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Title: ON THE INFLUENCE OF SNOW DEPTH ON SURFACE SHAPE AND ROUGHNESS IN THE RELEASE AREAS OF OBSERVED SKIER-TRIGGERED AVALANCHES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Andreas Stoffel, Stephan Harvey, Yves Bühler
Description: The snow-covered winter surface differs significantly from its snow-free equivalent due to the smoothing caused by progressive snow accumulation and e...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P9.1.pdf
Keywords: snow depth, surface shape, surface roughness, snow avalanches, remote sensing
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Title: SNOW DEPTH VARIABILITY IN AN AVALANCHE RELEASE ZONE: ONE SEASON OF MEASUREMENTS AND TOPOGRAPHIC RELATIONS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Pia Ruttner-Jansen, Annelies Voordendag, Julia Glaus, Andreas Wieser, Yves Bühler
Description: Wind- and gravity-induced redistribution of snow leads to a high variability in snow depth across a slope, which is one of the major drivers to be ta...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P9.5.pdf
Keywords: lidar, snow depth, wind-drifted snow, modeling
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Title: A DEPTH-AVERAGED µ(I) MODEL FOR DENSE SNOW AVALANCHES
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Callum Tregaskis, Peter Gauer, Dieter Issler
Description: Observations from large-scale avalanche test sites indicate velocity measurements are not always adequately captured by widely used rheological model...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.65.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche dynamics, numerical modelling, depth-averaged modelling
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Title: VISUALIZING STATISTICAL ANNUAL SNOW DEPTH DATA USING EXTREME VALUE STATISTICS AND ONLINE GIS TOOLS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Ryan Buhler
Description: Assessing snow climate and snow cover distribution is important to several industries, including hydrology, avalanche risk management, remote industri...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.03.pdf
Keywords: maximum height of snow, snow depth, extreme value statistics, gis dashboard
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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
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Title: DIG CLOSE, DIG FAST. A STUDY ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF EXCAVATION START POINT CHOICE IN AVALANCHE COMPANION RESCUE
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Davide Rogora, Gianni Perelli Ercolini
Description: An effective avalanche companion rescue requires acting against the clock. Analysis of intervention protocols has long pointed out that the most time-...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O12.04.pdf
Keywords: digging distance, burial depth, companion rescue
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Title: MAPPING A GLIDE AVALANCHE WITH TERRESTRIAL LIDAR IN GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, USA
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: James W. Dillon, Zachary S. Miller, Erich H. Peitzsch, Kevin D. Hammonds
Description: Thorough documentation of large avalanche events is important for forecasting efforts, infrastructure planning, and investigating the processes involv...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.33.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanche, tls, lidar, depth mapping, visualization
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Title: OPTIMIZED TOPOGRAPHY TRACING OUTFIT SNOW DEPTH PROBE (OTTO SDP): OPEN SOURCE, LIGHTWEIGHT, AND FAST GEOLOCATED GROUND TRUTH
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Jerry C. Mock, Hans-Peter Marshal, Thomas Van Der Weide, Josh Enterkine
Description: The Optimized Topography Tracing Outfit Snow Depth Probe (OTTO SDP) version 23.1 is an open-source R&D effort to fill a need in the snow science commu...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.42.pdf
Keywords: depth probe, validation, technology, open source
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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
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Title: UAV BASED WORKFLOW FOR FAST AND ACCURATE HS AND SNOW DISTRIBUTION IN HIGHWAY AVALANCHE FORECASTING
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Harlan Sheppard, Mike Stanford, Andrew Forsman, Eelke Folmer, Thor Veen
Description: Aerial remote sensing can provide important insights in the distribution of snow which is of importance for avalanche forecasting. We tested the use o...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.46.pdf
Keywords: remote sensing, uav, snow depth, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Retrieving Ice-avalanche basal friction law parameters from a back-analysis of the collapse of Altels glacier (1895, Bernese Alps, Switzerland). Application to Taconnaz glacier instability (French Alps)
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Emmanuel Thibert, Thierry Faug, Mohamed Naaim, Mylène Bonnefoy-Demongeot, Adrien Gilbert, Christian Vincent, Olivier Gagliardini, Martin Funk
Description: High-elevation glaciers are undergoing substantial warming in response to current climate change. This warming is affecting the ice/rock interface tem...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P01.11.pdf
Keywords: glacier collapse, volume scenarios, ice avalanches, depth-averaged flow model.
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Title: Investigating avalanche interaction with defence structures using unmanned aerial system photogrammetry
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Marc Adams, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Andreas Kofler, Christian Tollinger, Johannes Hoffmann
Description: Unmanned aerial system photogrammetry (UAS-P) is increasingly becoming a commonplace tool to generate orthophotos and measure surface elevation with g...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O02.3.pdf
Keywords: snow depth distribution, mitigation measures, unmanned aerial vehicle.
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Title: Effectiveness of avalanche protection structures in run-out zones: the Taconnaz avalanche path case in France
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Mohamed Naaim, Thierry Faug, Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Nicolas Eckert
Description: The present study uses a numerical avalanche propagation model based on depth-averaged equations supplemented with the Voellmy snow rheology. The effe...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O02.6.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, retarding mounds and dams, depth-averaged model, protection effectiveness.
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Title: Changes in Snow Pressure on Snow Bridges in the Hokkaido Region of Japan
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Wataru Takahashi, Yusuke Harada, Masaru Matsuzawa
Description: The design guidelines for snow bridges of Japan are based on 'Technical Guideline for Defense Structures in Avalanche Starting Zones' developed in Swi...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P02.12.pdf
Keywords: snow bridges, snow pressure, unit weight of snowpack, snow depth.
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Title: Laser mapping of mountain snowpacks: enabling resilient management of water resources and avalanche hazard in a changing world
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Jeffrey Deems
Description: Many resource and hazard management operations - from water supply to avalanche hazard mitigation - support decision-making by comparing present to pa...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O04.3.pdf
Keywords: remote sensing, spatial variability, snow depth mapping, forecast modeling.
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