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Title: AVALANCHE OPERATION FOR ROAD PROTECTION IN GRøTFJORD, TROMSø
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Mrs. Kaja Krogh, Mrs. Mariia Pihlainen, Ph.D. Martin Stefan, Mr. Nils Arne Kavli Walberg
Description: The Troms County Council (TCC) oversees a 2915 km road network, which includes measures to mitigate avalanches on exposed routes. Approximately 100 lo...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O7.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche operation, racs, avalanche detection, doppler radar, avalanche forecasting
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Title: COMBINING MODEL PREDICTIONS AND RADAR AVALANCHE DETECTIONS FOR OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE FORECASTING
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Jürg Trachsel, Bettina Richter, Severin Stähly, Stephanie Mayer, Susanne Wahlen, Alec van Herwijnen, Frank Techel
Description: Predicting natural avalanche activity and verifying avalanche forecasts have long been major challenges. However, the advent of new technologies, such...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P8.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, natural avalanche model, operational validation, real-time avalanche detection, doppler radar
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Title: USING BACK-SCATTERED LASER SIGNAL INTENSITY TO MEASURE SNOW SURFACE PROPERTIES AUTOMATICALLY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Alexander Prokop, Jean-Michel Friedt, Eric Bernard, Florian Tolle
Description: Knowledge about the condition of the snow surface right before snowfall is important for avalanche forecasting. Weak layers that form on the snow surf...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P8.14.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow surface properties, laser measurement, snow reflectance
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Title: SWISS NETWORK OF AUTOMATED SNOW AND WEATHER STATIONS FOR AVALANCHE FORECASTING – SUCCESS FACTORS TO ITS ROBUSTNESS AND LONGEVITY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: David Liechti, Prof. Dr. Jürg Schweizer
Description: The backbone of Swiss avalanche forecasting is a network of about 190 automated snow and weather stations located in the Swiss Alps. The network calle...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P8.22.pdf
Keywords: automated snow and weather stations, measurement network, snow cover model, avalanche forecasting
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Title: WINTER OPERATIONS IN ANDORRA'S ROADS, CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Sergi Riba, Thomas Berger, Carles García Sellès, David Palmitjavila Duedra
Description: For approximately 15 years, the Government of Andorra has been tendering and contracting (every six years) winter control against the risk of avalanch...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P10.2.pdf
Keywords: winter operations; forecasting, gazex, triggered avalanche.
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Title: ASSESSING AND COMMUNICATING LIKELIHOOD AND PROBABILITY OF SNOW AVALANCHES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Scott Thumlert
Description: Forecasting avalanche hazard is the prediction of the magnitude, likelihood, timing, and location of potential avalanches. Assessing the likelihood of...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O12.2.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, likelihood scale, probability communication, risk communication,
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Title: TOWARDS A DICTIONARY OF AVALANCHE FORECASTING – DESCRIBING SOME KEY TERMS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Benjamin Reuter, Christoph Mitterer
Description: Avalanche forecasting is to a large extent a communication challenge. To this end, a good mutual understanding of the underlying concepts and their sc...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O1.01.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow stability, avalanche probability, avalanche danger level
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Title: THE NATIONAL AVALANCHE FORECAST PLATFORM: A SYSTEM THAT HAS REDUCED COSTS, IMPROVED CONSISTENCY, AND PROMOTED COLLABORATION AMONG U.S. AVALANCHE CENTERS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Chris Lundy, Simon Trautman
Description: U.S. Avalanche Centers operate independently and may be federal, state, or NGO/nonprofit programs. Historically, each Avalanche Center (AC) built its ...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O1.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, web technology, public safety messaging, data management
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Title: INITIALIZING SNOW COVER SIMULATIONS WITH OBSERVED SNOW PROFILES
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Michael Binder, Christoph Mitterer
Description: Snow cover models were originally developed to advance snow and avalanche research and assist operational avalanche forecasting. Though indispensable ...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O4.02.pdf
Keywords: snowpack simulations, snow profiles, operational assessment and forecasting of avalanche danger, snow density parameterization, numerical weather prediction models, snow profile alignment and similarity assessment
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Title: SNOWPACK MODELING EFFORTS AT THE COLORADO AVALANCHE INFORMATION CENTER
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: John Snook, Mike Cooperstein, Ethan Greene
Description: The Colorado Avalanche Information Center started investigating operational applications of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscap...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O4.03.pdf
Keywords: snowpack modeling, numerical weather prediction, avalanche forecasting
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Title: ASSESSING AVALANCHE PROBLEMS FOR OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE FORECASTING BASED ON DIFFERENT MODEL CHAINS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Martin Perfler, Michael Binder, Benjamin Reuter, Rainer Prinz, Christoph Mitterer
Description: Snow-cover models were initially developed to assist with operational avalanche forecasting, but the full potential has yet to be exploited. There ar...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O4.05.pdf
Keywords: avalanche problems, snowpack, simulations, forecasting, model chains, avalanche danger assessment
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Title: TOWARDS A FULLY MODEL-BASED AVALANCHE HAZARD ASSESSMENT: INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF INPUT DATA ON MACHINE LEARNING PREDICTIONS.
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Bettina Richter, Mathias Bavay, Martin Hendrick, Stephanie Mayer, Rebecca Mott, Cristina Pérez Guillén, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Operational avalanche forecasting mostly relies on manual snow profiles, snow instability observations, and weather data to assess the avalanche dange...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O4.06.pdf
Keywords: numerical avalanche forecasting, snow cover modeling, random forest models, weather prediction models
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Title: QUANTIFYING THE IMPACT OF NEW DATA STREAMS IN AVALANCHE FORECASTING
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Alex Haddad, Jordy Hendrikx, Tore Humstad, Emil Solbakken, Jerry Johnson, Eric A. Sproles
Description: Data used by forecasters is typically collected using weather stations, manual field-based observations (e.g., avalanche events, snow profiles, stabil...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O4.07.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, decision-making, remote sensing, uav
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Title: AN ANALYSIS OF AVALANCHE CANADA'S FLEXIBLE FORECAST REGIONS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Ryan Buhler, Simon Horton, Bryce Schroers
Description: The introduction of a flexible forecast system by Avalanche Canada for the 2022-23 winter season replaced historical static forecast regions with dyna...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, flexible forecast system, forecast regions, spatial variability
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Title: EVALUATING UTAH AVALANCHE CENTER FORECASTS: COMPARING REPORTED AVALANCHE ACTIVITY WITH THE FORECASTED AVALANCHE PROBLEMS.
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Nikki Champion, Andy Paradis , Brett Kobernik
Description: One challenge avalanche centers often face is evaluating the accuracy of forecasts. The quantifiability of both an avalanche forecast and the corresp...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.05.pdf
Keywords: accuracy, forecasting, avalanche problems, communication
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