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Title: AN ANALYSIS OF FORECASTER ACCURACY IN PREDICTING AVALANCHE PROBLEM TYPE AND LIKELIHOOD IN SKI AREA OPERATIONAL HAZARD ASSESSMENTS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Wendolyn Antibus, Evan Leonard, Matt Zupan
Description: Forecasting staff at Mt Rose Ski Tahoe have been utilizing the InfoEx International product to issue daily hazard assessments and record avalanche act...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.11.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, ski resort operations, conceptual model, infoex, avalanche problem type, avalanche likelihood
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Title: BRINGING THE EUROPEAN AVALANCHE DANGER SCALE TO THE 21ST CENTURY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Dr. Karsten Müller, Dr. Frank Techel, Dr. Christoph Mitterer, Dr. Stefano Sofia, Petter Palmgren, Nicolas Roux, Guillem M. Bellido, Lorenzo Bertranda, Giacomo Villa
Description: The European Avalanche Danger Scale (EADS) is the governing document for public avalanche warning services in Europe. It has been the common ground t...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.12.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger scale, public avalanche forecasting
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Title: THE FOUR KEY COMPONENTS OF THE PHYSICAL HAZARD POSED BY SNOW AVALANCHES ACROSS TERRAIN
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Scott Thumlert
Description: Forecasting the physical hazard posed by snow avalanches is the prediction of the magnitude, likelihood, timing, and location of potential avalanches ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard, forecasting, hazard assessment and communication, avalanche size, likelihood, spatial distribution
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Title: LOOKING BACK AT THE LAST 15 YEARS OF OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE WARNING WITH THE SNOWPACK MODEL IN SWITZERLAND
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Mathias Bavay, Nander Wever, Charles Fierz, Michael Lehning
Description: From the start, the SNOWPACK model was created to address the needs of the avalanche warning in Switzerland based on a large network of Automatic Weat...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.2.pdf
Keywords: numerical modeling, snowpack, operational, avalanche warning, automatic weather station
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Title: TOWARDS IMPROVED CONSISTENCY IN ASSIGNING AVALANCHE PROBLEMS AMONGST FORECASTERS IN NORWAY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Markus Landrø, Gustav Pless, Jostein Aasen, Karsten Müller, Solveig Kosberg
Description: Avalanche problems describe the cause and development of typical avalanche hazard situations and offer appropriate terrain management advice. Avalanch...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche problem standardization, consistency, avalanche bulletin communication, norway
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Title: EVALUATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF SNOW STABILITY TESTS BASED ON MEASUREMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH REAL AVALANCHES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Alain Duclos, Frédéric Pourraz, Gaëlle Bourgeois
Description: A number of snow stability tests (Rutschblock, CT, ECT, PST) have been in use for long. However, some dramatic cases have shown their limitations as s...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.4.pdf
Keywords: snow stability tests, pst critical initiation cuts, significant triggering probability, snowpack measurements, avalanche prediction.
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Title: UNVEILING SPATIAL PATTERNS IN AVALANCHE BULLETINS: CLUSTERING ANALYSIS OF MICRO-REGIONS USING SNOWGRID
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Martin Perfler, Michael Binder, Christoph Mitterer
Description: When creating regional avalanche reports, forecasters traditionally merge a set of predefined static micro-regions to outline a warning region with u...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.5.pdf
Keywords: clustering, avalanche report, regions, micro-regions
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Title: ENERGY SELF-SUFFICIENT AVALANCHE RADAR MONITORING THE SLOPES ENDANGERING THE ROAD OF THE COL DU POURTALET ON THE FRENCH – SPANISH BORDER IN THE PYRENEES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Maxence Carrel, Severin Staehly, Nadia Hassine, Gaëtan Viprey, Santiago Fábregas, Andrès Olloqui
Description: The road at Col du Pourtalet on the French-Spanish border in the Pyrenees is a major corridor through the Pyrenees remaining open all year long. Addit...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.6.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, snow, road safety, doppler radar, real-time
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Title: AUTOMATED DRY SNOWFALL LEVEL CALCULATION FOR IMPROVED ASSESSMENT OF MELT-FREEZE CRUSTS AND ASSOCIATED FACETED WEAK LAYERS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Marie Hofmann, Jil Lehnert, Christoph Mitterer
Description: Faceted weak layers relevant for avalanche triggering often develop around melt-freeze crusts. These can - besides a formation through shortwave radi...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.7.pdf
Keywords: melt-freeze crust, snowfall level, avalanche forecasting, automated weather stations
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Title: A NEW OPERATIONAL APPROACH FOR THE DAILY ASSESSMENT OF POTENTIAL AVALANCHE DANGER
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Alberto Mariani, Luca Dellarole, Giacomo Villa, Jacopo Borsotti, Fabiano Monti
Description: Over the past 20 years, the need to identify the spatial distribution of avalanche-prone areas, crucial for evaluating the avalanche risk, has led to...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.8.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard indication maps, potential release areas, snowpack stability, avalanche forecasting
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Title: SAFE - A LAYER-BASED AVALANCHE FORECAST EDITOR FOR BETTER INTEGRATION OF MODEL PREDICTIONS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Kurt Winkler, Jürg Trachsel, Jonas Knerr, Ueli Niederer, Gerd Weiss, Marc Ruesch, Frank Techel
Description: Machine learning (ML) models are revolutionizing avalanche forecasting, providing increasingly reliable predictions. At present, however, such model o...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.9.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecast, bulletin editor, numerical models, decision support, hazard assessment
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Title: METEOROLOGICAL AND SNOWPACK PROPERTIES ASSOCIATED WITH CRUST-ADJACENT PERSISTENT WEAK LAYERS - PART 1: A REVIEW OF PREVIOUS RESEARCH
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Andy Moderow, Andrew Schauer, Aleph Johnston-Bloom
Description: Previous research has explored the mechanisms - in theory, field studies, and lab experiments - that explain the formation of faceted grains at crust/...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.10.pdf
Keywords: crusts, melt-freeze layers, persistent weak layer, deep slab, avalanche forecasting
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Title: AVALANCHE FATALITIES IN RELATION TO THE COVERAGE OF RECREATIONAL AVALANCHE FORECASTS IN THE UNITED STATES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Spencer Logan, Ethan Greene, Simon Trautman
Description: In the United States, avalanche forecasts for backcountry recreation are issued by a group of local and regional programs known as avalanche centers....
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.11.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche accidents, spatial analysis, forecast coverage, forecast zone size
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Title: A CORRELATION BETWEEN AVALANCHES AND TELECONNECTION INDICES IN THE ITALIAN ALPS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Carlo Bee, Daniel Zugliani, Giorgio Rosatti
Description: Teleconnections, such as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the Arctic Oscillation (AO), play significant roles in wintertime weather patterns ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.12.pdf
Keywords: teleconnections, avalanches, avalanche problems, italian alps
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Title: ESTABLISHING AN OPERATIONAL WEATHER & SNOWPACK MODEL CHAIN IN NORWAY TO SUPPORT AVALANCHE FORECASTING
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Florian Herla, Aron Widforss, Michael Binder, Karsten Müller, Simon Horton, Michael Reisecker, Christoph Mitterer
Description: Avalanche forecasts in Norway cover vast regions with sparse weather and snowpack observations, creating significant challenges for accurate hazard as...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.15.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snowpack modeling, large-scale operational model chain, awsome
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