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Title: ON THE IDENTIFICATION OF SLOPES SUSCEPTIBLE TO GLIDE SNOW AVALANCHES BY DEVELOPING A REGIONAL SPATIAL SNOW GLIDE MODEL
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Matthias Pleyer, Walter Steinkogler
Description: Glide snow avalanche activity is expected to increase in the future due to climate change. Half of the fatal avalanches on traffic routes in Switzerla...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O6.5.pdf
Keywords: glide snow avalanche, snow gliding, spatial model
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Title: COMBINING MODEL PREDICTIONS AND RADAR AVALANCHE DETECTIONS FOR OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE FORECASTING
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Jürg Trachsel, Bettina Richter, Severin Stähly, Stephanie Mayer, Susanne Wahlen, Alec van Herwijnen, Frank Techel
Description: Predicting natural avalanche activity and verifying avalanche forecasts have long been major challenges. However, the advent of new technologies, such...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P8.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, natural avalanche model, operational validation, real-time avalanche detection, doppler radar
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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: SWE MONITORING. FIRST RESULTS FROM AN INNOVATIVE CRNS NETWORK
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Valt Mauro, Giuseppe Crepaz, Roberto Gazzola, Enrico Gazzola, Barbara Biasuzzi
Description: Snowpack is an important resource for the mountain environment for various aspects such as hydrology, vegetation, winter sports, and energy production...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P8.24.pdf
Keywords: snow, crns, snowpack model, snow water equivalent, swe
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Title: TOWARD A CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF THE HUMAN PROBLEM IN AVALANCHE TERRAIN
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Tarjei Tveito Skille, Sara Boilen, Tim Dassler
Description: A historical lack of consensus surrounds the problem of humans in avalanche terrain. Research from a variety of fields - behavioral economics, social ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P11.13.pdf
Keywords: human problem, conceptual model, human factor, qualitative
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Title: IMPROVING AVALANCHE RISK ASSESSMENT FOR BACKCOUNTRY SKI TOURS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE NOVEL SLABS METHOD WITH EXISTING METHODS.
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Bart Degraeuwe, Günter Schmudlach, Kurt Winkler, Jochen Köhler
Description: The main danger to which backcountry skiers are exposed are dry slab avalanches triggered by skiers themselves. This study introduces SLABS (Screening...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P12.2.pdf
Keywords: backcountry skiing, avalanche, probabilistic methods, generalised additive model
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Title: IS IT A PROBLEM? TAKEAWAYS FROM RESEARCH INTO THE USE AND EFFECTIVENESS OF AVALANCHE PROBLEMS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Simon Horton, Pascal Haegeli, Grant Statham, Bret Shandro, Taylor Clark, Stan Nowak, Moses Towell, Heather Hordowick, Florian Herla
Description: Over the past 20 years, avalanche safety operations in North America adopted common standards for assessing avalanche hazard, including the North Amer...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O1.04.pdf
Keywords: hazard assessment, avalanche problems, danger ratings, conceptual model
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Title: ASSESSING AVALANCHE PROBLEMS FOR OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE FORECASTING BASED ON DIFFERENT MODEL CHAINS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Martin Perfler, Michael Binder, Benjamin Reuter, Rainer Prinz, Christoph Mitterer
Description: Snow-cover models were initially developed to assist with operational avalanche forecasting, but the full potential has yet to be exploited. There ar...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O4.05.pdf
Keywords: avalanche problems, snowpack, simulations, forecasting, model chains, avalanche danger assessment
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Title: VALIDATION OF A WIND TRANSPORT SCENARIOS TOOL
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Eloïse Bovet, Nathalie Durand, Andrea Debernardi, Luca Pitet, Igor Torlai
Description: The wind drift plays an important role in the definition of avalanche scenarios. In order to forecast the slopes subjected to snow drift a rapid and s...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.02.pdf
Keywords: snow drift, meteorological model, validation, forecast, avalanche scenario
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Title: A MODEL-CHAIN APPROACH TO ASSESS AND PREDICT LOCAL AVALANCHE RISK
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Veronika Hatvan, Andreas Gobiet, Lisa Pulling
Description: A model-chain to operationally assess and predict local avalanche risk has been developed at Geo-Sphere Austria, formerly Zentralanstalt für Meteorol...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.13.pdf
Keywords: local assessment, local expertise, model-chain, snowpack, nwp
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Title: ASSESSING SNOWPACK STRATIGRAPHY ACCURACY BASED ON DIFFERENT INPUT DATA: INSIGHTS FOR OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE FORECASTING
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Ross T. Palomaki, Zachary S. Miller
Description: Avalanche forecasters and snow scientists use physically based snow stratigraphy models to fill spatial and temporal gaps in field-based snow profile ...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.26.pdf
Keywords: snow cover model, automated weather station, numerical weather prediction, similarity
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Title: A QUANTITATIVE MODULE OF AVALANCHE HAZARD---COMPARING FORECASTER ASSESSMENTS OF AVALANCHE PROBLEMS WITH INFORMATION DERIVED FROM DISTRIBUTED SNOWPACK SIMULATIONS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Florian Herla, Pascal Haegeli, Simon Horton, Patrick Mair
Description: Avalanche forecasting is a human judgment process with the goal of describing the nature and severity of avalanche hazard based on the concept of aval...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O5.04.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snowpack modeling, avalanche problems, model evaluation
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Title: INTER-PARTY AVALANCHE INVOLVEMENTS MAY INCREASE QUADRATICALLY WITH PARTY DENSITY
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Charles A. Hagedorn
Description: We estimate, from first-principles, the rate of inter-party avalanche involvements. The model suggests that the likelihood of inter-party involvements...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O8.04.pdf
Keywords: inter-party avalanche catalog, backcountry crowding, first-principles model, party density, backcountry travel techniques
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Title: A MODEL APPROACH TO DESCRIBE THE EFFECTS OF EXPLOSIVES ON A SNOWPACK
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Benjamin Meier
Description: For the controlled release of avalanches a variety of methods are used; most of them work with some kind of explosion to generate a pressure-wave. On...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.35.pdf
Keywords: explosives, effective range, avalanche control, model
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Title: CHARACTERISTICS OF AVALANCHE ACCIDENTS IN DIFFERENT SNOW CLIMATE REGIONS IN THE ALPS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Benjamin Reuter, Cécile Coléou, Jürg Schweizer, Benjamin Zweifel, Cristian Pérez Guillén, Christoph Mitterer, Marcus Kalb, Patrick Nairz
Description: Avalanche accidents evidence periods of increased avalanche danger that avalanche forecasters want to pinpoint. Accidents records reveal periods with ...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.29.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accidents, snow climates, snow cover model
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