Snow and avalanche test sites French avalanche research: experimental test sites
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This paper contains a short description of the experimental Lautaret site dedicated to avalanche dynamic studies. Since the seventies, many experimental campaigns allowed measuring different avalanche parameters such as velocity, height and pressure. Technical development have been also carried in this site and are presented here. More recently, a chute for physical modelling of avalanche motion has been set up in the Lac Blanc Pass. It use a natural snow and allow studying steady flows of dense avalanches varying the slope, the flow rate. The first results are given.
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