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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: Mathematical Modeling of Slope Flows Entraining Bottom Material
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Eglit M.E, Yakubenko A.E.
Description: Entrainment of bottom material by the slope flows (such as snow avalanches, debris flows and so on) essentially influences on their dynamics, so it s...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-56.pdf
Keywords: slope flows, entrainment of bottom material
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Title: The Role of Slope Angle, Ground Roughness and Stauchwall Strength in the Formation of Glide-Snow Avalanches in Forest Gaps
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: T. Feistl, P. Bebi, P. Bartelt
Description: Mountain forests are a cost-efficient measure to prevent the release of glide-snow avalanches. However, avalanches still release in forest gaps. Well-...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-57.pdf
Keywords: forest avalanches, glide-snow avalanche, release, snow cover
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Title: Granulation of Snow
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Walter Steinkogler, Betty Sovilla, Michael Lehning
Description: The mobility of an avalanche, i.e. its potential to move faster and further, can strongly differ for individual avalanches even if the release conditi...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-58.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, granulation, snow temperature, mobility
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Title: Determining Avalanche Modelling Input Parameters Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning Technology
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Alexander Prokop, Peter Schön, Florian Singer, Gaëtan Pulfer, Mohamet Naaim, Emmanuel Thibert
Description: In dynamic avalanche modelling, data about the volumes and areas of the snow released, mobilized and deposited are key input parameters, as well as th...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-59.pdf
Keywords: laser scanning, dynamic avalanche modelling, modeling
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Title: Preliminary Measurements and Survey of Snowdrift at the Seehore Avalanche Test Site – Aosta Valley (IT)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Maggioni M., Durand N., Frigo B., Pallara O., Freppaz M., Dellavedova P., Segor V., Naaim- Bouvet F., Bellot H.
Description: In high elevation areas drifting snow influences the snowpack spatial distribution and consequently its stability. The amount of snow drifted from th...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-65.pdf
Keywords: snowdrift, avalanche release zone, experimental data, nw italian alps
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Title: Technical Handbook “Wind Drift Control Structures in Mountainous Areas”
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Florence Naaim-Bouvet, et Michel Truche
Description: In mountainous areas, drifting snow generates a heterogeneous distribution of the snow: snow is eroded in high wind areas and deposited in sheltered a...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-66.pdf
Keywords: snow, wind, avalanche, wind drift control structure, snow fence, jet roof, wind baffle
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Title: Size Distribution, Schmidt Number and Terminal Velocity of Blowing Snow Particles in the French Alps: Comparison With Previous Studies
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Hervé Bellot, Mohamed Naaim, Kouichi Nishimura
Description: Wind-transported snow is a common phenomenon in French Alps, creating snowdrifts and contributing significantly to the loading of avalanche release a...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-67.pdf
Keywords: snow, wind, drifting snow, blowing snow, model, sensor
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Title: Small-Scale Meteorological Conditions at an Avalanche Slope
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Reinhard Fromm, Friedrich Obleitner, Thomas Gigele
Description: The seasonal development of the Alpine snow cover is mainly influenced by terrain features, surface properties, vegetation and atmospheric processes n...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-05.pdf
Keywords: micro-meteorology, atmospheric variables, statistical analysis
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Title: On Modelling the Formation and Survival of Surface Hoar in Complex Terrain
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Nora Helbig, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Surface hoar crystals form on the snow surface during cold nights. Cloudless sky, humid air and low to moderate wind speeds are required meteorologica...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-06.pdf
Keywords: surface hoar, spatial variability, complex terrain characteristics, avalanche forecasting
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Title: The Effect of Spatial Variations of Snowpack Properties on Snow Slope Stability: A Mechanically-Based Statistical Approach
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Johan Gaume, Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen, Guillaume Chambon, Nicolas Eckert, Mohamed Naaim
Description: The spatial variability of snowpack properties has an important impact on snow slope stability and thus on avalanche formation. Hence, the determinat...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-07.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, avalanche release, slab, weak layer, spatial variability, slope stability
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