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Title: DEVELOPING A COMPREHENSIVE AVALANCHE SAFETY PLAN FOR A COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION PROJECT IN SAN JUAN COUNTY COLORADO
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Jim Donovan
Description: On August 5, 2015, EPA's Superfund Removal program was conducting an investigation and an assessment of the Gold King Mine in Silverton Colorado. Whil...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.44.pdf
Keywords: industrial avalanche forecasting, avalanche mapping
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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: Where is the snow: validating a fractional-snow covered area parameterization for snow melt forecasting with satellite measurements
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Nora Helbig, Mira Ehrler, Michael Schirmer, Tobias Jonas
Description: The snow cover exhibits tremendous spatial and temporal variability, especially in complex topography. Fractional snow-covered area (fSCA) is a parame...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P04.2.pdf
Keywords: spatial snow distribution, subgrid parameterization, satellite data, snow melt, avalanche forecasting.
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Title: Automatic classification of continuous seismic data for avalanche monitoring purposes
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Matthias Heck, Conny Hammer, Manuel Hobiger, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Schweizer, Donat Fäh
Description: Seismic monitoring systems are well suited to detect avalanches independent of weather conditions. Nevertheless, seismic monitoring systems are not ye...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O07.10.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, avalanche forecasting, seismic monitoring, automatic detection, event localization
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Title: Developing Applications: Avalanche Path Hazard Assessment
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Lea Zhecheva
Description: Located in the Coast Mountains, Bear Pass comprises of extensive avalanche terrain impacting Highway 37A with significant potential to isolate coastal...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O09.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, forecasting, application
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Title: Distributed modelling of snow cover instability at regional scale
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Alec van Herwijnen, Matthias Bavay, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Forcing snow cover models with high resolution numerical weather prediction models has provided new insight into the spatial distribution and temporal...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O10.4.pdf
Keywords: snow instability, avalanche forecasting, spatial variability, snow cover modelling
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Title: Release of avalanches on persistent weak layers in relation to loading events in Colorado, USA
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Jason Konigsberg, Spencer Logan, Ethan Greene
Description: Avalanches breaking on persistent weak layers such as surface hoar, faceted grains, or depth hoar account for most fatal avalanche accidents in Colora...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P10.1.pdf
Keywords: loading, persistent weak layer, avalanche forecasting, weather
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Title: On combining snow cover and snow instability modelling
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Benjamin Reuter, Sascha Bellaire
Description: Snow cover models hold the winter’s meteorological record and develop snow cover properties in time under meteorological forcing. With numerica...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P10.15.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow cover modeling, snow instability
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Title: First attempt at prediction of avalanches resulting from no rimed falling snow crystals in Japan
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Kazuki Nakamura, Satoru Yamaguchi, Masaki Nemoto, Hiroki Motoyoshi, Isao Kamiishi
Description: Predicting avalanches resulting from the fall of unrimed snow crystals is key to mitigating the impacts of avalanche accidents in Japan. However, we d...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P10.21.pdf
Keywords: unrimed snow crystal avalanche, avalanche forecasting, fall of unrimed snow crystal, low-pressure systems (cyclone)
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Title: Thresholds in Wind Speed, Air Temperature and Relative Humidity Controlling Slab Formation
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Patrick J. Wright, Bob Comey, Morgan Comey
Description: Weather variables including wind speed, air temperature and relative humidity have important controls on slab formation, influencing the dynamics of s...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P10.27.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, slab formation, weather
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Title: Increasing the operational usability of the snow cover model SNOWPACK
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Fabiano Monti, Christoph Mitterer, Walter Steinkogler
Description: Snow cover modelling has large potential to increase the spatial and temporal resolution of snow stratigraphy and stability information available for ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P10.28.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche risk management, snow cover simulations, snowpack model
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Title: When do avalanches release: investigating time scales in avalanche formation
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Matthias Heck, Bettina Richter, Betty Sovilla, Frank Techel
Description: Forecasting snow avalanches requires a detailed understanding of the influence of meteorological boundary conditions on avalanche formation. For insta...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O11.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, remote avalanche detection, detrended cross-correlation, avalanche formation, meteorological drivers
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Title: Slope scale avalanche forecasting in the arctic (Svalbard)
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Alexander Prokop, Holt Hancock, Martin Praz, Elisabeth Jahn
Description: On December 19th 2015 an avalanche struck the arctic town of Longyearbyen; 2 people were killed and 12 houses destroyed. Since this first avalanche ha...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O11.2.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow pack, arctic, snow pack properties
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Title: Project ALBINA: The technical framework for a consistent, cross-border and multilingual regional avalanche forecasting system
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Norbert Lanzanasto, Alex Boninsegna, Paolo Cestari, Karel Kriz, Daniel Nell, Alexander Pucher, Christoph Mitterer
Description: Effective avalanche forecasting relies on two major factors: (1) a consistent danger assessment based on various sources of information and physics-ba...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O11.5.pdf
Keywords: software application, avalanche forecasting, avalanche warning
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Title: Quantifying the obvious: the avalanche danger level
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Christoph Mitterer, Frank Techel, Andreas Stoffel, Benjamin Reuter
Description: The avalanche danger level is the key communication vehicle when it comes to describing the avalanche situation and issuing public warnings. Yet the f...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O11.6.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow instability, avalanche triggering, avalanche size
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