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Title: Avalanche Hazard Mapping Plan for the Catalan Pyrenees
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Pere Oller, Marc Janeras, Olga Costa, Carles García-Sellés, Elena Muntán, Glòria Martí, Pere Martínez
Description: The avalanche cartographic information collected up to present for the Catalan Pyrenees pointed out the existence of localities at risk because of thi...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-23.pdf
Keywords: pyrenees of catalonia, avalanche hazard mapping, hazard zoning, risk
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Title: Impact of Climate Versus Land-Use Changes on Snow Cover in Bassiès, Pyrenees
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Camille Szczypta, Simon Gascoin, Thomas Houet, Pascal Fanise
Description: In the context of the global change, the Pyrenees mountains represent a real scientific and environmental challenge. They will probably be affected by...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-22.pdf
Keywords: global change, snow cover, vegetation, pyrenees
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Title: Characterizing Major Avalanche Episodes in Space and Time in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries in the Catalan Pyrenees
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Pere Oller, Elena Muntán, Carles García-Sellés, Glòria Furdada, Cristina Baeza, Cecilio Angulo
Description: With the aim of better understanding avalanche risk in the Catalan Pyrenees, the present work focuses on the analysis of major (or destructive) avalan...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-50.pdf
Keywords: major avalanche, pyrenees, magnitude, frequency, hazard, risk
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Title: Tracking Melt-Freeze Crust Evolution in Val d’Aran (Catalan Pyrenees)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jon Apodaka, Montserrat Bacardit, Iván Moner, Jordi Gavaldá
Description: In the Pyrenees, melt-freeze and wind crusts are a very common element in the snow cover. Such layers have an important role in both dry and wet slab ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-03.pdf
Keywords: melt-freeze crust, tracking, evolution, nivology, val d’aran, pyrenees
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Title: Climatological Comparison of 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 Snow Seasons in Central and Western Spanish Pyrenees and its Relationship With the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: José Antonio Vada, Javier Rodríguez-Marcos, Samuel Buisán, Ismael San Ambrosio
Description: The 2011–2012 winter season can be considered exceptional in Spanish Central and Western Pyrenees due to the scarce precipitation and unconsol...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-10.pdf
Keywords: snow accumulation, number of snow days (nsd), persistence of snow, north atlantic oscillation (nao), spanish pyrenees
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Title: Combined Temperature - Precipitation Winter Modes and Major Avalanche Activity in the Eastern Pyrenees
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Carles García-Sellés, Santi Manguán, Glòria Martí, Pere Oller, Pere Martínez
Description: This study investigated the influence of the precipitation and temperature variability during the days before of the occurrence of major avalanche act...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-51.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, climate, pyrenees, winter modes
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Title: Integrating the ATES into the Avalanche Information in Aran Valley (Central Pyrenees)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jordi Gavaldà, Ivan Moner, Montse Bacardit
Description: During the 2011-12 winter season, the Aran Avalanche Center established an Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) pilot area in Aran Valley. The ATES...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-01.pdf
Keywords: ates, avalanche terrain, trip planner, aran valley, pyrenees
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Title: Localization Map of Avalanche Phenomena (CLPA) and Collection of Eye Witness Accounts: Field Investigation Method, Biases, Alternatives and Limits, Data Quality
Date: 2010
Authors: M. Bonnefoy, S. Cabos, S. Escande, R. Gaucher, X. Pasquier, J.M. Tacnet
Description: A catastrophic avalanche occurred in 1970, killing 39 people in a tourist centre located in the Val d’Isère ski resort, Savoie, France. In r...
Object ID: ISSW_P-051.pdf
Keywords: clpa, eye witness accounts, alps and pyrenees, fatalities, photographic interpretation
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Title: Major Avalanches in Eastern Pyrenees and North Atlantic Oscillation
Date: 2009
Authors: C. Garcia, J.C. Peña, G. Martí, P. Olle, P. Martínez
Description: The number of major avalanche episodes registered in Eastern Pyrenees (north-east of the Iberian Peninsula) is correlated to the North Atlantic Oscill...
Object ID: issw-2009-0048-0052.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, north atlantic oscillation, eastern pyrenees
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Title: Snowpack Depth Modelling and Water Availability from Lidar Measurements in Eastern Pyrenees
Date: 2009
Authors: Ignacio MORENO BAÑOS, Antoni RUIZ GARCÍA, Jordi MARTURIÀ I ALAVEDRA, Pere OLLER I FIGUERAS, Jordi PIÑA IGLESIAS, Carles GARCIA SELLÉS, Pere MARTÍNEZ I FIGUERAS, Julià TALAYA LÓPEZ
Description: In order to evaluate water reserves in mountain watersheds the Institut Geològic de Catalunya (IGC) jointly with Institut Cartogràfic de Catalun...
Object ID: issw-2009-0202-0206.pdf
Keywords: snowpack depth, stepwise regression tree, lidar, geographic information systems (gis), pyrenees
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Title: Results of 50 Years of Climate Reanalysis in the French Pyrenees (1958-2008) Using the Safran and Crocus Models
Date: 2009
Authors: Malou N.A. Maris, Gérald Giraud, Yves Durand, Jean-Pierre Navarre, Laurent Mérindol
Description: Due to the lack of a sufficient amount of directly observed long-term snow data, the SAFRAN-CROCUS model chain, usually applied to operational avalan...
Object ID: issw-2009-0219-0223.pdf
Keywords: validation, climatology, pyrenees, snow height, trend
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Title: Using AVAL-1D to Simulate Avalanches in Eastern Pyrenees
Date: 2009
Authors: Pere Oller, Marc Janeras, Hèctor de Buen, Georgina Arnó, Marc Christen, Carles García, Pere Martínez
Description: The numerical avalanche dynamics program AVAL-1D, developed by the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, was calibrated empirically with ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0524-0528.pdf
Keywords: hazard mapping, aval-1d, pyrenees, friction parameters
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Title: Handling of Avalanche Risk for the “Bonaigua” and “Beret” Roads, Aran Valley, Spain
Date: 2009
Authors: Jordi Gavaldà, Ivan Moner
Description: The Aran Valley, located on the northern side of the Central Pyrenees, is one of the areas with the highest rate of avalanche danger of the whole mou...
Object ID: issw-2009-0577-0581.pdf
Keywords: pyrenees, avalanche forecasting, mitigation
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Title: Atmospheric Patterns Leading Major Avalanche Episodes in the Eastern Pyrenees and Estimating Occurrence
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Carles García, Glòria Martí, Pere Oller, Ivan Moner, Jordi Gavaldà, Pere Martínez, Juan Carlos Peña
Description: The occurrence of major avalanche episodes in the Eastern Pyrenees (NE Spain) is estimated by means of the Poisson and the negative binomial distribut...
Object ID: P__8082.pdf
Keywords: major avalanches, atmospheric patterns, principal-component analysis, pyrenees
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Title: Application of the Field Stability Evaluation Methods to the Snow Conditions of the Eastern Pyrenees
Date: 2008-09-26
Authors: Ivan Moner, Jordi Gavaldà, Montserrat Bacardit, Carles Garcia, Glòria Martí
Description: Field methods for stability evaluation were recently developed and validated on the basis of skiertriggered slopes data from Switzerland and North Ame...
Object ID: P__8164.pdf
Keywords: slab avalanche, snow stability, stability evaluation, skier triggering, pyrenees
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