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Title: EVALUATING SIMULATIONS AGAINST MEASURED RADAR SPECTRA FROM AN AVALANCHE EVENT
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Peter Gauer, Callum Tregaskis, Anselm Köhler, Anna Wirbel, Richard Koschuch
Description: One major purpose of avalanche test sites such as Ryggfonn is to obtain measurements that can be used to characterize avalanche dynamics and to suppor...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.34.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, measurements, radar velocity spectra, synthetic spectra
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Title: TRACKING WATER IN SNOW: BRIDGING SENSOR DATA AND MODEL SIMULATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Andrea Bruckmeier, Christoph Mitterer, Robyn Gotz, Eric Sproles, Erich Peitzsch
Description: Forecasting wet slab avalanches remains one of the most demanding challenges in operational avalanche forecasting. A key obstacle is the difficulty of...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.30.pdf
Keywords: liquid water content, snowpack, in-situ measurements, avalanche forecasting
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Title: EVALUATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF SNOW STABILITY TESTS BASED ON MEASUREMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH REAL AVALANCHES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Alain Duclos, Frédéric Pourraz, Gaëlle Bourgeois
Description: A number of snow stability tests (Rutschblock, CT, ECT, PST) have been in use for long. However, some dramatic cases have shown their limitations as s...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.4.pdf
Keywords: snow stability tests, pst critical initiation cuts, significant triggering probability, snowpack measurements, avalanche prediction.
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Title: FLOWING FROM RELEASE TO RUNOUT: HIGH-RESOLUTION RADAR MEASUREMENTS OF SNOW AVALANCHES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Anselm Köhler, Michael Neuhauser, Gregoire Bobillier, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: Radar technology is indispensable in the context of snow avalanche monitoring. Practitioners rely on the capabilities of related real-time detection ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O2.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, radar measurements, weak layer crack propagation speed, front velocity
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Title: CONTINUOUS SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT MONITORING ON GLACIERS USING COSMIC RAY NEUTRON SENSOR TECHNOLOGY A CASE STUDY ON HINTEREISFERNER, AUSTRIA
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Marie Schroeder, Rainer Prinz, Michael Binder, Michael Winkler, Harald Schellander
Description: Snow water equivalent (SWE) is crucial for assessing snow mass in various fields, particularly on glaciers to quantify accumulation and ablation of t...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P8.8.pdf
Keywords: snow measurements, cosmic ray neutron sensor, snow water equivalent, snow modeling
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Title: CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT OF SNOWPACK PHYSICAL PROPERTIES USING RADAR TECHNOLOGY ​ INSIGHTS FROM TWO WINTER SEASONS IN GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, CANADA​
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Jean-Benoit Madore, Alexandre Langlois
Description: Consistently assessing the physical properties of the snowpack throughout the winter season is both demanding and indispensable. The ongoing evaluatio...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P9.9.pdf
Keywords: snowpack assessment, radar measurements, snow height, snow water equivalent (swe), remote sensing
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Title: CROSS-COMPARISON OF SELECTED AVALANCHE OBSERVATIONS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Peter Gauer
Description: In many mountainous regions, snow avalanches are severe threats to the population and their infrastructure. Delimitation of avalanche endangered areas...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.52.pdf
Keywords: avalanche observations, full-scale measurements, cross-comparison
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Title: Studies on the snow avalanche dynamics by the full-scale experiments in Niseko, Japan
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Kouichi Nishimura, Cristina Pérez-Guillén, Yoichi Ito, Satoru Yamaguchi, Yoshihiko Saito, Dieter Issler, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: Systematic full-scale but small avalanche experiments have been started since 2016 in Niseko, a ski resort in Hokkaido, Japan. Although the vertical d...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P01.8.pdf
Keywords: small full-scale snow avalanche experiment, drone, inertial measurements units (imu).
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Title: 7 years of avalanche measurements with GEODAR radar
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Anselm Köhler, Betty Sovilla, Jim McElwaine
Description: Observations of snow avalanches using radar are becoming more and more common in the daily work of practitioners and their scientific uses are also in...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P07.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, radar measurements, flow regime, geodar data repository
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Title: Real-time avalanche risk estimation on ski
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Landschulze M., Vaksdal M., Karlsen D., Hollande T., Nesse K.
Description: Real-time radar avalanche measuring is well established for remote sensing and is often used for automated detection. The ability to generate real-tim...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.10.pdf
Keywords: real-time measurements, avalanche risk, radar, simulation
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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: Forecasting the Fatal Longyearbyen Avalanche. Possibilities and Challenges
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Erik Hestnes, Steinar Bakkehøi, Torgeir Mørk, Kjetil Brattlien
Description: One of the main questions after the fatal avalanche in Longyearbyen in December 2015, where two persons perished and eleven houses were destroyed, was...
Object ID: ISSW16_O16.04.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, forecasting, storm weather, wind measurements
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Title: Measured Extreme Forces From Overloaded Snow Net Systems
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Granig M., Kofler A.
Description: At the Hafelekar test site above Innsbruck three different triangular and rectangular shaped snow net systems of the regular providers were installed ...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P2.44.pdf
Keywords: snow nets, extreme snow loading, snow nets measurements, test site hafelekar, avalanche protection
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Title: Integration of a Drifting Snow Scheme in the French Operational Modeling for Avalanche Risk Forecasting: Validation Over 10 Years
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: G. Guyomarc’h, Y. Durand1, G. Giraud, F. Naaim-Bouvet
Description: For several years the Snow Study Centre of Météo-France and the Snow avalanche engineering and torrent control research unit of IRSTEA have been...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-04.pdf
Keywords: blowing snow modeling, in-situ measurements, operational forecast for avalanche hazard
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Title: An Innovative Algorithm for Unmanned Validation of Automatic Snow Depth Measurements
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: S. Terzago, M.Faletto, Correspondingauthor, M.C. Prola, S. Fratianni, R. Cremonini, S.Barbero
Description: Ultrasonic snow sensors provide high temporal resolution snow depth and snowfall data used for hydrological applications and avalanche risk assessmen...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-12.pdf
Keywords: ultrasonic snow measurements, snow depth, automatic validation
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