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Title: Snow gliding and glide snow avalanches: recent outcomes from two experimental test sites in Aosta Valley (NW Italian Alps)
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Margherita Maggioni, Danilo Godone, Barbara Frigo, Michele Freppaz
Description: We have been continuing our research on snow gliding and glide snow avalanches in two experimental test sites in Aosta Valley Region. The sites are lo...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P01.9.pdf
Keywords: snow gliding processes, driving factors, liquid water content, soil, monitoring system.
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Title: Monitoring forces in steel wire rope nets: Evaluation of short and long term influences
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Engelbert Gleirscher, Andreas Kofler, Thomas Gigele, Armin Graf, Matthias Granig, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: Flexible steel wire rope nets are used as mitigation measures in avalanche starting zones. The purpose of these measures lies in the prevention of an ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P02.3.pdf
Keywords: steel wire rope nets, avalanche mitigation, design load, diurnal variation, mitigation measures, monitoring.
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Title: Mysnowmaps: operative high-resolution real-time snow mapping
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Matteo Dall’Amico, Stefano Endrizzi, Stefano Tasin
Description: Snow plays a crucial role in the Alps for many human activities, like winter tourism, hydropower and water table recharge. At the same time, during ex...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O04.7.pdf
Keywords: snow monitoring, snow crowdsourcing, physically based modeling.
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Title: Operational avalanche activity monitoring using radar satellites: From Norway to worldwide assistance in avalanche forecasting
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Eirik Malnes, Hannah Vickers, Karsten Müller, Rune Engeset, Tore Humstad
Description: The seemingly simple questions of when and where avalanches have released are difficult to answer for large avalanche forecasting regions, especially ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O04.9.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, operational avalanche activity monitoring, sentinel-1, radar, norway.
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Title: The Stavbrekka glide avalanche in Norway - evaluations after three years of monitoring
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Tore Humstad, Halgeir Dahle, Knut Inge Orset, Martin Venås, Ingrid Skrede
Description: The Stavbrekka glide avalanche path, situated in the southern Norway mountain range, gives every spring a challenge to the seasonal opening of the tou...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P05.8.pdf
Keywords: wet snow, glide avalanche, monitoring, instrumentation
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Title: Climate Change in the Alps - The "2°C Target" in the Practice Check
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: DI Erich Lang, DI Ulrike Stary
Description: The so-called "2°C Target" is a legally binding obligation for all member countries of the UN Climate Convention 1992 to limit global warming to co...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P06.6.pdf
Keywords: climate change, torrent monitoring, air temperature, adaption strategies
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Title: Evaluating the performance of operational infrasound avalanche detection systems at three locations in the Swiss Alps during two winter seasons
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Stephanie Mayer, Alec van Herwijnen, Giacomo Ulivieri, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Avalanche occurrences are unambiguous indicators of unstable snow conditions. Information on past and current avalanche activity is therefore crucial ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O07.6.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, infrasound, array processing, monitoring of avalanche activity
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Title: Automatic classification of continuous seismic data for avalanche monitoring purposes
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Matthias Heck, Conny Hammer, Manuel Hobiger, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Schweizer, Donat Fäh
Description: Seismic monitoring systems are well suited to detect avalanches independent of weather conditions. Nevertheless, seismic monitoring systems are not ye...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O07.10.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, avalanche forecasting, seismic monitoring, automatic detection, event localization
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Title: 8 years experience in avalanche detection by using a Pulse Doppler Radar
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Richard Koschuch
Description: Nowadays, artificial release of avalanches for road and slope safety is very common. To do so safely, a reliable detection and monitoring system in an...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O07.12.pdf
Keywords: avalanche radar, avalanche detection, alarming system, monitoring system
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Title: SNOWAVE: a novel FMCW radar architecture for snow cover monitoring
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: P. F. Espin-Lopez, M. Barbolini, E. Ceaglio, F. Dell’Acqua, P. Dellavedova, L. Silvestri, M. Pasian
Description: Snow avalanches are a persistent risk for several Alpine infrastructures. Cost-effective strategies for risk mitigation invariably require avalanche f...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P07.14.pdf
Keywords: snow cover monitoring, snowpack monitoring, snow stratigraphy, upward-looking radar, dualreceiver architecture, liquid water content (lwc)
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Title: Use of Ground Based INSAR Radar to Monitor Glide Avalanches
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Ingrid Skrede, Lene Kristensen, Carlo Rivolta
Description: Ground based InSAR radars are commonly used to monitor deformations on rock slopes, using acceleration to predict the risk of failure. During the spri...
Object ID: ISSW16_O2.04.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanche, insar, radar, monitoring, stavbrekkfonna
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Title: Avalanche Forecasting in the Central Asian Countries of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Doug Chabot, Aysha Kaba
Description: Home of the Karakorum, Hindu Kush and Pamir mountains, Central Asia has a serious avalanche hazard. A single 2012 avalanche cycle resulted in over 100...
Object ID: ISSW16_O20.04.pdf
Keywords: focus, avalanches, community training, weather monitoring, education
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Title: Towards the Automatic Detection of Avalanches in Seismic Data Using Hidden Markov Models
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Matthias Heck, Conny Hammer, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Schweizer, Donat Fäh
Description: Seismic monitoring systems are well suited for the remote detection of various mass movements, including snow avalanches. While this has been known si...
Object ID: ISSW16_O14.04.pdf
Keywords: automatic detection, classification, seismic monitoring
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Title: Monitoring the Stavbrekka Glide Avalanche
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Tore Humstad, Martin Venås, Halgeir Dahle, Knut I. Orset, Ingrid Skrede
Description: The yearly Stavbrekka glide avalanche is problematic for the summer opening of the tourist road between Breidalen and Geiranger in Norway. Several eff...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.05.pdf
Keywords: wet snow, glide avalanche, monitoring, instrumentation
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Title: A Unique Time Series of Daily and Weekly Snowpack Measurements At Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Neige Calonne, Cecilia Cetti, Charles Fierz, Alec van Herwijnen, Matthias Jaggi, Henning Löwe, M. Matzl, Lino Schmid, Martin Schneebeli
Description: Recently, different efforts were dedicated to improve various components of snowpack models, notably, by including more objective parameters of snow m...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.39.pdf
Keywords: density, specific surface area, snowpack, monitoring, measurement
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