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Title: Simulating liquid water infiltration - comparison between a three-dimensional water transport model and a dual-domain approach using SNOWPACK
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Hiroyuki Hirashima, Nander Wever, Francesco Avanzi, Satoru Yamaguchi, Yoshiyuki Ishii
Description: In this study, we compared the performance of a three dimensional (3-D) watertransport model and the physics-based multi-layer SNOWPACK model with a d...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P05.12.pdf
Keywords: liquid-water movement, numerical snowpack model, preferential flow, 3-d water transport model.
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Title: SNOWAVE: a novel FMCW radar architecture for snow cover monitoring
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: P. F. Espin-Lopez, M. Barbolini, E. Ceaglio, F. Dell’Acqua, P. Dellavedova, L. Silvestri, M. Pasian
Description: Snow avalanches are a persistent risk for several Alpine infrastructures. Cost-effective strategies for risk mitigation invariably require avalanche f...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P07.14.pdf
Keywords: snow cover monitoring, snowpack monitoring, snow stratigraphy, upward-looking radar, dualreceiver architecture, liquid water content (lwc)
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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: Water in Snow Likes to Go with the Flow: Dynamics of Liquid Water in Snow and Its Impact on Stability
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Hans-Peter Marshall, The Cryosphere Geophysics And Remote Sensing Group
Description: Rain-on-snow, rapid warming, and snowmelt events can cause significant changes in slope stability. Liquid water causes dry snow to rapidly change, inc...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O2.03.pdf
Keywords: liquid water content, rain on snow, snowmelt, unsaturated flow, wet snow avalanches
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Title: Simulation of Liquid Water Infiltration Into Layered Snowpacks Using Multi-Dimensional Water Transport Model
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Hiroyuki Hirashima, Satoru Yamaguchi, Yoshiyuki Ishii
Description: In this study, simulations of liquid water infiltration into layered snowpacks were performed using a multi-dimensional water transport model. The cha...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O2.04.pdf
Keywords: numerical model, liquid water movement, capillary barrier, preferential flow, sensitivityanalysis
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Title: Using NIR Reflectance for Characterizing Stratigraphy and Liquid Water in Snow
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Jesse Dean, Hans-Peter Marshall, Eric Lutz, Jim Christian, Brint Markle, Sam Whitmore
Description: Snow stratigraphy complicates the path liquid water takes through the snowpack, often disrupting vertical flow paths and concentrating liquid water at...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P2.39.pdf
Keywords: near-infrared, photography, wet snow, microstructure, liquid water, snow fork
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Title: Measuring Snow Water Equivalent in Wet Snow With Ultrawideband GPR
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Mark Robertson, Hans-Peter Marshall, Doug Roberts, Will Tidd
Description: Accurate estimates of snow water equivalent (SWE) are important for mountainous areas where snow accounts for the majority of the annual precipitation...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P2.51.pdf
Keywords: radar, snow, snow water equivalent, liquid water, frequency, permittivity
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Title: Wet Snow Instabilities – Multiple Approaches to Lift the Veil
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Thomas Wiesinger, Martin Oberhammer, Johann Seiwald, Stefan Koch
Description: Wet snow avalanches are notoriously difficult to predict, since their formation mechanism is poorly understood and because the material snow is exactl...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-70.pdf
Keywords: wet snow, liquid water content, ground penetrating radar, artificial triggering
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Title: The Relationship Between Preferential Flow in Snow Cover and Weather Conditions
Date: 2012
Authors: Satoru Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki Hirashima, Atsushi Sato, Satoru Adachi
Description: The accurate description of water movement through snow cover is essential for improving the forecast of full depth avalanches; this forecast is close...
Object ID: issw-2012-1054-1058.pdf
Keywords: full depth avalanche, liquid water, snow cover
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Title: SPA - Snow Pack Analysing System
Date: 2009
Authors: Reinhard Fiel, Wolfram Sommer, Thomas Rentsch
Description: The Snow Pack Analysing System is an automatic in-situ measurement system to determine the characteristics of snow covers. Measurements of the complex...
Object ID: issw-2009-0129-0131.pdf
Keywords: snow density, snow water equivalent, liquid water content, in-situ measurement
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Title: Observations and Analysis of Two Wet-Snow Avalanche Cycles
Date: 2009
Authors: Christoph Mitterer, Rebecca Mott, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Wet-snow avalanches threaten mountain communities and communication lines. Their formation as well as the snowpack processes leading to wet-snow insta...
Object ID: issw-2009-0262-0266.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, wet snow, liquid water content, avalanche release
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Title: The First Wetting of Snow: Micro-Structural Hardness Measurements Using a Snow Micro Penetrometer
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Frank Techel, Christine Pielmeier, Martin Schneebeli
Description: Wet snow avalanches are responsible for avalanche fatalities but more frequently they threaten infrastructure, as mountain pass roads, in spring. A we...
Object ID: P__8125.pdf
Keywords: wet snow, water flow, liquid water content, micro-structural hardness, mechanical properties
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Title: Development of a Model for Water and Heat Exchange Between the Atmosphere and a Water Body
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Shufen Sun, Weiping Li, Yao Chu
Description: A model for studying the heat and mass exchange between the atmosphere and a water body is developed, in which the phase change process of liquid wate...
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Keywords: liquid water-ice-snow system, enthalpy model, convective mixing, model validation
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Title: Measurements of Snow Temperature During Rain
Date: 1992
Authors: H. Conway, R. Benedict
Description: Measurements from a spatial array of thermistors set in a natural snowpack are used to track the progress of the O·C isotherm during two rain on sn...
Object ID: issw-1992-028-036.pdf
Keywords: rain, liquid water, vertical channels, stability
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Title: Variability of Liquid Water Content in an Alpine Snowpack
Date: 1990
Authors: Richard Kattelmann
Description: During the early stages of snowmelt runoff, snowpack liquid water content was sampled at five sites in an alpine basin in the southern Sierra Nevada. ...
Object ID: issw-1990-261-265.pdf
Keywords: snowpack, liquid water, volume
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