Transdisciplinary optimization of avalanche risk management 2
Abstract
Avalanche forecasting consists of many different factors, starting with weather forecasts, snow depths, snow depth distributions, snowpack layering, and finally run lengths of individual avalanches. All these factors can be modeled and thus a model chain can be put together. The model chain starts with the output of weather models and snow cover data and gives as a final result possible run-out lengths of individual avalanches. Snow cover stability and snow cover modeling as well as the modeling of avalanche runoff lengths are among the primary research interests of the Avalanches Department of the Institute of Mountain Risk Engineering at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU). The further development and, above all, the combination of the individual models, which then form the entire model chain, is therefore of great scientific interest. Moreover, the combination and verification of individual model elements enables us to improve our model assumptions and to increase our process understanding. It is also in our interest, in collaboration with practitioners, to develop tools that can actually be used by the avalanche warning services and government authorities.
keywords avalanche modeling snow avalanche dynamics
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Ingrid Reiweger
Assoc. Prof. Dr.sc. Ingrid Reiweger
ingrid.reiweger@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-87112
BOKU Project Leader
01.10.2018 - 31.03.2020