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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
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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
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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
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Title: Avalanche Forecasting and Risk Mitigation for Specific Objects at Risk
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Krister Kristensen, Hedda Breien, Suzanne Lacasse
Description: Objects and individuals can be exposed to different levels of avalanche hazard. For object specific avalanche forecasting and risk mitigation programs...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-59.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, local forecasting, danger scales, danger levels, probability of occurrence, risk, objects at risk, risk mitigation
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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: 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
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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: 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
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Title: Back-Analysis Modelling of the Catastrophic Avalanches in Sewell, Central Chilean Andes
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Marc Janeras, Pere Oller, Rodrigo Arancibia, Judit Pons, Olga Costa, Danilo Asensio
Description: In the Chilean Andes, avalanche risk is often related to mining industry, due to its presence in this mountain range, comparing to other activities. A...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-49.pdf
Keywords: back-analysis calculation, avalanche dynamics, chilean andes
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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: 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: 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
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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
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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
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Title: Infrasound Detection of Avalanches, A New Approach on Managing Avalanche Risks
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Arnold Kogelnig, Giacomo Ulivieri, Emanule Marchetti, Samuel Wyssen
Description: The Austrian state road Silvretta Straße B188 is located in the avalanche-exposed Paznaun Valley. During the winter this road is an important tran...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-58.pdf
Keywords: infrasound, radar, detection, artificial avalanche release
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