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- Title: REVISITING AVALANCHE DESTRUCTIVE SCALE AND ASSOCIATED MASS ESTIMATES
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Erich H. Peitzsch, John M. Sykes, Zachary M. Guy, Ron Simenhois, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Avalanche destructive (D) size classifications are essential for forecasting, communication, and risk management, yet size estimation remains one of t...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O8.3.pdf
- Keywords: destructive scale, avalanche size, avalanche mass.
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- Title: A CASE STUDY OF THE PERFORMANCE OF THE NVE M2525 SNOW SCALE
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Heidi Bache Stranden, Sebastian David Junker Andersen, Turid Haugen
- Description: Snow water equivalent (SWE) plays a critical role in natural hazard assessment; therefore, having continuous information of SWE is important. Reliable...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P8.15.pdf
- Keywords: snow scale, snow mass registration device, snow hydrology, snow water equivalent.
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- Title: Examining Meteorological Influences on Dust-on-Snow Event Character Using the HYSPLIT Model
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Philip Straub
- Description: Dust-on-snow (DOS) events are common to the Upper Colorado River Basin. Dust is transported from adjacent arid regions during periods of high wind and...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.22.pdf
- Keywords: dust-on-snow, hysplit, snow hydrology, mass loading, event character
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- Title: Single and Mass Avalanching Similarity of Avalanching in Space
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Pavel Chernous
- Description: Sometimes it is possible to observe only single avalanche release in a big area with
numerous avalanche paths, but sometimes avalanches occur in many...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-15.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, mass avalanching, similarity of avalanching in space
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- Title: A Simple Method to Study Snow Erosion and Deposition Processes in Small Avalanches: The Straw Test
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: E. Bovet, M. Maggioni, L. Pitet, B. Chiaia, M. Freppaz, V. Segor, P. Dellavedova
- Description: The snow erosion and deposition processes play a fundamental role in the avalanche
dynamics. Nowadays, sophisticated and expensive techniques, such a...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-25.pdf
- Keywords: straw test, avalanche mass balance, net erosion and deposition, cheap method
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- Title: Can We Estimate Precipitation Rate During Snowfall Using a Scanning Terrestrial Lidar?
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Edward H. Bair, Robert E. Davis, David C. Finnegan, Adam L. LeWinter, Ethan Guttmann, Jeff Dozier
- Description: Accurate snowfall measurements in windy areas have proven difficult. To examine a new approach, we have installed an automatic scanning terrestrial Li...
- Object ID: issw-2012-923-929.pdf
- Keywords: precipitation, lidar, mass flux
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- Title: A High Resolution Approach to Defining Spatial Snow Height Distribution in Avalanche Release Zones for Dynamic Avalanche Modeling
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Alexander Prokop, Christina Delaney
- Description: Over the last 80 years, avalanche-dynamics models have increasingly been used for landuse planning and to design protection measures. One of the impor...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-103.pdf
- Keywords: high resolution, model, mass
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- Title: Vertical Profiles of Mass Flux for Different Particle Diameters in Drifting Snow Over Hard Snow Surfaces
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Kenji Kosugi, Takeshi Sato, Masaki Nemoto, Shigeto Mochizuki, Atsushi Sato
- Description: The vertical profile of horizontal snow mass flux is a fundamental structure of drifting snow. It is widely recognized that most of drifting snow part...
- Object ID: P__8097.pdf
- Keywords: drifting snow, wind-tunnel experiment, saltation, mass flux, snow cover
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- Title: Integrated Database for Rapid Mass Movements in Norway
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Karstein Lied, Halvor Juvet, Kalle Kronholm
- Description: Rapid mass movements include all kinds of slides in geological material, snow or
ice. Traditionally, information about such events is collected separ...
- Object ID: issw-2006-148-156.pdf
- Keywords: database, avalanche, mass movements, slide
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- Title: Noaa’s National Snow Analyses
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Tom Carroll, Don Cline
- Description: NOAA’s National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC) provides comprehensive, near real-time, snow observations, snow analyses,...
- Object ID: issw-2006-797-805.pdf
- Keywords: energy-and-mass-balance snow model, remote sensing, airborne snow measurements, snow hydrology, water supply, snowmelt flooding
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- Title: The Importance of Snow Entrainment in Avalanche Dynamics Calculations
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Betty Sovilla, Perry Bartelt, Stefan Margreth
- Description: Numerical models that predict flow velocities and runout distances of extreme avalanche events are used to delimit hazard maps. These models contain m...
- Object ID: issw-2004-065-073.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche dynamics, avalanche mass balance, entrainment, deposition, numerical modelling
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- Title: Field Observations, Full-Scale Tests, Laboratory Investigations and Numerical Modelling of Snow Avalanches in Switzerland
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Betty Sovilla, Marc Christen, Francois Dufour, Urs Gruber, Martin Kern, Margherita Maggioni, Felix Tiefenbacher, Barbara Turnbull, Perry Bartelt
- Description: There are still many unresolved questions in snow avalanche dynamics. This was apparent during the catastrophic avalanche Winter of 1999. In this pape...
- Object ID: issw-2002-071-078.pdf
- Keywords: flowing avalanches, powder avalanches, chute experiments, optical velocity sensors, capacitance density probes, velocity profiles, radar, mass balance, snow cover entrainment, numerical modelling
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- Title: Place of Snow Recrystallization in Modeling the Snow Cover Evolution
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Sergey A. Sokratov
- Description: The paper presents results of analysis of experimental data on activity of snow recrystallization under temperature gradient conditions. In addition t...
- Object ID: issw-2000-247-251.pdf
- Keywords: snow metamor~hism, recrystallization rate, heat- and mass-transfer, volumetric mass production, acceleration of gravity
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- Title: Particle Size Dependence of Horizontal Snow Mass Flux in Drifting Snow
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Konosuke Sugiura, Norikazu Maeno
- Description: For understanding the drifting snow structure on sattating particles with particle size
distribution over the loose surface, wind tunnel experiments ...
- Object ID: issw-2000-290-295.pdf
- Keywords: drifting snow, wind tunnel, saltation, mass flux
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- Title: A Network of Automatic Weather and Snow Stations and Supplementary Model Calculations Providing Snowpack Information for Avalanche Warning
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Michael Lehning, Perry Bartelt, Bob Brown, Tom Russi, Urs Stockli, Martin Zimmerli
- Description: The Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) began to
construct a network of high Alpine automatic weather and snow measurement ...
- Object ID: issw-1998-225-233.pdf
- Keywords: remote weather and snow measurements, snowcover simulation, snow cover structure, snow metamorphism, mass balance, energy balance
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