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Title: Evolution of an Avalanche Program: From Artillery to Infrastructure
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Jamie Yount, Brian Gorsage
Description: The Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) has used artillery for avalanche reduction on State and Federal highways near Jackson, WY since 1972....
Object ID: ISSW16_O19.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, infrastructure, gazex, obellx, howitzer, snow structures, transportation
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Title: Towards the Automatic Detection of Avalanches in Seismic Data Using Hidden Markov Models
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Matthias Heck, Conny Hammer, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Schweizer, Donat Fäh
Description: Seismic monitoring systems are well suited for the remote detection of various mass movements, including snow avalanches. While this has been known si...
Object ID: ISSW16_O14.04.pdf
Keywords: automatic detection, classification, seismic monitoring
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Title: A New Crack Propagation Criterion for Skier-Triggered Snow Slab Avalanches
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Johan Gaume, Benjamin Reuter, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Dry-snow slab avalanches begin with a local failure in a weak snowpack layer buried below cohesive slab layers. If the size of the failed zone exceeds...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.01.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, skier-triggering, failure initiation, crack propagation, pst, slab, weak layer
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Title: Using Structure From Motion Photogrammetry to Examine Glide Snow Avalanches
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Erich H. Peitzsch, Jordy Hendrikx, Daniel B. Fagre
Description: Structure from Motion (SfM), a photogrammetric technique, has been used extensively and successfully in many fields including geosciences over the pas...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.02.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanche, structure from motion, photogrammetry, glacier national park, montana
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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: Wet-Snow Fracture Propagation
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Ingrid Reiweger, Markus Zöchling, Martin Forster, Thomas Wiesinger, Christoph Mitterer
Description: Fracture propagation within wet snow is a key issue in order to understand and predict wet-snow slab avalanches. In our preliminary field study we inv...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.33.pdf
Keywords: wet snow, fracture propagation, wet-snow avalanches, propagation saw test
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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: Modernizing North America's Oldest Avalanche Program in Little Cotttonwood Canyon, Utah
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Bill Nalli
Description: The combination of abundant snowfall, narrow roadway with many avalanche paths, dozens of threatened buildings, and large backcountry touring communit...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.33.pdf
Keywords: highway avalanche program, avalanche forecasting, decision matrix, risk management
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Title: Measuring Avalanche Risk and Level of Service for a Transportation Network – a Practical Approach
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Steve Conger
Description: This paper describes innovative metrics to explore the traffic service quality experienced by highway travelers as a result of avalanche risk mitigati...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.49.pdf
Keywords: planning risk assessment, highways, ahi, uncertainty, hazard rating, racs, integral avalanche protection, calibrated probabilities
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Title: What Do We Know About the Impact on the Snowpack in a Changing Climate – a Work in Progress
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Antonia Zeidler, Elena Stoll
Description: This contributions aims at giving an overview of studies on the impact of a changing climate on the snowpack and avalanche activity. Most studies on c...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.08.pdf
Keywords: climate change, avalanches, statistical methods
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Title: Avalanche Consequence Lesson Plan
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Harlan L. Sheppard
Description: This poster presentation will be on teaching Avalanche Consequence. I will introduce a new lesson plan that departs from standard techniques. The main...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.49.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, avalanche education, safety
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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: 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: Avalanche Problems in Norway -- How We Use Them and Does it Work?
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Solveig Kosberg, Markus Landrø, Karsten Müller, Rune Engeset, Jostein Aasen
Description: After four seasons of national avalanche forecasting, we consider the avalanche problems as the most important element of our bulletin. Our system is ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.22.pdf
Keywords: avalanche problems, avalanche forecasting
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Title: A Review of Avalanche Ecology: Forest Habitat Structure and Wildlife Biodiversity
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Kelly Muller, Philip Straub
Description: Avalanches are significant drivers of natural processes in mountain ecosystems. This study reviews previous research on the effects of avalanches to t...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.52.pdf
Keywords: mountain ecosystems, forest structure, wildlife habitat, biodiversity, bark beetle (coleopter:scolytidae), vegetation mosaic
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