Avalanches in Longyearbyen Svalbard 2015 and 2017: Avalanche Protection - Visions

• Main Authors: Jonsson, Arni, Jaedicke, Christian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Avalanche-RnD; Snøskred-FoU; Longyearbyen; Svalbard; Buildings; Fatalities; Arctic; Midwinter; Norway; Svalbard Archipelago; Global warming
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3100102

Longyearbyen, the administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago, is facing most types of natural hazards under a changing Arctic climate. The first indication in meteorological data of a change in climate was a heavy rainfall midwinter 1995/96, years before global warming of the Arctic was docum...