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Title: Peut-On Identifier des Conditions Favorables au Départ d’Avalanches de Plaques de Fond en Neige Sèche Grâce à la Modélisation de la Neige?
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Gilles Brunot
Description: The conditions of natural triggering of full-depth slab avalanches are not well known. The mechanism is complex , due to creep phenomena which are ver...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-02.pdf
Keywords: full depth avalanche, favourable conditions, triggering, modelling
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Title: Modeling a Fluid/Solid Transition in Snow Weak Layers Application to Snow Avalanche Release
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: François Louchet, Alain Duclos, Stephane Caffo
Description: A transition between solid and a fluid-like phases was evidenced and studied in the material made of loose ice crystals involved in snow avalanche re...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-11.pdf
Keywords: slab, triggering, weak layer, collapse, shear, whumpf
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Title: Evolution of Explosives and Safety Improvement in the Avalanche
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: COSTECALDE Vincent
Description: The avalanche triggering has long done with explosives. The use of these products can effectively produce a shock wave powerful enough to do from an ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-53.pdf
Keywords: explosives, emulsion, non-electric detonators, safety
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Title: Improvement and Tracking of Helicopter Avalanche Triggering
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jean Marc Neuville, Julien Aboulin, David Poulet, Bruno Farizy, Vincent Hélary, Roland Didier, Xavier Gallot-Lavallée
Description: This new concept called DaisyTrack is a registration unit complementary to the helicopter triggering system DaisyBell. It enables the person in charge...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-64.pdf
Keywords: preventive avalanche release, gas, traceability, geolocalisation
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Title: Wet Snow Instabilities – Multiple Approaches to Lift the Veil
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Thomas Wiesinger, Martin Oberhammer, Johann Seiwald, Stefan Koch
Description: Wet snow avalanches are notoriously difficult to predict, since their formation mechanism is poorly understood and because the material snow is exactl...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-70.pdf
Keywords: wet snow, liquid water content, ground penetrating radar, artificial triggering
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Title: Retrieving Avalanche Basal Friction Law From High Rate Positioning of Avalanches
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Pulfer G., Naaim M., Thibert E., Soruco A.
Description: The Voellmy avalanche basal friction parameters are retrieved from high rate positioning of artificially released avalanches. Two dense snow avalanche...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-53.pdf
Keywords: friction parameters, avalanches, front dynamics, photogrammetry, voellmy, rheology
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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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