• Risk assessment and design of prevention structures for enhanced tsunami disaster resilience (RAPSODI) - Euro-Japan collaboration 

      Harbitz, Carl Bonnevie; Nakamura, Y.; Arikawa, T.; Baykal, C.; Dogan, G.G.; Frauenfelder, Regula; Glimsdal, Sylfest; Guler, H.G.; Issler, Dieter; Kaiser, Gunilla; Kânoǧlu, U.; Kisacik, D.; Kortenhaus, A.; Løvholt, Finn; Maruyama, Y.; Sassa, S.; Sharghivand, N.; Strusinska-Correia, A.; Tarakcloglu, G.O.; Yalciner, A.C. (Journal article, 2016)
      The 2011 Tōhoku event showed the massive destruction potential of tsunamis. The Euro-Japan “Risk assessment and design of prevention structures for enhanced tsunami disaster resilience (RAPSODI)” project aimed at using ...
    • Seismic location and tracking of snow avalanches and slush flows on Mt. Fuji, Japan 

      Pérez-Guillén, Cristina; Tsunematsu, Kae; Nishimura, Kouichi; Issler, Dieter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Avalanches are often released at the dormant stratovolcano Mt. Fuji, which is the highest mountain of Japan (3776 m a.s.l.). These avalanches exhibit different flow types from dry-snow avalanches in winter to slush flows ...
    • Studies on the snow avalanche dynamics by the full-scale experiments 

      Nishimura, K.; Pérez-Guillén, Cristina; Ito, Yoichi; Yamaguchi, Satoru; Saito, Yoshihiko; Issler, Dieter; Fischer, Jan-Thomas (Lecture, 2018)
      Systematic full-scale but small avalanche experiments have been started since 2016 in Niseko, a ski resort in Hokkaido, Japan. Although the vertical drop in the test sites are 100 to 200 m, they have advantages that we are ...
    • The 2017 rigopiano avalanche—dynamics inferred from field observations 

      Issler, Dieter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      This note first summarizes the history of the manuscript “On a Continuum Model for Avalanche Flow and Its Simplified Variants” by Grigorian and Ostroumov—published in this Special Issue—since the early 1990s and explains ...
    • The upgraded full-scale avalanche test-site Ryggfonn, Norway. 

      Gauer, Peter; Breien, Hedda; Issler, Dieter; Kristensen, Krister; Kronholm, Kalle; Lied, Erik; Lied, Karstein (The International Snow Science Workshop (ISSW) Proceedings;, Chapter, 2010)
      Measurements of full-scale avalanches are expensive and time consuming, but are indispensable to gain in-depth understanding of the flow behavior of avalanches. They are needed to crosscheck the scaling used in small-scale ...
    • Vulnerability of houses and persons under avalanche impact – the avalanche at Longyearbyen on 2015-12-19 

      Issler, Dieter; Jónsson, Árni; Gauer, Peter; Domaas, Ulrik (The International Snow Science Workshop (ISSW) Proceedings;, Chapter, 2016)
      This study uses data from the avalanche that killed two persons and destroyed eleven essentially identical wood-frame houses in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, on 2015-12-19. The avalanche is back-calculated with a dynamical model ...