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- Title: Spatial Predictions of Surface Hoar and Crust Formation
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Simon Horton, Michael Schirmer, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Understanding the distribution of critical snowpack layers is important when assessing avalanche hazard. Two common critical layers, surface hoar and ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-01.pdf
- Keywords: surface hoar, sun crust, surface energy balance, avalanche forecasting, numeric weather prediction
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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: 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: Adaptation of Current Modeled Snow Covers and Avalanche Hazards to Future Climate According Several RCM Scenarii: Application to French Alps
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: G. Giraud, Y. Durand, M. Rousselot, L. Mérindol, I. Dombrowski-Etchevers, M. Déqué, H. Castebrunet, et N.Eckert
- Description: This paper presents parts of the results of the SCAMPEI ANR project. In this project,
snowpack scenarios are modelled across the French Alps using dy...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-22.pdf
- Keywords: climate change, modelling, snowpack, avalanche risk
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- Title: Automatic Classification of Manual Snow Profiles by Snow Structure
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Frank Techel, Christine Pielmeier
- Description: Manual snowpack observations are an important component of avalanche hazard assessment for the Swiss avalanche forecasting service. Approximately 900 ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-07.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack structure, avalanche forecasting, snow profile analysis
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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: 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
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- 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
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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: 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: 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: The Production of Patents Related to Snow Avalanches and Notes for the Evolution of the Production of Knowledge Around Snow Avalanches in a Collaborative Environment
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Luis G. López-Cobo
- Description: Scientific research on snow avalanches is relatively modern, yet in constant and rapid evolution, as the multiple disciplines involved in its developm...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-31.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, patents, knowledge, conceptual map, technology, collaboration
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- Title: Avalanche Impact Pressure on a Plate-Like Obstacle
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Emmanuel THIBERT, Thierry FAUG, Hervé BELLOT, Djebar BAROUDI
- Description: Snow avalanche impact pressures on the flat surface of an instrumented structure have been quantified by experiments performed at full-scale. An inver...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-35.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche impact pressure, flow obstacle, snow deposition, granular flow, drag coefficient
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- Title: Contribution of Dendrogeomorphology in the Field of Avalanche Hazard Assessment in the French Alps
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Romain Schläppy, Vincent Jomelli, Nicolas Eckert, Markus Stoffel, Delphine Grancher, Daniel Brunstein, Christophe Corona, Michaël Deschatres, Mohamed Naaim
- Description: On forested paths, dendrogeomorphology has been demonstrated to represent a
powerful tool to reconstruct past activity of avalanches with annual reso...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-37.pdf
- Keywords: dendrogeomorphology, snow avalanche, hazard zoning, runout distance, return period, statistical-dynamical model
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- Title: Extreme Value Analysis of Design Events
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Jan-Thomas Fischer, Leopold Stepanek, Andreas Huber, Reinhard Fromm, Antonia Zeidler, Karl Kleemayr
- Description: Design events are used in avalanche engineering applications like hazard zone mapping, dimensioning of protection measures or the optimization and cal...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-43.pdf
- Keywords: snow, avalanche dynamics, extreme value analysis, run out, design event, extreme event
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