Seismically Induced Snow Avalanches: The Central Italy Case
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020 Snow avalanches are critical events due to the sudden instability of snow in mountain regions. Seismically induced snow avalanches, due to a particular type of trigger perturbing snow-covered slopes, are occasional events in geodynamically active ...
Tommaso Piacentini +2 more
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Statistical Evaluation of Waveform Collapse Reveals Scale-Free Properties of Neuronal Avalanches
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2016 Neural avalanches are a prominent form of brain activity characterized by network-wide bursts whose statistics follow a power-law distribution with a slope near 3/2.
Jean-Philippe Thivierge
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Risk assessment in the North Caucasus ski resorts [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2016 Avalanches pose a significant problem in most mountain regions of Russia. The constant growth of economic activity, and therefore the increased avalanche hazard, in the North Caucasus region lead to demand for the development of large-scale avalanche ...
A. Y. Komarov +3 more
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Linking snow depth to avalanche release area size: measurements from the Vallée de la Sionne field site [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2016 One of the major challenges in avalanche hazard assessment is the correct estimation of avalanche release area size, which is of crucial importance to evaluate the potential danger that avalanches pose to roads, railways or infrastructure.
J. Veitinger, B. Sovilla
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Microstructure-based modeling of snow mechanics: a discrete element approach [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2015 Rapid and large deformations of snow are mainly controlled by grain rearrangements, which occur through the failure of cohesive bonds and the creation of new contacts. We exploit a granular description of snow to develop a discrete element model based on
P. Hagenmuller, G. Chambon, M. Naaim
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Geosciences, 2020 The changes in the seismic signals generated by avalanches recorded at three sites along a path at the Vallée de la Sionne (VdlS) experimental site are presented.
Emma Suriñach +4 more
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Empirical prediction for travel distance of channelized rock avalanches in the Wenchuan earthquake area [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2017 Rock avalanches are extremely rapid, massive flow-like movements of fragmented rock. The travel path of the rock avalanches may be confined by channels in some cases, which are referred to as channelized rock avalanches.
W. Zhan +5 more
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Contrasting impacts of climate change on protection forests of the Italian Alps
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023 Protection forests play a key role in protecting settlements, people, and infrastructures from gravitational hazards such as rockfalls and avalanches in mountain areas.
Laurin Hillebrand +7 more
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Has fire policy decreased the return period of the largest wildfire events in France? A Bayesian assessment based on extreme value theory [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2018 Very large wildfires have high human, economic, and ecological impacts so that robust evaluation of their return period is crucial. Preventing such events is a major objective of the new fire policy set up in France in 1994, which is oriented towards
G. Evin, T. Curt, N. Eckert
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Variations of Nivometeorological Parameters During 2021-2022 Winter. [PDF]
Aerul şi Apa: Componente ale Mediului, 2023 The paper presents and analyze snow and meteorological parameters of 2021-2022 winter, measured at the weather stations with nivological program (Predeal, Sinaia 1500, Parâng, Semenic, Vlădeasa, Ceahlău-Toaca, Iezer, Călimani, Țarcu, Bâlea-Lac, Vârful ...
Narcisa MILIAN, Udo RECKERTH
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