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- Title: Why Don’t Avalanche-Dynamics Models of Higher Complexity Necessarily Lead to Better Predictions?
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Christophe Ancey
- Description: The avalanche-dynamics approach has a long history in avalanche prediction. In the absence of computers, scientists and engineers focused on idealized...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-20.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche-dynamics model, saint-venant equation, prediction and uncertainty, maps
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- Title: Validating a Relationship Between Avalanche Runout Distance and Frequency
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Alexandra Sinickas, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Statistical runout models can provide good estimates of extreme avalanche runout, but do not estimate more frequent runout distances such as ten or th...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-23.pdf
- Keywords: runout ratio, frequency, magnitude, poisson, avalanche runout, trim lines
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- Title: The Historical Investigation as a Tool to Improve the Hazard Maps: The Case Study of the Historical Avalanche of Avieil (Valle d’Aosta - Italy)
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: S. Roveyaz, A. Debernardi, E. Ceaglio, V. Segor
- Description: Some avalanches, which in the past resulted in catastrophic events, but no more observed, are often very poorly understood. Therefore, for rediscoveri...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-24.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche cadastre, aosta valley, year 1888, serious damage, historical memory
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- Title: Avalanche Hazard Mapping in Kazakhstan
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Blagovechshenskiy V., Gulyayeva T.
- Description: Avalanche hazard maps in Kazakhstan are produced in small (< 1/500 000), medium
(1/100 000 - 1/300 000), and large (> 1/100 000) scales. Avalanche ha...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-25.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche hazard mapping
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- Title: The expert tool XGEO and its applications in the Norwegian Avalanche Forecasting Service
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Emma Barfod, Karsten Müller, Tuomo Saloranta, Jess Andersen, Nils Kristian Orthe, Anders Wartianien, Tore Humstad, Steinar Myrabø, Rune Engeset
- Description: Norway is highly dependent on tracking the changing snow cover, not only for the avalanche forecasting but also for hydropower production planning, fl...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-13.pdf
- Keywords: map centric tool, observations, snow model, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Integrated Management and Participative Approach on an Avalanche Prone Territory: How to Develop a Collective Understanding of the Vulnerability and of the Organization of Isolation
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Vincent Boudières, Pauline Texier, Amandine Crevolin
- Description: An integrated and holistic risk management assumes that all types of measures for natural disaster reduction are considered. Generally, measures of pr...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-36.pdf
- Keywords: risk management, participatory 3d map, résilience
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- Title: When Should a Hazard Map Show the Risk of Small Avalanches or Snow Gliding?
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Stefan Margreth
- Description: Avalanche hazard maps describe the extent and intensity of snow avalanches. In Switzerland red, blue and yellow zones are used which are based on scen...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-39.pdf
- Keywords: hazard map, snow gliding, glide snow avalanche, small avalanche
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- Title: CLPA Annual Updating, 10 years of Practise… Results, Process Improvement and Prospects…
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Robinet J. Irstea, Bonnefoy-Demongeot M. Irstea
- Description: After the UCPA disaster in Val d’Isère in 1970 that killed 39 people, the French Government decided to create the CLPA (Localization Map of ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-52.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, mapping, testimonies, network of observators
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- Title: Snow Avalanche Hazard Mapping for Different Frequency Scenarios, The Case of the Tatra Mts., Western Carpathians
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: PaweÅ‚ Chrustek, Marek Åšwierk, Marek BiskupiÄ
- Description: Snow avalanche hazard mapping is an important tool for land-use planning and safety assessment. It has proven to be the one of the most efficient and ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-54.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche mapping, hazard mapping, ramms, carpathians, tatra mountains
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- Title: Snow Avalanches Mapping – Evaluation of a New Approach
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Paweł Chrustek, Natalia Kolecka, Yves Bühler
- Description: Recent snow avalanche hazard mapping tools and procedures offer methods to improve the accuracy and reliability of risk and hazard localization. The v...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-55.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche mapping, risk and hazard localization, avalanche outlines, historical data, avalmapper
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- Title: Towards a New Chain of Models for Avalanche Hazard Forecasting in French Mountain Ranges, Including Low Altitude Mountains
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Matthieu Lafaysse, Samuel Morin, Cecile Coleou, Matthieu Vernay, Damien Serca, Francois Besson, Jean-Marie Willemet, Gerald Giraud, Yves Durand
- Description: Operational avalanche hazard warning carried out by Météo-France for the three main mountain ranges (Alps, Pyrenees, Corsica) have used snow sim...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-02.pdf
- Keywords: snow modelling, operational, ground, mid-altitude
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- Title: Design and Construction of Snow Supporting Structures for the Milepost 151 Avalanche, Jackson, Wyoming
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Joshua T. Hewes, Rand Decker, Scott M. Merry
- Description: Reduction and management of avalanche threats to motorists on roads and highways threatened by avalanches can be accomplished by use of constructed de...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-15.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, hazard, transportation, snow structure, nepa, visual retention
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- Title: Weak-Layer Spatial Variability as a Possible Trigger of Slab Tensile Failure
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Johan Gaume, Guillaume Chambon, Nicolas Eckert, Mohamed Naaim
- Description: The evaluation of the location of slab tensile failure represents an important concern for the evaluation of the extent of avalanche release zones and...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-03.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, avalanche release, slab, weak layer, spatial variability, tensile failure
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- Title: Impulse Water Waves Generated by Snow Avalanches
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Mohamed Naaim
- Description: Retaining dams devoted to artificial snow production, are most of the time located in the vicinity of steep slope areas and may be threatened by snow ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-21.pdf
- Keywords: impulse water waves, snow avalanches, mountain lakes
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- Title: Integrating Gaming Technology to Map Avalanche Hazard
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Donna Delparte, Michael R. Peterson, John Perkins, Jahrain Jackson
- Description: As gaming physics engines advance, snow scientists have the opportunity to utilize
these engines to animate and model avalanche flow and runout. Nume...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-22.pdf
- Keywords: hazard mapping, gis, avalanche terrain modelling, dem, genetic algorithms
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