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Title: Double Mesures de Hauteurs de Neige: Une Innovation Pour Mieux Gérer le Risque d’Avalanche en Temps Réel sur les Routes de Savoie (France)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Gaëlle Bourgeois, Alain Duclos, Stéphane Caffo
Description: Savoy's regional government manages more than 3000km of roads, including approximately 1000km over the elevation of 1000m. More than a hundred sectio...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-05.pdf
Keywords: blowing snow, remote weather station, snow height measurement
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Title: Weather Preceding Persistent Deep Slab Avalanches
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Michael Conlan, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Deep slab avalanches release on persistent weak layers of facets, surface hoar, depth hoar, or poorly bonded crusts and are generally hard to forecast...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-01.pdf
Keywords: deep slab avalanche, persistent weak layer, weather, natural, localized dynamic load
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Title: Winter Types and Snow Avalanche Activity Along the Arpaş and Bâlea Glacial Valleys - Făgăraş Massif (Southern Carpathians)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Mircea,Voiculescu, Alexandru Onaca, PatrikChiroiu, Dana Micu
Description: This paper discusses the correlation between winter types and snow avalanche activity, in the Arpaş and the Bâlea glacial valleys, located on th...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-04.pdf
Keywords: winter types, snow avalanches, arpaş and bâlea glacial valleys, făgăraş massif, southern carpathians, romanian carpathians
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Title: The Influence of Weather on Glide-Snow Avalanches
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Lisa Dreier, Christoph Mitterer, Sebastian Feick, Stephan Harvey
Description: During the winter 2011-2012 the Swiss Alps experienced high glide-snow activity. The danger of glide-snow avalanches combined with large snow depths p...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-06.pdf
Keywords: snow gliding, weather influence, glide-snow avalanche, multivariate statistic
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Title: New Tool for Avalanche Forecasting in the Krkonoše Mountains
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Roman Juras, Jiří Pavlásek, Jan Blahůt, Petr Bašta, Zbyněk Klose, Vítěslav Moudrý, Jan Balek
Description: The Krkonoše Mts., with the highest peak reaching 1602 m a.s.l., is the highest mountain range in the Czech Republic. Despite its low altitude they...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-09.pdf
Keywords: czech republic, expert forecasting system, modelling
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Title: Protection de l´Industrie Minière Dans Les Andes
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Pablo Galleguillos Acuña
Description: Minera Los Pelambres (http://www.pelambres.cl/) is a copper (Cu) mining company situated high in the Andean Mountain Range, in a country of South Ame...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-56.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, accidents, weather
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Title: Challenges and Benefits of Continuous Weather Soundings on a Gondola During the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2013 in Schladming/Austria
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Arnulf Wurzer, Hannes Rieder, Christian Pehsl, Arnold Studeregger
Description: Atmospheric Soundings are measurements of the vertical profile of temperature, humidity and pressure. They are used to determine atmospheric instabili...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-05.pdf
Keywords: ski gondola, atmospheric sounding, weather measurement
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Title: Real-Time Detection of Natural Snow Avalanches by Infrasonic Array Network (IAN) on December 2012 in Valtournenche – Aosta Valley (IT)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Durand N., Ulivieri G., Marchetti E., Frigo B., Dellavedova P., Ripepe M., Segor V.
Description: Since 2009 and within the Operational programme Italy-France (Alps ALCOTRA) – Projects “DynAval” (2009-2012) and “Map3“...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-33.pdf
Keywords: infrasonic array, snow avalanches, real-time monitoring
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Title: Small-Scale Meteorological Conditions at an Avalanche Slope
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Reinhard Fromm, Friedrich Obleitner, Thomas Gigele
Description: The seasonal development of the Alpine snow cover is mainly influenced by terrain features, surface properties, vegetation and atmospheric processes n...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-05.pdf
Keywords: micro-meteorology, atmospheric variables, statistical analysis
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Title: Linking Weather Conditions to Snow Property Variations
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Benjamin Reuter, Jürg Schweizer
Description: One of the challenges to modern avalanche forecasting is to enhance the forecasts’ content with information on how snow instability varies in t...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-08.pdf
Keywords: snow microstructure, snow properties, fracture, snow stability, spatial variability, weather
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Title: Climatological Comparison of 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 Snow Seasons in Central and Western Spanish Pyrenees and its Relationship With the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: José Antonio Vada, Javier Rodríguez-Marcos, Samuel Buisán, Ismael San Ambrosio
Description: The 2011–2012 winter season can be considered exceptional in Spanish Central and Western Pyrenees due to the scarce precipitation and unconsol...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-10.pdf
Keywords: snow accumulation, number of snow days (nsd), persistence of snow, north atlantic oscillation (nao), spanish pyrenees
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Title: Operational SWE Forecasts Using a Hybrid Approach
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Edward H. Bair, Robert Davis, Karl Rittger, Jeff Dozier
Description: Accurate spatial measurement of SWE in mountain watersheds is perhaps the most significant problem in snow hydrology. Because of the spatial variabil...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-23.pdf
Keywords: swe, microwave, reconstruction
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Title: Test and Potentialities of a New Numerical Weather Forecasting Non-Hydrostatic Model for Hydrology and Snowcover Simulations
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: I. Dombrowski-Etchevers, L. Quéno, F. Karbou, J.-F. Ribaud, Y. Durand
Description: In the framework of the avalanche hazard estimation, Météo-France has used an automatic suite since the early 1990s which simulates meteorologi...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-29.pdf
Keywords: weather forecasting, meteorology ,hydrology, snow
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Title: A New Model for Operational Winter Road Surface Conditions Forecasting in Météo-France
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Ludovic Bouilloud, Odile Coudert, Alain Foidart
Description: During winter, snow presence on the road might have serious consequences on road traffic and security, especially in plain areas where snow occurrence...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-31.pdf
Keywords: winter maintenance, snow, road surface conditions, forecasting
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Title: The History and Evolution of Track Machinery Used for the Purpose of Avalanche Clean Up on the Alaska Railroad
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Bruce A. Gough
Description: Avalanches pose unique challenges to transportation corridors in Alaska. The states distance from the contiguous lower 48, coupled with extreme weathe...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-37.pdf
Keywords: avalanche cleanup, snow rotary, alaska railroad, risk reduction, excavator, bulldozers
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