International Snow Science Workshop Proceedings - Montana State University Library

skip navigation

Digital Collections Home

Your search for Keyword "probabilistic"resulted in 12 records.

Title: MOUNTAIN RAIN OR SNOW: ENHANCING AVALANCHE FORECASTING WITH REAL-TIME PRECIPITATION PHASE DATA
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Anne Heggli, David Reichel, Brian Brong, Benjamin Hatchett, Nayoung Hur, Meghan Collins, Keith Jennings, Monica Arienzo
Description: Both minor and major rain-on-snow events can create a weak layer in the snowpack or reduce snowpack stability, increasing the potential for avalanche ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.13.pdf
Keywords: snow level, probabilistic forecast, precipitation phase, sierra nevada
View additional details about MOUNTAIN RAIN OR SNOW: ENHANCING AVALANCHE FORECASTING WITH REAL-TIME PRECIPITATION PHASE DATA

Title: SITE-SPECIFIC PROBALISTIC FORECAST FOR AVALANCHES IN HOLMBUKTURA, LYNGEN, NORWAY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Benjamin Sigbjørnsen, Eivind S. Juvik
Description: Local avalanche forecasting in Norway today is a manual warning issued by a forecaster based on observations of the snow quality and the weather, weat...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.20.pdf
Keywords: probabilistic forecasting, ensemble model, random forests, avalanches
View additional details about SITE-SPECIFIC PROBALISTIC FORECAST FOR AVALANCHES IN HOLMBUKTURA, LYNGEN, NORWAY

Title: A PROBABILITY-BASED MODELLING APPROACH BEYOND A FEW SELECTED RETURN PERIODS FOR COMPREHENSIVE AND ROBUST HAZARD AND RISK ASSESSMENT
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Jan Kleinn, Yves Bühler, Julia Glaus, Dörte Aller, Catherine Berger, Michael Rinderer, Nils Hählen, Adrian Peter, Corinne Singeisen
Description: We present an innovative modelling approach, which allows to derive probability-based hazard information at any location in avalanche-prone areas. Su...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O7.7.pdf
Keywords: hazard modelling, risk modelling, probabilistic modelling, avalanche hazard, avalanche risk, loss-frequency-curves
View additional details about A PROBABILITY-BASED MODELLING APPROACH BEYOND A FEW SELECTED RETURN PERIODS FOR COMPREHENSIVE AND ROBUST HAZARD AND RISK ASSESSMENT

Title: PROTOTYPE OF PROBABILISTIC AVALANCHE HAZARD MAP REFLECTING UNCERTAINTIES OF SNOW COVER CONDITIONS DURING WINTER
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Takahiro Tanabe, Sojiro Sunako, Kouichi Nishimura
Description: Snow avalanches are natural disasters that occur in snowy mountainous regions, threatening settlements and their inhabitants. Hence, a hazard map is a...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P7.4.pdf
Keywords: probabilistic hazard map, uncertainty quantification, hazard assessment, risk assessment
View additional details about PROTOTYPE OF PROBABILISTIC AVALANCHE HAZARD MAP REFLECTING UNCERTAINTIES OF SNOW COVER CONDITIONS DURING WINTER

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
View additional details about IMPROVING AVALANCHE RISK ASSESSMENT FOR BACKCOUNTRY SKI TOURS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE NOVEL SLABS METHOD WITH EXISTING METHODS.

Title: SPECIALIZED PROBABILISTIC MOUNTAIN WEATHER FORECASTS IN SUPPORT OF SNOW SAFETY AND AVALANCHE MITIGATION EFFORTS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Michael E. Wessler, David Church, Allister Martinelli
Description: The National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Forecast Office (WFO) in Salt Lake City has a longstanding public-private partnership with the Utah Departm...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.35.pdf
Keywords: weather forecast, probabilistic forecast, operational forecast, national weather service, decision support, bias correction
View additional details about SPECIALIZED PROBABILISTIC MOUNTAIN WEATHER FORECASTS IN SUPPORT OF SNOW SAFETY AND AVALANCHE MITIGATION EFFORTS

Title: How reliable are design avalanche loads? A systematic approach to estimate their uncertainty
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Mark Schaer, Katharina Fischer, Stefan Margreth
Description: The assessment of avalanche loads depends partly on well-founded facts such as observed avalanches, but the avalanche expert generally also has to mak...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P02.14.pdf
Keywords: avalanche loads, avalanche dynamic simulations, snow shed, probabilistic approach, failure probability, building codes.
View additional details about How reliable are design avalanche loads? A systematic approach to estimate their uncertainty

Title: A Bayesian approach to consider uncertainties in avalanche simulation
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Andreas Kofler, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Andreas Huber, Martin Mergili, Wolfgang Fellin, Michael Oberguggenberger
Description: Over the last decades, an increasing number of software tools for modelling rapid mass flows (e.g. avalanches, debris flows) has been developed, teste...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P08.19.pdf
Keywords: bayes’ theorem, metropolis-hastings algorithm, parameter estimation, probabilistic simulation, posterior distribution, back calculation, prediction
View additional details about A Bayesian approach to consider uncertainties in avalanche simulation

Title: Probabilistics reloaded? A detailed avalanche accident analysis based on the snowcard
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Wolfgang Behr, Jan Mersch
Description: So called "probabilistic methods" to take decisions in avalanche terrain have become a permanent element of avalanche trainings. However, as far as we...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.2.pdf
Keywords: decision-­making, risk management, decision under risk, intuition, probabilistic methods, reduction methods, avalanche accidents, avalanche terrain, snowcard, grm
View additional details about Probabilistics reloaded? A detailed avalanche accident analysis based on the snowcard

Title: Quantitative Risk Assessment for the Snoqualimie Pass Avalanche Bridges
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Alan Jones, Greg Johnson, Kevin Dusenberry
Description: Interstate 90 is a primary transportation corridor that crosses the Cascade Mountains at Snoqualmie Pass, Washington, USA. The highway is currently un...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O10.01.pdf
Keywords: highway, bridges, quantitative risk assessment, probabilistic, monte carlo
View additional details about Quantitative Risk Assessment for the Snoqualimie Pass Avalanche Bridges

Title: Finite Element Models and Sensitivity Analysis of the Vulnerability of an Avalanche Protection Gallery
Date: 2009
Authors: Dominique Daudon, Julien Baroth, Patrycja Szczurowska, Ma Ying, Pascal Perrotin
Description: Our research work has focused on the Montaulever avalanche protection gallery. Horizontal and vertical structural elements are modelled herein using ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0587-0591.pdf
Keywords: avalanche protection gallery, finite element model, probabilistic sensitivity study
View additional details about Finite Element Models and Sensitivity Analysis of the Vulnerability of an Avalanche Protection Gallery

Title: Probabilistic Calibration of Avalanche Block Models
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Peter Gauer, Zenon Medina-Cetina, Karstein Lied, Krister Kristensen
Description: The Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) has been operating the full-scale avalanche test-site Ryggfonn in western Norway for more than 25 years. Du...
Object ID: P__8044.pdf
Keywords: probabilistic avalanche modeling, bayesian modeling, calibration, prior knowledge, stochastic framework
View additional details about Probabilistic Calibration of Avalanche Block Models