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Title: Combining Snowpack Models and Observations for Better Avalanche Danger Assessments
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Fabiano Monti, Christoph Mitterer, Walter Steinkogler, Mathias Bavay, Andrea Pozzi
Description: Now-casting of avalanche danger is mainly based on direct snow stability observations (e.g. recent avalanches), snow stability tests combined with str...
Object ID: ISSW16_O15.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, manual observations, snow cover modeling, snow and weather data
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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: 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: 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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