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Title: Patterns in avalanche events and regional scale avalanche forecasts in Colorado, USA
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Spencer Logan, Ethan Greene
Description: The Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) issues backcountry avalanche forecasts daily through the winter. In this paper, we relate the forecas...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P11.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger, avalanche problems, risk communication
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Title: Forecast avalanche danger, avalanche activity, and avalanche accidents in Colorado, USA, winters 2014 to 2018
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Spencer Logan, Ethan Greene
Description: The Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC), Colorado USA, has been using the same format for public avalanche forecasts since the winter of 2013...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P11.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, public communication, avalanche danger scale, avalanche accidents
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Title: Snowpack Tracker: the Development and Application of a Web-based Visualization Tool for Avalanche and Weather Data
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Patrick J. Wright, Tobey Carman, Bob Comey
Description: New for the 2017-18 season, the Bridger-Teton Avalanche Center (BTAC) website includes tools for interactive display of weather and avalanche data. De...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P11.8.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, software, data visualization
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Title: Touring snowpack observations, a tool for avalanche forecasting programs - The Italian Experience
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Flavio Berbenni, Faletto Mattia, Paola Dellavedova, Chiambretti Igor
Description: Accurate snowpack observations along carefully planned routes on mountain ranges are an unvaluable tool for avalanche forecasters and during the manag...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P11.9.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, software, data visualization
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Title: An Operational Specific Avalanche Risk Matrix (OSARM): Combining the Conceptual Model of Avalanche Hazard with risk analysis and operational mitigation strategies
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: S. Langeland, P. Velsand, L. Solemsli Øyvind, W. Steinkogler
Description: Object specific avalanche forecasting is common in many countries and typically assesses avalanche hazard on an mountain (> 10 km2) scale or single pa...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O12.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, local forecasting, operational forecasting, danger scales, danger levels, conceptual model of avalanche hazard, osarm, avalanche risk, risk mitigation, iso 31 000, tasarm
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Title: Establishing the link between the Conceptual Model of Avalanche Hazard and the North American Public Avalanche Danger Scale: Initial Explorations from Canada
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Taylor Clark, Pascal Haegeli
Description: In 2010, Statham and colleagues introduced the conceptual model of avalanche hazard (CMAH; Statham et al., 2018) to make avalanche bulletin production...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O12.4.pdf
Keywords: danger rating, avalanche hazard, forecasting, decision trees
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Title: Avalanche Problem Solver (APS) - a decision support system for forecasters
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Karsten Müller, Rune V. Engeset, Markus Landrø, Tore Humstad, Espen B. Granan, Håvard Thorset
Description: The Norwegian Avalanche Warning Service is developing a data analysis and decision support system called Avalanche Problem Solver (APS). The goal is t...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O12.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, decision making, data analysis
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Title: Exploring regional snowpack patterns with gridded models
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Simon Horton, Stanislaw Nowak, Pascal Haegeli
Description: Although weather forecast models play a key role in avalanche forecasting, snowpack models have had limited uptake. As the quantity of weather and sno...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O12.8.pdf
Keywords: snowpack model, forecasting, data aggregation, snow profile
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Title: The 2017-2018 glide-snow avalanche winter above Innsbruck: A nightmare with unpredictable end for local avalanche safety control?
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Sebastian Larcher, Klaus Baumgartner, Werner Haberfellner, Christoph Mitterer
Description: The Nordkette ski resort above Innsbruck represents the soul of its citizens and offers with its steep descents and overwhelming amount of new snow th...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O12.9.pdf
Keywords: glide-snow avalanches, avalanche forecasting, snowpack modeling
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Title: Comparison of various forecast products of height of new snow in 24 hours of french ski resorts at different lead times
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Champavier Robin, Lafaysse Matthieu, Vernay Matthieu, Coléou Cécile
Description: This work compares the skill of various forecasting products of Height of new Snow (HS) available in French mountainous areas. The solid precipitation...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O12.11.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, height of new snow, french ski resorts, skill score, models
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Title: A concept of harmonizing regional avalanche forecasting
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Matthias Walcher, Christoph Mitterer, Norbert Lanzanasto
Description: The widely standardized communication of avalanche danger among different warning services worldwide, including a unified danger rating scale, evokes ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P12.2.pdf
Keywords: hazard assessment, hazard communication, workflow, danger level, forecasting system
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Title: Methods used in operational avalanche forecasting around the globe - a comprehensive study
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Viktor A. Ágoston, Katalin A. Gillemot
Description: Operational avalanche forecasting is done in a large number of countries around the globe and has a great impact on both infrastructure and human life...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P12.3.pdf
Keywords: operational avalanche forecasting, avalanche bulletin, survey, statistical analysis, snow avalanche
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Title: A nearest neighbor method applied in forecasting spontaneous large sized avalanches reaching infrastructures in the Aosta Valley
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Luca Vallata, Eloïse Bovet, Paola Dellavedova, Elisabetta Ceaglio, Sara Ratto, Fabiano Monti
Description: The nearest neighbour (NN) approaches are widely used as a supporting tool for avalanche forecasting and risk management. This paper describes the NN ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P12.4.pdf
Keywords: nearest neighbour methods, avalanche forecasting, genetic algorithms
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Title: Sensitivity of modeled snow instability to meteorological input uncertainty
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Bettina Richter, Alec van Herwijnen, Mathias W. Rotach, Jürg Schweizer
Description: To perform spatial snow cover simulations for numerical avalanche forecasting, interpolation and downscaling of meteorological data is required, which...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P12.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow instability, sensitivity, model uncertainties
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Title: Synoptic Climatology of Deep Slab Avalanches in the Western United States
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Andrew Schauer, Jordy Hendrikx, Karl Birkeland, Megan Higgs
Description: Deep slab avalanches result from season-long weather beginning with the formation of snow stratigraphy conducive to deep slab avalanches. The onset of...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P12.8.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow instability, sensitivity, model uncertainties
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