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- Title: Operational Forecasting of Wet Snow Avalanche Activity: a Case Study for the Eastern European Alps
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Andreas Gobiet, Christoph Mitterer, Lisa Jöbstl, Walter Steinkogler, Hannes Rieder, Marc Olefs, Arnold Studeregger, Fabiano Monti, Sascha Bellaire
- Description: The prognostic operation of detailed snowpack models has recently been objective of extensive research, since many avalanche services start to move fr...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O6.02.pdf
- Keywords: forecast, wet-snow avalanches, lwcindex, snowpack
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- Title: UAV Borne Laser Scanning of Snow Surfaces
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Alexander Prokop, Florian Singer
- Description: In snow and avalanche research, different methods are used increasingly to efficiently and accurately map snow surfaces and depths over an area of sev...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O9.03.pdf
- Keywords: snow depth mapping, laser scanning, uav, uas
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- Title: Investigating the Thermophysical Properties of the Ice-Snow Interface, Part II: Thermal Contact Resistance
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Kevin Hammonds, Ian Baker
- Description: As it turns out, spending many an extra cold and blustery minute trying to get those last few temperature readings to complete a textbook perfect "eve...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O11.01.pdf
- Keywords: ice lens, temperature gradient, effective thermal conductivity, thermal contact resistance, kinetic snow metamorphism
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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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