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Modelling the system behaviour of wet snow avalanches using an expert system approach for risk management on high alpine traffic roads
... and reached the Sulden River. In the avalanche path no. 84067, an avalanche occurred and stopped at a distance of 2 m from the road. Another elevated release disposition was computed from 30 April to 3 May. On 2 May, ...
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Measuring the specific surface area of wet snow using 1310 nm reflectance
... dry– wet differences are not the same for both codes and for the experimental ...a wet snow ...a wet snowpack, comforting its partial ...
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Wet snow hazard for power lines: a forecast and alert system applied in Italy
... whole wet-snow ...the snow sleeve around the conductor can grow, ...A wet snow icing event is detected applying spe- cific criteria: principally, the extreme temperature interval in ...
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Experimental Study and Numerical Modelling of Effect of Friction Parameters on Velocity of Wet Snow Avalanche
... of snow chute experiments carried out at Dhundhi, Manali, India are presented to study the snow avalanche flow behavior and to determine the optimum values of friction ...the snow chute for various ...
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Experimental Simulation of Wet Snow Shedding from Sagged Cables
... of wet-snow shedding from overhead cables was simulated in cold-chamber experiments under different ambient ...the snow-shedding ...radiation, snow-sleeve length, and periodic excitation of ...
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Modelling wet snow avalanche runout to assess road safety at a high-altitude mine in the central Andes
... for wet snow avalanche activity (León Gallardo, 2003; McClung, ...the snow cover con- ditions at the avalanche release and erosion areas, numeri- cal snow cover simulations using the detailed, ...
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50-year return-period wet-snow load estimation based on weather station data for overhead line design in France
... As explained in Sect. 4.2, 5 out of the 87 stations of that study (6 %) are located at an altitude greater than 500 m. Those stations are concerned by 37 out of the 170 events (22 %) with a load equal to or greater than ...
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Point observations of liquid water content in wet snow – investigating methodical, spatial and temporal aspects
... in snow is impor- tant for forecasting wet snow avalanches and for predicting melt-water ...in snow is commonly estimated from point measurements using a “hand” squeeze test, or a dielectric ...
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Wet-snow avalanche interaction with a deflecting dam: field observations and numerical simulations in a case study
... of wet-snow avalanches dif- fers from that of dry dense snow avalanches, we expect this problem to be different, but it is not clear whether the model is more or less suitable for ...
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Modeling the influence of snow cover temperature and water content on wet-snow avalanche runout
... only wet-snow avalanches, the range of snow temperature was rather narrow and close to ...the snow cover simulations were visually inspected to determine the avalanche fracture height ...
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Analysis of the snow-atmosphere energy balance during wet-snow instabilities and implications for avalanche prediction
... 1-D snow cover model SNOWPACK (Lehning et ...recorded wet-snow avalanche re- ...temperature, snow sur- face temperature and incoming shortwave radiation for dif- ferent elevations and ...
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Adhesion of Wet Snow to Different Cable Surfaces
... natural wet snow shedding from a cable are rare and not well ...the snow liquid water content (LWC) governed by the thermal equilibrium of the snow ...the snow matrix controls the ...
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The snow storm of 8 March 2010 in Catalonia (Spain): a paradigmatic wet-snow event with a high societal impact
... last snow- fall event of the year (they are usually recorded in December and ...a wet advection from the south ...northeasterly–easterly wet advection due to the presence of a mesoscale low over the ...
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Soil erosion and organic carbon export by wet snow avalanches
... 28 wet snow-avalanche deposits in the eastern Swiss Alps revealed an orders-of-magnitude variabil- ity of inferred specific sediment and organic carbon yields ...to wet snow avalanches as ...
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A Review of Identification of Flood Location from Remotely Sensed SAR Images of Floods K.Anitha
... and wet snow is designed to improve flood detection accuracy in X- band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ...detect wet snow), are also ...
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Observations of capillary barriers and preferential flow in layered snow during cold laboratory experiments
... of snow with different grain size and by their contrast (see Khire et ...others, snow settling (Marshall et al., 1999) and wet snow metamorphism (Brun, ...for snow stability in ...
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Evaluation of air–soil temperature relationships simulated by land surface models during winter across the permafrost region
... of snow and soil temperature and the coupling between atmosphere and land ...the snow insulation effect is a key process for air–soil tem- perature ...the snow depth, areal coverage, snow ...
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Short-term velocity variations at three rock glaciers and their relationship with meteorological conditions
... by snow meltwater that filtered in through the active layer, ran off along the per- mafrost table, and, thus, reduced the shear resistance in this zone (Buchli et ...
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Strength of forest-albedo feedback in mid-Holocene climate simulations
... simpler snow albedo parameterisation tend to show higher albedo values under snow conditions than more complex models that explicitly take into account the influence of vegetation on the ...the snow ...
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Case study of spatial and temporal variability of snow cover, grain size, albedo and radiative forcing in the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountain snowpack derived from imaging spectroscopy
... snowpack. Snow grain size is generally used as a proxy for the microstructure due to the lack of a di- rect measurement ...optical-equivalent snow grain radius (r), or simply snow grain size for ...
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