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- Title: DENSITY-INSENSITIVE DETERMINATION OF LIQUID WATER CONTENT IN SNOW USING MICROWAVE ATTENUATION MEASUREMENTS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Marco Niederberger, Michel A. Nyffenegger, Albert Loichinger, Fabian Wolfsperger, Alec van Herwijnen, Hans-Dieter Lang
- Description: Wet snow avalanche modeling and forecasting remain a significant challenge, in part due to the limitations of currently available instruments for dete...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.47.pdf
- Keywords: liquid water content (lwc), snowpack properties, microwave measurement, instrumentation, remote sensing
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- Title: ADVANCING AVALANCHE SAFETY: RADAR-BASED INSIGHTS INTO SNOWPACK DYNAMICS AND STRATIGRAPHY
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Martin Schafferer
- Description: Avalanches pose significant risks to human life and infrastructure, so understanding their mechanics is critical for effective forecasting and mitigat...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P2.1.pdf
- Keywords: stratigraphy, avalanche dynamics, radar-based measurement, measurement network
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- Title: THOUGHTS ON THE WHY’S AND HOW’S OF SMALL-AVALANCHE EXPERIMENTS
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Dieter Issler, Yoichi Ito
- Description: Small avalanche paths (typically 100–300 m long) offer great opportunities for detailed studies of most aspects of avalanche flow except the powder-...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P2.14.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche experiments, avalanche release, flow regimes, erosion, measurement techniques, data analysis
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- Title: ACOUSTIC SNOW STRATIGRAPHY MEASUREMENTS - FROM THE SOUND OF BREAKING SNOW TOWARDS ENHANCED SNOWPACK STABILITY ASSESSMENT
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Tiziano Di Pietro, Julia Kaltenborn, Sophia Groninger, Christoph Mitterer, Martin Schneebeli
- Description: Snowpack stratigraphy measurements are essential for avalanche forecasting, snow-sports,
and various cryospheric science applications. Such measureme...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P8.1.pdf
- Keywords: instrumentation, snow stratigraphy measurement, acoustic measurement
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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: COMPARISON OF THE PERFORMANCE OF PRECIPITATION GAUGES DURING SNOWFALL IN WINDY CONDITIONS
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Jóhannes Konráð Andrésson
- Description: One of the main factors contributing to the risk of natural avalanches is precipitaion. Measuring precipitation is known to be challenging, especially...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P8.30.pdf
- Keywords: precipitation gauges, weighing bucket gauge, precipitation measurement, solid precipitatio
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- Title: HOW ACCURATE AND BIASED IS SLOPE PERCEPTION OF SNOW-COVERED MOUNTAINS?
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Gerit Pfuhl, Karen Ekman, Guang Rong, Lauri Ahonen, Ben Cowley, Audun Hetland, Matti Verkasalo
- Description: Estimating the slant of a snow-covered mountain slope is a difficult task. Human perception is tailored for accurate perception of cardinal orientatio...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P13.16.pdf
- Keywords: inclinometer, inclination measurement, avalanche education, backcountry skiing, cognitive biases
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- Title: AN INNOVATIVE PROTOCOL FOR CONDUCTING AND EXPLOITING SNOW TESTS: THE OUTCOME OF A RELIABLE FIELD EXPERIMENT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL TOOLS ON SMARTPHONE
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Frédéric Pourraz, Alain Duclos, François Louchet
- Description: The avalanche risk estimation, performed by a forecaster as well as a practitioner, is based on a limited number of parameters which are now subject t...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.27.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow tests, measurement protocol, propagation propensity, real-time sharing
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- Title: SLOPE MEASUREMENT FOR HUMANS: INCLINOMETER ERROR AND RISK COMMUNICATION
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Ian McCammon
- Description: Inclinometers are key tools for assessing risk in avalanche terrain, and a wide variety of devices and methods are in use across the avalanche communi...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O12.05.pdf
- Keywords: slope measurement, slope angle, inclinometer, error, start zone, risk communication, decision making
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- Title: Challenges and limitations of in situ particle tracking in avalanches
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Robert Winkler, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Peter Hergel, Michael Neuhauser, Betty Sovilla, Walter Steinkogler
- Description: A first approach to apply methods of inertial navigation for a motion tracking in a real-scale snow avalanche is presented. In the course of an artifi...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P01.2.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche dynamics, motion tracking, inertial measurement unit, imu, gps, doppler radar.
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- Title: Avalanche Doppler Radar Monitoring - Long Term velocity measurements at the Vallée de la Sionne
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Michael Neuhauser, Andreas Kofler, Anselm Köhler, Helmut Schreiber, Thomas Gigele, Betty Sovilla, Lambert Rammer, Jan-Thomas Fischer
- Description: In this contribution we present Doppler radar data obtained over multiple years in terms of total radar intensities and material velocities. These giv...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P07.1.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche dynamics, radar measurement, velocity, avalanche head dynamics
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- Title: Testing and comparing a new 1.4 GHz coaxial sensor for liquid water content in snow
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Jean-Benoit Madore, Alex Mavrovic, Alexandre Langlois, Jacob Laliberté, Alain Royer
- Description: Liquid water in snow is an important metric for the evaluation of the snowpack physical processes. The percolation of water from rain and melt can lea...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P07.8.pdf
- Keywords: lwc, microwave measurement, water percolation, instruments comparison
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- Title: European Snow Booklet - an inventory of snow measurements in Europe
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Anna Haberkorn, Charles Fierz, Christoph Marty
- Description: The "European Snow Booklet" (ESB) is a book of reference for snow measurements that is produced in the framework of the European Cooperation in Scienc...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P16.6.pdf
- Keywords: cost action, harmonisation of snow measurements, snow measurement methods, spatial distribution of snow measurements in europe
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- Title: Front and Internal Velocity Distribution in Powder Snow Avalanches
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jan-Thomas Fischer, Anselm Köehler, Andreas Kofler, Betty Sovilla, Jim McElwaine
- Description: Accurate velocity measurements of avalanches are essential for testing simulation tools and for performing risk mitigating studies. However, the flow ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O9.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche dynamics, radar measurement, velocity, avalanche head dynamics
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