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Title: Using Time-Lapse Photography in Avalanche Research
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Nicole Berthod, Ron Simenhois, Christoph Mitterer
Description: To improve our understanding of avalanche release processes, more accurate avalanche activity data are required. Usually, data on avalanche occurrence...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-16.pdf
Keywords: time-lapse photography, image processing, avalanche activity, glide-snow avalanche
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Title: Recent Changes in Avalanche Activity in the French Alps and Their Links With Climatic Drivers: An Overview
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Nicolas Eckert, Aurore Lavigne, Hélène Castebrunet, Gérald Giraud, Mohamed Naaim
Description: This paper synthetizes our ongoing work on relations between natural avalanche activity and climate change in the French Alps and subregions. Firm res...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-25.pdf
Keywords: avalanche activity, climate change, time trends, french alps
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Title: Winter Types and Snow Avalanche Activity Along the Arpaş and Bâlea Glacial Valleys - Făgăraş Massif (Southern Carpathians)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Mircea,Voiculescu, Alexandru Onaca, PatrikChiroiu, Dana Micu
Description: This paper discusses the correlation between winter types and snow avalanche activity, in the Arpaş and the Bâlea glacial valleys, located on th...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-04.pdf
Keywords: winter types, snow avalanches, arpaş and bâlea glacial valleys, făgăraş massif, southern carpathians, romanian carpathians
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Title: Remote and Real Time Avalanche Monitoring With Wi-Fi
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Marek Biskupič, Milan Lizuch, Jozef Richnavský, Filip Kyzek, Igor Žiak
Description: Žiarska dolina in Tatra Mountains (Slovakia) is one of the most avalanche prone locations in the Carpathian mountain range. The avalanches frequent...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-21.pdf
Keywords: avalanche monitoring, wifi, live video stream
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Title: The Avalanche Detector - A New Avalanche Monitoring Tool Using Distributed Acoustic Fibre Optic Sensing
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Alexander Prokop, Anna Wirbel, Markus Jungmayr
Description: Information on avalanche activity is a paramount parameter in avalanche forecasting. When avalanches are released spontaneously, the risk of avalanche...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-23.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, monitoring, detection, fibre optic sensing
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Title: Towards a Basic Avalanche Characterization Based on the Generated Seismic Signal
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Lisa Dreier, Perry Bartelt
Description: The primary reasons to study the seismic signal generated by avalanches are (1) to remotely detect snow avalanches and (2) to improve our understandin...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-24.pdf
Keywords: seismic monitoring, avalanche activity, avalanche dynamics
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Title: Real-Time Detection of Natural Snow Avalanches by Infrasonic Array Network (IAN) on December 2012 in Valtournenche – Aosta Valley (IT)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Durand N., Ulivieri G., Marchetti E., Frigo B., Dellavedova P., Ripepe M., Segor V.
Description: Since 2009 and within the Operational programme Italy-France (Alps ALCOTRA) – Projects “DynAval” (2009-2012) and “Map3“...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-33.pdf
Keywords: infrasonic array, snow avalanches, real-time monitoring
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Title: Extreme Value Analysis of Design Events
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jan-Thomas Fischer, Leopold Stepanek, Andreas Huber, Reinhard Fromm, Antonia Zeidler, Karl Kleemayr
Description: Design events are used in avalanche engineering applications like hazard zone mapping, dimensioning of protection measures or the optimization and cal...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-43.pdf
Keywords: snow, avalanche dynamics, extreme value analysis, run out, design event, extreme event
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Title: Can We Document Avalanche Activity by Plants Succession Monitoring?
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Milena Kociánová, Irena Špatenková, Petra Šťastná, Jiří Váňa, Josef Halda, Jana Kocourková, Helena Štursová, Roman Juras, Alena Vítová, Alena Bartošová, Veronika Langová, Jan Altman
Description: Avalanche activity in Krkonoše Mountains in the Czech Republic is mostly monitored during winter season. Some traces of avalanche activity stay vis...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-27.pdf
Keywords: krkonoše mountains, full depth avalanches, vegetation, dendrochronology
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Title: Wet Snow Avalanche Activity in the Swiss Alps – Trend Analysis for Mid-Winter Season
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Christine Pielmeier, Frank Techel, Christoph Marty, Thomas Stucki
Description: During the winter 2011-2012 the Alps experienced repeated periods with high activity of wet snow and full-depth glide avalanches during mid-winter sea...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-47.pdf
Keywords: wet snow avalanche, full-depth glide avalanche, snowfall limit, avalanche forecasting, climate change
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Title: Climate Change in Italian Alps: Analysis of Snow Precipitation, Snow Durations and Avalanche Activity
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Mauro Valt, Cianfarra Paola
Description: The historical record (1961-2010), of snowfall, snow duration and of temperatures collected in the Italian Alps are presented and analysed. A reducti...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-48.pdf
Keywords: snow cover, avalanche activity, climate change
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Title: Snow Climatological Analysis and Assessments of the Extreme Events in Western Italian Alps
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: S. Fratianni, S. Terzago, M. Faletto, F. Acquaotta, MC. Prola, S. Barbero
Description: In this study we will present the results of an activity of the strategic project STRADA (STRategies of ADAptation to climate change) in the frame of ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-49.pdf
Keywords: climatological analysis, snow measurement, extreme events.
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Title: The Avalanche Climate of Glacier National Park, B.C., Canada During 1965-2011
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Bruce Jamieson, Grant Statham
Description: Climate change is evident and long-term changes of the climate system have been observed. It has been shown that changing atmospheric conditions infl...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-50.pdf
Keywords: climate change, avalanche formation, avalanche activity, solid precipitation rate, crust formation
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Title: Combined Temperature - Precipitation Winter Modes and Major Avalanche Activity in the Eastern Pyrenees
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Carles García-Sellés, Santi Manguán, Glòria Martí, Pere Oller, Pere Martínez
Description: This study investigated the influence of the precipitation and temperature variability during the days before of the occurrence of major avalanche act...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-51.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, climate, pyrenees, winter modes
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Title: Tracking Wetting Front Adavance With Upward-Looking Ground-Penetrating Radar
Date: 2012
Authors: Lino Schmid, Christoph Mitterer, Achim Heilig, Jürg Schweizer, Olaf Eisen
Description: Percolating melt water combined with snow stratigraphy are thought to be the dominating drivers for the formation of wet-snow avalanches. It is, howev...
Object ID: issw-2012-599-602.pdf
Keywords: wet snow avalanches, snow stratigraphy, meltwater, avalanche activity
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