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- Title: Measuring Snow Surface Temperature: Why, why Not, and How?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Michael Schirmer
- Description: Avalanche mitigation programs measures snow surface temperature, Tss, for up to three objectives: 1) to infer near surface faceting (NSF) from Tss and...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O11.02.pdf
- Keywords: surface temperature measurement, snow surface, infrared thermometers, contact thermometers, temperature gradient, near surface faceting
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- Title: Variations of Snow Instability Seen From a Bird's Eye
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Benjamin Reuter, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: The layering of the seasonal snowpack resembles an archive of the season's meteorological history. Whereas at the mountain range scale mainly meteorol...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O11.03.pdf
- Keywords: snow micro-penetrometer, spatial variability, snow instability, geostatistical modeling, snow cover modeling
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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: Weather Forecast Model Grid Spacing – Is Smaller Better
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: John Snook
- Description: The Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) implemented an in-house numerical weather prediction model in 2011. Computer-generated forecast produ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O15.01.pdf
- Keywords: numerical weather prediction, operational forecasting, colorado avalanche information center (caic)
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- Title: Synopsis, an Innovative Platform Supporting Avalanche Hazard Forecasting in France
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Cécile Coléou, Hugo Merzisen, Chantal Gendre, Yannick Danielou, Jean-Marie Willemet, Fabien Marty, Antoine Lasserre-Bigorry, Samuel Morin
- Description: For more than 30 years, Météo-France has developed software which integrates a broad diversity of information for the daily operations of avalan...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O15.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecast, operational workstation
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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: Observer Independent Measures of Snow Instability
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Benjamin Reuter, Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: Observer independent measures of snow instability are a prerequisite for modeling, verifying and improving avalanche forecasts. However, presently no ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O17.02.pdf
- Keywords: snow instability, avalanche forecasting, snow micro-penetrometer, avalanche initiation, crack propagation, tensile strength, finite element modeling
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- Title: Measuring the Mechanical Properties of Snow Relevant For Dry-Snow Slab Avalanche Release Using Particle Tracking Velocimetry
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Ned Bair, Karl Birkeland, Ben Reuter, Ron Simenhois, Bruce Jamieson, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) is a measurement technique widely used to determine displacement and velocity fields from video recordings. It is ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O17.03.pdf
- Keywords: snow mechanical properties, avalanche release, particle tracking velocimetry, snow stability
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- Title: Recent Developments of Avalanche Research in Turkey
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Onder Kocyigit, Erhan Tekin, Gokhan Arslan
- Description: Approximately 70% of land in Turkey is situated on high altitude mountains where formation of snow avalanche is an inevitable natural phenomenon. This...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O18.02.pdf
- Keywords: snow, precaution, weather station
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- Title: Avalanche Forecasting in the Central Asian Countries of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Doug Chabot, Aysha Kaba
- Description: Home of the Karakorum, Hindu Kush and Pamir mountains, Central Asia has a serious avalanche hazard. A single 2012 avalanche cycle resulted in over 100...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O20.04.pdf
- Keywords: focus, avalanches, community training, weather monitoring, education
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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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