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Title: Wikisnow – Interface for Decision Makers in Snow
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Martin Berner und Martin Schuster
Description: The coordination of decision makers that provides customers with a great choice of offpiste guiding and ski tours in the ski resort Arlberg/Austria, ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-06.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, coordination decision makers, wikisnow-infoplatform, app-real time update of events, safe offpiste skiing, arlberg/austria
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Title: Swiss Avalanche Bulletin: Automated Translation With a Catalogue of Phrases
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Kurt Winkler, Martin Bächtold, Stefano Gallorini, Ueli Niederer, Thomas Stucki, Christine Pielmeier, Gian Darms, Lukas Dürr, Frank Techel, Benjamin Zweifel
Description: In order to produce the new Swiss avalanche bulletin twice a day in four languages, a fully automated translation system was needed due to the lack of...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-34.pdf
Keywords: avalanche warning, automated translation, catalogue of phrases, communication
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Title: How Semantics and Resilience from Twitter are Being Used to Avalanche Awareness Risk
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Francesco Bartoli, Igor Chiambretti
Description: Twitter is a new form of communication that makes large use of abbreviations to address specific scopes during the response to natural disasters. Duri...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-36.pdf
Keywords: twitter, resilience, communication, hashtag, semantic, avalanche
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Title: The Avalanche Cadaster of the Valle d’Aosta Region (NW Italian Alps): The New Born Web Portal (http://catastovalanghe.partout.it/)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: A. Debernardi, V. Segor
Description: The Region of Aosta Valley is located in the far north-western part of Italy and share borders, to the north and west, with Switzerland and France. Mo...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-37.pdf
Keywords: avalanches cadaster, web portal, aosta valley, gis, historical memory
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Title: Software Tools Developed for the Swiss Avalanche Warning Service - A System Overview
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Andreas Stoffel, Ulrich Niederer
Description: Today, highly specialized software is required to produce the public avalanche bulletin and complementary snow information. Numerous data sources cont...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-38.pdf
Keywords: geoservices, gis, java, json
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Title: 3s Sonic Snow Sensor - A Prototype Acoustic Snow Penetrometer
Date: 2010
Authors: Michael Schober, Achim Heilig, Martin Schneebeli, Nora Staack
Description: High-resolution snow penetrometry has resulted in an improved understanding of the mechanical and stratigraphic properties in a snowpack. However, the...
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Keywords: snow penetrometer, mechanical properties, stratigraphic properties, avalanche warning
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Title: Avalanche Warning During Military Field Exercises in Northern Norway
Date: 2010
Authors: Kalle Kronholm, Jo Gunnar Ellevold
Description: Norway frequently hosts the NATO cold weather exercise “Cold Response” in the Northern parts of Norway. Aim of the exercise is to train th...
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Keywords: field exercises, cold response, terrian, climate, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Regional Avalanche Warning in Norway, a New Concept for a Large Country
Date: 2009
Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Steinar Bakkehøi, Frode Sandersen, Kjetil Brattlien, Anders Solheim
Description: Norway encompasses 324 000 km2 of land area of which ca. 7 % are mountainsides steeper than 30 degrees. The country extends approximately 1700 km fro...
Object ID: issw-2009-0371-0374.pdf
Keywords: avalanche warning, norway, regional warning
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Title: The Permasense Remote Monitoring Infrastructure
Date: 2009
Authors: Jan Beutel, Stephan Gruber, Stefanie Gubler, Andreas Hasler, Matthias Keller, Roman Lim, Igor Talzi, Lothar Thiele, Christian Tschudin, Mustafa Yücel
Description: The PermaSense project, a joint computer science and geoscience project, investigates the influence of climate change on permafrost and specifically t...
Object ID: issw-2009-0187-0191.pdf
Keywords: permafrost, remote sensing, wireless sensors, natural hazard early warning
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Title: Regional Stability Evaluation With Modelled Snow Cover Data
Date: 2009
Authors: Michael Schirmer, Jürg Schweizer, Michael Lehning
Description: Stability (or the probability of avalanche occurrence or release) is probably the key factor defining the avalanche danger level. Most snow stability ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0306-0312.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow stability, avalanche danger, snow cover, numerical modelling
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Title: The Lower Austria Avalanche Warning Service - The Youngest in the Alps
Date: 2009
Authors: Arnold Studeregger, Hannes Rieder, Fritz Salzer
Description: The avalanche warning service was established by the government of lower Austria together with the avalanche experts of the Institute for Meteorology ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0350-0352.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, avalanche warning service, alps
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Title: Evaluation of Avalanche Warning Strategies for Traffic Routes Using Signal Detection Theory
Date: 2009
Authors: Christoph M. Rheinberger, Jakob Rhyner
Description: Avalanche warning services (AWS) are operated to protect communities and traffic lines in avalanche prone regions of the Alps and other mountain range...
Object ID: issw-2009-0559-0563.pdf
Keywords: signal detection theory, statistical performance measures, diagnostic ability, avalanche warning services (aws)
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Title: GIS Aided Avalanche Warning in Norway
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Kalle Kronholm, Krister Kristensen, Steinar Bakkehøi
Description: By 2008 detailed avalanche warning for the entire Norway is not available. The Norwegian Meteorological Institute only issues a general warning for la...
Object ID: P__8128.pdf
Keywords: avalanche warning, geographic information systems (gis), internet
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Title: Avalanche Risk for Recreationists in Backcountry and in Off-Piste Area: Surveying Methods and Pilot Study at Davos, Switzerland
Date: 2006
Authors: Benjamin Zweifel, Adrian Raez, Thomas Stucki
Description: In the field of avalanche warning and avalanche protection, the usage of free area (nonavalanche- secured terrain) is of high importance and was hardl...
Object ID: issw-2006-733-741.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk, avalanche warning, avalanche accident, backcountry area, off-piste area, individual risk
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Title: Assessment of Mountain Snow Transport Based on Measured Wind and Simulated Snow Cover
Date: 2006
Authors: Michael Lehning, Thomas Grünewald, Charles Fierz
Description: A local to regional assessment of transported snow during snow storms or subsequent periods of strong winds is a prerequisite to reliably predict aval...
Object ID: issw-2006-815-819.pdf
Keywords: drift index, lee slope loading, avalanche warning, snowpack, snow cover simulation
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