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Title: Linking modelled potential release areas with avalanche dynamic simulations: an automated approach for large-scale avalanche hazard mapping
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Yves Bühler, Daniel von Rickenbach, Marc Christen, Stefan Margreth, Lukas Stoffel, Andreas Stoffel, Roderick Kühne
Description: Snow avalanches are a major threat for people and infrastructure in alpine regions. In Switzerland and other countries in the Alps, long term experien...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P08.22.pdf
Keywords: large scale hazard mapping, avalanche engineering, digital elevation model, release area, avalanche mitigation
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Title: Anti-crack nucleation in snowpacks without assuming initial defects: modeling dry snow slab avalanches
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Philipp L. Rosendahl, Vera Lübke, Philipp Weißgraeber
Description: To improve modeling of slab avalanche release we propose a new mechanical snowpack model and a novel criterion for anticrack nucleation. The model all...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O10.6.pdf
Keywords: slab avalanche release, fracture mechanics, predictive modeling, snowpack model
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Title: Prediction of snow failure: mission impossible?
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Achille Capelli, Ingrid Reiweger, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Slab avalanches are caused by a crack forming and propagating in a weak layer within the snow cover, which eventually causes the detachment of the ove...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P10.11.pdf
Keywords: snow failure, avalanche release, precursor, acoustic emission, fiber bundle model
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Title: Study of the estimation of snow properties at an arbitrary point
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Ryota Sato, Daisuke Takahashi, Shigehiro Iikura
Description: It is important for risk assessment such as snow melting hazards along railroad tracks to estimate the snow depth or snow water equivalent in the moun...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P10.18.pdf
Keywords: snow water equivalent, snow melting model, amedas weather data
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Title: Approaches of avalanche predictions resulting from non-rimed falling snow crystals using the SNOWPACK model
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Hiroyuki Hirashima, Satoru Yamaguchi, Kazuki Nakamura, Akihiro Hashimoto
Description: On 27 March 2017, an avalanche accident occurred at Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, resulting in eight deaths. The avalanche was induced by the colla...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P10.20.pdf
Keywords: stability, precipitation particle, numerical snowpack model
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Title: Increasing the operational usability of the snow cover model SNOWPACK
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Fabiano Monti, Christoph Mitterer, Walter Steinkogler
Description: Snow cover modelling has large potential to increase the spatial and temporal resolution of snow stratigraphy and stability information available for ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P10.28.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche risk management, snow cover simulations, snowpack model
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Title: Forecasting for dry and wet avalanches during mixed rain and snow storm
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Scott Savage, Erich Peitzsch, Simon Trautman, Ben VandenBos
Description: Natural wet slab avalanches release when rain or melt water decreases snowpack strength, and natural dry slab avalanches release when an increased loa...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O11.3.pdf
Keywords: wet avalanche, rain-on-snow, conceptual model for avalanche hazard
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Title: An Operational Specific Avalanche Risk Matrix (OSARM): Combining the Conceptual Model of Avalanche Hazard with risk analysis and operational mitigation strategies
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: S. Langeland, P. Velsand, L. Solemsli Øyvind, W. Steinkogler
Description: Object specific avalanche forecasting is common in many countries and typically assesses avalanche hazard on an mountain (> 10 km2) scale or single pa...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O12.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, local forecasting, operational forecasting, danger scales, danger levels, conceptual model of avalanche hazard, osarm, avalanche risk, risk mitigation, iso 31 000, tasarm
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Title: AvalMap - a snowpack, weather, terrain and land cover based avalanche hazard model for the Low Tatras, Slovakia
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Taylor Clark
Description: AvalMap is a complex, multi-layer snowpack and avalanche hazard model with a basic idea of spatially and temporally modelling the evolution of snowpac...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O12.5.pdf
Keywords: avalmap, snowpack, multi-layer, model, avalanche hazard
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Title: Exploring regional snowpack patterns with gridded models
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Simon Horton, Stanislaw Nowak, Pascal Haegeli
Description: Although weather forecast models play a key role in avalanche forecasting, snowpack models have had limited uptake. As the quantity of weather and sno...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O12.8.pdf
Keywords: snowpack model, forecasting, data aggregation, snow profile
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Title: Sensitivity of modeled snow instability to meteorological input uncertainty
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Bettina Richter, Alec van Herwijnen, Mathias W. Rotach, Jürg Schweizer
Description: To perform spatial snow cover simulations for numerical avalanche forecasting, interpolation and downscaling of meteorological data is required, which...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P12.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow instability, sensitivity, model uncertainties
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Title: Synoptic Climatology of Deep Slab Avalanches in the Western United States
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Andrew Schauer, Jordy Hendrikx, Karl Birkeland, Megan Higgs
Description: Deep slab avalanches result from season-long weather beginning with the formation of snow stratigraphy conducive to deep slab avalanches. The onset of...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P12.8.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow instability, sensitivity, model uncertainties
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Title: What type of ski runs are acceptable for skiing under different avalanche hazard conditions? Extracting knowledge from heli-ski guides
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Reto Sterchi, Pascal Haegeli
Description: While guides in mechanized skiing operations use a well-established terrain selection process to limit their exposure to avalanche hazard and keep the...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P19.5.pdf
Keywords: mixed effects model, avalanche risk management, terrain selection, decision making, helicopter skiing, conceptual model of avalanche hazard
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Title: A Multi-Dimensional Model of Water Transport Into Layered Snowpack: Validation by Comparison with Laboratory Experiments
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Hiroyuki Hirashima, Francesco Avanzi, Satoru Yamaguchi
Description: The processes of liquid water infiltration into snowpack are important for the prediction of wet snow avalanches. In a previous study, we developed a ...
Object ID: ISSW16_O6.04.pdf
Keywords: water transport model, preferential flow, capillary barrier
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Title: An Assessment of Run-Out Models Applied to Norwegian Snow Avalanches
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Gunne HÃ¥land, Harald Norem, Knut I. Orset, Martine H. Frekhaug
Description: The aim of the present project was to evaluate four different models by using objective criteria and constant parameters, and to consider the models' ...
Object ID: ISSW16_O7.03.pdf
Keywords: dynamical model, topographic model, run-out distance, velocity-distribution
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