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- Title: Longyearbyen, Svalbard - Vulnerability and Risk Management of an Arctic Settlement Under Changing Climate - a Challenge to Authorities and Experts
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Erik Hestnes, Steinar Bakkehøi, Christian Jaedicke
- Description: Longyearbyen, the administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago, is facing most types of natural hazards under a changing Arctic climate. The cata...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O16.02.pdf
- Keywords: arctic environment, climate change, natural hazards, mitigation, research, consulting
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- Title: Vulnerability of Houses and Persons Under Avalanche Impact – The Avalanche at Longyearbyen on 2015-12-19
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Dieter Issler, Jónsson Ãrni, Peter Gauer, Ulrik Domaas
- Description: This study uses data from the avalanche that killed two persons and destroyed eleven essentially identical wood-frame houses in Longyearbyen, Svalbard...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O16.03.pdf
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- Title: Forecasting the Fatal Longyearbyen Avalanche. Possibilities and Challenges
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Erik Hestnes, Steinar Bakkehøi, Torgeir Mørk, Kjetil Brattlien
- Description: One of the main questions after the fatal avalanche in Longyearbyen in December 2015, where two persons perished and eleven houses were destroyed, was...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O16.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, forecasting, storm weather, wind measurements
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- Title: A Smartphone Application for Estimating the Critical Slope Angle for Avalanche Release
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Ron Simenhois, Karl W. Birkeland, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: Once a weak layer has fractured, slope steepness largely dictates whether or not an avalanche will release. Exceeding the critical slope angle, i.e. a...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O17.01.pdf
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- Title: Observer Independent Measures of Snow Instability
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Benjamin Reuter, Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: Observer independent measures of snow instability are a prerequisite for modeling, verifying and improving avalanche forecasts. However, presently no ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O17.02.pdf
- Keywords: snow instability, avalanche forecasting, snow micro-penetrometer, avalanche initiation, crack propagation, tensile strength, finite element modeling
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- Title: Measuring the Mechanical Properties of Snow Relevant For Dry-Snow Slab Avalanche Release Using Particle Tracking Velocimetry
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Ned Bair, Karl Birkeland, Ben Reuter, Ron Simenhois, Bruce Jamieson, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) is a measurement technique widely used to determine displacement and velocity fields from video recordings. It is ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O17.03.pdf
- Keywords: snow mechanical properties, avalanche release, particle tracking velocimetry, snow stability
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- Title: Artificial Avalanche Release: Flat Field Experiments Using a Gas Exploder
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Stephan Simioni, Jürg Dual, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Fixed avalanche control installations are frequently used today due to their various advantages to artificially trigger avalanches. Gas mixtures or ex...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O17.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche control, gas exploder, avalanche formation, experiments
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- Title: The Most Disastrous Avalanche Events in Austria Since 1946/47
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Peter Höller
- Description: Avalanches are one of the principal natural hazards in alpine regions, resulting frequently in disastrous accidents. In this paper accidents with 5 or...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O18.01.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche fatalities, avalanche history
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- Title: The Establishment of the First Public Avalanche Forecasting Service in Sweden
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Per-Olov Wikberg, Petter Palmgren
- Description: Sweden started in 2015 the establishment of its first public avalanche forecasting service. The establishment of the service was initiated by the Swed...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O18.03.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, swedish environmental protection agency (sepa)
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- Title: Selection Criteria for Snow Avalanche Mitigation Measures Considering Other Potential Geohazards: Examples From Colorado and Canadian Highways
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Dave Gauthier, Alex Strouth, Mark Vessely
- Description: While unique in many ways, snow avalanches are one of many potential geohazards which threaten transportation and energy corridors, mine sites, etc., ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O19.01.pdf
- Keywords: mitigation, geohazard, risk
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- Title: Quantifying the Effectiveness of Active Mitigation on Transportation Corridors
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: David Hamre, Ethan Greene, Stefan Margreth
- Description: Numerous efforts have been made to quantify avalanche risk in transportation corridors (Schaerer 1981, Hendrikx 2006, Margreth 2003, 2016), but little...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O19.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, mitigation, risk reduction
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- Title: Automated Avalanche Risk Rating of Backcountry Ski Routes
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Günter Schmudlach, Jochen Köhler
- Description: Avalanche accidents are often due to the fact, that many backcountry trips take place at locations with high avalanche risk at the time. A new web pla...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O19.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk, platform, graphical reduction method, risk rating
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- Title: Variations in Individual Danger Level Estimates Within the Same Forecast Region
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Frank Techel, Lukas Dürr, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Forecasters in many public avalanche forecast operations rely on field observations and danger (or stability) assessments by experienced and well-trai...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O20.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger level, observer-specific bias
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- Title: Avalanche Forecasting in the Central Asian Countries of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Doug Chabot, Aysha Kaba
- Description: Home of the Karakorum, Hindu Kush and Pamir mountains, Central Asia has a serious avalanche hazard. A single 2012 avalanche cycle resulted in over 100...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O20.04.pdf
- Keywords: focus, avalanches, community training, weather monitoring, education
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- Title: Towards the Automatic Detection of Avalanches in Seismic Data Using Hidden Markov Models
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Matthias Heck, Conny Hammer, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Schweizer, Donat Fäh
- Description: Seismic monitoring systems are well suited for the remote detection of various mass movements, including snow avalanches. While this has been known si...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O14.04.pdf
- Keywords: automatic detection, classification, seismic monitoring
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