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Title: Avalanche prediction and strength-of-knowledge assessment
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Krister Kristensen
Description: The NGI provides local avalanche forecasting, produces hazard maps and acts as an advisor for national and local authorities during emergencies. A mai...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche prediction, risk management, knowledge assessment
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Title: Regional Forecasting of Wet Snow Avalanche Cycles: an Essential Tool for Avalanche Warning Services?
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Alec van Herwijnen, Christoph Mitterer, Nora Helbig, Tobias Jonas, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Wet-snow avalanches are relatively poorly understood and difficult to forecast. By definition, liquid water is required in the snow cover, thus predic...
Object ID: ISSW16_O6.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, wet-snow avalanche, snow cover modelling, numerical weather prediction
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Title: Weather Forecast Model Grid Spacing – Is Smaller Better
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: John Snook
Description: The Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) implemented an in-house numerical weather prediction model in 2011. Computer-generated forecast produ...
Object ID: ISSW16_O15.01.pdf
Keywords: numerical weather prediction, operational forecasting, colorado avalanche information center (caic)
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Title: Weather Modeling for Remote Operators in Southeast Alaska
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Nick Barlow
Description: Unpredictable mountain weather presents a unique challenge for mechanized backcountry skiing in Southeast Alaska. Due to the rugged terrain profile of...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.02.pdf
Keywords: meteorology, forecasting, numerical weather prediction
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Title: Stochastic Methods in Operational Avalanche Simulation - From Back Calculation to Prediction
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Valentin Hellweger, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Andreas Kofler, Andreas Huber, Wolfgang Fellin, Michael Oberguggenberger
Description: Avalanche simulations are an integral part of hazard assessment. Determining the potential hazard requires a multidisciplinary approach, including dif...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.50.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, parameter estimation, stochastic simulation, bayes’ theorem, metropolis-hastings algorithm, posterior distribution, back calculation, prediction
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Title: How Accurate are Weather Models in Assisting Avalanche Forecasters?
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: M. Schirmer, B. Jamieson
Description: Avalanche forecasters and decision makers strongly rely on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models, for example on the forecasted precipitation amou...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O3.04.pdf
Keywords: numerical weather prediction models, validation, precipitation
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Title: Simulation of the Alpine Snowpack Using Meteorological Fields From a Nonhydrostatic Weather Forecast Model
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: V. Vionnet, I. Etchevers, L. Auger, A. Colomb, L. Pfitzner, M. Lafaysse, S. Morin
Description: In the Alps, the snowpack is very variable at all scales and depends in particular on the climatological area and local orography represented by alti...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P1.20.pdf
Keywords: snowpack modelling, numerical weather prediction, french alps
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Title: Online Tool for Visualizing Surface Hoar Layers
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Simon Horton, Michael Schirmer, Bruce Jamieson, Erik Kulyk
Description: A key step in preparing an avalanche forecast is estimating the location and sensitivity of critical snowpack layers. Traditionally this is based on m...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P1.37.pdf
Keywords: surface hoar, avalanche forecasting, numerical weather prediction
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Title: On Estimating Avalanche Danger From Simulated Snow Profiles
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Estimating avalanche danger is the primary goal of avalanche warning services. Typically avalanche danger is estimated based on a variety of informati...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-01.pdf
Keywords: avalanche warning, avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger, snowpack, snow cover simulations, numerical weather prediction, data sparse areas
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Title: Why Don’t Avalanche-Dynamics Models of Higher Complexity Necessarily Lead to Better Predictions?
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Christophe Ancey
Description: The avalanche-dynamics approach has a long history in avalanche prediction. In the absence of computers, scientists and engineers focused on idealized...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-20.pdf
Keywords: avalanche-dynamics model, saint-venant equation, prediction and uncertainty, maps
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Title: Spatial Predictions of Surface Hoar and Crust Formation
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Simon Horton, Michael Schirmer, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Understanding the distribution of critical snowpack layers is important when assessing avalanche hazard. Two common critical layers, surface hoar and ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-01.pdf
Keywords: surface hoar, sun crust, surface energy balance, avalanche forecasting, numeric weather prediction
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Title: SNOWGRID – A New Operational Snow Cover Model in Austria
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Marc Olefs, Wolfgang Schöner, Martin Suklitsch, Christoph Wittmann, Bernd Niedermoser, Alfred Neururer, Arnulf Wurzer
Description: We present first results of the newly developed, physically-based and spatially distributed snow cover model SNOWGRID. The model is driven with gridde...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-07.pdf
Keywords: snow cover model, climate services, avalanche warning, inca, nowcasting, numerical weather prediction
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Title: On Indicator Path Avalanches for Local Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 2012
Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Claudia Alig, Christoph Mitterer
Description: Avalanches are clear signs of instability and thus often considered as the best predictor for further events. In fact, avalanches that release at the...
Object ID: issw-2012-051-054.pdf
Keywords: avalanche path, snow depth,prediction methods, avalanche awareness
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Title: Nowcast With a Forescast – Snow Cover Simulations on Slopes
Date: 2012
Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Bruce Jamieson
Description: The snow cover model SNOWPACK simulates the snow cover formation and evolution based on meteorological parameters. In the past, these parameters were...
Object ID: issw-2012-172-178.pdf
Keywords: snowpack, snow cover modeling, avalanche warning, numerical weather prediction models, snow cover stratigraphy, model output statistics
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Title: Prediction of Slushflow Hazard Based On Data From Local Meteorological Stations
Date: 2010
Authors: Steinar Bakkehøi, Erik Hestnes
Description: Seeking objective criteria for slushflow prediction and warning, meteorological data has been recorded at two slushflow sites in Rana District, North ...
Object ID: ISSW_P-067.pdf
Keywords: slushflow, prediction, pressure transmitters, slushflow releases
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