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Title: Vulnerability of a Reinforced Concrete Wall Loaded by a Snow Avalanche: Experimental Testing and FEM Analysis
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Ousset I., Bertrand D., Brun M., Limam A., Naaïm M.
Description: In 1999 and 2006, in the Chamonix valley (France,74), a protective device dedicated to deflect and stop snow avalanches was partially destroyed. Exper...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-65.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche defense structure, reinforced concrete, civil engineering, finite element method, vulnerability
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Title: Retour d'Expérience sur le Chantier de Claies Paravalanches de Oz-en-Oisans Feedback on the Site Snow Racks Oz-en-Oisans
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Robit P. GTS, Villard N. GTS
Description: In 2010 GTS realized 550m of Snow bridges (Avalanche supporting structures) in the town of Oz-en-Oisans that was asked for by RTM and the General cou...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-66.pdf
Keywords: avalanche supporting structures, carbon impact, experimental site
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Title: Automatic Detection of Avalanches Using Infrasound and Seismic Signals
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: A. Schimmel, J. Hübl
Description: The ability to detect avalanches as they occur is essential for avalanche management and avalanche forecasting. Past studies have shown that avalanche...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-67.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, warning systems, infrasound, seismic
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Title: Avalanche Protection Dam of Cialancier in Saint Etienne de Tinée : From 2D Digital Modeling to the Start of the Onsite Work
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Vincent SEGEL, Mathieu SCHMITT, Edith Michel Villaz, Thierry EME, Stéphane ROUDNITSKA, Mohamed NAAIM
Description: On 16 December 2008 at 11.15 am, a large scale avalanche started in the upper watershed of the Fougeret couloir and ended its course in the hamlet of ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-68.pdf
Keywords: avalanche protection, modeling, work
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Title: Road Network Management in the Context of Natural Hazards: A Decision-Aiding Process Based on Multi-Criteria Decision Making Methods and Network Structural Properties Analysis
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Tacnet J.-M., Mermet E., Zadonina E., Deschatres M., Humbert P., Dissart J.-C., Labbe S.
Description: In mountain areas, transport infrastructures (roads, railways) are exposed to natural hazards such as avalanches, torrent floods and rockfalls. Road n...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-69.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, natural hazards, mountains, indirect vulnerability, roads, network structural properties, information quality
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Title: Snowmonit - Winner of GMES Best Service Challenge 2012
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Francesco Bartoli
Description: SnowMonit is designed to improve services that treat snow avalanche information through Earth Observation data. Snow accumulation, depth, and water e...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-01.pdf
Keywords: snow, gmes, satellite, wms, wmts, esa
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Title: Planned Instrumentation of Snow-Supporting Structures in Jackson, Wyoming
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Scott M. Merry, Joshua T. Hewes, Rand Decker
Description: United States (US) has limited experience and lacks approved design guidelines for the design and implementation of snow supporting structures (SSS). ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-10.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard mitigation, snow supporting structures, design guidelines, instrumentation
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Title: An Innovative Algorithm for Unmanned Validation of Automatic Snow Depth Measurements
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: S. Terzago, M.Faletto, Correspondingauthor, M.C. Prola, S. Fratianni, R. Cremonini, S.Barbero
Description: Ultrasonic snow sensors provide high temporal resolution snow depth and snowfall data used for hydrological applications and avalanche risk assessmen...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-12.pdf
Keywords: ultrasonic snow measurements, snow depth, automatic validation
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Title: Improving Snow Properties Retrievals Thermodynamic Snow Models and Satellite Remote Sensing
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Langlois, A., Royer, A.
Description: Snow cover plays a key role in the climate system by influencing the transfer of energy, gas and mass between the soil and the atmosphere. In particul...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-13.pdf
Keywords: snow, passive microwave, model, snowpack, memls, swe, avalanche
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Title: Drifting and Blowing Snow Measurements: Comparison Between Snow Particle Counter and a Simple Photoelectronic Fork Sensor (Wenglor)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: H. Bellot, F. Naaim-Bouvet, L. Piard, C.Palerme, C.Genthon
Description: Heterogeneity of snow cover in high mountain area may increase avalanche hazard. In Antarctica, drifting snow plays an important role in the surface m...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-17.pdf
Keywords: blowing snow measurement, spc, wenglor, sensor
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Title: Remote and Real Time Avalanche Monitoring With Wi-Fi
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Marek Biskupič, Milan Lizuch, Jozef Richnavský, Filip Kyzek, Igor Žiak
Description: Žiarska dolina in Tatra Mountains (Slovakia) is one of the most avalanche prone locations in the Carpathian mountain range. The avalanches frequent...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-21.pdf
Keywords: avalanche monitoring, wifi, live video stream
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Title: The Avalanche Detector - A New Avalanche Monitoring Tool Using Distributed Acoustic Fibre Optic Sensing
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Alexander Prokop, Anna Wirbel, Markus Jungmayr
Description: Information on avalanche activity is a paramount parameter in avalanche forecasting. When avalanches are released spontaneously, the risk of avalanche...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-23.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, monitoring, detection, fibre optic sensing
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Title: Towards a Basic Avalanche Characterization Based on the Generated Seismic Signal
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Lisa Dreier, Perry Bartelt
Description: The primary reasons to study the seismic signal generated by avalanches are (1) to remotely detect snow avalanches and (2) to improve our understandin...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-24.pdf
Keywords: seismic monitoring, avalanche activity, avalanche dynamics
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Title: A Simple Method to Study Snow Erosion and Deposition Processes in Small Avalanches: The Straw Test
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: E. Bovet, M. Maggioni, L. Pitet, B. Chiaia, M. Freppaz, V. Segor, P. Dellavedova
Description: The snow erosion and deposition processes play a fundamental role in the avalanche dynamics. Nowadays, sophisticated and expensive techniques, such a...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-25.pdf
Keywords: straw test, avalanche mass balance, net erosion and deposition, cheap method
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Title: Field Report on the Implementation of a Remotely Controlled Automated Terrestrial Laser Scanner
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Thomas Gigele, Reinhard Fromm, Marc S. Adams
Description: Due to adverse weather and snow conditions, as well as a limited extent of available manpower, avalanche test sites in the Alps are often not accessi...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-26.pdf
Keywords: automated terrestrial laser scanner, remote control, avalanche, snowcatcher
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