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- Title: Introduction and Influence of (Large) Existing Buildings on Avalanche Hazard Zoning: Case Study of Flaine
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Philippe Berthet-Rambaud, Fanny Bourjaillat
- Description: Flaine is a French ski resort developed ex-nihilo since the 60s. In spite of avalanche slopes just above, the different settlements were possible than...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O7.01.pdf
- Keywords: hazard assessment, obstacle influence, buildings resistance
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- Title: Synopsis, an Innovative Platform Supporting Avalanche Hazard Forecasting in France
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Cécile Coléou, Hugo Merzisen, Chantal Gendre, Yannick Danielou, Jean-Marie Willemet, Fabien Marty, Antoine Lasserre-Bigorry, Samuel Morin
- Description: For more than 30 years, Météo-France has developed software which integrates a broad diversity of information for the daily operations of avalan...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O15.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecast, operational workstation
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- Title: Quantifying the Effectiveness of Active Mitigation on Transportation Corridors
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: David Hamre, Ethan Greene, Stefan Margreth
- Description: Numerous efforts have been made to quantify avalanche risk in transportation corridors (Schaerer 1981, Hendrikx 2006, Margreth 2003, 2016), but little...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O19.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, mitigation, risk reduction
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- Title: Measuring Avalanche Risk and Level of Service for a Transportation Network – a Practical Approach
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Steve Conger
- Description: This paper describes innovative metrics to explore the traffic service quality experienced by highway travelers as a result of avalanche risk mitigati...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.49.pdf
- Keywords: planning risk assessment, highways, ahi, uncertainty, hazard rating, racs, integral avalanche protection, calibrated probabilities
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- Title: Avalanche Close-Calls During Courses – What Can We Learn?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Steve Conger
- Description: This paper and its associated poster present a study of avalanche close-calls or incidents that have occurred during field sessions in a formalized av...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.15.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accidents, close calls, hazard evaluation conceptual model, recognition primed decision-making
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- Title: Re-thinking the Avalanche Education Curriculum for Snowmobilers
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jeremy Hanke, Iain Stewart-Patterson
- Description: The BC Coroner's avalanche death review panel (British Columbia Coroners Service, 2009) made fifteen recommendations aimed at cultivating a culture of...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.41.pdf
- Keywords: snowmobile, education, terrain management
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- Title: Description and Evaluation of the New French Operational Chain of Models for Avalanche Hazard Forecasting Incorporating a Drifting Snow Scheme
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Gilbert Guyomarch, Vincent Vionnet, Matthieu Lafaysse, Gérald Giraud, Yannick Déliot, Florence Naaim-Bouvet
- Description: It is well known by avalanche forecasters that wind plays a determinant role in shaping the small-scale distribution of snow and strongly influences t...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.14.pdf
- Keywords: drifting snow events, tools for avalanche forecasters, avalanche hazard forecasting
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- Title: Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Avalanche Problems in Western Canada: An Analysis of the Winters 2010-2016
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Bret Shandro, Pascal Haegeli, Grant Statham, James Floyer
- Description: Not all avalanches are the same. Different combinations of snowpack structures and meteorological conditions create different types of avalanche probl...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.34.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche danger, aval anche forecasting, avalanche hazard, avalanche problems
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- Title: Decrease of Snow Avalanches Activity and Proliferation of Wet Snow Avalanches in French Alps Under Climate Warming
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Mohamed Naaim, Nicolas Eckert
- Description: The processing of the data, including cross analysis, of two well documented databases of snow and avalanches in France Alps (namely EPA avalanches ch...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.36.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, climate change, natural hazard, risk
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- Title: Using Spatially Distributed Statistical Models for Avalanche Runout Estimation
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Andreas Huber, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Andreas Kofler, Karl Kleemayr
- Description: State of the art physical-dynamical avalanche models are a commonly used tool in avalanche research and practice. Research and practical experience ha...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.38.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, avalanche modeling, raster-based modeling, regional-scale, hazard-indicator maps
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- Title: Selected Observations From Avalanche Measurements at the Ryggfonn Test Site and Comparisons with Observations From Other Locations
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Peter Gauer
- Description: Selected observations from the full-scale avalanche test site Ryggfonn, Norway, like front velocity, runout distance, or pressure distributions, are p...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.40.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche observations, comparison, hazard mapping
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- Title: Concept to optimize road closures due to avalanche hazard on low traffic roads in Norway
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Dag Theodor R. Andreassen, Ole-Andre Helgaas
- Description: The Norwegian road network connects remote communities to central parts of the country. These communities are often vulnerable to isolation due to ava...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.46.pdf
- Keywords: monitoring, warning, observation, avalanche control, hazard evaluation
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- Title: Avalanche Impact Pressure on a Plate-Like Obstacle
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Emmanuel THIBERT, Thierry FAUG, Hervé BELLOT, Djebar BAROUDI
- Description: Snow avalanche impact pressures on the flat surface of an instrumented structure have been quantified by experiments performed at full-scale. An inver...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-35.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche impact pressure, flow obstacle, snow deposition, granular flow, drag coefficient
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- Title: Contribution of Dendrogeomorphology in the Field of Avalanche Hazard Assessment in the French Alps
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Romain Schläppy, Vincent Jomelli, Nicolas Eckert, Markus Stoffel, Delphine Grancher, Daniel Brunstein, Christophe Corona, Michaël Deschatres, Mohamed Naaim
- Description: On forested paths, dendrogeomorphology has been demonstrated to represent a
powerful tool to reconstruct past activity of avalanches with annual reso...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-37.pdf
- Keywords: dendrogeomorphology, snow avalanche, hazard zoning, runout distance, return period, statistical-dynamical model
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- Title: Extreme Value Analysis of Design Events
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Jan-Thomas Fischer, Leopold Stepanek, Andreas Huber, Reinhard Fromm, Antonia Zeidler, Karl Kleemayr
- Description: Design events are used in avalanche engineering applications like hazard zone mapping, dimensioning of protection measures or the optimization and cal...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-43.pdf
- Keywords: snow, avalanche dynamics, extreme value analysis, run out, design event, extreme event
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