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- Title: Some Insights Into Fracture Propagation in Weak Snowpack Layers
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Joachim Heierli, Alec van Herwijnen, Peter Gumbsch, Michael Zaiser
- Description: Dry snow slab avalanches form when fracture, once initiated in a weak snowpack layer, propagates over large distances, progressively debonding a vast ...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-078.pdf
- Keywords: dry snow, weak snowpack layers, fracture
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- Title: Fracture Energy of Weak Snowpack Layers
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen, Benjamin Reuter
- Description: Recent experimental and theoretical work has provided new insight into weak layer fracture in view of dry-snow slab avalanche release. The two main pa...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-079.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack layers, fracture, dry snow
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- Title: A Look Back on the Avalanche Cycle in Queyras in December 2008
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Romain Gaucher, Sebastien Escand, Mylene Bonnefoy, Xavier Pasquier, Nicolas Eckert
- Description: Almost ten years after the catastrophic avalanche in Chamonix, which killed 39 people in February 1999, the French Alps has been the theatre of a new ...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-090.pdf
- Keywords: accumulation, unpredicted avalanches
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- Title: Full-Depth Avalanches and Soil Erosion: An Experimental Site in Aosta Valley (NW Italian Alps)
- Date: 2010
- Authors: E. Ceaglio, V. Segor, M. Freppaz, M. Maggioni, G. Filippa, P. Dellavedova, D. Canone, S. Ferraris
- Description: Snow gliding and full-depth avalanches are often associated with soil erosion in the starting and track areas, with the release of significant amount ...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-100.pdf
- Keywords: soil physical properties, liquid and plastic limits, snow gliding, soil-snow interface
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- Title: Meteorological and Environmental Observations from Three Glide Avalanche Cycles and the Resulting Hazard Management Technique
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Ron Simenhois, Karl Birkeland
- Description: Glide avalanches are a significant hazard that threatens people and property in many snowy climates. They are hard to control, poorly understood, and ...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-104.pdf
- Keywords: glide avalanches, cylces, hazard management, snowpack
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- Title: Avalanches in the Sibillini Mounts (Marche, Italy)
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Alessandro Fabbrizio, Giuliano Mainini
- Description: Generally we are capacities to think that the avalanche is an event that happens in high mountains or inhabited centers near alpine zones in concomita...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0039-0043.pdf
- Keywords: sibillini, avalanche, inhabited centers, ski touring, road, ski resort
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- Title: Avalanches and Snow Mobile Traffic Around Longyearbyen, Svalbard
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Hanne H. Christiansen, Ullrich Neumann
- Description: Longyearbyen is situated in a mountainous landscape, thus infrastructure, living and
travelling in and around Longyearbyen is highly affected by moun...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0044-0047.pdf
- Keywords: high arctic, svalbard, snow avalanches, radar traffic counting
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- Title: Major Avalanches in Eastern Pyrenees and North Atlantic Oscillation
- Date: 2009
- Authors: C. Garcia, J.C. Peña, G. MartÃ, P. Olle, P. MartÃnez
- Description: The number of major avalanche episodes registered in Eastern Pyrenees (north-east of the Iberian Peninsula) is correlated to the North Atlantic Oscill...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0048-0052.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, north atlantic oscillation, eastern pyrenees
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- Title: Snow Avalanches Potential and Management of Romanian Carpathians. Case study-Bâlea Glacial Valley (Făgăraş Massif)-Southern Carpathians
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Mircea VOICULESCU
- Description: This study focuses on Bâlea glacial valley-Fagaras massif, a representative glacial mountain units in the eastern part of Southern Carpathians. The...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0052-0057.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanches potential, snow avalanche management, fagaras massif
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- Title: Rainonsnow Avalanches: Forecasting the Return to Stability
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Howard Conway, Wayne Carran, Ann Carran
- Description: Mid-winter rain-on-snow often results in avalanches that threaten the Milford Road
between TeAnau and Milford Sound on the southwest coast of new Zea...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0267-0270.pdf
- Keywords: rainonsnow, avalanches, forecasting
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- Title: Styrian Avalanche Service – Danger Scale 5 – More than 200 Avalanches
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Arnold Studeregger, Hannes Rieder
- Description: In Styria there are 35 avalanche commissions for 47 parishes. They are divided into
11 different political areas. The local avalanche commission has ...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0346-0349.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, avalanche warning service styria, danger scale
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- Title: Estimating the Forecasting Success of Artificially Triggering of Avalanches with the Combination of Cluster and Discriminant Analysis
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Reinhard Fromm
- Description: Meteorological conditions play an important role for the mechanical stability of the
snowpack. Statistical algorithms can be used to determine the li...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0366-0370.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecast, cluster analysis, discriminant analysis
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- Title: The Seismic Detection of Avalanches: An Information Tool for the Avalanche Forecaster
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Jean-Pierre Navarre, Ekatherina Bourova, Jacques Roulle, Deliot Yannick Deliot
- Description: The estimation of natural avalanche activity is currently based on visual observations. However, these observations are imprecise and impossible by ni...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0379-0383.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche activity, seismic detection of avalanches
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- Title: A-b Model: Can We Learn More From the Statistical Avalanche Model With Respect to the Dynamical Behavior of Avalanches
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Peter Gauer, Steinar Bakkehøi, Karstein Lied, Krister Kristensen, Kalle Kronholm
- Description: A meaningful risk assessment in avalanche prone areas involves the estimation of the runout and impact pressures of potential avalanches. Two categori...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0405-0408.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche dynamics, statistical model, observations
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- Title: Fundamental Studies on Applications of MPS Method for Computing Snow Avalanches
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Tatsuya Otsuka, Yasuyuki Shimizu, Ichiro Kimura, Masaya Otsuki, Yoshihiko Saito
- Description: This paper presents some considerations on applicability of the MPS method for snow avalanches. The MPS method is a powerful tool to reproduce flow ph...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0418-0422.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, numerical simulation, bingham fluid, mps, lagrange simulation
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