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- Title: Modeled Mass and Temperature Effects of Released and Entrained Snow on the Lubricated Flow Regime of Avalanches at Bird Hill, Southcentral Alaska
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Katreen Wikstrom Jones, Michael Loso, Perry Bartelt, Cesar Vera Valero
- Description: The unpredictable effects of released and entrained snow on avalanche run-out distances make hazard analysis difficult. At Bird Hill in southcentral A...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.03.pdf
- Keywords: snow entrainment, snow temperature, avalanche run-out, flow regimes, fluidization, lubrication
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- Title: Simulation of Snow Avalanche Based on Thixotropy Model for Snow-Covered Model
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Kenichi Oda, Masatoshi Yamada, Yoshikazu Kobayashi, Isao Kamiishi
- Description: In this research, the CFD-based numerical method for snow avalanche using Bingham fluid model is development. This simulation model has already been c...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, cfd, snow-covered condition, thixotropy
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- Title: Monitoring the Stavbrekka Glide Avalanche
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Tore Humstad, Martin Venås, Halgeir Dahle, Knut I. Orset, Ingrid Skrede
- Description: The yearly Stavbrekka glide avalanche is problematic for the summer opening of the tourist road between Breidalen and Geiranger in Norway. Several eff...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.05.pdf
- Keywords: wet snow, glide avalanche, monitoring, instrumentation
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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: 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: Drone-Based UWB Radar to Measure Snow Layering in Avalanche Starting Zones
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Rolf O. Rydeng Jenssen, Markus Eckerstorfer, Hannah Vickers, Kjell-Arild Høgda, Eirik Malnes, Svein K. Jacobsen
- Description: Slab avalanches release due to failure in a weak snow layer. Determining the spatial distribution and depth of weak layers in avalanche starting zones...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.15.pdf
- Keywords: uwb radar, uav, snow stratigraphy, avalanche risk assessment, avatech
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- Title: Characterizing Snow Stratigraphy: a Comparison of SP2, Snowmicropen, Ramsonde and Hand Hardness Profiles
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Christine Pielmeier, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: Information on the structure of the snow cover is of great importance for operational avalanche forecasting. Manually observed snow profiles including...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.16.pdf
- Keywords: snow cover, stratigraphy, snow penetrometer, snowmicropen, sp2, ramsonde, hand hardness index, snow density
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- Title: Using a Thin-Blade Tool for Measuring Snow Hardness and Change in Strength of Buried Surface Hoar
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Fraser Pogue, David M. McClung
- Description: Measuring and tracking changes in the properties of snow layers is important for avalanche forecasting. The accuracy of collecting snow data is depend...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.19.pdf
- Keywords: snow hardness, thin-blade, handheld device, penetration resistance
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- Title: Evaluation of AvaTech SP2 for Snow Research and Snow Science Education
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Hans Peter Marshall
- Description: This poster presents results from preliminary testing of the AvaTech SP2 for snow research and snow science education. The SP2 was used during a gradu...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.21.pdf
- Keywords: instrumentation, penetrometer, hardness, snowmicropen
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- Title: Examining Meteorological Influences on Dust-on-Snow Event Character Using the HYSPLIT Model
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Philip Straub
- Description: Dust-on-snow (DOS) events are common to the Upper Colorado River Basin. Dust is transported from adjacent arid regions during periods of high wind and...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.22.pdf
- Keywords: dust-on-snow, hysplit, snow hydrology, mass loading, event character
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- Title: Snow Pressures on a Rigid Snow Supporting Structure at the Milepost 151 Avalanche, Jackson, Wyoming
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Joshua T. Hewes, Rand Decker, Sean Strain, Megan Stevens
- Description: Mitigation of avalanche hazard to roadways within the Western United States has historically been conducted by means of artificial release of explosiv...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.23.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, snow supporting structures, mitigation
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- Title: Available Data From the French Experimental Site Col Du Lac Blanc Dedicated to Studies on Drifting Snow: a 15-Year Database
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Hervé Bellot, Gilbert Guyomarc'h, Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Vincent Vionnet, Firmin Fontaine, Yannick Deliot
- Description: Wind and associated snow transport are the dominating factors determining small-scale snow distribution and accumulation in alpine areas and have ther...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.24.pdf
- Keywords: drifting snow, blowing snow, snow particles counter, database
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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: SnopViz, an Interactive Visualization Tool for Both Snow-Cover Model Output and Observed Snow Profiles
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Charles Fierz, Thomas Egger, Matthias Gerber, Frank Techel, Mathias Bavay
- Description: "SnopViz" is primarily a visualization tool for both observed snow profiles (CAAML V5.0 Snow Profile IACS) and simulation output of the snow-cover mod...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.29.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack, graphical user interface, caaml-format
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- Title: Utilisation of the SM4 Automatic Snowpack Sensor in Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Harpa Grimsdottir, Orn Ingolfsson, Magni H. Jonsson, Vidir Arnarson, Halfdan Ingolfsson, Sveinn Brynjolfsson, Gestur Hansson
- Description: A small innovation company in Iceland, POLS Engineering, has developed the SM4 automatic snowpack sensor that is currently installed at over 30 locati...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.30.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow sensor, automatic warnings, snow crystals, snow depth, facets
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