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Title: An Assessment of Run-Out Models Applied to Norwegian Snow Avalanches
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Gunne HÃ¥land, Harald Norem, Knut I. Orset, Martine H. Frekhaug
Description: The aim of the present project was to evaluate four different models by using objective criteria and constant parameters, and to consider the models' ...
Object ID: ISSW16_O7.03.pdf
Keywords: dynamical model, topographic model, run-out distance, velocity-distribution
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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: Adapting and Calibrating the DAN3D Dynamic Model for North American Snow Avalanche Runout Modelling
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Jordan Aaron, Michael Conlan, Katherine Johnston, Dave Gauthier, Scott McDougall
Description: Numerical dynamic snow avalanche simulations are now a key component in snow avalanche hazard and risk assessment, land use planning, and mitigation d...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.28.pdf
Keywords: dynamic model, avalanche runout, three dimensions, deposit volume
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Title: Validating a Relationship Between Avalanche Runout Distance and Frequency
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Alexandra Sinickas, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Statistical runout models can provide good estimates of extreme avalanche runout, but do not estimate more frequent runout distances such as ten or th...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-23.pdf
Keywords: runout ratio, frequency, magnitude, poisson, avalanche runout, trim lines
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Title: Features of Avalanches Based on Aerial Photograph Interpretation in Japan
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Kazuya AKIYAMA, Shinji IKEDA
Description: Avalanche geometry including factors, such as horizontal run-out distance (HL) and vertical height of avalanche drop (h), were investigated by interp...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-48.pdf
Keywords: aerial photograph interpretation, surface-layer avalanche, full-depth avalanche, avalanche geometry, avalanche scale and frequency
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Title: Remote Sensing of Avalanches in Northern Norway Using Synthetic Aperture Radar
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Eirik Malnes, Markus Eckerstorfer, Yngvar Larsen, Regula Frauenfelder, Árni Jónsson, Christian Jaedicke, Stian A. Solbø
Description: We present results from using synthetic aperture radar data (SAR) to analyse three avalanches in the county of Troms in northern Norway during the lat...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, remote sensing, synthetic aperture radar, uav
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Title: Contribution of Dendrogeomorphology in the Field of Avalanche Hazard Assessment in the French Alps
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Romain Schläppy, Vincent Jomelli, Nicolas Eckert, Markus Stoffel, Delphine Grancher, Daniel Brunstein, Christophe Corona, Michaël Deschatres, Mohamed Naaim
Description: On forested paths, dendrogeomorphology has been demonstrated to represent a powerful tool to reconstruct past activity of avalanches with annual reso...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-37.pdf
Keywords: dendrogeomorphology, snow avalanche, hazard zoning, runout distance, return period, statistical-dynamical model
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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: Evaluation of Snowmelt Runoff for Extreme Annual Snow Conditions Under Climate Change
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Yoshihiro ASAOKA, Shunsuke KASHIWA, So KAZAMA
Description: This research investigates the response of snowmelt runoff to change in temperature and precipitation for extreme annual snow conditions such as heavy...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-45.pdf
Keywords: river discharge, heavy and light snow year, distributed runoff model
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Title: The Use of Commercial CAD Software in Snow Avalanche Run-Out Estimation
Date: 2012
Authors: Árni Jónsson, Sigurjón Hauksson
Description: Linear infrastructures like highways and transmission lines often pass avalanche terrain both in remote and urban areas. In some cases these areas are...
Object ID: issw-2012-685-688.pdf
Keywords: cad software, avalanches, run-out calculations
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Title: Statistical Avalanche Runout Models: How Well Can Computers Predict Beta?
Date: 2012
Authors: Alexandra Sinickas, Bruce Jamieson
Description: We reviewed the performance of a 23 m and 30 m Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and Google Earth in predicting beta (β) points for statistical runout...
Object ID: issw-2012-716-722.pdf
Keywords: extreme avalanche runout, statistical model, alpha-beta, runout ratio, repeatability, error
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Title: On Avalanche (Front) Velocity Measurements at the Ryggfonn Avalanche Test Site and Comparison With Observations From Other Locations
Date: 2012
Authors: Peter Gauer
Description: Besides the runout distance of an avalanche, information on avalanche intensity along the path are often required for hazard zoning or planning of mi...
Object ID: issw-2012-427-432.pdf
Keywords: hazard zoning, runout, avalanche velocities
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Title: Estimating Extreme Avalanche Runout for the Lizard Range, Fernie, British Columbia, Canada
Date: 2010
Authors: Katherine S. Johnston, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Identifying the extreme avalanche runout is an important part of public safety for development in mountainous areas. Extreme avalanche runout is typi...
Object ID: ISSW_O-050.pdf
Keywords: avalanche runout, statistical models, residential development
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Title: Some Results of Statistical Processing of Avalanche Geometric Characteristics in the Khibini Mountains
Date: 2006
Authors: Pavel Chernous
Description: Results of statistical analysis of such geometric characteristics as: length and thickness of fracture line, area of its surface, avalanche runout dis...
Object ID: issw-2006-387.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dimensions, statistics, catastrophic avalanches
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Title: Avalanche Size Increase Resulting from Forest Removal and Wind Loading – A Case Study from Central Colorado Using AVAL-1D
Date: 2006
Authors: Arthur I. Mears, Arthur I. Mear
Description: Forest removal for a proposed ski run within a ski-area expansion would increase the amount of wind-deposited snow in a downwind avalanche starting z...
Object ID: issw-2006-775-777.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, design-magnitude avalanche, runout distance, aval-1d, forest removal, windtransported snow
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