International Snow Science Workshop Proceedings - Montana State University Library

skip navigation

Digital Collections Home

Your search for Subject content management system (CMS)resulted in 182 records.

Title: Could the Mediatization of the Biggest Avalanches Help for the Advancement of the Accidents Prevention?
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Philippe Descamps
Description: Avalanches causing casualties are very often at the front page of the press and strongly contribute to forge the representation of mountain activities...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-21.pdf
Keywords: accidents, information, news, training, awareness
View additional details about Could the Mediatization of the Biggest Avalanches Help for the Advancement of the Accidents Prevention?

Title: Integration of a Drifting Snow Scheme in the French Operational Modelling for Avalanche Risk Forecasting: Evaluation by Avalanche Forecasters
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Daniel Goetz, Vincent Latu, Gilbert Guyomarc’h, Yves Durand, Gérald Giraud, Jean-Marie Willemet
Description: Snow drift modelling is a difficult challenge due to the large range of concerned working scales and the permanent interaction between snow, meteorolo...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-10.pdf
Keywords: drifting snow, modelling, avalanche risk, forecast, evaluation
View additional details about Integration of a Drifting Snow Scheme in the French Operational Modelling for Avalanche Risk Forecasting: Evaluation by Avalanche Forecasters

Title: NAVAL: A Computer-Based Tool for Avalanche Risk Scenarios Definition
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Massimiliano Barbolini, Francesco Stefanini, Lisa Bonomi
Description: The software NAVAL has been developed in order to support avalanche experts and decision makers to promptly define and visualise probable avalanche ri...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-12.pdf
Keywords: risk management, avalanche risk scenarios, computer-based tool, google earth
View additional details about NAVAL: A Computer-Based Tool for Avalanche Risk Scenarios Definition

Title: Crisis Management
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Paul Bonhomme, Copil
Description: The national labor syndicate of the French mountain guides is regularly confronted with crisis situations. The probability of occurrence of an accide...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-35.pdf
Keywords: help, crisis, media, processing, communication
View additional details about Crisis Management

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
View additional details about 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

Title: The Residents’ Evacuations Due to the Avalanches Risk During the Winter 2012-2013 in France
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: François RAPIN
Description: Several evacuations of homes were realized in France during the last winter 2012-2013. This had not happened for several years (2008 and 1999). The mu...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-44.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, evacuation, crisis management
View additional details about The Residents’ Evacuations Due to the Avalanches Risk During the Winter 2012-2013 in France

Title: Avalanche Accident Documentation is of Fundamental Importance to Understand the Dynamics, Taking Place in Snow, of Risky Activities in Order to Implement the Best Possible Prevention Strategies
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Mauro Valt, Stefano Pivot
Description: Avalanche accident documentation is of fundamental importance to understand the dynamics, taking place in snow, of risky activities in order to implem...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-46.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accidents, historical series, italy, professionals, search times of avalanche
View additional details about Avalanche Accident Documentation is of Fundamental Importance to Understand the Dynamics, Taking Place in Snow, of Risky Activities in Order to Implement the Best Possible Prevention Strategies

Title: Avalanche Risk Sensitivity to Physical Vulnerability Relations
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Favier P, Eckert, N., Bertrand D., Naaim M.
Description: Several studies provide methods to build vulnerability curves. Empirical approaches remain largely employed even if they rely on scarce data. Other st...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-55.pdf
Keywords: vulnerability relations, fragility curve, snow avalanche, risk quantification, sensitivity study
View additional details about Avalanche Risk Sensitivity to Physical Vulnerability Relations

Title: Protection d’Habitations Contre les Avalanches et les Chutes de Blocs Ouvrages Mixtes
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Julien LORENTZ, Benoît BOUTILLIER
Description: This article deals with a project located in Val Thorens (Savoie, France), the highest ski resort of Europe at 2 300 m a.s.l. The project focuses on t...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-60.pdf
Keywords: mixed, barrier, avalanche, rock
View additional details about Protection d’Habitations Contre les Avalanches et les Chutes de Blocs Ouvrages Mixtes

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
View additional details about An Innovative Algorithm for Unmanned Validation of Automatic Snow Depth Measurements

Title: Collectivités Publiques et Gestion du Risque Analyse Dans Son Versant Juridique
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Gregory MOLLION
Description: Le droit français donne aux autorités administratives le pouvoir et la charge d’assurer la protection des citoyens sur leur territoire. L...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-40.pdf
Keywords: préfet, maire, police administrative, plan de prévention des risques naturels prévisibles, responsabilités
View additional details about Collectivités Publiques et Gestion du Risque Analyse Dans Son Versant Juridique

Title: A Comparison of Terrain-Based Parameter, Wind-Field Modelling and TLS Snow Depth Data for Snow Drift Modelling
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Alexander Prokop, Peter Schön, Vincent Vionnet, Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Gilbert Guyomarc’h, Yves Durand, Hervet Bellot, Florain Singer, Kouichi Nishimura
Description: Wind and the associated snow drift are dominating factors determining the snow distribution and accumulation in alpine areas, resulting in a in high s...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-60.pdf
Keywords: snow, wind, redistribution, tls, terrain parameter, arps
View additional details about A Comparison of Terrain-Based Parameter, Wind-Field Modelling and TLS Snow Depth Data for Snow Drift Modelling

Title: The History and Evolution of Track Machinery Used for the Purpose of Avalanche Clean Up on the Alaska Railroad
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Bruce A. Gough
Description: Avalanches pose unique challenges to transportation corridors in Alaska. The states distance from the contiguous lower 48, coupled with extreme weathe...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-37.pdf
Keywords: avalanche cleanup, snow rotary, alaska railroad, risk reduction, excavator, bulldozers
View additional details about The History and Evolution of Track Machinery Used for the Purpose of Avalanche Clean Up on the Alaska Railroad

Title: Basic Findings of the Project RIMES - Avalanches
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Antonia Zeidler, Paul Dobesberger
Description: Within the research project RIMES (Climate Change and Natural Hazard Risk Management in Energy Systems) the primary focus was put on the development o...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-52.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, climate change
View additional details about Basic Findings of the Project RIMES - Avalanches

Title: Telemedicine Backpack: Helping Rescue Teams to Send Vital Sign Measurements to Healthcare Professionals in Inaccessible Areas
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Avellanas M., Mayo S., Rodrigálvarez V., Coll J., Sierra M., Anglés R., Hurtado R.
Description: Supported by the Interregional Cooperation Program Spain-France-Andorra POCTEFA INTERREG IV A 2007-2013 as part of STIPP Project and with the aim of i...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-55.pdf
Keywords: telemedicine, backpack, mountain, healthcare, rescue, accident, vital signs, ecg
View additional details about Telemedicine Backpack: Helping Rescue Teams to Send Vital Sign Measurements to Healthcare Professionals in Inaccessible Areas