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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: Contribution of Dendrogeomorphology in the Field of Avalanche Hazard Assessment in the French Alps
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Romain Schläppy, Vincent Jomelli, Nicolas Eckert, Markus Stoffel, Delphine Grancher, Daniel Brunstein, Christophe Corona, Michaël Deschatres, Mohamed Naaim
Description: On forested paths, dendrogeomorphology has been demonstrated to represent a powerful tool to reconstruct past activity of avalanches with annual reso...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-37.pdf
Keywords: dendrogeomorphology, snow avalanche, hazard zoning, runout distance, return period, statistical-dynamical model
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Title: Extreme Value Analysis of Design Events
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jan-Thomas Fischer, Leopold Stepanek, Andreas Huber, Reinhard Fromm, Antonia Zeidler, Karl Kleemayr
Description: Design events are used in avalanche engineering applications like hazard zone mapping, dimensioning of protection measures or the optimization and cal...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-43.pdf
Keywords: snow, avalanche dynamics, extreme value analysis, run out, design event, extreme event
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Title: Features of Avalanches Based on Aerial Photograph Interpretation in Japan
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Kazuya AKIYAMA, Shinji IKEDA
Description: Avalanche geometry including factors, such as horizontal run-out distance (HL) and vertical height of avalanche drop (h), were investigated by interp...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-48.pdf
Keywords: aerial photograph interpretation, surface-layer avalanche, full-depth avalanche, avalanche geometry, avalanche scale and frequency
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Title: Evaluation of Snowmelt Runoff for Extreme Annual Snow Conditions Under Climate Change
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Yoshihiro ASAOKA, Shunsuke KASHIWA, So KAZAMA
Description: This research investigates the response of snowmelt runoff to change in temperature and precipitation for extreme annual snow conditions such as heavy...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-45.pdf
Keywords: river discharge, heavy and light snow year, distributed runoff model
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Title: On Estimating Avalanche Danger From Simulated Snow Profiles
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Estimating avalanche danger is the primary goal of avalanche warning services. Typically avalanche danger is estimated based on a variety of informati...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-01.pdf
Keywords: avalanche warning, avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger, snowpack, snow cover simulations, numerical weather prediction, data sparse areas
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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: SNOWPACK: Where Do We Stand Today?
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Charles Fierz, Mathias Bavay, Nander Wever, Michael Lehning
Description: We present both snow depth and precipitation driven simulations of the snow cover at Weissfluhjoch, 2540 m a.s.l., near Davos, Switzerland. We perform...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-03.pdf
Keywords: snow, snow settlement, snow-cover modelling
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Title: Verification of SNOWPACK Model in the Western Caucasus, Russia, for Spatial Assessment of Snow Cover Stability
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Elena S. Klimenko
Description: We applied physical model Snowpack, developed in Switzerland, to simulate the evolution of snow cover in the Western Caucasus, Russia during three wi...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-04.pdf
Keywords: snow cover evolution, physical modeling, snow properties, meteorological data
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Title: Identification of Slushflow Situations from Regional Weather Models
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Oyvind Armand Hoydal, Knut Helge Midtbo
Description: Slushflows are known phenomena that cause significant problems for settlements and infrastructure in Norway. Even though single events in the same loc...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-05.pdf
Keywords: slushflow, avalanche warning, weather models, forecasting
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Title: Le Rôle du Chef d'Opération Sur Une Avalanche d'Envergure
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Colonel Blaise Agresti
Description: L'objet de l'intervention est de proposer une méthodologie de décision et d'organisation adaptée à la gestion d'un secours en avalanche mu...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-06.pdf
Keywords: gestion de crise, processus iteratif de decision, intuition
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Title: Avalanche Crisis Management, (Not Including Outdoor Activities) New Practical Guide to the Attention of Mayors and Local Executives
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Oceane Vibert, Francois Rapin, et Jean-Pierre Requillard
Description: In France, in case of avalanche risk, local politicians have to "prescribe measures required by the circumstances". This is the duty of legitimate con...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-07.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, prevention, crisis management, inhabitants
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Title: Avalanche Rescue and Mission Risk in Norway 1996-2010
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Albert Lunde, Krister Kristensen
Description: Well documented data from Norwegian avalanche rescue missions are evaluated according to risk assessment. Data have been collected from police records...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-08.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, risk assessment, risk management
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Title: Survival Chance Optimized Procedures in Rescue and How to Minimize Injuries During Excavation
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Manuel Genswein
Description: In companion rescue as well as in the start-up phase of organized rescue, shortage of rescue resources are very likely if multiple buried subjects / p...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-09.pdf
Keywords: avalanche triage, excavation, injuries
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Title: Artificial Snow and its Impacts in a Ski Resort and its Mountain Hydrosystem: Example of Avoriaz Resort
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Elodie Magnier
Description: The practice of artificial snowmaking is recent (1950 in the United States) and since 1990, French resorts, including Avoriaz, as well as their Swiss...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-11.pdf
Keywords: artificial snow, water resource, mountain area, catchment area, hydrosystem
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