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Title: Report From the First Operational Winter of the Norwegian Avalanche Centre
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Karsten Müller, Solveig Kosberg, Markus Landrø, Rune V. Engeset
Description: The Norwegian Avalanche Centre had its first operational season from mid-January until the end of May 2013. We report on the experiences from the firs...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-20.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting service, avalanche bulletin, norway, winter conditions, varsom. no
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Title: The Norwegian Public Roads Administration`s Role as a Major Contributor and End User of the New Norwegian Avalanche Bulletin
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Njål Farestveit, Julie Engelien Bjørlien, Jens Tveit
Description: The first national avalanche bulletin in Norway was launched the 14th of January 2013 on www.varsom.no. The bulletin is the result of a major effort, ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-22.pdf
Keywords: avalanche bulletin, the norwegian public roads administration, norway
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Title: Experiences from a Heavy Avalanche Season 2013, Caused by a Weak Snow Layer, and Leading to Several Road Closures in Northern Norway
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Silje S. Haaland, Jeanette Kvalvaagnes, Ole-André Helgaas
Description: During the last week of March and first days of April 2013 a significant large number of avalanches hit roads and cut off all infrastructures to sever...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-58.pdf
Keywords: snowpack, avalanche, weak layers, norway
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Title: Influence of Forest on Snow Avalanche Hazard – Norwegian Challenges
Date: 2012
Authors: Hedda Breien, Øyvind A. Høydal
Description: Forested areas are less prone to snow avalanches, due to the trees' influence on snow accumulation, snow pack layering, energy balance and the armori...
Object ID: issw-2012-633-638.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard, forests, hazard zoning, runout zones
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Title: The Results From Two Years of Testing the Wyssen Avalanche Tower in Norway
Date: 2012
Authors: Njål Farestveit
Description: The Wyssen Avalanche Tower LS12-5 has been tested for the first time in Scandinavia by The Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) in cooperation...
Object ID: issw-2012-657-661.pdf
Keywords: avalanche tower, norwegian public roads administration, tyin
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Title: Avalanche Protection on Highway E8 to the City of Tromso, Northern Norway
Date: 2012
Authors: Ole-André Helgaas, Oevind Skeie Hellum, Dag T. Andreassen
Description: The highway network in the northern part of Norway is mostly located in alpine terrain. Every winter snow avalanches affect some of these roads and gi...
Object ID: issw-2012-674-679.pdf
Keywords: avalanche protection, highway safety, alpine terrain, avalanche forecasting
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Title: The Diversities of Large Slushflows Illustrated by Selected Cases
Date: 2010
Authors: Erik Hestnes, Krister Kristensen
Description: Rapid mass movement of water-saturated snow, usually known as slushflow or slush avalanche, is a major natural hazard in Norway. The destructive forc...
Object ID: ISSW_O-066.pdf
Keywords: natural hazard, large slushflows, triggering mechanisms, flow regimes, human challenges
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Title: Taking Artificial Release to Norway (Again)
Date: 2010
Authors: Njål Farestveit, Sara Skutlaberg
Description: Norway is troubled with many roads in bad condition. When these roads were constructed they represented a new and modern time. The roads gave people l...
Object ID: ISSW_O-067.pdf
Keywords: road administration, pilot project, wyssen avalanche tower, artificial release
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Title: Evaluation of Norwegian Snow Pillow Stations
Date: 2010
Authors: Elise Trondsen, Knut Møen
Description: As 50 percent of annual precipitation falls as snow in Norway access to real time snow data - including snow water equivalent (SWE) - is of great impo...
Object ID: ISSW_P-015.pdf
Keywords: nve, snow pillow, norway, antifreezes, swe
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Title: Avalanche Warning During Military Field Exercises in Northern Norway
Date: 2010
Authors: Kalle Kronholm, Jo Gunnar Ellevold
Description: Norway frequently hosts the NATO cold weather exercise “Cold Response” in the Northern parts of Norway. Aim of the exercise is to train th...
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Keywords: field exercises, cold response, terrian, climate, avalanche forecasting
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Title: The Avalanche Situation in a Special Winter. Review of the 09/10 Season in Norway
Date: 2010
Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Kjetil Brattlien, Regula Frauenfelder, Krister Kristensen, Kalle Kronholm
Description: The 2009/10 season featured significantly different snow conditions compared to the usually maritime snow pack in most of Norway. A stable high-press...
Object ID: ISSW_P-070.pdf
Keywords: high-pressure system, depth hoar, weak layers, fatalities
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Title: Testing and Developing Methods for Avalanche Forecasting in Norway
Date: 2010
Authors: Ragnar Ekker, Rune Engeset, Andrea Taurisano, Dagrun V. Schuler, Ivar Ambjørn Seierstad, Tore Humstad, Steinar Myrabø
Description: NVE1 was in 2009 appointed the national authority responsible for avalanches and landslides. A project was initiated, aiming to test and develop meth...
Object ID: ISSW_P-077.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, nve, snow observation data, landslide forecasting service
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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: Snow Simulation and Forecasting Through All Norway: The Senorge Model
Date: 2009
Authors: Stefano Endrizzi, Thomas Skaugen
Description: A model has been recently set up (since 2006) that provides the snow conditions, along with other hydrometeorological parameters, for all Norway at 1 ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0211-0213.pdf
Keywords: norway, snow modelling, snow monitoring
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Title: Trends in Annual Maximum Snow Water Equivalent in South-Norway (1914 - 2008)
Date: 2009
Authors: Heidi Bache Stranden, Thomas Skaugen
Description: Since 1915, snow has been measured annually at expected snow maximum in Norway in relation to power production and flood forecasting. Analysis of ann...
Object ID: issw-2009-0224-0228.pdf
Keywords: snow water equivalent, trends, climate change, south norway
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