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- Title: Modeling and Visualizing Avalanche Flow Using Genetic Algorithms and OpenGL
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Donna Delparte, Michael Peterson, Jahrain Jackson, John Perkins
- Description: Simulating snow avalanche flow with numerical models and digital elevation model
(DEM) data has allowed snow scientists to better understand flow mov...
- Object ID: issw-2012-439-443.pdf
- Keywords: snow simulation, terrain, genetic algorithm, runout
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- Title: Estimating Extreme Avalanche Runout for the Lizard Range, Fernie, British Columbia, Canada
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Katherine S. Johnston, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Identifying the extreme avalanche runout is an important part of public safety for
development in mountainous areas. Extreme avalanche runout is typi...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-050.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche runout, statistical models, residential development
- View additional details about Estimating Extreme Avalanche Runout for the Lizard Range, Fernie, British Columbia, Canada
- Title: The Upgraded Full-Scale Avalanche Test-Site Ryggfonn, Norway
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Peter Gauer, Hedda Breien, Dieter Issler, Krister Kristensen, Kalle Kronholm, Erik Lied, Karstein Lied
- Description: Measurements of full-scale avalanches are expensive and time consuming, but are indispensable to gain in-depth understanding of the flow behavior of a...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-084.pdf
- Keywords: test site, catching dam, runout zone, slf full-scale tests
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- Title: Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Snow Avalanche Activity in France Over the Last 60 Winters Using Hierarchical Bayesian Change Point Models
- Date: 2009
- Authors: N. Eckert, E. Parent, M. Naaim
- Description: This study focuses on avalanche occurrences and runout altitudes in France over the last 61 winters. For both variables, the interannual fluctuations ...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0234-0238.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche occurrence, runout altitude, climate change impact, change point models
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- Title: Application and Limitations of Dynamic Models for Snow Avalanche Hazard Mapping
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Stefan Margreth, Alan Jones
- Description: Dynamic models, initially based on fluid flow, have been used since the 1950s for modelling the motion and runout of extreme snow avalanches. The fric...
- Object ID: P__8052.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, hazard mapping, runout, dynamic model, uncertainty, friction coefficients
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- Title: Avalanche Size Increase Resulting from Forest Removal and Wind Loading – A Case Study from Central Colorado Using AVAL-1D
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Arthur I. Mears, Arthur I. Mear
- Description: Forest removal for a proposed ski run within a ski-area expansion would increase the
amount of wind-deposited snow in a downwind avalanche starting z...
- Object ID: issw-2006-775-777.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, design-magnitude avalanche, runout distance, aval-1d, forest removal, windtransported snow
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- Title: Dynamic Modelling of Dense Snow Avalanche Runout
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Chris Borstad
- Description: Human experience with snow avalanches has motivated pursuits to determine the
physics underlying the motion of flowing snow. Of particular practical ...
- Object ID: issw-2004-001.pdf
- Keywords: hazard, mapping, runout, flow, starting zone
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- Title: Highland Bowl – A Ski Area Expansion
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Kevin Heinecken
- Description: The Highland Bowl is a large area which rises above the current lift structures south of the Aspen Highlands Ski Area and has recently been opened to ...
- Object ID: issw-2004-661-665.pdf
- Keywords: skiing, starting zones, runout, triggered
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- Title: Estimating Avalanche Runout on the Milford Road, New Zealand
- Date: 2002
- Authors: H. Conway, W. Carran, A. Carran
- Description: For operational purposes it is of interest to determine when and whether an avalanche will affect the road. The size and runout of an avalanche depend...
- Object ID: issw-2002-067-070.pdf
- Keywords: snow, avalanches, runout distances
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- Title: Density and Friction Measurements in a Flowing Dry Snow Avalanche
- Date: 1996
- Authors: K.J. Burrell, J.D. Dent, M.Y. Louge, D.S. Schmidt, E.E. Adams, T.G. Jazbutis
- Description: Using the Revolving Door avalanche facility near the Bridger Bowl Ski Area (Dent et al1994), measurements of density and dynamic friction in a flowing...
- Object ID: issw-1996-219-223.pdf
- Keywords: density, friction, dry snow, runout
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- Title: Frequency/Magnitude Relationship of Avalanches in the Chugach Range, Alaska
- Date: 1996
- Authors: David Hamre, Doug McCarty
- Description: Since 1946, the Alaska Railroad has systematically recorded natural avalanche activity to the train track level. Parameters recorded include date, loc...
- Object ID: issw-1996-224-230.pdf
- Keywords: frequency, magnitude, chugach, runout
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- Title: Loveland Basin Avalanche, February 1996
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Dale Atkins
- Description: On February 2, 1996, routine avalanche reduction work by ski area workers released an avalanche that ran significantly beyond the path's maximum known...
- Object ID: issw-1996-257-263.pdf
- Keywords: colorado, avalanche, damage, runout distance
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- Title: The Allen Residence, A Mountain Dream Home Destroyed by Avalanches - An Example of Poor Land-Use Planning, Sundance, Utah
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Richard Giraud
- Description: Investigation into a residence destroyed by avalanches provides an excellent example of poor avalanche hazard land-use planning. The Allen residence w...
- Object ID: issw-1994-080-090.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche terrain, damages, avalanche hazard, runout zones
- View additional details about The Allen Residence, A Mountain Dream Home Destroyed by Avalanches - An Example of Poor Land-Use Planning, Sundance, Utah
- Title: Model for Avalanches in Three Spatial Dimensions: Comparison of Theory to Experiments
- Date: 1994
- Authors: R. M. LANG, B. R. LEO
- Description: A three-dimensional theory is derived to describe the temporal behavior of gravity currents of cohesionless granular media, in an attempt to model the...
- Object ID: issw-1994-360-361.pdf
- Keywords: runout, cohesionless granular media
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- Title: Model for Avalanches in Three Spatial Dimensions: Comparison of Theory to Experiments
- Date: 1994
- Authors: R.M. Lang, Brian R. Leo
- Description: Increases in land use and development in mountainous areas, anticipated warming of the earth's atmosphere, and the deforestation in alpine regions fro...
- Object ID: issw-1994-362-384.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche path, avalanche release, avalanche runout
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