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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: Avalanche Hazard Mapping Plan for the Catalan Pyrenees
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Pere Oller, Marc Janeras, Olga Costa, Carles García-Sellés, Elena Muntán, Glòria Martí, Pere Martínez
Description: The avalanche cartographic information collected up to present for the Catalan Pyrenees pointed out the existence of localities at risk because of thi...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-23.pdf
Keywords: pyrenees of catalonia, avalanche hazard mapping, hazard zoning, risk
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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: 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: 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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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: Spatial Predictions of Surface Hoar and Crust Formation
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Simon Horton, Michael Schirmer, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Understanding the distribution of critical snowpack layers is important when assessing avalanche hazard. Two common critical layers, surface hoar and ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-01.pdf
Keywords: surface hoar, sun crust, surface energy balance, avalanche forecasting, numeric weather prediction
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Title: Avalanche Safety in Ski Areas – The Legal Position in Austria
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Siegfried Sauermoser, Marianne Fritz, Gebhard Walter
Description: The avalanche safety in the area of ropeways is regulated on the basis of the Austrian Ropeway Act 2003 (version of 2012) in the so-called “Ava...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-16.pdf
Keywords: avalanche safety, austrian ropeway act 2003, ski areas, avalanche commission, cableway, ropeway installation
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Title: Impressions from Applying ISO 31000 to an Avalanche Mitigation Project
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Alan Jones
Description: ISO 31000 is an international standard for risk management. It offers standard risk concepts, terminology and processes for diverse organizations and ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-18.pdf
Keywords: iso 31000, risk management, avalanche risk, avalanche mitigation
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Title: Adaptation of Current Modeled Snow Covers and Avalanche Hazards to Future Climate According Several RCM Scenarii: Application to French Alps
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: G. Giraud, Y. Durand, M. Rousselot, L. Mérindol, I. Dombrowski-Etchevers, M. Déqué, H. Castebrunet, et N.Eckert
Description: This paper presents parts of the results of the SCAMPEI ANR project. In this project, snowpack scenarios are modelled across the French Alps using dy...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-22.pdf
Keywords: climate change, modelling, snowpack, avalanche risk
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Title: Automatic Classification of Manual Snow Profiles by Snow Structure
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Frank Techel, Christine Pielmeier
Description: Manual snowpack observations are an important component of avalanche hazard assessment for the Swiss avalanche forecasting service. Approximately 900 ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-07.pdf
Keywords: snowpack structure, avalanche forecasting, snow profile analysis
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