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Title: The Current State of Avalanche Risk Analysis and Hazard Mapping in Uzbekistan
Date: 2009
Authors: Eleonora Semakova, Sergey Myagkov, Richard L. Armstrong
Description: This paper includes new results of avalanche mapping in Uzbekistan. The avalanche caused damage distribution in Uzbekistan is presented. The descript...
Object ID: issw-2009-0509-0513.pdf
Keywords: potential danger territories, avalanche risk, avalanche hazard mapping
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Title: Experiences in Avalanche Assessment With the Powder Snow Avalanche Model Samosat
Date: 2009
Authors: Matthias Granig, Peter Sampl, Christian Tollinger, Philipp Jörg
Description: In 2004 the Forest Technical Service for Avalanche and Torrent Control (WLV) has initiated the development of the new powder snow avalanche model Samo...
Object ID: issw-2009-0514-0518.pdf
Keywords: avalanche simulation, samosat, model calibration, avalanche case studies
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Title: Avalanche Simulation With SAMOS-AT
Date: 2009
Authors: Peter Sampl, Matthias Granig
Description: The simulation software SAMOS for dry snow avalanches has been used by the Austrian Service for Torrent and Avalanche Control since 1999. The software...
Object ID: issw-2009-0519-0523.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, simulation, dense flow avalanches, powder avalanches
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Title: 2D Modelling of Icelandic Snow Avalanches for Hazard Zoning
Date: 2009
Authors: Eiríkur Gíslason
Description: The methodology for snow avalanche hazard zoning in Iceland is based on a statistical run-out analysis of a data-set of historical avalanches. The met...
Object ID: issw-2009-0529-0532.pdf
Keywords: avalanche modelling, two-dimensional run-out index, hazard zoning
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Title: Evolution of Avalanche Risk Reduction on the Alaska Railroad
Date: 2009
Authors: David Hamre
Description: Unavailable
Object ID: issw-2009-0533-0537.pdf
Keywords: railroad, ahi, risk, calculations
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Title: Protect – A Swiss Approach to the Assessment of the Effectiveness of Mitigation Measures
Date: 2009
Authors: Stefan Margreth, Hans Romang
Description: PROTECT describes a general procedure to assess the effectiveness of mitigation measures and includes detailed instructions for avalanches, rockfall,...
Object ID: issw-2009-0538-0542.pdf
Keywords: mitigation measure, hazard map, avalanche defence, risk management
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Title: Investigation on the Effectiveness of the Catch-Fence “Snowcatcher” as Avalanche Protection System
Date: 2009
Authors: Lambert Rammer, Gernot Stelzer, Martin Kern
Description: To date, the only available structures for mitigating avalanches in motion in the track or run-out zones of avalanches have been rigid structures such...
Object ID: issw-2009-0548-0552.pdf
Keywords: avalanche protective structure, snow net system, force measurements
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Title: Total Safety in Mountain Passes
Date: 2009
Authors: Jürg Rocco
Description: We describe the procedure we follow to keep the Flüela Pass open in early winter and to re-open the road in the spring.
Object ID: issw-2009-0553.pdf
Keywords: avalanche protection, avalanche control
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Title: Web-Based Tool to Support Local Avalanche Services With Hazard Evaluation and Documentation
Date: 2009
Authors: Sibylle Moehle, Lukas Stoffel
Description: Local avalanche services have to gain a quick overview of avalanche danger and snow condition. For this purpose, they have access to data retrieved by...
Object ID: issw-2009-0554-0558.pdf
Keywords: local avalanche service, avalanche protection, avalanche danger evaluation, hazard estimation, documentation
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Title: Evaluation of Avalanche Warning Strategies for Traffic Routes Using Signal Detection Theory
Date: 2009
Authors: Christoph M. Rheinberger, Jakob Rhyner
Description: Avalanche warning services (AWS) are operated to protect communities and traffic lines in avalanche prone regions of the Alps and other mountain range...
Object ID: issw-2009-0559-0563.pdf
Keywords: signal detection theory, statistical performance measures, diagnostic ability, avalanche warning services (aws)
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Title: Avalanche Risk in a Changing Climate Development of a Landslide and Avalanche Risk Model
Date: 2009
Authors: Heidi Bjordal, Jan Otto Larsen
Description: In Norway, approximately 2000 landslides and avalanches affect the road network every year. Projected climate changes will give a milder and wetter cl...
Object ID: issw-2009-0564-0566.pdf
Keywords: climate change, landslide and avalanche frequency, acceptable risk level
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Title: Experiences on a Storm Causing Avalanche Cycles in South-West Norway
Date: 2009
Authors: Njål Farestveit, Sara Skutlaberg
Description: Southern Norway has the 2nd and 3rd longest fjords in the world, respectively the Sognefjorden and the Hardangerfjorden, cutting deep into the old Cal...
Object ID: issw-2009-0567-0571.pdf
Keywords: orographic precipitation, road administration, storm cycle, case study
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Title: Artificial Avalanche Release Above Settlements
Date: 2009
Authors: Stoffel Lukas, Stefan Margreth
Description: In the Swiss Alps avalanche control with triggering by explosives is widely used in ski areas and also along traffic routes. New methods for artifici...
Object ID: issw-2009-0572-0576.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, avalanche protection, avalanche control by explosives, temporary protection measures
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Title: Handling of Avalanche Risk for the “Bonaigua” and “Beret” Roads, Aran Valley, Spain
Date: 2009
Authors: Jordi Gavaldà, Ivan Moner
Description: The Aran Valley, located on the northern side of the Central Pyrenees, is one of the areas with the highest rate of avalanche danger of the whole mou...
Object ID: issw-2009-0577-0581.pdf
Keywords: pyrenees, avalanche forecasting, mitigation
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Title: Finite Element Models and Sensitivity Analysis of the Vulnerability of an Avalanche Protection Gallery
Date: 2009
Authors: Dominique Daudon, Julien Baroth, Patrycja Szczurowska, Ma Ying, Pascal Perrotin
Description: Our research work has focused on the Montaulever avalanche protection gallery. Horizontal and vertical structural elements are modelled herein using ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0587-0591.pdf
Keywords: avalanche protection gallery, finite element model, probabilistic sensitivity study
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