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Title: The expert tool XGEO and its applications in the Norwegian Avalanche Forecasting Service
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Emma Barfod, Karsten Müller, Tuomo Saloranta, Jess Andersen, Nils Kristian Orthe, Anders Wartianien, Tore Humstad, Steinar Myrabø, Rune Engeset
Description: Norway is highly dependent on tracking the changing snow cover, not only for the avalanche forecasting but also for hydropower production planning, fl...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-13.pdf
Keywords: map centric tool, observations, snow model, avalanche forecasting
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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: 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: 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: When Should a Hazard Map Show the Risk of Small Avalanches or Snow Gliding?
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Stefan Margreth
Description: Avalanche hazard maps describe the extent and intensity of snow avalanches. In Switzerland red, blue and yellow zones are used which are based on scen...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-39.pdf
Keywords: hazard map, snow gliding, glide snow avalanche, small avalanche
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Title: Characterizing Major Avalanche Episodes in Space and Time in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries in the Catalan Pyrenees
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Pere Oller, Elena Muntán, Carles García-Sellés, Glòria Furdada, Cristina Baeza, Cecilio Angulo
Description: With the aim of better understanding avalanche risk in the Catalan Pyrenees, the present work focuses on the analysis of major (or destructive) avalan...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-50.pdf
Keywords: major avalanche, pyrenees, magnitude, frequency, hazard, risk
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Title: Application of Empirical Calculations and Dynamics Models for Snow Avalanche Hazard Assessment in Russia
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Alla S. Turchaninova
Description: A lot of statistical runout models based on topographic parameters of the avalanche tracks were performed by snow engineers for different mountain re...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-51.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, statistical runout models, dynamics modeling, ramms, hazard assessment
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Title: CLPA Annual Updating, 10 years of Practise… Results, Process Improvement and Prospects…
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Robinet J. Irstea, Bonnefoy-Demongeot M. Irstea
Description: After the UCPA disaster in Val d’Isère in 1970 that killed 39 people, the French Government decided to create the CLPA (Localization Map of ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-52.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, mapping, testimonies, network of observators
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Title: Snow Avalanche Hazard Mapping for Different Frequency Scenarios, The Case of the Tatra Mts., Western Carpathians
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Paweł Chrustek, Marek Świerk, Marek Biskupič
Description: Snow avalanche hazard mapping is an important tool for land-use planning and safety assessment. It has proven to be the one of the most efficient and ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-54.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche mapping, hazard mapping, ramms, carpathians, tatra mountains
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Title: Snow Avalanches Mapping – Evaluation of a New Approach
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Paweł Chrustek, Natalia Kolecka, Yves Bühler
Description: Recent snow avalanche hazard mapping tools and procedures offer methods to improve the accuracy and reliability of risk and hazard localization. The v...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-55.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche mapping, risk and hazard localization, avalanche outlines, historical data, avalmapper
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Title: A Network-Based Approach for the Study of Criticalities in Ski-Resorts
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Valerio De Biagi, Barbara Frigo, Bernardino Chiaia
Description: The correct management of ski-resorts requires wide knowledge in mountain hazards, as well as a large experience. Usually ski-resorts cover a surface ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-34.pdf
Keywords: ski-resort management, graph theory, criticalities
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