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Akhmetkal Medeu, Viktor Blagovechshenskiy, Tamara Gulyayeva, Vitaliy Zhdanov and Sandugash Ranova
Snowiness and avalanche activity are very important natural characteristics of mountain areas. They have a great influence on the possibility of areas? development, especially regarding winter recreation. This article considers the interannual variabilit...
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Kouichi Nishimura, Fabrizio Barpi and Dieter Issler
As an introduction for non-specialists to the Special Issue on snow avalanche dynamics, this paper first outlines how understanding the dynamics of snow avalanches can contribute to reducing risk for settlements and infrastructure. The main knowledge gap...
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Ivo Baselt and Thomas Heinze
Climate change is already affecting high mountain regions, such as the European Alps. Those regions will be confronted with a significant rise of temperatures above the global average, and more and heavier rain events, also during wintertime. The system ...
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Dieter Issler
Data on the disastrous snow avalanche that occurred on 18 January 2017 at the spa hotel Rigopiano, municipality of Farindola in the Abruzzo region of central Italy, are analyzed in different ways. The main results are the following. (i) The 2017 Rigopian...
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Kae Tsunematsu, Fukashi Maeno and Kouichi Nishimura
Snow avalanches are catastrophic phenomena because of their destructive power. Therefore, it is very important to forecast the affected area of snow avalanches using numerical simulations. In our study, we focus on applying a numerical model to snow aval...
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Benjamin J. Hatchett
On 5–7 April 2018, a landfalling atmospheric river resulted in widespread heavy precipitation in the Sierra Nevada of California and Nevada. Observed snow levels during this event were among the highest snow levels recorded since observations began...
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Arshad Ashraf, Ghani Akbar
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Cryosphere-fed kuhl irrigation system forms a major lifeline for agriculture and livelihood development in the Himalayan region. The system is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts like glacier retreat, glacial lake outburst floods, snow avalanches...
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