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Title: Decision-Making and Avalanche Mitigation During a Rapid Onset Wet Slab Avalanche Cycle
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Paul Baugher, Karl W. Birkeland
Description: Although all avalanche types are difficult to forecast and mitigate, wet slab avalanches are particularly problematic. The dynamics of wet slabs are p...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O1.01.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche mitigation, decision-making, risk management, wet slab avalanches
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Title: Comparing Models of Different Levels of Complexity for the Prediction of Wet-Snow Avalanches
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Christoph Mitterer, Jürg Schweizer
Description: The amount and timing of infiltrating water plays an important role in determining wetsnow instability. However, the nature of water flow in snow is v...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O1.02.pdf
Keywords: wet-snow avalanches, avalanche forecasting, danger assessment.
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Title: Water in Snow Likes to Go with the Flow: Dynamics of Liquid Water in Snow and Its Impact on Stability
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Hans-Peter Marshall, The Cryosphere Geophysics And Remote Sensing Group
Description: Rain-on-snow, rapid warming, and snowmelt events can cause significant changes in slope stability. Liquid water causes dry snow to rapidly change, inc...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O2.03.pdf
Keywords: liquid water content, rain on snow, snowmelt, unsaturated flow, wet snow avalanches
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Title: Evaluating the Potential of Using Snowpack and Alpine3D Simulations in Three Canadian Mountain Climates
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Côté K., Jean-Benoit Madore, Alexandre Langlois
Description: Each year, approximately 1.5 million avalanches potentially dangerous to humans occur in Canada; of which about 5% in areas accessible by mountain use...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P1.06.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, simulation, hazard, snowpack, alpine3d, canada
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Title: Desert Dust and Snow Stability
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Christopher C. Landry
Description: Deposition of Colorado Plateau desert dust onto the Colorado mountain snowcover has increased over recent decades. Consequent reductions in snow cover...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P1.39.pdf
Keywords: snow albedo, snow stability, desert dust, snow avalanches
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Title: Latitudinal Influence on Snow Climates
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: David W. Lovejoy, Derik Spice
Description: In North America most characterizations of snow climates (sometimes referred to as avalanche climates) refer primarily to continentality, or the dista...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P1.40.pdf
Keywords: wet avalanches, latitude, snow climate, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Assessing the Importance of Terrain Parameters on Glide Avalanche Release
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Erich H. Peitzsch, Jordy Hendrikx, Daniel B. Fagre
Description: Glide snow avalanches are dangerous and difficult to predict. Despite recent research there is still a lack of understanding regarding the controls of...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P2.19.pdf
Keywords: avalanches; avalanche forecasting; glide; glacier national park, montana
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Title: Taking Into Account Wet Avalanche Load for the Design of Pylon-like Structures
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Betty Sovilla, Stefan Margreth, Mark Schaer, Emmanuel Thibert, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Djebar Baroudi, Christophe Ancey
Description: Wet snow avalanches interact with infrastructures around the world but their significance on the structure design is frequently neglected due to the l...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P2.23.pdf
Keywords: avalanche impact pressure, wet-avalanches
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Title: Avalanche Detection Systems for Operational Use: Summary of Three Years Experiences
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Arnold Kogelnig, Samuel Wyssen, Emanuele Marchetti, Giacomo Uliveri
Description: Avalanche detection systems have become more popular in recent years, however few people know of their capabilities and limitations. This article summ...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P2.55.pdf
Keywords: detection, radar, infrasound, avalanches.
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Title: Artificial Avalanche Release and the Probability of Triggering Secondary Avalanches
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Lukas Stoffel, Stefan Margreth, Jurg Schweizer
Description: Today, avalanches are often artificially triggered to protect ski areas and to some extent, transportation routes and residential areas. During avalan...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-14.pdf
Keywords: artificial release of avalanches, secondary avalanches, application of artificial avalanche release, safety concept
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Title: Plume Formation in Powder Snow Avalanches
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Perry Bartelt, Yves Bühler, Othmar Buser, Christian Ginzler
Description: A long-standing problem in avalanche science is to model the formation and propagation of icedust clouds that accompany fast moving dry snow flowing a...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-18.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, powder snow avalanches, plume formation, ice-dust cloud, blowout height, suspension layer
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Title: Impulse Water Waves Generated by Snow Avalanches
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Mohamed Naaim
Description: Retaining dams devoted to artificial snow production, are most of the time located in the vicinity of steep slope areas and may be threatened by snow ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-21.pdf
Keywords: impulse water waves, snow avalanches, mountain lakes
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Title: Avalanche Danger Patterns – A New Approach to Snow and Avalanche Analysis
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Rudi Mair, Patrick Nairz
Description: In recent years, backcountry winter sports far removed from secured ski slopes have undergone a surprising upsurge. Connected with this boom are heig...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-13.pdf
Keywords: danger pattern, threat of avalanches, danger level, avalanche bulletin, avalanche warning service
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Title: The Experimental Snow Avalanche Test Site at Seehore Peak in Aosta Valley (IT) MAP3 ALCOTRA Project
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: V. Segor, L. Pitet, M. Maggioni, B. Frigo, M. Freppaz, B. Chiaia, E. Bovet, E. Ceaglio, A. Welf, P. Dellavedova
Description: Since 2009 the Seehore test site is operative within the MonterosaSki resort in Aosta Valley (NW Italy). This real scale test site was intended to stu...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-36.pdf
Keywords: small/medium avalanches, real scale test site, dynamics, impact forces, snowdrift
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Title: Toward Better Decision Tools for the Management of Frequent Avalanches
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Segor, V., Pitet, L., Bovet E., Dellavedova P., Sovilla B., Steinkogler W., Veitinger J., Maggioni M., Chiambretti I., Prola M.
Description: Avalanche safety personnel often face with the problem of whether to close a road or a ski-resort exposed frequently to avalanches. Such decisions are...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-03.pdf
Keywords: strada, frequent avalanches, management, routes, ski-resorts, strategies
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