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Title: Study on the Model to Estimate the Snow Property of the Slope Snowpack
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Ryota Sato, Yasushi Kamata, Masaya Shishido
Description: To ensure the safety of train operations for full depth avalanche, it is important to estimate the stability of the slope snow. And then, it is necess...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.37.pdf
Keywords: stability of the slope snowpack, physical properties, amedas weather data
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Title: The Effects of Different Methods of Compaction on Snowpack Stability
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Diana Saly, Jordy Hendrikx, Karl Birkeland, Stuart Challender, Tom Leonard
Description: The interaction between snowpack layers determines the snowpack stability. It follows that disrupting layers may improve stability. Ski patrols and gu...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.02.pdf
Keywords: compaction, snowpack stability, stability test, boot-packing, ski compaction
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Title: Bringing the Near Infrared Light to Practice
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Micah Johnson, Jacob Taubenheim, Drew M. Eldred, Ryan Stevenson
Description: The infrared light spectrum has proven to be an area with great potential for snow science. Most of the work performed to date has been to understand ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.41.pdf
Keywords: nir, probe, faceting
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Title: Comparison of ECT, RB, Threshold Sum and Relative Threshold Sum Approach to To Snowpack Instability Evaluation - New Results
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Igor Chiambretti, Fabiano Monti, Mauro Valt
Description: The Italian regional avalanche forecasting services (AINEVA) collect snowpack observations such as snowpack profiles or stability tests on a daily or ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.05.pdf
Keywords: rutschblock (rb), extended column test (ect), structural instability indices, threshold sum (tsa), relative threshold sum (rta)
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Title: Evaluation of SNOWPACK Metamorphism and Microstructure in a Canadian Context: a Case Study for Snow Stability Assessment
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Jean-Benoit Madore, Kevin Côté, Alexandre Langlois
Description: The snow thermodynamic multi-layer model SNOWPACK was developed in order to address the risk of avalanches by simulating the vertical geophysical and ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.06.pdf
Keywords: snow grain, snowpack, avalanche, model, stability, metamorphism
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Title: Extended Column Test: Repeatability and Comparison to Slope Stability and the Rutschblock
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Frank Techel, Matthias Walcher, Kurt Winkler
Description: Information on snow stability is key information when assessing the avalanche situation. However, stability tests like the Extended Column Test (ECT) ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.08.pdf
Keywords: extended column test, rutschblock, test repeatability, snow stability, fracture propagation
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Title: Assigning Probabilities in Local Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Krister Kristensen
Description: In some local forecasting programs there is a need to predict the probability of an avalanche encounter, i.e. the probability for an avalanche to reac...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.18.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, probability assessment
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Title: Analysis of the Residual Risk Under a National Forest of Protection Against Avalanches and Measures of Management
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Roudnitska S. ONF-RTM, Cornevin D. ONF
Description: To optimize maintenance and improvement of the paravalanche device in the national forest of Villards, the RTM department of Savoie realized a study ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche protection forest, reforestation, risk assessment, mitigation strategies
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Title: Measuring Acoustic Emissions in an Avalanche Starting Zone to Monitor Snow Stability
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Ingrid Reiweger, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Evaluating snowpack stability still involves time-consuming and labour-intensive manual tests; in dangerous or remote areas performing such tests migh...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-14.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, avalanche release, snow stability evaluation, acoustic emission, precursor
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Title: Effect of High Elevation Birch Forest on Snow Stability
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Hedda Breien, Øyvind A. Høydal
Description: Forest and especially evergreen conifers like pine and spruce are known to reduce avalanche formation due to their physical anchoring effect and thei...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-05.pdf
Keywords: birch, deciduous forest, protection forest, avalanche, anchoring effect
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Title: Can Near Real-Time Avalanche Occurrence Data Improve Avalanche Forecasting?
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Avalanche forecasting is by large data driven – and experience-based. Snow instability data, which are of crucial importance, are scarce and of...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-10.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, avalanche forecasting, avalanche occurrence
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Title: The Systematic Snow Cover Diagnosis: A Process-Based Approach for Avalanche Danger Assessment
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Georg Kronthaler, Christoph Mitterer, Bernd Zenke, Michael Lehning
Description: Recreationists and local avalanche warning services face often the problem of assessing the avalanche danger for a single slope or avalanche path. How...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-11.pdf
Keywords: slope stability, snow cover test, weak layer
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Title: Avalanche Risk Management in Winter 2012/13 in Monterosa Ski Resort – Aosta Valley (IT)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Prola A., Welf A., Durand N., Frigo B., Dellavedova P., Segor V.
Description: Monterosa Ski is one of the most important resorts in the North/West Italian Alps. Extending through three valleys in two regions (Aosta Valley and Pi...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-15.pdf
Keywords: ski resort, avalanche, risk management
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Title: Evaluation de la Stabilité du Manteau Neigeux
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Christian Reverbel
Description: La vie d’une station de sport d’hiver est complétement dépendante de l’arrivée de la neige. Neige naturelle bien évid...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, stability
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Title: Edge Effects In Propagation Tests
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Edward H. Bair, Ron Simenhois, Alec van Herwijnen, Karl Birkeland
Description: Guidelines suggest beams with lengths around 1 m for Extended Column Tests (ECTs) and Propagation Saw Tests (PSTs). The longest unstable tests publish...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-02.pdf
Keywords: crack propagation, extended column test, propagation saw test
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