by Susanne Wahlen | Feb 22, 2019 | Ice and snow, News |
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 Susanne Wahlen | Feb 12, 2019 | Ice and snow, News |
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 Susanne Wahlen | Jan 25, 2019 | Ice and snow, News |
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 Susanne Wahlen | Nov 23, 2018 | News |
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...
by Susanne Wahlen | Oct 22, 2018 | News |
The 22nd ISSW (International Snow Science Workshop) took place in Innsbruck from 7 to 12 October 2018. The world’s largest conference in the field of snow and avalanches brings together practitioners and researchers from all over the world every two years. As a...
by Susanne Wahlen | Sep 11, 2018 | News |
After the big rock avalanche at Pizzo Cengalo on August 23, 2017 and several subsequent, powerful debris flows, we expanded natural hazard monitoring in Bondo on behalf of the forestry and natural hazards office, canton Grisons. Since September 2017 (see news entry)...
