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Title: NEW PERSPECTIVE ON DRIFTING SNOW SLAB AVALANCHE
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Yusuke Harada, Ryuzo Wakabayashi, Kengo Moriyama
Description: We introduce the idea that the top of the snowpack on a slope composed of wind-broken precipitation particles by creep and saltation of blowing snow (...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O16.03.pdf
Keywords: drifting snow, side-loading, slab avalanche, densification of snowpack
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Title: Wind Slab Formation: Will New Experiments Improve Implementations in Snow-Cover Models?
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Christian G. Sommer, Charles Fierz, Michael Lehning
Description: Wind slabs are widespread in snow environments but the physics of what is often called wind-packing is poorly understood. Yet, wind slabs are of signi...
Object ID: ISSW16_O11.04.pdf
Keywords: wind tunnel, wind-packing, drifting and blowing snow
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Title: Available Data From the French Experimental Site Col Du Lac Blanc Dedicated to Studies on Drifting Snow: a 15-Year Database
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Hervé Bellot, Gilbert Guyomarc'h, Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Vincent Vionnet, Firmin Fontaine, Yannick Deliot
Description: Wind and associated snow transport are the dominating factors determining small-scale snow distribution and accumulation in alpine areas and have ther...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.24.pdf
Keywords: drifting snow, blowing snow, snow particles counter, database
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Title: Snow Surface Roughness Monitoring Using Time-Lapse Terrestrial Laserscan
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Ghislain Picard, Hervé Bellot, Laurent Arnaud, Vincent Vionnet
Description: Some elements of snow surface roughness, such as ripple or sastrugi, are a direct manifestation of wind erosion and in turn modify the near-surface wi...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.32.pdf
Keywords: snow surface roughness, sastrugi, blowing snow, drifting snow, laserscan
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Title: Description and Evaluation of the New French Operational Chain of Models for Avalanche Hazard Forecasting Incorporating a Drifting Snow Scheme
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Gilbert Guyomarch, Vincent Vionnet, Matthieu Lafaysse, Gérald Giraud, Yannick Déliot, Florence Naaim-Bouvet
Description: It is well known by avalanche forecasters that wind plays a determinant role in shaping the small-scale distribution of snow and strongly influences t...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.14.pdf
Keywords: drifting snow events, tools for avalanche forecasters, avalanche hazard forecasting
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Title: Change in the Snow Particles Shape During Blowing Snow Event: Effects on the Suspension Layer
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Vincent Vionnet, Hervé Bellot, Mohamed Naaim, Gilbert Guyomarch
Description: Wind-transported snow is a common phenomenon in mountainous and polar regions. Wind erodes snow from high wind speed areas and deposits it in low wind...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P1.34.pdf
Keywords: drifting snow, blowing snow, wind, suspension, snow particle, shape, snow particle counter
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Title: Intermittent Drifting Snow – Combining Experimental and Model Studies
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Stefan Horender, Christine D. Groot Zwaaftink, Beni Walter, Michael Lehning
Description: A study combining field observations and wind tunnel measurements of drifting snow is presented. In field measurements we found fluctuations of the s...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-06.pdf
Keywords: drifting snow, large eddy simulation, wind tunnel
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Title: Blowing Snow in Antarctica: 3 Years of Continuous Observations in Adélie Land
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Alexandre Trouvilliez, Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Christophe Genthon, Vincent Favier, Luc Piard, Hervé Bellot, Cécile Agosta, Cyril Palerme, Charles Amory
Description: The Surface Mass Balance (SMB) of the Antarctic ice sheet is probably the only important negative contribution to the sea-level rise. Net erosion of s...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-29.pdf
Keywords: aeolian transport, blowing snow, drifting snow, antarctica, flowcapt
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Title: Lac Blanc Pass: A Natural Wind-Tunnel for Studying Drifting Snow at 2700ma.s.l
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Gilbert Guyomarc’h, Hervé Bellot, Yves Durand, Mohamed Naaim, Vincent Vionnet, Christophe Genthon, Kouichi Nishimura, Yoichi Ito, Alexander Prokop
Description: The investigation of the spatial variability of snow depth in high alpine areas is an important topic in snow hydrology, glacier and avalanche researc...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-30.pdf
Keywords: snow, wind, drifting snow, blowing snow, model, sensor
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Title: Integration of a Drifting Snow Scheme in the French Operational Modelling for Avalanche Risk Forecasting: Evaluation by Avalanche Forecasters
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Daniel Goetz, Vincent Latu, Gilbert Guyomarc’h, Yves Durand, Gérald Giraud, Jean-Marie Willemet
Description: Snow drift modelling is a difficult challenge due to the large range of concerned working scales and the permanent interaction between snow, meteorolo...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-10.pdf
Keywords: drifting snow, modelling, avalanche risk, forecast, evaluation
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Title: Wind Tunnel Blowing Snow Study: Steady and Unsteady Properties of Wind Velocity, Mass Fluxes and Mass Exchanges
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Mohamed Naaim, Florence NAAIM-BOUVET, Kouichi NISHIMURA, Osamu ABE, Yoichi ITO, Masaki NEMOTO, Kenji KOSUGI
Description: Several CFD snow drift models were proposed in the literature. These models include various assumptions and scaling laws representing the mass exchan...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-62.pdf
Keywords: wind, boundary layer, snow, drifting snow, experimental investigations, saltation, roughness, erosion rate
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Title: Size Distribution, Schmidt Number and Terminal Velocity of Blowing Snow Particles in the French Alps: Comparison With Previous Studies
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Hervé Bellot, Mohamed Naaim, Kouichi Nishimura
Description: Wind-transported snow is a common phenomenon in French Alps, creating snowdrifts and contributing significantly to the loading of avalanche release a...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-67.pdf
Keywords: snow, wind, drifting snow, blowing snow, model, sensor
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Title: How to Detect Snow Fall Occurrence During Blowing Snow Event?
Date: 2012
Authors: Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Hervé Bellot, Kouichi Nishimura, Christophe Genthon, Cyril Palerme, Gilbert Guyomarc’h
Description: In mountainous areas, drifting snow influences the spatial distribution of the snow cover and consequently snowpack stability and avalanche risk. When...
Object ID: issw-2012-976-982.pdf
Keywords: blowing snow, drifting snow, snow fall, precipitation, sensor, alps, antarctic
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Title: Vertical Profiles of Mass Flux for Different Particle Diameters in Drifting Snow Over Hard Snow Surfaces
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Kenji Kosugi, Takeshi Sato, Masaki Nemoto, Shigeto Mochizuki, Atsushi Sato
Description: The vertical profile of horizontal snow mass flux is a fundamental structure of drifting snow. It is widely recognized that most of drifting snow part...
Object ID: P__8097.pdf
Keywords: drifting snow, wind-tunnel experiment, saltation, mass flux, snow cover
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Title: Fracture and Accumulation Conditions of Snowflakes on the Snow Surface
Date: 2006
Authors: Takeshi Sato, Kenji Kosugi, Shigeto Mochizuki, Masaki Nemoto
Description: Snowflakes colliding with the snow surface break under strong wind conditions and their fragments are blown off, which leads to the development of dr...
Object ID: issw-2006-203-210.pdf
Keywords: snowflake, fracture, accumulation, drifting snow, snowfall
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