Download or read book Papers from the International Symposium on Snow Avalanches and Impact of the Forest Cover Innsbruck Austria 22 26 May 2000 written by Kolumban Hutter and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Snow Avalanche Hazards and Mitigation in the United States written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present mortality as a result of snow avalanches exceeds the average mortality caused by earthquakes as well as all other forms of slope failure combined. Snow avalanches can range from small amounts of loose snow moving rapidly down a slope to slab avalanches, in which large chunks of snow break off and destroy everything in their path. Although considered a hazard in the United States since the westward expansion in the nineteenth century, in modern times snow avalanches are an increasing concern in recreational mountainous areas. However, programs for snow avalanche hazard mitigation in other countries are far ahead of those in the United States. The book identifies several steps that should be taken by the United States in order to establish guidelines for research, technology transfer, and avalanche legislation and zoning.
Download or read book Papers from the International Symposium on Snow and Avalanches Held in Chamonix Mont Blanc France 26 30 May 1997 written by David McClung and published by . This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Avalanches and Forest Cover in the Northern Cascades Classic Reprint written by Thornton Taft Munger and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Avalanches and Forest Cover in the Northern Cascades In any mountainous region where the slopes are steep and the snowfall is heavy there is likelihood of avalanches. Avalanches, or snowslides, are masses of snow which, becoming dislodged from the upper slopes of a mountain side, slide or fall into the lower country. Because of the enormous amount of damage they do to everything in their path, whether forest, railroad structure, or habitation, ava lanches must be looked upon as calamities in a class with floods, hur ricanes, and great conflagrations. Avalanches are of several distinct types - dust avalanches, glacier avalanches, ground avalanches, and top avalanches. Dust avalanches, so called because they fill the air along their coursepwith a mass of fine snow, are composed of very dry snow, and start usually at high alti tudes during very cold weather. Glacier avalanches, as the name suggests, are the masses of ice or compact. Snow that break loose from glacier and névé fields in very precipitous country, usually during the warm weather of summer. Ground avalanches are formations, generallyof wet snow, which slide over the ground. They occur when the snow has become excessively heavy from a thaw or rain, or the surface of the ground slippery, and are therefore most fre quent in late winter and early spring. Ground avalanches often accumulate in their course great quantities of earth, rock, and forest débris. Top avalanches are in most respects similar to ground ava lanches, except that they slide over a crust of older snow, instead of 'over the ground. Where a top avalanche breaks through the crust and slides on the surface of the ground it becomes a ground ava lanche. Every gradation between these four types may be found, and a single avalanche may have the characteristics of two or more of the types. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Papers from the International Symposium on Snow and Avalanches Chamonix Mont Blanc May 1997 written by INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SNOW AND AVALANCHES. and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Symposium on Scientific Aspects of Snow and Ice Avalanches 5 10 April 1965 Davos Switzerland written by International Association of Scientific Hydrology and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Symposium on Scientific Aspects of Snow and Ice Avalanches 5 10 April 1965 Davos Switzerland written by International Symposium on Scientific Aspects of Snow and Ice Avalanche (1965, Davos) and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Snow Avalanche Management in Forested Terrain written by Peter Weir and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook addresses snow and avalanche phenomena in a forestry setting and presents a risk assessment produre suitable for incorporation in the terrain stability field assessment process. Outlines harvest design and silvicultural strategies to reduce the risk of avalanche damage. Includes strategies for managing avalanche risks in winter.
Download or read book Snowsymp 94 written by Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment (Manali) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papers from the International Symposium on Snow and Avalanches Held in Davos Switzerland 2 6 June 2003 written by Paul M. B. Föhn and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Snow Avalanches written by Francois Louchet and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An avalanche may be defined as the destabilization and flow of part of the snow cover. This text deals with the former, focusing on avalanche triggering mechanisms. It provides the reader with a good foundation on clear scientific facts.
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Download or read book The Avalanche Handbook written by David McClung and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technical yet accessible, The Avalanche Handbook, 3rd Edition, covers the formation, character, effects, and control of avalanches; rescue techniques; and research on understanding and surviving avalanches. Illustrated with nearly 200 updated illustrations, photos and examples, the revised edition offers exhaustive information on contributing weather and climate factors, snowpack analysis, the newest transceiver search techniques, and preventative and protective measures, including avalanche zoning and control. It contains new information on the unique characteristics of alpine snow, snow slab instability, terrain variables, skier triggering of avalanches, and the nature of avalanche motion. Plus brand-new chapters on the elements of backcountry avalanche forecasting and the decision-making process.
Download or read book The Andean glacier and water atlas written by Johansen, Kari Synnove and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Atlas illustrates the significant reduction in glacier mass happening throughout the Andean region. It quantifies the contribution of glaciers to drinking water supplies in cities and to agriculture, hydropower and industries. A reduction in glacier mass results in a long-term reduction in seasonal melt water - which is the mainstay of livelihoods for millions of people.
Download or read book Risk and Uncertainty Assessment for Natural Hazards written by Jonathan Rougier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessment of risk and uncertainty is crucial for natural hazard risk management, facilitating risk communication and informing strategies to successfully mitigate our society's vulnerability to natural disasters. Written by some of the world's leading experts, this book provides a state-of-the-art overview of risk and uncertainty assessment in natural hazards. It presents the core statistical concepts using clearly defined terminology applicable across all types of natural hazards and addresses the full range of sources of uncertainty, the role of expert judgement and the practice of uncertainty elicitation. The core of the book provides detailed coverage of all the main hazard types and concluding chapters address the wider societal context of risk management. This is an invaluable compendium for academic researchers and professionals working in the fields of natural hazards science, risk assessment and management and environmental science, and will be of interest to anyone involved in natural hazards policy.
