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- Title: SPATIAL INTERPOLATION METHODS FOR ESTIMATING EXTREME SNOW SUPPLY
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: SCOTT THUMLERT
- Description: Estimating potential extreme snow supply is one of the most important tasks when planning for large destructive infrequent avalanches. We define it as...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P7.15.pdf
- Keywords: snow supply, extreme snowpack depths, spatial interpolation, engineering, planning
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- Title: ASSESSING POWDER CLOUD IMPACT ON ELECTRICAL TRANSMISSION LINES AT SNOWSLIDE CREEK AVALANCHE PATH IN SOUTHEAST ALASKA
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Katreen Wikstrom Jones, Gabriel J. Wolken, Michael Janes, Chris Wilbur, Julia Glaus, Perry Bartelt, Marc Christen
- Description: Power transmission lines conduct electricity across avalanche terrain to communities in Alaska. Many of the towers along these lines have been redesig...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.40.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche modeling, powder avalanche, powder cloud, avalanche engineering, lidar, snow mapping
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- Title: Cougar Corner - The Largest Snow Net Project in the Western Hemisphere
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Brian Gould, Cam Campbell, Andi Buechi
- Description: For over half a century, the Rogers Pass area in Glacier National Park, British Columbia has represented the epicenter of avalanche mitigation in Cana...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O03.11.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche engineering, mitigation, snow nets, debris flow nets, design.
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- Title: Linking modelled potential release areas with avalanche dynamic simulations: an automated approach for large-scale avalanche hazard mapping
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Yves Bühler, Daniel von Rickenbach, Marc Christen, Stefan Margreth, Lukas Stoffel, Andreas Stoffel, Roderick Kühne
- Description: Snow avalanches are a major threat for people and infrastructure in alpine regions. In Switzerland and other countries in the Alps, long term experien...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P08.22.pdf
- Keywords: large scale hazard mapping, avalanche engineering, digital elevation model, release area, avalanche mitigation
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- Title: Vulnerability of a Reinforced Concrete Wall Loaded by a Snow Avalanche: Experimental Testing and FEM Analysis
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Ousset I., Bertrand D., Brun M., Limam A., Naaïm M.
- Description: In 1999 and 2006, in the Chamonix valley (France,74), a protective device dedicated to deflect and stop snow avalanches was partially destroyed. Exper...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-65.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche defense structure, reinforced concrete, civil engineering, finite element method, vulnerability
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- Title: Evaluation & Mitigation of Icefall Hazards for Civil Engineering Works
- Date: 2012
- Authors: David J. Scarpato, Martin J. Woodard
- Description: The implications of ice build-up on surface rock excavations can prove to be costly over the design lifetime of a slope. In areas subject to significa...
- Object ID: issw-2012-300-306.pdf
- Keywords: rock face, ice engineering, harzard
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- Title: Improving the Interoperability and User-Friendliness of the French Snow Avalanche Information Systems
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Laure Vidaud-Barral, Jean-Marc Tacnet, Michael Deschâtres, Mylène Bonnefoy, Didier Richard
- Description: Snow avalanches are rapid mass movements that put humans and material assets at risk with dramatic consequences. Risk reduction is reduced through str...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-043.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanches, risk management, information systems, data quality, information sharing, software engineering, interoperability
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- Title: Snow Transport Rate: Field Measurements at Short Time Scales
- Date: 2004
- Authors: F.-X. Cierco, F. Naaim-Bouvet, H. Bellot
- Description: So as to study snowdrift at short time scales on an experimental field located in l’Alpe
d’Huez, France, at an elevation of 2700 meters...
- Object ID: issw-2004-205-216.pdf
- Keywords: snow drifting, snow engineering, acoustic sensors
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- Title: Reducing Avalanche Hazard to US Route 89/91 in Jackson Wyoming Using Snow Sails
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Jamie Yount, Rand Decker, Robert Rice, Leroy (Ted) Wells
- Description: Snow sails are a form of passive avalanche starting zone defense. A deployment
of snow sails work to disrupt the formation of continuous, coherent wi...
- Object ID: issw-2004-705-710.pdf
- Keywords: passive avalanche mitigation, avalanche engineering, transportation
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- Title: Ice Engineering for Rock Glaciers
- Date: 2000
- Authors: David Hamre, Douglas K. McCarty, Erwin L. Long, Edward Yarmak, Jr.
- Description: Construction of fixed facilities on rock glaciers is rarely undertaken. These masses of
ice/rock aggregate move downhill under the influence of gravi...
- Object ID: issw-2000-433-438.pdf
- Keywords: rock glaciers, thermosyphon, thermopile, ice engineering
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- Title: Characterizing the Microstructural and Micromechanical Properties of Snow
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Jerome B. Johnson, Martin Schneebeli
- Description: A micropenetrometer has been developed that produces snow grain bond ruptures at the microstructural level and provides a unique signal for different ...
- Object ID: issw-1998-049-058.pdf
- Keywords: snow hardness, snow engineering, snow strength, snow mechanics
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- Title: FLOWCAPT: A New Acoustic Sensor to Measure Snowdrift and Wind Velocity for Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 1998
- Authors: V. Chritin, R. Bolognesi, H. Gubler
- Description: Wind can create even greater unstable accumulations of snow in mountainous areas
than heavy snowfalls. But knowing wind conditions is not sufficient ...
- Object ID: issw-1998-197-201.pdf
- Keywords: snow drifting, snow engineering, avalanche forecasting, acoustics, jet roof
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- Title: Calculation of Snowdrift Around Roadside Safety Barriers
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Per-Arne Sundsbo, Borre Bang
- Description: Snow accumulations and low visibility due to snow drifting is often a reason for
temporary or seasonal closing of mountain highways. Safety devices l...
- Object ID: issw-1998-279-283.pdf
- Keywords: snow, snow drifting, snow engineering
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- Title: NivoLog: An Avalanche Forecasting Support System
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Dr. Robert Bolognesi
- Description: NivoLogis an avalanche forecasting support system designed to be daily used by
forecasters or ski patrol men who have to secure mountainous regions, ...
- Object ID: issw-1998-412-418.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche protection, avalanche engineering
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