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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: Continuous Real-time Snow Properties with Ground Penetrating Radar
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Hans Peter Marshall, Mark Robertson
Description: Measurements of snow water equivalent (SWE) are important for multiple user groups, but the technology for operational continuous collection has not i...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.13.pdf
Keywords: snow water equivalent, radar, precipitation, continuous, real time
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Title: Potential and Challenges of an Extensive Operational Use of High Accuracy Optical Snow Depth Sensors to Minimize Solid Precipitation Undercatch
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Kay Helfricht, Roland Koch, Lea Hartl, Marc Olefs
Description: Within the pluSnow project we analyse snow depth measurements using the SHM30 optical sensor with the objective to minimize the error of solid precipi...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.28.pdf
Keywords: new snow, snow density, solid precipitation, undercatch, snow water equivalent
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Title: Estimation of New Snow Density Using 42 Years of Meteorological Data from Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Wyoming
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Patrick J. Wright, Bob Comey, Chris McCollister, Mike Rheam
Description: New snow density is a key parameter for daily forecasting of avalanche hazard. However, there is currently not a reliable automated measurement of new...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.05.pdf
Keywords: snow density, snow water equivalent, avalanche forecasting
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Title: A Decade of Snow Water Equivalent Monitoring in the French Mountain Ranges
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Frédéric Gottardi, Paul Carrier, Emmanuel Paquet, Marie-Thérèse Laval, Joël Gailhard, Rémy Garçon
Description: A decade of snow water equivalent monitoring in the French Mountain ranges. Snowpack estimation in mountains is important for hydroelectric power supp...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-08.pdf
Keywords: cosmic ray, snow water equivalent, snowpack, automatic snow gauge
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Title: CS725, An Accurate Sensor for the Snow Water Equivalent and Soil Moisture Measurements
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Yves Choquette, Pierre Ducharme, James Rogoza
Description: The CS725 is manufactured by Campbell Scientific (Canada) Corp – CSC and patented by Hydro-Quebec. The CS725 is designed to determine four time...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-09.pdf
Keywords: gamma radiation, attenuation, swe, snow melting, soil moisture, cs725
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Title: Impulse Water Waves Generated by Snow Avalanches
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Mohamed Naaim
Description: Retaining dams devoted to artificial snow production, are most of the time located in the vicinity of steep slope areas and may be threatened by snow ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-21.pdf
Keywords: impulse water waves, snow avalanches, mountain lakes
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Title: Mathematical Modeling of Slope Flows Entraining Bottom Material
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Eglit M.E, Yakubenko A.E.
Description: Entrainment of bottom material by the slope flows (such as snow avalanches, debris flows and so on) essentially influences on their dynamics, so it s...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-56.pdf
Keywords: slope flows, entrainment of bottom material
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Title: Granulation of Snow
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Walter Steinkogler, Betty Sovilla, Michael Lehning
Description: The mobility of an avalanche, i.e. its potential to move faster and further, can strongly differ for individual avalanches even if the release conditi...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-58.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, granulation, snow temperature, mobility
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Title: Strasser, U. and Marke, T. (2013): ESCIMO.spread - A Spreadsheet-Based Point Snow Surface Energy Balance Model to Calculate Hourly Snow Water Equivalent and Melt Rates for Climate
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Strasser, U., Marke, T.
Description: This paper describes the spreadsheet-based point energy balance model ESCIMO.spread which simulates the energy and mass balance as well as melt rates...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-30.pdf
Keywords: snow modeling, canopy interception, spread sheet, energy balance
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Title: The Relationship Between Preferential Flow in Snow Cover and Weather Conditions
Date: 2012
Authors: Satoru Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki Hirashima, Atsushi Sato, Satoru Adachi
Description: The accurate description of water movement through snow cover is essential for improving the forecast of full depth avalanches; this forecast is close...
Object ID: issw-2012-1054-1058.pdf
Keywords: full depth avalanche, liquid water, snow cover
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Title: How Snow Cover Properties Influence Avalanche Dynamics
Date: 2012
Authors: W. Steinkogler, B. Sovilla, M. Lehning
Description: The run-out distance depends, among other things, on the release mass and the snow conditions in the avalanche path. So far, our knowledge on the effe...
Object ID: issw-2012-569-573.pdf
Keywords: run-out distance, snow cover, snowpack conditions
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Title: How to Explain Avalanche Dynamics to Children and Their Parents
Date: 2012
Authors: Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Thierry Faug, Frédéric Ousset, Xavier Ravanat, Paolo Caccamo
Description: Snow avalanches threaten mountain communities worldwide: avalanches affect not only snow sport tourists but people can also be caught in inhabited are...
Object ID: issw-2012-820-826.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, dynamics, small-scale model, education, general public
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Title: Hysteresis in the Water Retention Curve of Snow Measured Using an MRI System
Date: 2012
Authors: Satoru Adachi, Satoru Yamaguchi, Toshihiro Ozeki, Katsumi Kose
Description: Recently, a compact magnetic resonance (MR) imager was developed for use in a cold-room. A new method for determining the distribution of water in sno...
Object ID: issw-2012-918-922.pdf
Keywords: compact mri, cold room, water retention curve
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Title: Can We Estimate Precipitation Rate During Snowfall Using a Scanning Terrestrial Lidar?
Date: 2012
Authors: Edward H. Bair, Robert E. Davis, David C. Finnegan, Adam L. LeWinter, Ethan Guttmann, Jeff Dozier
Description: Accurate snowfall measurements in windy areas have proven difficult. To examine a new approach, we have installed an automatic scanning terrestrial Li...
Object ID: issw-2012-923-929.pdf
Keywords: precipitation, lidar, mass flux
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