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- Title: BIG AVALANCHES IN A CHANGING CLIMATE: USING TREE-RING DERIVED AVALANCHE CHRONOLOGIES TO EXAMINE AVALANCHE FREQUENCY ACROSS MULTIPLE CLIMATE TYPES
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Erich H. Peitzsch, Gregory T. Pederson, Justin T. Martin, Eran Hood, Ethan M. Greene, Karl W. Birkeland, Kelly Elder, Gabriel J. Wolken, Nickolas Kichas, Daniel K. Stahle, John R. Harley
- Description: Large-magnitude snow avalanches pose a hazard to humans and infrastructure worldwide. Analyzing the spatiotemporal behavior of avalanches and the cont...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O6.01.pdf
- Keywords: climate, large magnitude avalanches, dendrochronology
- View additional details about BIG AVALANCHES IN A CHANGING CLIMATE: USING TREE-RING DERIVED AVALANCHE CHRONOLOGIES TO EXAMINE AVALANCHE FREQUENCY ACROSS MULTIPLE CLIMATE TYPES
- Title: PROJECTED IMPACT OF CLIMATE WARMING ON AVALANCHE ACTIVITY AT TWO SITES IN THE SWISS ALPS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Stephanie Mayer, Martin Hendrick, Adrien Michel, Bettina Richter, Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: Climate change strongly affects the seasonal snow cover in mountainous areas worldwide. Warming-induced changes of snowfall and snow cover are expecte...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O6.05.pdf
- Keywords: climate change, snow avalanches, climate projections, snow stratigraphy
- View additional details about PROJECTED IMPACT OF CLIMATE WARMING ON AVALANCHE ACTIVITY AT TWO SITES IN THE SWISS ALPS
- Title: REPRODUCING LAYER AND POWDER AVALANCHE FLOW FROM STRUCTURAL BUILDING DAMAGES BY MEANS OF THE RAMMS EXTENDED MODEL
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Sergi Riba, Glòria Martí, Carles García-Sellés, Santiago Manguán, Jordi Pons, Francesc Vilar
- Description: The 1995-96 winter was the last major avalanche cycle for the last 50 years in the Eastern Pyrenees. Nearly 150 avalanches were classified as 4 and 5 ...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.21.pdf
- Keywords: mixed flowing/powder avalanches, ramms extended, impact pressures, eastern pyrenees
- View additional details about REPRODUCING LAYER AND POWDER AVALANCHE FLOW FROM STRUCTURAL BUILDING DAMAGES BY MEANS OF THE RAMMS EXTENDED MODEL
- Title: TWO SEVERE AVALANCHE CYCLES IN 2020 AND 2023 IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS IN ICELAND PROVIDE VALUABLE INFORMATION ON AVALANCHE PROTECTIVE STRUCTURES
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Óliver Hilmarsson, Kristín Martha Hákonardóttir, Tómas Jóhannesson, Harpa Grímsdóttir
- Description: More than fifty snow avalanches have interacted with snow-supporting structures, braking mounds, deflecting dams, splitters and catching dams in Icela...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.30.pdf
- Keywords: dry slab avalanches, protective structures, fluidized front
- View additional details about TWO SEVERE AVALANCHE CYCLES IN 2020 AND 2023 IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS IN ICELAND PROVIDE VALUABLE INFORMATION ON AVALANCHE PROTECTIVE STRUCTURES
- Title: A MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR MAPPING SNOW DISTRIBUTION CHANGES IN AN AVALANCHE RELEASE ZONE
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Pia Ruttner-Jansen, Julia Glaus, Andreas Wieser, Yves Bühler
- Description: Since people have been living in mountain regions, they are threatened by the danger of snow avalanches. Critical situations may require the closure o...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O10.05.pdf
- Keywords: lidar, monitoring, snow depth, road safety, avalanches
- View additional details about A MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR MAPPING SNOW DISTRIBUTION CHANGES IN AN AVALANCHE RELEASE ZONE
- Title: UNDER-FORECASTING WET AVALANCHE CYCLES: CASE STUDIES AND LESSONS LEARNED FROM TWO WET AVALANCHE CYCLES IN NORTHWEST MONTANA AND CENTRAL COLORADO
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Zachary M. Guy, Erich Peitzsch
- Description: Predicting the timing and location of natural wet avalanche events is challenging, especially the release of wet slabs. In this study, we describe the...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O11.01.pdf
- Keywords: wet slabs, forecasting, wet avalanches
- View additional details about UNDER-FORECASTING WET AVALANCHE CYCLES: CASE STUDIES AND LESSONS LEARNED FROM TWO WET AVALANCHE CYCLES IN NORTHWEST MONTANA AND CENTRAL COLORADO
- Title: VULNERABILITY IN THE AVALANCHE CAPITAL: THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF SNOW HAZARDS IN JUNEAU, ALASKA
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Zachary Provant
- Description: Snow-related disasters kill dozens of people and cost millions in infrastructure and transportation damage each year in the United States. The USGS wa...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O13.03.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, landslides, hazard mitigation, hazard risk, vulnerability, human dimensions
- View additional details about VULNERABILITY IN THE AVALANCHE CAPITAL: THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF SNOW HAZARDS IN JUNEAU, ALASKA
- Title: THE DESTRUCTIVE POTENTIAL OF LARGE AVALANCHES CLOSE TO BANSKO SKI RESORT IN PIRIN MOUNTAINS – TREE-RING AND NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS ANALYSIS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Momchil Panayotov, Nickolay Tsvetanov, Marc Christen, Peter Bebi, Perry Bartelt
- Description: In our study we reconstruct past avalanches in three couloirs in close proximity to Bansko ski resort in Pirin Mountains, Bulgaria. We combined tree-r...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O13.05.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, avalanche-forest interaction, pirin, tree-ring analysis, ramms
- View additional details about THE DESTRUCTIVE POTENTIAL OF LARGE AVALANCHES CLOSE TO BANSKO SKI RESORT IN PIRIN MOUNTAINS – TREE-RING AND NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS ANALYSIS
- Title: A FIELD TEST FOR THE MIXED-MODE FRACTURE TOUGHNESS OF WEAK LAYERS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Valentin Adam, Bastian Bergfeld, Florian Rheinschmidt, Melin D. E. Walet, Jakob Schöttner, Philipp Weißgraeber, Alec van Herwijnen, Philipp L. Rosendahl
- Description: The triggering mechanisms of dry snow slab avalanches are subjected to a mixed-mode loading scenario driven by different dynamic loading conditions an...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O16.05.pdf
- Keywords: dry-snow slab avalanches, fracture toughness, anticrack propagation, mixed-mode loading, weak snow layers
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- Title: DUSTY-LAYERS AND AVALANCHES: NOVEL TECHNIQUES TO DETERMINE THE PROPERTIES OF PARTICLES
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Claudio Artoni, Llorenç Cremonesi, Luca Teruzzi, Claudia Ravasio, Deborah Fiorini, Barbara Delmonte, Valter Maggi, Marco A. C. Potenza
- Description: In some alpine locations, a strange landscape may be seen, reddish snow on the ground tints the surroundings, creating an almost Martian environment. ...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.19.pdf
- Keywords: dusty-layers, avalanches, weak layers, optical properties, mineral dust
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- Title: MEASUREMENT OF SHEAR STRESS AND SNOWFLAKE CRYSTAL TYPE WITHIN STORM SNOW AT THE ALTA MID-COLLINS STUDY PLOT
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Benjamin Silberman, Travis Morrison, Dhiraj Singh , Timothy Garrett, Eric Pardyjak
- Description: While we currently rely on field observations, historic data, and a scientific understanding of how snow behaves under stress to predict for avalanche...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.29.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, field testing and instrumentation, deid
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- Title: COMPARISON OF THE GLIDE ACTIVITY AT TWO DISTINCT REGIONS USING SWISS AND U.S. DATASETS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Franz-Josef Resch, Edward Bair, Erich Peitzsch, Zachary Miller, Amelie Fees, Alec van Herwijnen, Ingrid Reiweger
- Description: Forecasting the timing of glide-snow avalanches still presents a challenge. Studies aiming for forecasting glide-snow avalanches usually employ statis...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.01.pdf
- Keywords: glide-snow avalanche, forecasting, full-depth avalanches
- View additional details about COMPARISON OF THE GLIDE ACTIVITY AT TWO DISTINCT REGIONS USING SWISS AND U.S. DATASETS
- Title: RECENT ADVANCES IN MODELING SNOW AND AVALANCHES WITH THE MATERIAL POINT METHOD AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Johan Gaume, Lars Blatny, Grégoire Bobillier, Louis Guillet, Michael J. Kohler, Michael Kyburz, Xingyue Li, Francis Meloche, Betty Sovilla, Bertil Trottet, Louis Védrine
- Description: The Material Point Method (MPM) is an Eulerian-Lagrangian numerical technique used
to solve partial differential equations in continuum mechanics. It...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.48.pdf
- Keywords: snow, avalanches, material point method, simulation, avalanche formation, avalanche dynamics
- View additional details about RECENT ADVANCES IN MODELING SNOW AND AVALANCHES WITH THE MATERIAL POINT METHOD AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS
- Title: CHARACTERISTICS OF INBOUNDS AVALANCHE FATALITIES AT UNITED STATES SKI AREAS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Paul Baugher, Scott Savage, Karl W. Birkeland
- Description: Inbounds avalanche fatalities are both tragic and rare. Largely due to the diligent mitigation efforts of avalanche programs, the risk of a skier or s...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O14.05.pdf
- Keywords: inbounds avalanches, post mitigation release, ski area risk management, avalanche mitigation, ski area avalanche fatalities, ski area litigation
- View additional details about CHARACTERISTICS OF INBOUNDS AVALANCHE FATALITIES AT UNITED STATES SKI AREAS
- Title: SNOFOX: FULLY AUTOMATED GLIDE-SNOW MONITORING BASED ON HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGE ANALYSIS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Severin Stähly, Susanne Wahlen, Felix Blumenschein
- Description: The operators of roads, railways and recreational areas are increasingly confronted with glide snow avalanches. The often very local phenomenon is dif...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.51.pdf
- Keywords: image analysis, natural hazard monitoring, deformation camera, glide snow, avalanches
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