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Title: Deep Slab Instability: Loading and Settlement Rate Thresholds Related to Failure – Part II
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Patrick J. Wright, Bob Comey, Chris McCollister, Mike Rheam
Description: Deep slab avalanches, which tend to be large and destructive, remain a challenge to accurately forecast. Using 42 seasons of historical data from Jack...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.08.pdf
Keywords: deep slab, persistent slab, settlement, loading, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Human-Triggered Slab Avalanche Properties From the Catalan Pyrenees
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Montse Bacardit, Ivan Moner, Jordi Gavaldà, Glòria Martí, Carles Garcia
Description: During the last three decades in the Catalan Pyrenees (Eastern side of the range), data on avalanche and snowpack characteristics from reported human-...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.09.pdf
Keywords: slab avalanche, avalanche release, human-triggering, snowpack structure, snowpack stability
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Title: The Eye in the Sky: Avalanche Mapping From Space
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Regula Frauenfelder, Timothy Glassett, Christian Jaedicke, Malte Vöge, Carlo Robiati
Description: The Seward Highway in Alaska has over one hundred avalanche paths spread out along a 150 km major transportation corridor, which traverses three diffe...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.18.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanche, remote sensing, sentinel satellites, transportation corridor
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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: Use of Time-Lapse Camera in the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) to Monitor Known Release Areas for Glide Avalanches in Norway
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Julie E. Bjørlien, Njål Farestveit, Jens Tveit
Description: Glide avalanches represent one of the major avalanche problems for the Norwegian Public Road Administration in Western Norway and are notoriously diff...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.35.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanches, time-lapse photography
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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: Monitoring Avalanches on Ca 120 in Yosemite National Park
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Sue Burak, Edward Bair
Description: Avalanches are a serious hazard to Yosemite National Park personnel during spring snow removal operations along California Highway 120, the Tioga Pass...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.21.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, glide, yosemite national park, wet snow
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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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