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Title: | Reconstructing the Snow Avalanche of Coll de Pal 2018 (SE Pyrenees). |
Author: | Sanz-Ramos, Marcos Andrade Fuentes, Carlos Alberto Oller i Figueras, Pere Furdada i Bellavista, Glòria Bladé, Ernest Martínez-Gomariz, Eduardo |
Keywords: | Allaus Neu Pirineus Avalanches Snow Pyrenees |
Issue Date: | 22-Jul-2021 |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Abstract: | Developments in mountain areas prone to natural hazards produce undesired impacts and damages. Thus, disaster assessment is mandatory to understand the physics of dangerous events and to make decisions to prevent hazardous situations. This work focusses on the practical implementation of methods and tools to assess a snow avalanche that affected a road at the Coll de Pal in 2018 (SE Pyrenees). This is a quite common situation in mountain roads and the assessment has to focus specially in the avalanche-road interaction, on the return periods considered and on the dynamics of the phenomena. This assessment presents the field recognition, snow and weather characterization and numerical modelling of the avalanche. Field campaigns revealed evidences of the avalanche triggering, runout trajectory and general behavior. An unstable situation of the snowpack due to a relatively large snowfall fallen some days before over a previous snowpack with weak layers, caused the avalanche triggering when an additional load was added by a strong wind-drift episode. A medium size (<2500 m3) soft slab avalanche, corresponding to a return period of 15-20 years, occurred and crossed the road of the Coll de Pal pass. The event was reproduced numerically by means of the 2D-SWE based numerical tool Iber aiming to analyze the avalanche behavior. Results of the simulation corresponded with the observations (runout trajectory and snow deposit); thus, relevant information about the avalanche dynamics could be obtained. Identified differences probably come from the terrain elevation data, which represent 'snow free' topography and do not consider the snowpack on the terrain |
Note: | https://doi.org/10.3390/geohazards2030011 |
It is part of: | GeoHazards, 2021, vol. 2, num. 3, p. 196-211 |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/180002 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.3390/geohazards2030011 |
ISSN: | 2624-795X |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Dinàmica de la Terra i l'Oceà) |
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