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Title: A Relative Difference Approach to Detect Potential Weak Layers Within a Snow Profile
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Fabiano Monti, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Reducing the subjectivity of stability evaluation derived from snow profiles and increasing the spatial and temporal resolution of snow stratigraphy i...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-30.pdf
Keywords: snow stratigraphy, snow profile, snow stability evaluation
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Title: Snow Profile Visualisations to Highlight Structural Instability Conditions
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Fabiano Monti, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Interpreting snow profiles is a fairly subjective process, especially when snow stratigraphy was recorded without performing a stability test at the s...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-31.pdf
Keywords: snow stratigraphy, snow profile, snow stability evaluation
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Title: Reboisement Paravalanche Pour la Protection des Routes Contre les Coulées de Neige en Savoie (France)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Gaëlle Bourgeois
Description: Depuis quelques années, le Conseil Général de la Savoie utilise des techniques de reboisement pour la protection des routes départemental...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-48.pdf
Keywords: reboisement, trépied, collectif
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Title: Gestion du Risque Avalancheux sur les Routes Départementales de Savoie (France)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Gaëlle Bourgeois, Alain Duclos, Stéphane Caffo
Description: Le Conseil Général de la Savoie est gestionnaire d’un peu plus de 3000km de routes, dont environ 1000km sont situés à plus de 1000m...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-49.pdf
Keywords: équipements paravalanche, veille permanente, gestion de crise
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Title: Wooden Sleeves to Prevent from Snow Creeping Phenomena in Brévent
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Fanny Bourjaillat, Philippe Berthet-Rambaud, Jean-Pierre Veillard, Pascal Genin
Description: Snow creeping phenomon has been strong, especially in ski resorts, during the last two winter seasons in the Alps. It’s all the more feared af...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-50.pdf
Keywords: protection against snow creeping, wooden sleeves
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Title: Cornice Control by Helicopter
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Bruno FARIZY
Description: Cornice control with traditional blasting methods is usually hard and dangerous to implement. TAS has designed and has evaluated an experimental devic...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-54.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, cornice, helicopter
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Title: Avalanche Risk Sensitivity to Physical Vulnerability Relations
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Favier P, Eckert, N., Bertrand D., Naaim M.
Description: Several studies provide methods to build vulnerability curves. Empirical approaches remain largely employed even if they rely on scarce data. Other st...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-55.pdf
Keywords: vulnerability relations, fragility curve, snow avalanche, risk quantification, sensitivity study
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Title: Protection de l´Industrie Minière Dans Les Andes
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Pablo Galleguillos Acuña
Description: Minera Los Pelambres (http://www.pelambres.cl/) is a copper (Cu) mining company situated high in the Andean Mountain Range, in a country of South Ame...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-56.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, accidents, weather
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Title: Filets de Protection Contre les Avalanches: un Retour d’Expérience du Service RTM Pour la Définition de Consignes de Maintenance
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Rémy Martin
Description: The RTM service is a service specialised in work in Mountain. Since the 1970s it implements and maintains snownet. A feedback on difficulties in the m...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-63.pdf
Keywords: protection equipment against avalanches, snownet, feedback, setpoint maintenances
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Title: Vulnerability of a Reinforced Concrete Wall Loaded by a Snow Avalanche: Experimental Testing and FEM Analysis
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Ousset I., Bertrand D., Brun M., Limam A., Naaïm M.
Description: In 1999 and 2006, in the Chamonix valley (France,74), a protective device dedicated to deflect and stop snow avalanches was partially destroyed. Exper...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-65.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche defense structure, reinforced concrete, civil engineering, finite element method, vulnerability
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Title: Retour d'Expérience sur le Chantier de Claies Paravalanches de Oz-en-Oisans Feedback on the Site Snow Racks Oz-en-Oisans
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Robit P. GTS, Villard N. GTS
Description: In 2010 GTS realized 550m of Snow bridges (Avalanche supporting structures) in the town of Oz-en-Oisans that was asked for by RTM and the General cou...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-66.pdf
Keywords: avalanche supporting structures, carbon impact, experimental site
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Title: Avalanche Protection Dam of Cialancier in Saint Etienne de Tinée : From 2D Digital Modeling to the Start of the Onsite Work
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Vincent SEGEL, Mathieu SCHMITT, Edith Michel Villaz, Thierry EME, Stéphane ROUDNITSKA, Mohamed NAAIM
Description: On 16 December 2008 at 11.15 am, a large scale avalanche started in the upper watershed of the Fougeret couloir and ended its course in the hamlet of ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-68.pdf
Keywords: avalanche protection, modeling, work
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Title: Road Network Management in the Context of Natural Hazards: A Decision-Aiding Process Based on Multi-Criteria Decision Making Methods and Network Structural Properties Analysis
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Tacnet J.-M., Mermet E., Zadonina E., Deschatres M., Humbert P., Dissart J.-C., Labbe S.
Description: In mountain areas, transport infrastructures (roads, railways) are exposed to natural hazards such as avalanches, torrent floods and rockfalls. Road n...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-69.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, natural hazards, mountains, indirect vulnerability, roads, network structural properties, information quality
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Title: Challenges and Benefits of Continuous Weather Soundings on a Gondola During the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2013 in Schladming/Austria
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Arnulf Wurzer, Hannes Rieder, Christian Pehsl, Arnold Studeregger
Description: Atmospheric Soundings are measurements of the vertical profile of temperature, humidity and pressure. They are used to determine atmospheric instabili...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-05.pdf
Keywords: ski gondola, atmospheric sounding, weather measurement
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Title: Use of RHYTMME Radar Images Including X Band Data, to Improve Hourly Disaggregation of SAFRAN Daily Precipitation Analyse - Application on Mercantour and Haut-Var/Haut-Verdon
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Mérindol Laurent, Durand Yves, Fradon Béatrice, Tzanos Renaud, Westrelin Samuel
Description: In the framework of RHYTMME project, a X Band weather radar network is currently being installed in the French southern Alps. Three X Band polarimetr...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-08.pdf
Keywords: radar, x-band, precipitation analysis, hourly disaggregation
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