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Title: Wind Slab Formation: Will New Experiments Improve Implementations in Snow-Cover Models?
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Christian G. Sommer, Charles Fierz, Michael Lehning
Description: Wind slabs are widespread in snow environments but the physics of what is often called wind-packing is poorly understood. Yet, wind slabs are of signi...
Object ID: ISSW16_O11.04.pdf
Keywords: wind tunnel, wind-packing, drifting and blowing snow
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Title: Forecasting the Fatal Longyearbyen Avalanche. Possibilities and Challenges
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Erik Hestnes, Steinar Bakkehøi, Torgeir Mørk, Kjetil Brattlien
Description: One of the main questions after the fatal avalanche in Longyearbyen in December 2015, where two persons perished and eleven houses were destroyed, was...
Object ID: ISSW16_O16.04.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, forecasting, storm weather, wind measurements
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Title: Application of Multi-dimensional Water Transport Model to Natural Snow: Reproduction Simulation of Water Sprinkle Experiment
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Hiroyuki Hirashima, Yoshiyuki Ishii, Satoru Yamaguchi
Description: Information about liquid water infiltration into snowpack is important for predicting wet snow avalanches. To replicate rain-on-snow events, water spr...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.41.pdf
Keywords: water transport model, water sprinkle experiment, discharge
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Title: Atmospheric Rivers and Large Avalanche Events in Slide Canyon, Utah, USA
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Matthew C. Primomo
Description: An atmospheric river (AR) is a narrow and long atmospheric structure that is responsible for the majority of horizontal water vapor transport outside ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.19.pdf
Keywords: atmospheric river, integrated vapor transport, large avalanche, orographic, precipitation
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Title: Wind and Snow Particle Distribution in Powder Snow Cloud
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Yoichi Ito, Kouichi Nishimura, Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Hervé Bellot, Xavier Ravanat
Description: An ultrasonic anemometer and a snow particle counter were newly installed in the avalanche test site locating at the Col du Lautaret pass, France. Sim...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-20.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, powder snow cloud, wind speed, particle size
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Title: Intermittent Drifting Snow – Combining Experimental and Model Studies
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Stefan Horender, Christine D. Groot Zwaaftink, Beni Walter, Michael Lehning
Description: A study combining field observations and wind tunnel measurements of drifting snow is presented. In field measurements we found fluctuations of the s...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-06.pdf
Keywords: drifting snow, large eddy simulation, wind tunnel
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Title: Lac Blanc Pass: A Natural Wind-Tunnel for Studying Drifting Snow at 2700ma.s.l
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Gilbert Guyomarc’h, Hervé Bellot, Yves Durand, Mohamed Naaim, Vincent Vionnet, Christophe Genthon, Kouichi Nishimura, Yoichi Ito, Alexander Prokop
Description: The investigation of the spatial variability of snow depth in high alpine areas is an important topic in snow hydrology, glacier and avalanche researc...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-30.pdf
Keywords: snow, wind, drifting snow, blowing snow, model, sensor
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Title: A Comparison of Terrain-Based Parameter, Wind-Field Modelling and TLS Snow Depth Data for Snow Drift Modelling
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Alexander Prokop, Peter Schön, Vincent Vionnet, Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Gilbert Guyomarc’h, Yves Durand, Hervet Bellot, Florain Singer, Kouichi Nishimura
Description: Wind and the associated snow drift are dominating factors determining the snow distribution and accumulation in alpine areas, resulting in a in high s...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-60.pdf
Keywords: snow, wind, redistribution, tls, terrain parameter, arps
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Title: Wind Tunnel Blowing Snow Study: Steady and Unsteady Properties of Wind Velocity, Mass Fluxes and Mass Exchanges
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Mohamed Naaim, Florence NAAIM-BOUVET, Kouichi NISHIMURA, Osamu ABE, Yoichi ITO, Masaki NEMOTO, Kenji KOSUGI
Description: Several CFD snow drift models were proposed in the literature. These models include various assumptions and scaling laws representing the mass exchan...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-62.pdf
Keywords: wind, boundary layer, snow, drifting snow, experimental investigations, saltation, roughness, erosion rate
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Title: Technical Handbook “Wind Drift Control Structures in Mountainous Areas”
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Florence Naaim-Bouvet, et Michel Truche
Description: In mountainous areas, drifting snow generates a heterogeneous distribution of the snow: snow is eroded in high wind areas and deposited in sheltered a...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-66.pdf
Keywords: snow, wind, avalanche, wind drift control structure, snow fence, jet roof, wind baffle
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Title: Snow Particle Speeds in the Blowing Snow
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Kouichi Nishimura, Chika Yokoyama, Yoichi Ito, Masaki Nemoto, Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Hervé Bellot, Koji Fujita
Description: Snow particle speeds are one of the key issues in order to deepen our understanding for the internal structures of blowing snow. In this study, we uti...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-68.pdf
Keywords: blowing snow, snow particle speed, wind speed, snow particle counter (spc)
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Title: Quantifying Snow Transport Using Snow Fences and Sonic Sensors
Date: 2012
Authors: Svetlana Stuefer, Matthew Sturm
Description: Using two snow fences we constructed in northern Alaska, and an existing municipal fence near Barrow, we measured the growth and size of the snow drif...
Object ID: issw-2012-934-936.pdf
Keywords: snow fence, snowdrift, transportation, flux
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Title: Understanding Snow Transport Processes Shaping the Mountain Snow-Cover
Date: 2009
Authors: Rebecca Mott, Michael Schirmer, Thomas Grünewald, Michael Lehning
Description: In alpine terrain the snow cover is heterogeneously distributed as a result of wind and precipitation interacting with the snow cover at various scale...
Object ID: issw-2009-0141-0145.pdf
Keywords: spatial variability, small scale wind fields, snow transport processes
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Title: An Observation of Depth Hoar in the Maritime
Date: 2006
Authors: S. Ikeda, M. Ryan
Description: Generally speaking, in continental climates thick depth hoar layer may develop near at or near the ground, where in maritime climates a compacted sno...
Object ID: issw-2006-132-138.pdf
Keywords: depth hoar, maritime climate, wind erosion, rainfall
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Title: "When the Dust Settles" Year 2 – A Multivariable Study of the Patterns of Near and Far Dispersal of Windblown Particulate Matter
Date: 2006
Authors: Amy David, Jayne Thompson
Description: What are dispersal patterns of windblown dust into adjacent and mountain snowpack? This question arose from concern about increased aerosol particulat...
Object ID: issw-2006-835-842.pdf
Keywords: particulate matter, dispersal, snowpack, melt rate, water supply
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