by SW | 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 SW | 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...
by SW | Oct 22, 2018 | Neuigkeiten |
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 SW | Sep 11, 2018 | Neuigkeiten |
Bondo monitoring one year after the large rock avalanche 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...
by SW | Aug 5, 2018 | Eis und Schnee, Neuigkeiten, Wasser |
The glacial lake Faverge on Plaine Morte glacier in the Swiss Alps drained again. On 27 July 2018, 12 PM, our monitoring system detected a drop in the lake level, which had continuously risen to 17 m over the previous two months. The critical level difference was...
by SW | Jul 4, 2018 | Eis und Schnee, Neuigkeiten |
The third winter of avalanche radar operation for avalanche detection in Zermatt was an extraordinary one with record-breaking snowfalls and extreme avalanche situations. The two avalanche radars counted a total of 244 avalanches in the Lüegetli and Schusslobina...
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