Department of Avalanche and Torrent Research

Current Highlights

Climate changes
Surface runoff

Research
Irrigation database
Soil physics
DOMODIS
Erosion
Bedload transport
Forest hydrology
Perched water research
Flood assessment
Disaster analysis
Risk management
Laser scanner
Avalanche database
Avalanche dynamics
Avalanche statistics
Avalanche simulation
Measuring methods (N/Q)
Debris flows
Snow cover and forests
Snow cover simulation
Snow gliding
Snow hydrology
Snow mechanics
Snow pyhsics
Heavy rain simulation
Heavy rain
Torrent Research Areas (TORA)
Vegetation research
Torrent & Disaster DB

Projects
List

Publications
Publication list
Online Publications
Online Information

Staff
List

Cooperation
Overview

The Department of Avalanche and Torrent Research is a research institution which develops practically oriented methods for the sustainable protection of human habitats and settlements.

The department aims at developing guidelines and tools for action and solution of conflicts arising between historic/recent/future land use management and changing natural hazard potential.

Research fields

Research
National and international research cooperation
Consultancy
Training / Education
Advisory services
Introduction of new technologies
Improved risk perception and risk mitigation
Risk analysis
Tools
Methods for action planning
Warning systems
Congresses, workshops, symposia

Units

Contact:

Rennweg 1, Hofburg
A -6020 Innsbruck
Tel: +43/512/573933
Fax:+43/512/573933-5250
e-mail: fbva.aiatr@uibk.ac.at

Hauptstr. 7
A -1140 Vienna
Tel: +43/1/87838-2213
Fax:+43/1/87838-2250
e-mail: erich.lang@bfw.gv.at

Cooperation and participations

AVL-Anstalt f. Verbrennungsmotoren (Institute for Internal Combustion Engines) Prof. List, Graz, development of simulation models
Provincial Divisions of Torrent and Avalanche Control/ WLV
Institute of Torrent and Avalanche Control of the Vienna University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna

NGI-Norske Geotekniske Institut, Oslo, Norway
Eidgenössisches Institut für Schnee- und Lawinenforschung (Swiss Institute of Snow and Avalanche Research), Davos, Switzerland
Centro Sperimentale Valanghe e Difesa Idrologica, Arabba, Italy
CEMAGREF-Grenoble, France