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Title: Measuring the Mechanical Properties of Snow Relevant For Dry-Snow Slab Avalanche Release Using Particle Tracking Velocimetry
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Ned Bair, Karl Birkeland, Ben Reuter, Ron Simenhois, Bruce Jamieson, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) is a measurement technique widely used to determine displacement and velocity fields from video recordings. It is ...
Object ID: ISSW16_O17.03.pdf
Keywords: snow mechanical properties, avalanche release, particle tracking velocimetry, snow stability
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Title: Acceleration Processes of Snow Glide Prior to Full-Depth Avalanche Release on Shrub Slopes in the Temperate Heavy-Snow Region of Japan
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Katsuhisa Kawashima, Tsutomu Iyobe, Takane Matsumoto
Description: In the temperate heavy-snow region of Japan, most of snow avalanche disaster arise as a consequence of the full-depth glide avalanche in the area with...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.07.pdf
Keywords: full-depth glide avalanche, snow glide, avalanche release, shrub slope
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Title: Human-Triggered Slab Avalanche Properties From the Catalan Pyrenees
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Montse Bacardit, Ivan Moner, Jordi Gavaldà, Glòria Martí, Carles Garcia
Description: During the last three decades in the Catalan Pyrenees (Eastern side of the range), data on avalanche and snowpack characteristics from reported human-...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.09.pdf
Keywords: slab avalanche, avalanche release, human-triggering, snowpack structure, snowpack stability
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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: Critical Length for the Onset of Crack Propagation in Snow: Reconciling Shear and Collapse
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Johan Gaume, Alec van Herwijnen, Guillaume Chambon, Nander Wever, Jürg Schweizer
Description: The failure of a weak snow layer buried below cohesive slab layers is a necessary, but insufficient condition for the release of a dry-snow slab avala...
Object ID: ISSW16_O1.02.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, crack propagation, critical length, slope angle, pst, slab, weak layer
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Title: Using Thermal Imaging to Verify Avalanche Control Results
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Mark Saurer, Damian Jackson, Bill Nalli
Description: As the population of the Salt Lake Valley and popularity of backcountry skiing in the Wasatch continues to grow, so do the logistic difficulties of co...
Object ID: ISSW16_O2.02.pdf
Keywords: thermal imaging, avalanche control, irt
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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: Case Study: Natural Glide and Wet Slab Avalanche Cycle, Going-To-The-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana USA
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Jake Hutchinson, Erich H. Peitzsch, Adam M. Clark
Description: The Going-to-the-Sun Road (GTSR) is the premier tourist attraction in Glacier National Park, Montana. The GTSR also traverses through and under 40 ava...
Object ID: ISSW16_O3.02.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanche, wet slab avalanche, forecasting, glacier national park, montana
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Title: Rescue at Cherry Bowl an Avalanche Canada Microsite Exploring the Many Learning Opportunities From a Successful Backcountry Avalanche Rescue
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Mary Clayton
Description: Too often, educational opportunities in avalanche safety are based in tragedy. Rescue at Cherry Bowl is a lesson from success; three backcountry skie...
Object ID: ISSW16_O4.01.pdf
Keywords: rescue training, education, awareness, avalanche canada, rescue at cherry bowl
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Title: Avalanche Awareness at the Jackson Hole High School
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Sarah Carpenter, Trevor Deighton
Description: Each year, more young skiers, riders, and snowmobilers are accessing the backcountry. For the past 12 years, the American Avalanche Institute has been...
Object ID: ISSW16_O4.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, youth education, wyoming
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Title: Teenagers in the Backcountry: a Study of Use and Education from the Perspective of High School Students
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Emery L. Rheam
Description: Teenagers are using the backcountry increasingly more and more during the winter for a wide range of activities. When growing up in mountain communiti...
Object ID: ISSW16_O4.04.pdf
Keywords: teenagers, avalanche education, youth education
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Title: Risk-Based Avalanche Program Design
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Grant Statham, Brian Gould
Description: Avalanche safety programs around the world are diverse and varied, challenged to forecast avalanche hazard and manage avalanche risk in a variety of e...
Object ID: ISSW16_O5.01.pdf
Keywords: risk, hazard, probability, consequence, exposure, vulnerability, education
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Title: Can We Derive an Avalanche Terrain Severity Rating from Observed Terrain Selection of Professional Guides? A Proof-Of-Concept Study
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Scott Thumlert, Pascal Haegeli
Description: The physical risk from snow avalanches poses a serious threat to backcountry recreationalists and the winter backcountry recreation industry. Professi...
Object ID: ISSW16_O5.03.pdf
Keywords: terrain selection, helicopter ski guiding, avalanche risk management, avalanche hazard, gis avalanche terrain classification
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Title: Comparison of Measured and Modelled Snow Cover Liquid Water Content to Improve Local Wet-Snow Avalanche Prediction
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Christoph Mitterer, Achim Heilig, Lino Schmid, Alec van Herwijnen, Olaf Eisen, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Wet-snow avalanches can be difficult to forecast. However, recent studies have suggested that an index (LWCindex) related to the mean liquid water con...
Object ID: ISSW16_O6.01.pdf
Keywords: wet-snow avalanches, avalanche forecasting, liquid water content
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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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