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Wet-snow avalanche interaction with a deflecting dam: field observations and numerical simulations in a case study [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2012 In avalanche-prone areas, deflecting dams are widely used to divert avalanches away from endangered objects. In recent years, their effectiveness has been questioned when several large and multiple avalanches have overrun such dams.
B. Sovilla +3 more
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The mechanical origin of snow avalanche dynamics and flow regime transitions [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2020 Snow avalanches cause fatalities and economic damage. Key to their mitigation is the understanding of snow avalanche dynamics. This study investigates the dynamic behavior of snow avalanches, using the material point method (MPM) and an elastoplastic ...
X. Li +4 more
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Atmosphere, 2023 Through analyzing the triggering factors and activity characteristics of avalanches in Aerxiangou in the Western Tianshan Mountains, the formation and disaster-causing process of avalanches were studied to provide theoretical support and a scientific ...
Jie Liu +6 more
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Can model-based avalanche forecasts match the discriminatory skill of human danger-level forecasts? A comparison from Switzerland [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System SciencesIn recent years, physics-based snowpack models combined with machine-learning techniques have gained momentum in public avalanche forecasting. When integrated with spatial interpolation methods, these approaches enable fully model-driven predictions of ...
F. Techel +4 more
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Geography, Environment, Sustainability, 2014 Debris flows are the most frequent and disastrous natural hazards among other exogenic processes at the Black Sea coastal region of the North Caucasus. Numerous debris flow releases are reported every year between Novorossiysk and Krasnaya Polyana.
Vyacheslav L. Baburin +5 more
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Thermal energy in dry snow avalanches [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2015 Avalanches can exhibit many different flow regimes from powder clouds to slush flows. Flow regimes are largely controlled by the properties of the snow released and entrained along the path. Recent investigations showed the temperature of the moving snow
W. Steinkogler, B. Sovilla, M. Lehning
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Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, 2019 The aim of the investigation was assessment of spatial variability of the characteristics of snowpack, including the snow water equivalent (SWE) as the main hydrological characteristic of a seasonal snow cover.
Komarov Anton Yu. +3 more
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Prediction of avalanches on the basis of the 27‐day Solar activity variations
Лëд и снег, 2015 Many natural processes on the Earth are the cyclic ones and they are self-sustaining within a system of the Sun–Earth relations. To verify our hypothesis on a cyclic occurrence of the avalanche processes and to estimate a possibility to predict ...
N. A. Kazakov
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Infrasound array criteria for automatic detection and front velocity estimation of snow avalanches: towards a real-time early-warning system [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2015 Avalanche risk management is strongly related to the ability to identify and timely report the occurrence of snow avalanches. Infrasound has been applied to avalanche research and monitoring for the last 20 years but it never turned into an operational ...
E. Marchetti +3 more
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Automated detection of snow avalanche deposits: segmentation and classification of optical remote sensing imagery [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2012 Snow avalanches in mountainous areas pose a significant threat to infrastructure (roads, railways, energy transmission corridors), personal property (homes) and recreational areas as well as for lives of people living and moving in alpine terrain.
M. J. Lato, R. Frauenfelder, Y. Bühler
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