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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: Evaluation de la Stabilité du Manteau Neigeux
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Christian Reverbel
Description: La vie d’une station de sport d’hiver est complétement dépendante de l’arrivée de la neige. Neige naturelle bien évid...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, stability
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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: Avalanche Terrain Exposure Classification for Avalanche Accidents in Catalan Pyrenees
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Glòria Martí, Laura Trabal, Joan Manel Vilaplana, Carles García-Sellés
Description: Avalanche terrain exposure consists of identifying and classifying areas prone to avalanches taking into account terrain features. From a data set of ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-20.pdf
Keywords: accidents, avalanche terrain exposure scale, danger
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Title: Geo-Historical Analysis of the Interactions Between Forest and Avalanche Dynamics in a Medium-High Mountain: The Case of the Vosges Range (France)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Florie Giacona, Brice Martin
Description: Ten meters of snow. This is the height, important for the Massif of Vosges, of the deposit of the avalanche of the end of January, 2012 in the bottom ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-25.pdf
Keywords: vosges mountains, geohistory, avalanche, forest
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Title: Long-Term (Climatological) to Short-Term (Intensive Campaigns) Field Investigations of Meteorological and Snow Conditions at the Experimental Site Col de Porte
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Samuel Morin, Yves Lejeune, Jean-Michel Panel, Bernard Lesaffre, Laurent Pezard, Carlo Carmagnola, Marie Dumont, Thomas Condom, Romain Biron, Jean-Paul Laurent, Ghislain Picard, Didier Voisin, Laurent Arnaud, Christophe Genthon, Luc Piard, Quentin Libois, Paul Carrier, Frédéric Gottardi
Description: The Col de Porte field station located in the mountains at 1325 m altitude near Grenoble, France, performs snow and meteorological monitoring for ove...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-27.pdf
Keywords: snowpack observations, meteorological observations, physical properties of snow
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Title: An Integrated System to Assess Snow Forces on Avalanche Defense Structures From Snow-Gliding: La Tour Test Site - Aosta Valley (IT)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: V. De Biagi, M. Barbero, F. Barpi, M. Borri Brunetto, E. Bovet, B. Chiaia, B. Frigo, O. Pallara, M. Maggioni, E. Ceaglio, M. Freppaz, D. Viglietti, E. Zanini, V. Segor
Description: A new test site devoted to the measurement of the effects of snow-gliding on active defense structures has been conceived and built in Aosta Valley, n...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-31.pdf
Keywords: snow gliding, snow load, avalanche defense structures, snow umbrellas, integrated approach
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Title: Preliminary Results at the Hijiori Avalanche Test Site
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Osamu Abe, Masaki Nemoto, Kenji Kosugi, Isao Kamiishi
Description: Hijiori is one of the heaviest snow areas in Japan. Recently to observe blowing snow and avalanches, an almost perfect place was found in this area. T...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-32.pdf
Keywords: avalanche test site, avalanche dynamics, snow cornice
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Title: The Full-Scale Avalanche Dynamics Test Site Vallée de la Sionne Betty
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Betty Sovilla, Jim McElwaine, Walter Steinkogler, Martin Hiller, François Dufour, Emma Suriñach, Cristina Perez Guillen, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Emmanuel Thibert, Djebar Baroudi
Description: The full-scale avalanche dynamics test site Vallée de la Sionne (VdlS) is providing scientists and engineers with essential data to understand and...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-33.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, vallée de la sionne, full-scale test site
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Title: The Full-Scale Avalanche Test Site, Lautaret, France
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Emmanuel THIBERT, Hervé BELLOT, Xavier RAVANAT, Frédéric OUSSET, Gaëtan PULFER, Mohamed NAAIM, Florence NAAIM-BOUVET, Koichi NISHIMURA, Yoichi ITO, Djebar Baroudi, Alexander PROKOP, Peter SCHÖN, P. Alvaro SORUCO, Christian VINCENT, Ali LIMAM, Damianao PESARESI
Description: The Lautaret full-scale avalanche test site in the southern French Alps has been used by IRSTEA (Cemagref) Research Institute since 1973. Over the rec...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-34.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, test-site, full-scale experiments
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Title: 40 Years of NGI’s Full-Scale Avalanche Test-Site Ryggfonn
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Peter Gauer, Krister Kristensen
Description: The Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) has been running full-scale avalanche experiments at the Ryggfonn test-site in western Norway for close to ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-35.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, test-site, full-scale experiments
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Title: The Experimental Snow Avalanche Test Site at Seehore Peak in Aosta Valley (IT) MAP3 ALCOTRA Project
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: V. Segor, L. Pitet, M. Maggioni, B. Frigo, M. Freppaz, B. Chiaia, E. Bovet, E. Ceaglio, A. Welf, P. Dellavedova
Description: Since 2009 the Seehore test site is operative within the MonterosaSki resort in Aosta Valley (NW Italy). This real scale test site was intended to stu...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-36.pdf
Keywords: small/medium avalanches, real scale test site, dynamics, impact forces, snowdrift
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Title: Taconnaz Avalanche Path: Pressure and Velocity Measurements on Breaking Mounds
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Bellot H., Naaim-Bouvet F., Naaim M., Caccamo P., Faug T., Ousset F.
Description: This paper describes the instrumentation related to velocity and pressure measurements recently set up in the avalanche protection system of Taconnaz....
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-37.pdf
Keywords: snow, avalanche, protection, taconnaz, force, metrology
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Title: Stability Tests and Their Association With the Local Avalanche Danger
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Shane Haladuick, Michael Schirmer, Bruce Jamieson
Description: The avalanche forecast regions in Canada range from 100 to 30,000 km2, far larger than the 10 km2 covered in a typical backcountry day. This differenc...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-01.pdf
Keywords: local avalanche danger, compression test, rutschblock test, avalanche problem, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Comparison of Structural Instability Indices (Lemons), ECT and RB Results
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Chiambretti Igor, Fabiano Monti, Mauro Valt
Description: Almost all avalanche forecasting services have a network of traditional stations where an array of daily or weekly snowpack measurement or observation...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-03.pdf
Keywords: rb, ect, structural instability indices
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