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Title: CHARACTERIZING REGIONAL AVALANCHE DANGER LEVELS USING FIELD OBSERVATIONS OF SNOW INSTABILITY IN NORWAY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Simon Grüter, Markus Eckerstorfer, Ingrid Reiweger
Description: Field observations of signs of instability are important sources of information when assigning the regional avalanche danger level. In an effort to ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.16.pdf
Keywords: snow instability signs, avalanche danger levels, field observations, avalanche forecasting
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Title: AN AUTOMATIC AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (AVALARMS)
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Francesc Grau, Pere Oller
Description: Endesa, a gas and electricity company belonging to the Enel group, has dozens of roads leading to its hydropower assets, scattered in a wide area in t...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.19.pdf
Keywords: automatic avalanche risk management, road safety
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Title: ON SNOW AND AVALANCHE CLIMATES IN THE SWISS ALPS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Lydia Knappe, Benjamin Reuter, Stephanie Mayer
Description: The snow and avalanche climate types maritime, transitional (or intermountain), and continental are well-established in North America, but rarely used...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.21.pdf
Keywords: snow climate, avalanche climate, avalanche formation, snow stratigraphy, avalanche problem type
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Title: ABUNDANCE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DATA PRODUCING THE AVALANCHE BULLETIN: WHAT ROLE DOES DIRECT OBSERVATION IN THE FIELD PLAY?
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Faletto Mattia, Pivot Stefano, Chiambretti Igor, Bormioli Daniele
Description: Technology lets us quickly process information to produce increasingly accurate and detailed avalanche forecasts. However, a good forecast cannot be m...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.22.pdf
Keywords: field evaluation comparison, wandering snowpack observations, avalanche forecasting, regional avalanche bulletin
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Title: AVALANCHE PROBABLE RELEASE AREAS (PRA) – TESTING THE PROCEDURE IN NW ITALY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Chiambretti Igor, Bovet Eloïse, Debernardi Andrea, Lanteri Luca Maria
Description: Snow avalanche hazard mapping has been well-established in the Italian Alps for 40 to 60 years. Cadastre and CLPA-CLPV maps (Probable Avalanche Locati...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.23.pdf
Keywords: probable release areas, avalanche hazard mapping
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Title: EVALUATION OF THE TRANSFERABILITY TO THE PYRENEES OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS DEVELOPED FOR AVALANCHE FORECASTING IN THE SWISS ALPS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Montse Bacardit, Cristina Pérez-Guillén, Jordi Gavaldà Bordes, Ivan Moner Seira, Martin Hendrick, Fabiano Monti
Description: Avalanche forecasting is crucial for ensuring safety and mobility in snow-covered mountainous regions worldwide. While traditional avalanche forecasts...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.27.pdf
Keywords: machine learning, avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger, avalanche activity, snowpack model
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Title: AVALANCHE FORECASTING IN FINLAND – PRESENT STAGE AND DEVELOPMENT NEEDS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Kaisa Landon, Eeva Mäkelä
Description: There are comparably few avalanche-prone areas in Finland, however several avalanches occur in Northern Finland every winter. Fortunately, Finland has...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.28.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecast, finland, fmi finnish meteorological institute, finlav finnish avalanche education
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Title: UNRELIABILITY IN EXPERT ESTIMATES OF FACTORS DETERMINING AVALANCHE DANGER AND IMPACT ON DANGER LEVEL ESTIMATION USING THE MATRIX
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Frank Techel, Célia Lucas, Karsten Müller, Christine Pielmeier, Michael Morreau
Description: Recent advances in automated snowpack modelling notwithstanding, public avalanche forecasting relies heavily on human estimates of avalanche condition...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.31.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger level, avalanche forecasting, reliability, eaws matrix, forecast correctness
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Title: SYNTHESIZING REGIONAL SNOWPACK STABILITY AND AVALANCHE PROBLEMS IN THE OPERATIONAL AWSOME FRAMEWORK
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Florian Herla, Michael Binder, Norbert Lanzanasto, Martin Perfler, Aron Widforss, Michael Reisecker, Karsten Müller, Christoph Mitterer
Description: Snowpack simulations can enhance avalanche forecasting by providing more continuous spatial and temporal assessments, offering short-term forecasts, a...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.33.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snowpack modeling, avalanche hazard assessment modeling, large-scale operational model chain, forecaster dashboard, awsome
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Title: NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE: THE METEOROLOGIST’S ROLE IN AVALANCHE FORECASTING, WEATHER WARNINGS AND EXPLANATION OF THE WEBSITE YR
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Rebecca Roggentin, Maiken Vassel
Description: At our poster we explain the meteorologist’s role in avalanche forecasting in Norway. We explain weather warnings generated by the Norwegian Meteor...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.34.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, weather warnings, norwegian meteorological institute, meteorology
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Title: FLOWING FROM RELEASE TO RUNOUT: HIGH-RESOLUTION RADAR MEASUREMENTS OF SNOW AVALANCHES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Anselm Köhler, Michael Neuhauser, Gregoire Bobillier, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: Radar technology is indispensable in the context of snow avalanche monitoring. Practitioners rely on the capabilities of related real-time detection ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O2.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, radar measurements, weak layer crack propagation speed, front velocity
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Title: INNOVATIVE HIGH-SPEED CAMERA ARRAY FOR UNPRECEDENTED INSIGHTS INTO POWDER SNOW AVALANCHES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Ivan Calic, Prof. Dr. Filippo Coletti, Bernhard Roth, Dr. Betty Sovilla
Description: Powder snow avalanches (PSAs) pose significant threats to human lives and infrastructure in mountain regions. Measuring inside these natural flows is...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O2.2.pdf
Keywords: powder snow avalanche, experimental avalanche dynamics, high-speed cameras
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Title: ARE OUR AVALANCHE IMPACT PRESSURE EQUATIONS FIT FOR A WARMING CLIMATE? - INSIGHTS FROM 3D AVALANCHE MODELING
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Michael J. Kohler, Johan Gaume, Betty Sovilla
Description: In densely populated mountain regions, snow avalanches are among the main natural hazards and have long been a threat to settlements and critical infr...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O2.4.pdf
Keywords: climate change, impact pressure, wet-snow, dense, avalanche dynamics, modeling, material point method
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Title: NEW INSIGHTS INTO SNOW AVALANCHE DYNAMICS AND ENTRAINMENT MECHANISMS FROM DEPTH-RESOLVED PARTICLE-BASED SIMULATIONS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Johan Gaume, Camille Ligneau, Camille Huitorel, Xingyue Li, Michael Kyburz, Betty Sovilla, Lars Blatny, Hervé Vicari
Description: In mountainous regions, snow avalanches pose significant threats to both populations and infrastructure. As the flow progresses, it can accumulate ad...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O2.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, erosion, entrainment, modeling, material point method, discrete element method
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Title: ADVANCING AVALANCHE SAFETY: RADAR-BASED INSIGHTS INTO SNOWPACK DYNAMICS AND STRATIGRAPHY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Martin Schafferer
Description: Avalanches pose significant risks to human life and infrastructure, so understanding their mechanics is critical for effective forecasting and mitigat...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P2.1.pdf
Keywords: stratigraphy, avalanche dynamics, radar-based measurement, measurement network
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