by Aline Grötsch | Apr 10, 2019 | Neuigkeiten |
The German science magazine Bild der Wissenschaft has published a comprehensive article on our monitoring system of Bis glacier at the Swiss village Randa. The article also describes the technologies applied to monitor the glacier and to detect ice and snow avalanches...
by Aline Grötsch | Feb 22, 2019 | Eis und Schnee, Neuigkeiten |
On 22 February 1999 at 5 PM a gigantic powder avalanche descended near Blatten, Switzerland. The width of the so-called “ridge avalanche” was 3.5 km with a slab thickness of 3 to 8 m (P. Schwitter & L. Stoffel, ISSW 2009 in German). The avalanche...
by Aline Grötsch | Feb 12, 2019 | Eis und Schnee, Neuigkeiten |
In natural hazards, the implementation of alarm systems with automatic road or rail closures requires the consideration of a number of important aspects. The aim is to keep closing times of transport routes as short as possible while at the same time ensuring safety...
by Aline Grötsch | Jan 25, 2019 | Eis und Schnee, Neuigkeiten |
Winter is only halfway through and our avalanche radars in the northern hemisphere have already detected over 400 avalanches! The heavy snowfalls in the first half of January caused many spontaneous and artificially triggered avalanches in the Alps. But also in...
by Aline Grötsch | Nov 23, 2018 | Neuigkeiten |
The hanging glacier on the north-eastern face of famous Weisshorn (4506 m a.s.l.) of Switzerland is now permanently monitored by our deformation camera. We installed the 42 megapixel camera with HDR option at the end of October 2018. The camera photographs the glacier...
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