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Title: Avalanche Warning Service without Frontiers in the Karavanks Along the Slovenian-Austrian Border
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Arnold Studeregger, Arnulf Wurzer, Hannes Rieder, Andreas Riegler, Willi Ertl, Manca Volk Bahun, Jaka Ortarand Miha Pavsek
Description: The avalanche warning service was established within the frames of Operational program SI–AT 2007–2013 project “Natural Hazards wi...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-16.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, avalanche bulletin, avalanche warning service, alps
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Title: Analysis of Detected Avalanches by Using Meteorological Data of Nearby Monitoring Stations in Ischgl Austria
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Lisa Jöbstl, Arnold Studeregger, Arnulf Wurzer, Daniel Stock, Richard Koschuh
Description: A set of detected avalanches from January to April 2012 on a hillside southeast of Ischgl, Austria is given. The avalanches are off-the-cut or caused ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-17.pdf
Keywords: detected avalanches, meteorological weather stations, avalanche danger, snow pack
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Title: National Avalanche Warning Service for Norway – Established 2013
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Rune Verpe Engeset
Description: Norway established a national public avalanche danger warning service on 14 January 2013 based on international standards - a milestone in the Governm...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-19.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, warning, forecasting, public safety
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Title: Report From the First Operational Winter of the Norwegian Avalanche Centre
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Karsten Müller, Solveig Kosberg, Markus Landrø, Rune V. Engeset
Description: The Norwegian Avalanche Centre had its first operational season from mid-January until the end of May 2013. We report on the experiences from the firs...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-20.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting service, avalanche bulletin, norway, winter conditions, varsom. no
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Title: Key to Success for the Norwegian Avalanche Center: Merging of Theoretical and Practical Knowhow
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Solveig Kosberg, Karsten Müller, Markus Landrø, Ragnar Ekker, Rune Engeset
Description: Norway has chosen a quite practical approach to avalanche forecasting. Field observations from the more than 50 professional observers are very import...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-21.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, field observations, practical knowhow, training
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Title: The Norwegian Public Roads Administration`s Role as a Major Contributor and End User of the New Norwegian Avalanche Bulletin
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Njål Farestveit, Julie Engelien Bjørlien, Jens Tveit
Description: The first national avalanche bulletin in Norway was launched the 14th of January 2013 on www.varsom.no. The bulletin is the result of a major effort, ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-22.pdf
Keywords: avalanche bulletin, the norwegian public roads administration, norway
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Title: Forecasting Forest Avalanches: A Review of Winter 2011/12
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Michaela Teich, Frank Techel, Peder Caviezel, Peter Bebi
Description: Mountain forests play a crucial role in avalanche mitigation by hindering avalanche formation. Nevertheless, due to the complex interactions between e...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-24.pdf
Keywords: forest avalanches, forecasting, road, railway, ski-run safety
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Title: Formation de Verglas Sur la Neige
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Dominique Vrécourt
Description: During January 2012, 2 to 5cm of ice appeared on the top of snow layer of the Pyrénées between 2000 to 2800m. That ice took place during two wee...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-25.pdf
Keywords: ice
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Title: The Ram Profile/Sondage Par Battage
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jean-François Quiniou, Jean-Luc Magdinier
Description: Unavailable
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-27.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, snow science
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Title: An Operational Supporting Tool for Assessing Wet-Snow Avalanche Danger
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Christoph Mitterer, Frank Techel, Charles Fierz, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Assessing the danger due to wet-snow avalanches is notoriously difficult, in particular, since conditions favouring wet-snow avalanches may persist on...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-28.pdf
Keywords: wet-snow avalanches, forecast, energy balance, avalanche danger assessment
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Title: Recommendation on How Avoid Interference Issues in Companion and Organized Avalanche Rescue
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Manuel Genswein, Dale Atkins, Joe Obad, Emily Grady, Marc Piché, Todd Guyn, Rob Whelan, Kjetil Brattlien
Description: Electronic avalanche rescue devices such as 457kHz transceivers and Recco are today the primary search tools in companion and organized rescue. The re...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-34.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, interference, transceiver, recco
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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: Avalanches Induced by Earthquake in North Tochigi Prefecture on 25 February 2013
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Hiroki Matsushita, Shinji Ikeda, Yasuhiko Ito, Masaru Matsuzawa, Hiroshi Nakamura
Description: We have investigated characteristics of avalanches induced by the North Tochigi Prefecture earthquake with magnitude of 6.3 on February 2012 in Japan ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-41.pdf
Keywords: earthquake-induced avalanches, snow pit observation, stability index
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Title: Implications Juridiques des Accidents en Montagne et Investigations Médicolégales
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: François PAYSANT, Frédérique FIECHTER BOULVARD, Florian GRENIER, V.SCOLAN
Description: The mountains especially during snow period is the place of accidents, some of which are fatal. In a first approach explanations of accidents may seem...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-42.pdf
Keywords: mountains accidents, legal investigation, responsibility
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Title: Wave of Avalanche Disasters in Response to Colonization: A Century of Statistics from the World’s Deadliest Avalanche-Prone Islands
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Evgeny A. Podolskiy, Kaoru Izumi, Vladimir E. Suchkov, IRSTEA (UR ETGR), St.-Martin-d'Heres, France
Description: The record of avalanche disasters on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands was always incomplete due to the historical divide of the region between Japan and...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-43.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, fatalities, disaster, statistics, sakhalin, kuril islands
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