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Title: Managing snow avalanche risk in an area not covered by the snow avalanche forecasting service in Norway
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Agnes Haker, Njål Farestveit
Description: The winter of 2018 brought an unusually large amount of snow in Southern Norway. At the start of February there was up to twice the normal amount of s...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.5.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche forecasting service, the norwegian public roads administration
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Title: Consistency and Accuracy of Public Avalanche Forecasts in Western Canada
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Grant Statham, Stephen Holeczi, Bret Shandro
Description: Forecasting avalanche problems and avalanche danger is a judgmental assessment that is highly susceptible to interpretation and bias. Thus, congruency...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O17.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche problems, danger, forecasting, consistency, accuracy
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Title: Consistency in regional avalanche forecasts: a look across borders
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Frank Techel, Elisabetta Ceaglio, Cécile Coléou, Christoph Mitterer, Samuel Morin, Ross S. Purves, Francesca Rastelli
Description: Consistency in the way avalanche hazard is communicated in avalanche forecasts is essential to avoid misinterpretations by users utilizing bulletins i...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O17.2.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger level, consistency, european avalanche warning services
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Title: Show, Don’t Tell: Modelling behaviour on social media as a strategy for influencing behaviour in data sparse regions
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Jennifer Coulter, R. Grant Helgeson
Description: Avalanche Canada has traditionally produced avalanche bulletins as a flagship product that aims to communicate avalanche hazard and associated risk mi...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O17.6.pdf
Keywords: social media, forecasting, data sparse, public safety, risk communication
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Title: Project ALBINA: A conceptual framework for a consistent, cross-border and multilingual regional avalanche forecasting system
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Christoph Mitterer, Norbert Lanzanasto, Patrick Nairz, Alex Boninsegna, Michela Munari, Günther Geier, Lukas Rastner, Fabio Gheser, Alberto Trenti, Sergio Begnini, Gian-Luca Tognoni, Alexander Pucher, Daniel Nell, Karel Kriz, Rudi Mair
Description: About 29 forecasting centers in the European Alps assess the regional avalanche danger for their area on a regular basis and inform the public through...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O17.8.pdf
Keywords: avalanche warning services, avalanche forecasting, communication
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Title: ALLAUS.AD: A New Web-Based Platform for Avalanche Information and dissemination in Andorra
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Margalef, A., Pons, M., Apodaka, J., Vilella, M, Molné, T., Martín, G., Gorospe, P.
Description: The ALLAUS.AD web-based platform is created to centralize and homogenize all data related to avalanches, giving information that helps to improve the ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P17.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk, education, forecasting, web-based platform, prevention
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Title: How to assess and communicate persistent weak layers: a forecaster’s perspective
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Patrick Nairz, Lukas Ruetz, Karel Kriz
Description: Avalanche forecasters try to obtain a realistic picture of the snowpack structure and stability in order to assess danger levels efficiently. This pic...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P17.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, communication, persistent weak layers
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Title: varsom:regobs - a common real-time picture of the hazard situation shared by mobile information technology
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Rune Verpe Engeset, Ragnar Ekker, Tore Humstad, Markus Landrø
Description: The regObs system is an open and mobile real-time system used for recording, storing and distributing data for assessing, forecasting and mitigating h...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O18.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, hazards, forecasting, mobile applications, field data
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Title: NATLEFS: A snow observing tool for mountain guides in South Tyrol
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Lukas Rastner, Norbert Lanzanasto, Fabio Gheser
Description: About 29 avalanche forecasting centres in the European Alps assess the regional avalanche danger for their area on a regular basis and inform the publ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P18.5.pdf
Keywords: observing tool, avalanches, mountain guides, forecasting service
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Title: Case Study: Natural Glide and Wet Slab Avalanche Cycle, Going-To-The-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana USA
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Jake Hutchinson, Erich H. Peitzsch, Adam M. Clark
Description: The Going-to-the-Sun Road (GTSR) is the premier tourist attraction in Glacier National Park, Montana. The GTSR also traverses through and under 40 ava...
Object ID: ISSW16_O3.02.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanche, wet slab avalanche, forecasting, glacier national park, montana
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Title: Unusual Dry Slab Avalanche Releases Involving Dust-on-Snow Layers in Colorado
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Zach M. Guy, Jeffrey S. Deems
Description: In recent decades, dust-on-snow events are increasing in both frequency and geographic extent in the Western U.S. Although dust layers have gained a r...
Object ID: ISSW16_O3.03.pdf
Keywords: dust, slab avalanches, metamorphism, forecasting
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Title: Comparison of Measured and Modelled Snow Cover Liquid Water Content to Improve Local Wet-Snow Avalanche Prediction
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Christoph Mitterer, Achim Heilig, Lino Schmid, Alec van Herwijnen, Olaf Eisen, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Wet-snow avalanches can be difficult to forecast. However, recent studies have suggested that an index (LWCindex) related to the mean liquid water con...
Object ID: ISSW16_O6.01.pdf
Keywords: wet-snow avalanches, avalanche forecasting, liquid water content
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Title: Regional Forecasting of Wet Snow Avalanche Cycles: an Essential Tool for Avalanche Warning Services?
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Alec van Herwijnen, Christoph Mitterer, Nora Helbig, Tobias Jonas, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Wet-snow avalanches are relatively poorly understood and difficult to forecast. By definition, liquid water is required in the snow cover, thus predic...
Object ID: ISSW16_O6.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, wet-snow avalanche, snow cover modelling, numerical weather prediction
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Title: Weather Forecast Model Grid Spacing – Is Smaller Better
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: John Snook
Description: The Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) implemented an in-house numerical weather prediction model in 2011. Computer-generated forecast produ...
Object ID: ISSW16_O15.01.pdf
Keywords: numerical weather prediction, operational forecasting, colorado avalanche information center (caic)
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Title: Combining Snowpack Models and Observations for Better Avalanche Danger Assessments
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Fabiano Monti, Christoph Mitterer, Walter Steinkogler, Mathias Bavay, Andrea Pozzi
Description: Now-casting of avalanche danger is mainly based on direct snow stability observations (e.g. recent avalanches), snow stability tests combined with str...
Object ID: ISSW16_O15.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, manual observations, snow cover modeling, snow and weather data
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