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Title: Trend Analysis of Snow Density and Water Equivalent in the Alpine Region
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Christoph Marty, Anna-Maria Tilg, Tobias Jonas
Description: Snow density is an important property for the characterisation of a snow cover. It is also a key factor for retrieving the snow water equivalent (SWE)...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-24.pdf
Keywords: snow density, snow water equivalent, alpine region, variability
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Title: Winter Types and Snow Avalanche Activity Along the Arpaş and Bâlea Glacial Valleys - Făgăraş Massif (Southern Carpathians)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Mircea,Voiculescu, Alexandru Onaca, PatrikChiroiu, Dana Micu
Description: This paper discusses the correlation between winter types and snow avalanche activity, in the Arpaş and the Bâlea glacial valleys, located on th...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-04.pdf
Keywords: winter types, snow avalanches, arpaş and bâlea glacial valleys, făgăraş massif, southern carpathians, romanian carpathians
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Title: How Big is Big: Results of the Avalanche Size Classification Survey
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Ivan Moner, Sara Orgué, Jordi Gavaldà, Montse Bacardit
Description: Avalanche size is a key parameter in avalanche danger rating as well as in the communication between technicians. In 2009 the European Avalanche Warni...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-05.pdf
Keywords: avalanche size, survey, eaws
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Title: The Influence of Weather on Glide-Snow Avalanches
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Lisa Dreier, Christoph Mitterer, Sebastian Feick, Stephan Harvey
Description: During the winter 2011-2012 the Swiss Alps experienced high glide-snow activity. The danger of glide-snow avalanches combined with large snow depths p...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-06.pdf
Keywords: snow gliding, weather influence, glide-snow avalanche, multivariate statistic
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Title: Automatic Classification of Manual Snow Profiles by Snow Structure
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Frank Techel, Christine Pielmeier
Description: Manual snowpack observations are an important component of avalanche hazard assessment for the Swiss avalanche forecasting service. Approximately 900 ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-07.pdf
Keywords: snowpack structure, avalanche forecasting, snow profile analysis
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Title: Integration of a Drifting Snow Scheme in the French Operational Modelling for Avalanche Risk Forecasting: Evaluation by Avalanche Forecasters
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Daniel Goetz, Vincent Latu, Gilbert Guyomarc’h, Yves Durand, Gérald Giraud, Jean-Marie Willemet
Description: Snow drift modelling is a difficult challenge due to the large range of concerned working scales and the permanent interaction between snow, meteorolo...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-10.pdf
Keywords: drifting snow, modelling, avalanche risk, forecast, evaluation
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Title: The expert tool XGEO and its applications in the Norwegian Avalanche Forecasting Service
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Emma Barfod, Karsten Müller, Tuomo Saloranta, Jess Andersen, Nils Kristian Orthe, Anders Wartianien, Tore Humstad, Steinar Myrabø, Rune Engeset
Description: Norway is highly dependent on tracking the changing snow cover, not only for the avalanche forecasting but also for hydropower production planning, fl...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-13.pdf
Keywords: map centric tool, observations, snow model, avalanche forecasting
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Title: The Ram Profile/Sondage Par Battage
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jean-François Quiniou, Jean-Luc Magdinier
Description: Unavailable
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-27.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, snow science
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Title: An Operational Supporting Tool for Assessing Wet-Snow Avalanche Danger
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Christoph Mitterer, Frank Techel, Charles Fierz, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Assessing the danger due to wet-snow avalanches is notoriously difficult, in particular, since conditions favouring wet-snow avalanches may persist on...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-28.pdf
Keywords: wet-snow avalanches, forecast, energy balance, avalanche danger assessment
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Title: A Relative Difference Approach to Detect Potential Weak Layers Within a Snow Profile
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Fabiano Monti, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Reducing the subjectivity of stability evaluation derived from snow profiles and increasing the spatial and temporal resolution of snow stratigraphy i...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-30.pdf
Keywords: snow stratigraphy, snow profile, snow stability evaluation
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Title: Snow Profile Visualisations to Highlight Structural Instability Conditions
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Fabiano Monti, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Interpreting snow profiles is a fairly subjective process, especially when snow stratigraphy was recorded without performing a stability test at the s...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-31.pdf
Keywords: snow stratigraphy, snow profile, snow stability evaluation
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Title: Reboisement Paravalanche Pour la Protection des Routes Contre les Coulées de Neige en Savoie (France)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Gaëlle Bourgeois
Description: Depuis quelques années, le Conseil Général de la Savoie utilise des techniques de reboisement pour la protection des routes départemental...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-48.pdf
Keywords: reboisement, trépied, collectif
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Title: Gestion du Risque Avalancheux sur les Routes Départementales de Savoie (France)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Gaëlle Bourgeois, Alain Duclos, Stéphane Caffo
Description: Le Conseil Général de la Savoie est gestionnaire d’un peu plus de 3000km de routes, dont environ 1000km sont situés à plus de 1000m...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-49.pdf
Keywords: équipements paravalanche, veille permanente, gestion de crise
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Title: Wooden Sleeves to Prevent from Snow Creeping Phenomena in Brévent
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Fanny Bourjaillat, Philippe Berthet-Rambaud, Jean-Pierre Veillard, Pascal Genin
Description: Snow creeping phenomon has been strong, especially in ski resorts, during the last two winter seasons in the Alps. It’s all the more feared af...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-50.pdf
Keywords: protection against snow creeping, wooden sleeves
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Title: Cornice Control by Helicopter
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Bruno FARIZY
Description: Cornice control with traditional blasting methods is usually hard and dangerous to implement. TAS has designed and has evaluated an experimental devic...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-54.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, cornice, helicopter
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