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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: Glide Avalanche Response to an Extreme Rain-on-Snow Event, Snoqualmie Pass, Washington, USA
Date: 2009
Authors: John Stimberis, Charles M. Rubin
Description: Rain-on-snow events trigger immediate and delayed avalanches as liquid water penetrates the snowpack. We present results from an extreme rain-on-snow ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0301-0305.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanches, rain-on-snow, snow glide
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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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Title: Analyzing the Environmental Effects on the Danger of Avalanches Using Geoinformation Technology
Date: 2009
Authors: G. Gruber, A. Hecke, A. Wieser
Description: Actual and high quality spatial data and information are the foundation in the daily workflow in a common avalanche warning center. One essential act...
Object ID: issw-2009-0428-0432.pdf
Keywords: geographic information systems (gis), meteorological analysis, weather stations, raster model, avalanche bulletins
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Title: Snow and Weather Conditions Study for the Avalanches on the Lautaret Pass Road (French Alps)
Date: 2009
Authors: Daniel Goetz
Description: This study aims at characterizing snow and weather conditions typical of avalanche events on the Lautaret pass road. Historical data of avalanche obs...
Object ID: issw-2009-0433-0437.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, lautaret pass road, snow and weather conditions, climatology, expert rules
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Title: Detecting Snow Avalanches With Seismic Stations in North-East Italy: First Results of Dataset Analysis
Date: 2009
Authors: Mauro Valt, Damiano Pesaresi
Description: The Regional Agency for the Environmental Prevention and Protection of Veneto (Agenzia Regionale per la Prevenzione e Protezione Ambientale del Veneto...
Object ID: issw-2009-0458-0462.pdf
Keywords: snow cover, avalanche, artificial avalanche, seismic station, spectra
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Title: Scaled Laboratory Experiments on the Evolution of Fluidised Avalanches
Date: 2009
Authors: J. Koegl, A. Graf, L. Rammer, K. Kleemayr, M.A. Kern, P. Gauer, G. Kapeller, M. Aufleger
Description: Scaled chute experiments with avalanche-like flows of dry granular matter have proven to be a useful tool for the design of technical avalanche prote...
Object ID: issw-2009-0477-0481.pdf
Keywords: scaled avalanche experiments, snow net, breaking obstacle
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Title: Definition of Hazard Zones for Dense Snow Avalanches
Date: 2009
Authors: Paolo Scotton, Francesca Moro, Stefano De Toni, Daniele Dalla Valle, Irene Vigni
Description: The paper describes a procedure for the determination of snow avalanches Hazard Map developed after the observation, over some years, of the behaviour...
Object ID: issw-2009-0488-0491.pdf
Keywords: dense snow avalanche, granular rheology, hazard zoning
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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: Using AVAL-1D to Simulate Avalanches in Eastern Pyrenees
Date: 2009
Authors: Pere Oller, Marc Janeras, Hèctor de Buen, Georgina Arnó, Marc Christen, Carles García, Pere Martínez
Description: The numerical avalanche dynamics program AVAL-1D, developed by the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, was calibrated empirically with ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0524-0528.pdf
Keywords: hazard mapping, aval-1d, pyrenees, friction parameters
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