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Title: A PROBABILITY-BASED MODELLING APPROACH BEYOND A FEW SELECTED RETURN PERIODS FOR COMPREHENSIVE AND ROBUST HAZARD AND RISK ASSESSMENT
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Jan Kleinn, Yves Bühler, Julia Glaus, Dörte Aller, Catherine Berger, Michael Rinderer, Nils Hählen, Adrian Peter, Corinne Singeisen
Description: We present an innovative modelling approach, which allows to derive probability-based hazard information at any location in avalanche-prone areas. Su...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O7.7.pdf
Keywords: hazard modelling, risk modelling, probabilistic modelling, avalanche hazard, avalanche risk, loss-frequency-curves
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Title: AVALANCHE HAZARD ZONING AND SETTLEMENT DEVELOPMENT IN AUSTRIA
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Barbara Steinbrunner
Description: Hazard zoning has a tradition of over 50 years in Austria and is an essential part of natural hazard management. Both the criteria for zoning and the ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O7.8.pdf
Keywords: spatial planning, hazard zoning, settlement development, risk reduction
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Title: 50 SHADES OF BLUE: RISK GRADIENTS WITHIN AVALANCHE HAZARD ZONES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Chris Argue
Description: Avalanche hazard zone maps for occupied structures in North America and Europe are typically based on a combination of avalanche frequency and impact ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O7.9.pdf
Keywords: risk, hazard, zoning, mapping, land use
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Title: PROBABILITY-BASED AVALANCHE RUN-OUT MAPPING FOR ROAD SAFETY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Julia Glaus, Katreen Wikstrom Jones, Jan Kleinn, Lukas Stoffel, Pia Ruttner-Jansen, Johan Gaume, Yves Bühler
Description: In the domain of avalanche road safety, local hazard experts have to assess the risk of an avalanche hitting the road given the predicted state of th...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O7.10.pdf
Keywords: road safety, probability mapping, avalanche dynamics, snow, risk assessment
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Title: QUANTIFYING THE RISK TO AVALANCHE PRONE ROADS: CONSIDERATIONS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE AVALANCHE HAZARD INDEX
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Alan Jones, David Hamre, Chris Wilbur
Description: The Avalanche Hazard Index (AHI) method was pioneered in the early 1980s and published by Schaerer in 1989. Since then, the AHI method has been applie...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O7.11.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, risk, hazard, management, road, railway, ahi
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Title: PROTOTYPE OF PROBABILISTIC AVALANCHE HAZARD MAP REFLECTING UNCERTAINTIES OF SNOW COVER CONDITIONS DURING WINTER
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Takahiro Tanabe, Sojiro Sunako, Kouichi Nishimura
Description: Snow avalanches are natural disasters that occur in snowy mountainous regions, threatening settlements and their inhabitants. Hence, a hazard map is a...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P7.4.pdf
Keywords: probabilistic hazard map, uncertainty quantification, hazard assessment, risk assessment
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Title: SUPPORTING LOCAL AVALANCHE RISK ASSESSMENT: INTEGRATING SNOW COVER SIMULATIONS INTO LOCAL AVALANCHE RISK ASSESSMENT PROTOCOLS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Veronika Hatvan, Marco Knoflach, Andreas Gobiet, Christian Rachoy
Description: In snow science and avalanche forecasting, snow cover modelling is increasingly important. However, the complex nature of simulation results often lim...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P7.11.pdf
Keywords: snow cover modelling, local risk assessment, visualisation
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Title: SITE SPECIFIC AVALANCHE WARNING FOR SETTLEMENTS IN NORTHERN NORWAY. TWENTY YEARS OF THE NORTHERN NORWAY AVALANCHE SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Frode Sandersen, Arnulf Elvevold, Bård Fjukstad, Steinar Bakkehø, Erik Hestnes, Anette Sjøli, Per Elvestad, Karin Karlsen, Gjermund Haugen, Hilde Grønaas Størseth, Jan Hugo Sørensen, Hege Vigstad, Helene Solvang, Kim Weenås Vevik, Leikny Bakke Lie, Peter Gauer, Kjersti Gisnås, Garaham Gilbert, Holt Hancock, Anders Kleiven, Elise Morken, Sunniva Skuseth, Ronny Schjelderup
Description: Northern Norway experienced an intensely snow rich winter in 1997 when settled snow heights reached a record 240 cm at the weather station in Tromsø ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P7.12.pdf
Keywords: avalanche warning, settlements, risk management, municipalities
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Title: INTENSITY, RETURN PERIOD AND RISK: INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL PARAMETERS IN SPECIFIC CASES OF NATURAL HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DYNAMICS OF SNOW AVALANCHES.
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Sergi Riba Porras, Carles García-Sellés, Vincente Medina de Iglesias
Description: When planning road infrastructure projects in high mountain regions prone to avalanche hazard, crucial first step involves analysing the characteristi...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P7.20.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, avalanche protections, hazard, risk analysis.
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Title: TOWARDS SYSTEMATIC PATTERNS AND AVALANCHE RISK ANALYSIS WITH CONTINUOUS MONITORING AND EVENT DETECTION ON AVALANCHE SLOPES WITH A NOVEL SENSOR ARRAY BOX IN AUSTRIA
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Markus Hoffmann, Michael Brauner, Christan Rachoy, Thomas Dolleschal, Johannes Leubolt, Ingrid Reiweger
Description: Austria's largest railway infrastructure operator, OEBB-Infrastruktur AG aims to ensure safe and reliable operation of the rail network with minimal c...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O8.4.pdf
Keywords: monitoring, avalanche slopes, event detection, systematic patterns, risk analysis
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Title: DEVELOPMENT OF AN INNOVATIVE MOBILE SENSOR ARRAY BOX FOR CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF AVALANCHE SLOPES AND ROBUST EVENT DETECTION
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Markus Hoffmann, Michael Brauner, Christan Rachoy, Thomas Dolleschal, Johannes Leubolt, Ingrid Reiweger
Description: Due to climate change natural hazards such as avalanches, mudflows, and floods are an increasing threat to transport infrastructure and settlements. T...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P8.6.pdf
Keywords: monitoring, avalanche slopes, event detection, systematic patterns, risk analysis
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Title: AUTOMATIC AVALANCHE DETECTION USING DOPPLER RADARS – LESSONS LEARNED AFTER 1000 DETECTED AVALANCHES IN NORWAY SINCE 2020
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Nils Arne K. Walberg, Pål Lohne, Andreia Farrér
Description: Automatic detection of avalanches using a Doppler radar has become increasingly popular in Norway in the recent decade due to the relatively low costs...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P8.12.pdf
Keywords: monitoring, radar, early warning, instrumentation, risk management
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Title: 33 YEARS IN THE SERVICE OF THE AVALANCHE-SAFETY-TEAM IDALPE - A LOOK BACK AT IMPORTANT MILESTONES AND DEVELOPMENTS IN THE AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT OF THE ISCHGL SKI RESORT
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Serafin Siegele, Paul Dobesberger, Harald Riedl
Description: 33 winters, Serafin Siegele was an integral part of the avalanche-safety-team in the ski resort Ischgl. Not only are the slopes in the ski area and th...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O10.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk management, avalanche safety team, ski area management, controlled avalanche release, racs
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Title: DEVELOPING AN AVALANCHE RESCUE PROGRAM FROM SCRATCH IN A COUNTRY WITH LIMITED AVALANCHE INCIDENT HISTORY - CASE RESCUE SERVICES OF LAPLAND
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Joonas Kortelainen, Risto Tolonen
Description: In avalanche search and rescue response, an effective avalanche rescue program and response plan are essential to guarantee efficient rescue and prote...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P10.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, incident, iso 31000, risk management
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Title: DIFFERENTIATING CONTEXTS ACROSS EUROPEAN AVALANCHE COMMISSIONS TO SUPPORT FUTURE DEVELOPMENT: AN INVITATION TO UNIFY EFFORTS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Anne St. Clair, Pascal Haegeli, Walter Steinkogler, Michael Winkler, Alice Gasperi, Jakob Schwartz
Description: The risk from avalanches to infrastructure and the general public is managed in a wide range of contexts that differ in operational scale, number of p...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P10.8.pdf
Keywords: avalanche commissions, operational avalanche risk management, program development, product design
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