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Title: TO MEASURE OR NOT TO MEASURE: HOW DENSITY-DETERMINATION METHODS CAN INFLUENCE SNOW INSTABILITY SIMULATED FROM OBSERVED PROFILES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Leonardo Zoltan, Ingrid Reiweger
Description: Numerical snow cover models have emerged as valuable tools for avalanche forecasting, simulating snowpack stratigraphy and producing instability metri...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, modelling and quantitative forecasting, snowpack properties, snow density
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Title: EVALUATION OF FALLING SNOW DENSITY PARAMETERIZATIONS AGAINST REAL-TIME SNOW DENSITY MEASUREMENTS FROM A DIFFERENTIAL EMISSIVITY IMAGING DISDROMETER (DEID)
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Travis J. Morrison, Bettina Richter, Benjamin Silberman, Dhiraj Kumar Singh, Eric R. Pardyjak
Description: Snow-cover models are becoming increasingly popular in the snow and hydrological communities and are highly sensitive to initial or falling snow densi...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.1.pdf
Keywords: new-snow density, snow density parameterization, disdrometer, deid, snow-cover modelling, wasatch mountains
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Title: ARIZONA'S ELEVATION SNOW DENSITY STUDY ON THE SAN FRANCISCO PEAKS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: David B K Pedersen, David W Lovejoy
Description: Variability in storm snow density along an elevation gradient has been frequently observed, however, systematic attempts to correlate these variables ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.8.pdf
Keywords: snow density, snow water equivalent, san francisco peaks
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Title: SCENARIO-BASED AVALANCHE SIMULATIONS INCLUDING SNOW ENTRAINMENT, SNOW TEMPERATURE AND DENSITY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Lukas Stoffel, Perry Bartelt, Stefan Margreth
Description: Avalanche engineers use scenario-based simulations to predict avalanche runout and quantify impact pressures. An important input parameter for such si...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P2.11.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics; snow entrainment, snow temperature, snow density, hazard evaluation, climate change
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Title: UAV-BORNE GROUND PENETRATING RADAR FOR AVALANCHE FORECASTING
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Bastien Dupuy, Martin Chatel, Arnt Grøver, Stéphane Garambois, Madeline Lee, Andrew Tobiesen, Halgeir Dahle, Sean Salazar, Regula Frauenfelder, Jordy Hendrikx, Tore Humstad
Description: In the GEOSFAIR (Geohazard Survey from Air) innovation project for the Norwegian public sector, several UAV (Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles)-borne remote se...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O8.7.pdf
Keywords: remote sensing, gpr, uav, snow height, snow density
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Title: INITIALIZING SNOW COVER SIMULATIONS WITH OBSERVED SNOW PROFILES
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Michael Binder, Christoph Mitterer
Description: Snow cover models were originally developed to advance snow and avalanche research and assist operational avalanche forecasting. Though indispensable ...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O4.02.pdf
Keywords: snowpack simulations, snow profiles, operational assessment and forecasting of avalanche danger, snow density parameterization, numerical weather prediction models, snow profile alignment and similarity assessment
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Title: A NEW HANDHELD CAPACITIVE SENSOR TO MEASURE SNOW DENSITY AND LIQUID WATER CONTENT
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Fabian Wolfspeger, Michel Geisser, Silvio Ziegler, Henning Löwe
Description: Quantifying the density (ρ) and liquid water content (LWC) of snow is crucial for any physical process in the snowpack. A widely used method to measu...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.52.pdf
Keywords: snow density, snow wetness, liquid water content, capacitive sensor, permittivity, dielectric method, snow profile
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Title: A NOVEL LASER-BASED INSTRUMENT FOR ESTIMATING DEPTH-RESOLVED SNOW DENSITY – PART 1: LAB EXPERIMENTS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: M. Koßagk, M. Neubert, M. Adams, R. Fromm, T. Schmiel
Description: Knowledge of depth-resolved snow density and its spatial distribution is essential for many scientific and operational applications. However, direct m...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.21.pdf
Keywords: snow density, laser drilling, laser range finder, lab experiments
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Title: A NOVEL LASER-BASED INSTRUMENT FOR ESTIMATING DEPTH-RESOLVED SNOW DENSITY – PART 2: FIELD TESTS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Marc Adams, Martin Koßagk, Malte Neubert, Henry Silderhuis, Reinhard Fromm, Rico Krause, Gerd Schaufelberger, Tino Schmiel
Description: In this contribution, first results from field tests of a novel laser-based instrument for estimating depth-resolved snow density are presented. The S...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.22.pdf
Keywords: snow density, laser, arctic and alpine snow, snow stratigraphy
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Title: Investigating performance and correlation of ground-based snow depth and precipitation measurements
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Kay Helfricht, Lea Hartl, Roland Koch, Christoph Marty, Marc Olefs
Description: The performance of snow models is highly affected by the quality of precipitation input data. Particularly solid precipitation measurements in mountai...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P05.6.pdf
Keywords: precipitation correction, snow cover modelling, new snow density.
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Title: Modeling snow water equivalent exclusively from daily snow depths
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Michael Winkler, Harald Schellander
Description: Many applications and studies, like climate and extreme value analyses, are seeking for longterm records of snow water equivalent (SWE). Measurements ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P05.9.pdf
Keywords: snow depth, snow water equivalent, snow density, semi-empirical model, long-term snow data.
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Title: Simple method to estimate surface snow density
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Yasushi Kamata, Daisuke Takahash, Shigehiro Iikura
Description: In winter, trains have accreted snow on its bodies and these accreted snow cause damages to railway equipment. To decrease such damages, we are develo...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P10.26.pdf
Keywords: surface snow density, snow melt, snow accretion, train
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Title: Evolution of non-persistent weak layer and snowpack stability during snowfall
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Hiroki Matsushita, Wataru Takahashi, Masaru Matsuzawa, Joji Takahashi
Description: To clarify the conditions under which avalanches triggered by the failure of the nonpersistent weak layer are likely, field observations of temporal c...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P10.31.pdf
Keywords: non-persistent weak layer, unrimed crystals, snow density, compressive viscosity.
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Title: The influence of snow physical properties on humans breathing into an artificial air pocket
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Hannes Gatterer, Giacomo Strapazzon, Tomas Dal Cappello, Kai Schenk, Peter Paal, Markus Falk, Sandro Malacrida, Benjamin Reuter, Jürg Schweizer, Hermann Brugger
Description: Breathing under snow, e.g. while buried by a snow avalanche, is possible in the presence of an air pocket, but limited in time as hypoxia and hypercap...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P16.5.pdf
Keywords: snow density, avalanche, respiratory gases
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Title: Characterizing Snow Stratigraphy: a Comparison of SP2, Snowmicropen, Ramsonde and Hand Hardness Profiles
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Christine Pielmeier, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Information on the structure of the snow cover is of great importance for operational avalanche forecasting. Manually observed snow profiles including...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.16.pdf
Keywords: snow cover, stratigraphy, snow penetrometer, snowmicropen, sp2, ramsonde, hand hardness index, snow density
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