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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 Árni, 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...
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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: 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: 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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Title: Using Structure From Motion Photogrammetry to Examine Glide Snow Avalanches
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Erich H. Peitzsch, Jordy Hendrikx, Daniel B. Fagre
Description: Structure from Motion (SfM), a photogrammetric technique, has been used extensively and successfully in many fields including geosciences over the pas...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.02.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanche, structure from motion, photogrammetry, glacier national park, montana
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Title: Modeled Mass and Temperature Effects of Released and Entrained Snow on the Lubricated Flow Regime of Avalanches at Bird Hill, Southcentral Alaska
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Katreen Wikstrom Jones, Michael Loso, Perry Bartelt, Cesar Vera Valero
Description: The unpredictable effects of released and entrained snow on avalanche run-out distances make hazard analysis difficult. At Bird Hill in southcentral A...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.03.pdf
Keywords: snow entrainment, snow temperature, avalanche run-out, flow regimes, fluidization, lubrication
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Title: Numerical Model Application on Snow Avalanche in Turkey
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Erhan Tekin, Onder Kocyigit, Levent Butun
Description: Snow avalanches form a threat to human life in mountainous regions and significantly affect transportation condition. With recent developments in comp...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.06.pdf
Keywords: avalanche velocity, friction factor, ramms, voellmy-salm
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Title: Acceleration Processes of Snow Glide Prior to Full-Depth Avalanche Release on Shrub Slopes in the Temperate Heavy-Snow Region of Japan
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Katsuhisa Kawashima, Tsutomu Iyobe, Takane Matsumoto
Description: In the temperate heavy-snow region of Japan, most of snow avalanche disaster arise as a consequence of the full-depth glide avalanche in the area with...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.07.pdf
Keywords: full-depth glide avalanche, snow glide, avalanche release, shrub slope
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