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Title: Active Works in a Starting Zone: Monitoring, Maintenance and Functional Restoration. an Analysis of Real Cases of Intervention
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Massimo Raviglione, Flavio Papetti, Michela Barberis
Description: Active works in a starting zone are interventions made with more or less complex engineering structures (usually snow nets, snow bridges, rakes, tripo...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.38.pdf
Keywords: active works, maintenance, rockfall, landslides
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Title: Terrain Analysis of Skier-Triggered Avalanche Starting Zones
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Irene Vontobel, Stephan Harvey, Ross S. Purves
Description: Terrain is one of the main factors contributing to avalanche formation and important for the assessment of avalanche risk. Terrain characteristics of ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-05.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, avalanche starting zone, terrain, gis
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Title: Single and Mass Avalanching Similarity of Avalanching in Space
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Pavel Chernous
Description: Sometimes it is possible to observe only single avalanche release in a big area with numerous avalanche paths, but sometimes avalanches occur in many...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-15.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, mass avalanching, similarity of avalanching in space
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Title: Avalanches Induced by Earthquake in North Tochigi Prefecture on 25 February 2013
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Hiroki Matsushita, Shinji Ikeda, Yasuhiko Ito, Masaru Matsuzawa, Hiroshi Nakamura
Description: We have investigated characteristics of avalanches induced by the North Tochigi Prefecture earthquake with magnitude of 6.3 on February 2012 in Japan ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-41.pdf
Keywords: earthquake-induced avalanches, snow pit observation, stability index
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Title: Avalanche Barriers in the Starting Zone Exposed to Rock Fall: Range of Capacity and 1:1 Rock Fall Tests With Flexible Snow Net
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Brändle R., Gröner E., Margreth S.
Description: Since the introduction of flexible snow nets in the 1950’s it became obvious that such barriers provide a better performance on combined loadin...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-51.pdf
Keywords: rockfall, snow nets, prevention structure
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Title: Planned Instrumentation of Snow-Supporting Structures in Jackson, Wyoming
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Scott M. Merry, Joshua T. Hewes, Rand Decker
Description: United States (US) has limited experience and lacks approved design guidelines for the design and implementation of snow supporting structures (SSS). ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-10.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard mitigation, snow supporting structures, design guidelines, instrumentation
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Title: Technical Handbook “Wind Drift Control Structures in Mountainous Areas”
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Florence Naaim-Bouvet, et Michel Truche
Description: In mountainous areas, drifting snow generates a heterogeneous distribution of the snow: snow is eroded in high wind areas and deposited in sheltered a...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-66.pdf
Keywords: snow, wind, avalanche, wind drift control structure, snow fence, jet roof, wind baffle
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Title: Can We Document Avalanche Activity by Plants Succession Monitoring?
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Milena Kociánová, Irena Špatenková, Petra Šťastná, Jiří Váňa, Josef Halda, Jana Kocourková, Helena Štursová, Roman Juras, Alena Vítová, Alena Bartošová, Veronika Langová, Jan Altman
Description: Avalanche activity in Krkonoše Mountains in the Czech Republic is mostly monitored during winter season. Some traces of avalanche activity stay vis...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-27.pdf
Keywords: krkonoše mountains, full depth avalanches, vegetation, dendrochronology
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Title: A Proposed Practical Model for Zoning with the Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Cam Campbell, Brian Gould
Description: Since 2009, the Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) has been used to zone avalanche terrain in western Canada and many other alpine nations. Despi...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-02.pdf
Keywords: ates, avalanche, terrain, zoning, model
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Title: Prevention of Risk Along Minor Roads by Avalanche Danger Analysis on Small Scale Management Experience in Winters 2008 – 2009 – 2010 - 2011
Date: 2012
Authors: Raviglione Massimo, Barberis Michela
Description: This paper deals with the prevention activity and the assessment methods of the local avalanche risk linked to issues of civil protection aiming at as...
Object ID: issw-2012-528-534.pdf
Keywords: risk, avalanche danger, snowpack stability
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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: Plant Species Composition Reveals Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Snow Slides in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado
Date: 2006
Authors: Sara Simonson, Thomas Stohlgren, Chris Landry
Description: Snow avalanche events are difficult to study due to the uncertainty of forecasting when and where they will occur, and the inherent dangers of traveli...
Object ID: issw-2006-912.pdf
Keywords: plant species diversity, disturbance ecology, january 2005 storm, snow avalanche path, treering record
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Title: Spatial Clusters of Slab Stability and Snowpack Properties Within Avalanche Start Zones
Date: 2006
Authors: Cam Campbell, Bruce Jamieson
Description: During the winters of 2000-01 and 2001-02, 36 spatial arrays of closely spaced smallcolumn-type stability tests were performed, each in a day. Each ar...
Object ID: issw-2006-044-053.pdf
Keywords: spatial variability, snow stability, avalanche start zones, clustering, snowpack stratigraphy, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Spatial Variability of Rutschblock Results in Avalanche Start Zones
Date: 2004
Authors: Cam Campbell, Bruce Jamieson
Description: During the winters of 2003 and 2004, 29 spatial arrays consisting of a total of 705 rutschblock tests were performed in avalanche start zones in the ...
Object ID: issw-2004-288-297.pdf
Keywords: rutschblock test, fracture character, variability, start zones, avalanche forecasting, snow stability
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Title: Snow Avalanche Penetration into Mature Forest in Timber Harvested Terrain
Date: 2004
Authors: G. Anderson, D. McClung
Description: Clear cut logging in British Columbia, Canada is creating new avalanche start zones that can produce snow avalanches sufficient in size to penetrate a...
Object ID: issw-2004-409-414.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, timber harvest, forest damage, clear-cut
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