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Title: A COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP: SIERRA NEVADA BIGHORN SHEEP AND SNOW
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Edward Bair, Karl Rittger, Tom Stephenson, Danielle Berger, Kezia Manlove, Huilin Huang, Yun Qian, Carrie Vuyovich
Description: Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep are an endangered species who inhabit avalanche-prone areas of the central and southern parts of the range. Due to severe ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P5.10.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, snow, sheep, climate change, remote sensing
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Title: HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF SNOW COVER AND AVALANCHE EVENTS IN THE BIELLESE ALPS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Ingegnere Massimo Raviglione, Michela Barberis
Description: The effects of climate change have largely affected all the nations of the European continent. In Italy, sudden and violent rainfalls have characteriz...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P5.12.pdf
Keywords: climate change, snow cover, avalanche
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Title: GLIDE-SNOW AVALANCHES: INSIGHTS FROM SPATIO-TEMPORAL SOIL AND SNOW MONITORING
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Amelie Fees, Michael Lombardo, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Glide-snow avalanche release at the ground-snow interface and are currently considered unpredictable due to a lack of process understanding. It is gen...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O6.1.pdf
Keywords: glide-snow avalanche, spatio-temporal monitoring, soil temperature, liquid water content
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Title: RELEASE OF GLIDING FULL-DEPTH SNOWCOVER BY EXTENSIVE WATERING
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: BONNEVIE Cédric
Description: Release of gliding full-depth snowcover by extensive watering In recent years, the phenomenon of gliding snowcover has become increasingly prevalent....
Object ID: ISSW2024_O6.3.pdf
Keywords: operations, avalanche control, accidents and rescue
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Title: ON THE IDENTIFICATION OF SLOPES SUSCEPTIBLE TO GLIDE SNOW AVALANCHES BY DEVELOPING A REGIONAL SPATIAL SNOW GLIDE MODEL
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Matthias Pleyer, Walter Steinkogler
Description: Glide snow avalanche activity is expected to increase in the future due to climate change. Half of the fatal avalanches on traffic routes in Switzerla...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O6.5.pdf
Keywords: glide snow avalanche, snow gliding, spatial model
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Title: TOWARDS AN IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF GLIDE-SNOW AVALANCHE RELEASE: INTERFACE SHEAR COLD LABORATORY TESTS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Grégoire Bobillier, Amelie Fees, Michael Lombardo, Jakob Schöttner, Miguel Cabrera, Alec van Herwijnen, Johan Gaume, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Glide-snow avalanches involve significant volumes of moving snow and present a major challenge to infrastructure in snow-covered mountain regions. Th...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P6.1.pdf
Keywords: glide-snow avalanche initiation, liquid water content, friction
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Title: INTERFACIAL LIQUID WATER DETECTION FOR GLIDE-SNOW AVALANCHE MONITORING
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: James Glover, Fabian Wolfsperger, Silvio Ziegler
Description: Glide-snow avalanches are a growing problem in alpine regions, driven by a warming climate exacerbating extreme snow fall events and rapid warming per...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P6.3.pdf
Keywords: glide-snow, avalanche, monitoring, lwc
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Title: THE LILLET LAKE AVALANCHE: A POTENTIAL SLUSH FLOW CASE FOR ITALIAN ALPS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Massimiliano Barbolini, Peter Gauer, Francesco Stefanini
Description: The Lillet Lake avalanche site is in the Piedmont region, north-west Italian Alps, in the community of Ceresole Reale, Province of Turin, close to the...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P6.5.pdf
Keywords: slushflow, mixed avalanche, ramms, samos, lillet lake avalanche
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Title: A BRIEF HISTORY ON AVALANCHE MITIGATION IN NORTHERN-NORWAY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Dr Peter Gauer, Ole-Andre Helgaas, Dr Kjersti Gisnås, Dr Christian Jaedicke, Tore Humstad
Description: Winter conditions in Northern-Norway are challenging due to the extreme arctic climate and midwinter-darkness. Polar proximity and the warm branch of ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O7.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, infrastructure, mitigation
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Title: CASE MOSJøEN - CHALLENGING RISK MITIGATION IN THE TOWN CENTER DUE TO POWDER CLOUD AND AVALANCHE GENERATED FLOOD WAVES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Priska Helene Hiller , Anne Bruland Høyen
Description: Parts of the center of the Norwegian town Mosjøen are prone to avalanche hazard. A river divides the town center from the steep slope of the mountain...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O7.2.pdf
Keywords: risk mitigation, powder cloud, flood wave, snow avalanche
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Title: LESSONS FROM SEVERAL AVALANCHES IMPACTING AVALANCHE PROTECTIVE STRUCTURES IN ICELAND IN JANUARY 2020 AND MARCH 2023
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Tómas Jóhannesson, Harpa Grímsdóttir, Kristín Martha Hákonardóttir, Sveinn Brynjólfsson, Óliver Hilmarsson, Alexander H. Jarosch
Description: Seven snow avalanches from two recent avalanche cycles in Iceland, that interacted with snow supporting structures, braking mounds, deflecting dams an...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O7.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche protection measures, avalanche dams, dam overflow, rest risk, fluidized flow
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Title: AVALANCHE OPERATION FOR ROAD PROTECTION IN GRøTFJORD, TROMSø
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Mrs. Kaja Krogh, Mrs. Mariia Pihlainen, Ph.D. Martin Stefan, Mr. Nils Arne Kavli Walberg
Description: The Troms County Council (TCC) oversees a 2915 km road network, which includes measures to mitigate avalanches on exposed routes. Approximately 100 lo...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O7.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche operation, racs, avalanche detection, doppler radar, avalanche forecasting
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Title: AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT IN LONGYEARBYEN, SVALBARD
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Holt Hancock, Martin Indreiten, Christian Jaedicke
Description: Snow avalanches have impacted human life and infrastructure in Longyearbyen, Svalbard since the settlement’s inception as a mining town in the early...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O7.6.pdf
Keywords: climate change, risk management, arctic, avalanche history
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Title: A PROBABILITY-BASED MODELLING APPROACH BEYOND A FEW SELECTED RETURN PERIODS FOR COMPREHENSIVE AND ROBUST HAZARD AND RISK ASSESSMENT
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Jan Kleinn, Yves Bühler, Julia Glaus, Dörte Aller, Catherine Berger, Michael Rinderer, Nils Hählen, Adrian Peter, Corinne Singeisen
Description: We present an innovative modelling approach, which allows to derive probability-based hazard information at any location in avalanche-prone areas. Su...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O7.7.pdf
Keywords: hazard modelling, risk modelling, probabilistic modelling, avalanche hazard, avalanche risk, loss-frequency-curves
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Title: PROBABILITY-BASED AVALANCHE RUN-OUT MAPPING FOR ROAD SAFETY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Julia Glaus, Katreen Wikstrom Jones, Jan Kleinn, Lukas Stoffel, Pia Ruttner-Jansen, Johan Gaume, Yves Bühler
Description: In the domain of avalanche road safety, local hazard experts have to assess the risk of an avalanche hitting the road given the predicted state of th...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O7.10.pdf
Keywords: road safety, probability mapping, avalanche dynamics, snow, risk assessment
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