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Title: Combining the Conceptual Model of Avalanche Hazard With the Bavarian Matrix
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Karsten Müller, Christoph Mitterer, Rune V. Engeset, Ragnar Ekker, Solveig Ø. Kosberg
Description: The European Avalanche Danger Scale provides definitions for each of the five danger levels. However, some terms used in the scale are not fully defin...
Object ID: ISSW16_O20.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, bavarian matrix, conceptual model of avalanche hazard, eaws
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Title: Application of Multi-dimensional Water Transport Model to Natural Snow: Reproduction Simulation of Water Sprinkle Experiment
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Hiroyuki Hirashima, Yoshiyuki Ishii, Satoru Yamaguchi
Description: Information about liquid water infiltration into snowpack is important for predicting wet snow avalanches. To replicate rain-on-snow events, water spr...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.41.pdf
Keywords: water transport model, water sprinkle experiment, discharge
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Title: Adapting and Calibrating the DAN3D Dynamic Model for North American Snow Avalanche Runout Modelling
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Jordan Aaron, Michael Conlan, Katherine Johnston, Dave Gauthier, Scott McDougall
Description: Numerical dynamic snow avalanche simulations are now a key component in snow avalanche hazard and risk assessment, land use planning, and mitigation d...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.28.pdf
Keywords: dynamic model, avalanche runout, three dimensions, deposit volume
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Title: Exploring Large-Scale Terrain Preferences for Managing Avalanche Risk in a Commercial Backcountry Skiing Operation
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Reto Sterchi, Pascal Haegeli, Clair Israelson
Description: Guides of commercial backcountry skiing operations manage the physical risk from avalanches by assessing the local avalanche hazard and carefully choo...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.31.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk management, terrain selection, decision making, helicopter skiing, conceptual model of avalanche hazard
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Title: A New Mechanical Framework to Interpret Weak Layer and Slab Fracture in the Propagation Saw Test
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Lorenzo Benedetti, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Johan Gaume
Description: This work aims to provide a mechanical model for the Propagation Saw Test (PST) based on the Euler-Bernoulli beam, allowing a description of the slab ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.01.pdf
Keywords: fracture, critical length, propagation length, mechanical model
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Title: Evaluation of SNOWPACK Metamorphism and Microstructure in a Canadian Context: a Case Study for Snow Stability Assessment
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Jean-Benoit Madore, Kevin Côté, Alexandre Langlois
Description: The snow thermodynamic multi-layer model SNOWPACK was developed in order to address the risk of avalanches by simulating the vertical geophysical and ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.06.pdf
Keywords: snow grain, snowpack, avalanche, model, stability, metamorphism
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Title: Avalanche Close-Calls During Courses – What Can We Learn?
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Steve Conger
Description: This paper and its associated poster present a study of avalanche close-calls or incidents that have occurred during field sessions in a formalized av...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.15.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accidents, close calls, hazard evaluation conceptual model, recognition primed decision-making
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Title: A Detailed Framework of the Snow and Avalanche Dynamics Class at the University of Utah
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Steven Clark
Description: Traditional certification-based avalanche education is often completed in short, intensive time periods that leaves many students wanting more detaile...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.43.pdf
Keywords: education, 5e instructional model, fieldwork, semester
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Title: Statistical Nowcast of Avalanche Activity at the Regional Scale
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Alec van Herwijnen, Bettina Richter
Description: Forecasting natural avalanche activity is challenging. Events are relatively rare and several contributory factors affecting the formation of dry- or ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.04.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche activity, statistical model, random forest, snowpack
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Title: Characteristics of Avalanche Release and an Approach of Avalanche Forecasting System Using SNOWPACK Model in the Tianshan Mountains, China
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Osamu Abe, Lanhai Li, Lei Bai, Jiansheng Hao, Hiroyuki Hirashima, Junrong Xu
Description: We summarized the characteristics of avalanche releases in the Tianshan Mountains of western China based on observations of snow cover and avalanche o...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche release, forecasting system, snowpack model, tianshan mountains
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Title: Simulation of Liquid Water Infiltration Into Layered Snowpacks Using Multi-Dimensional Water Transport Model
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Hiroyuki Hirashima, Satoru Yamaguchi, Yoshiyuki Ishii
Description: In this study, simulations of liquid water infiltration into layered snowpacks were performed using a multi-dimensional water transport model. The cha...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O2.04.pdf
Keywords: numerical model, liquid water movement, capillary barrier, preferential flow, sensitivityanalysis
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Title: Avalanche Dynamics Model RAMMS Applied in Two North American Climates
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Chris Wilbur, Art Mears, Stefan Margreth, Sue Burak
Description: Recent advances in computational methods and availability of digital terrain models allow for improvements in avalanche dynamics models. Such models h...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O8.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics model, ramms, long return period avalanche
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Title: Close Call at the Burnie Glacier Chalet
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Christoph Dietzfelbinger
Description: Putting the large volume of available information in a structure that serves to keep an operation in its acceptable risk band is one of the key challe...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O11.04.pdf
Keywords: reason's model, confirmation and motivation bias, intuition, deep persistent weak layer, mindfulness.
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Title: Evaluating the Local Avalanche Danger in Tromsø, Northern Norway Using Field Monitoring, Field Investigations and the SURFEX/ISBA-CROCUS Snowpack Model
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Eirik Malnes, Dagrun Vikhamar-Schuler, Yngve Antonsen
Description: During the winter 2013/2014 we conducted frequent fieldwork, collecting snowpack property and stability data from five monitoring sites along a verti...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P1.07.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger scale, stability test, ect, surfex/isba-crocus snowpack model,norway
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Title: Application of a Multi-Dimensional Water Transport Model to Reproduce the Temporal Change of Runoff Amount
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Hiroyuki Hirashima, Satoru Yamaguchi, Yoshiyuki Ishii
Description: In this study, multiple simulations were performed in Nagaoka, Japan, a warm-snow region, by combining the numerical snowpack model, SNOWPACK, and a m...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P1.36.pdf
Keywords: water transport model, snowpack, preferential flow, runoff
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