOADS AND TEMPERATURE EFFECTS TO MITIGATE AVALANCHE RISK FOR TRAFFIC ROADS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Camille Ligneau, Frédéric Pourraz, Alain Duclos, Jill Chevalier, Gilles Mauris
- Description: The closing of roads due to snow avalanches is a common issue in mountainous regions during winter. The decision to temporarily restrict traffic acces...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O2.2.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, traffic roads, criticality, expert system, fuzzy logic.
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- Title: A SPATIAL EXTRAPOLATION APPROACH TO SNOWPACK WEAK LAYER CRITICALITY ACROSS AVALANCHE RELEASE AREAS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Frédéric Pourraz, Jill Chevalier, Alain Duclos, Gaëlle Bourgeois, Cédric Perillat-Merceroz
- Description: Winter road serviceability in Savoie (northern French Alps) is ensured by the Natural Hazards Service of the Department in collaboration with the cons...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.39.pdf
- Keywords: spatial extrapolation, similarities, snowpack criticality, decision-making
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- Title: Cellular Automaton Modelling of Slab Avalanche Triggering Mechanisms: From the Universal Statistical Behaviour to Particular Cases
- Date: 2006
- Authors: J. Faillettaz, F. Louchet, J-R. Grasso
- Description: Modelling avalanche release is a long lasting challenge. Despite a general agreement on the basic mechanisms responsible for avalanche release, determ...
- Object ID: issw-2006-174-180.pdf
- Keywords: snow, avalanches, cellular automata, statistical physics, variability, criticality
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- Title: Waiting Time Between Avalanches
- Date: 2006
- Authors: D.M. McClung
- Description: One of the requirements for a self-organized critical system is scale invariance in the time or frequency domain. Sandpile avalanches and other types...
- Object ID: issw-2006-181.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanches, waiting time, critical system, self-organized criticality
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- Title: Size/Frequency Power-Law Relationships for Several Groups of Snow Avalanche Paths
- Date: 2002
- Authors: K.W. Birkeland, C.C. Landry
- Description: Our poster summarizes the results of Birkeland and Landry (2002), where we direct the interested reader for more details on this research. Our results...
- Object ID: issw-2002-031.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, power laws, size/frequency distributions, scale invariance, self-organized criticality
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