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Title: Snow Particle Speeds in the Blowing Snow
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Kouichi Nishimura, Chika Yokoyama, Yoichi Ito, Masaki Nemoto, Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Hervé Bellot, Koji Fujita
Description: Snow particle speeds are one of the key issues in order to deepen our understanding for the internal structures of blowing snow. In this study, we uti...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-68.pdf
Keywords: blowing snow, snow particle speed, wind speed, snow particle counter (spc)
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Title: Remote Sensing Tools for Snow and Avalanche Research
Date: 2012
Authors: Yves Bühler
Description: Since the first images acquired from airplanes (1915) and satellites (1960), remote sensing has had a great impact in diverse number of fields such a...
Object ID: issw-2012-264-268.pdf
Keywords: remote sensing, digital elevation models dem, snow depth, snow type, spatially continuous measurements
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Title: The Multi-Angle Snowflake Camera
Date: 2012
Authors: Timothy J. Garrett, Edward H. Bair, Cale J. Fallgatter, Konstantin Shkurko, Robert E. Davis, Daniel Howlett
Description: We introduce a new instrument called the Multi-Angle Snowflake Camera (MASC). The MASC provides 10 to 40 μm resolution stereoscopic images of indiv...
Object ID: issw-2012-930-933.pdf
Keywords: precipitation, photography, fallspeed
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Title: Quantifying Snow Transport Using Snow Fences and Sonic Sensors
Date: 2012
Authors: Svetlana Stuefer, Matthew Sturm
Description: Using two snow fences we constructed in northern Alaska, and an existing municipal fence near Barrow, we measured the growth and size of the snow drif...
Object ID: issw-2012-934-936.pdf
Keywords: snow fence, snowdrift, transportation, flux
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Title: Remote-Sensing Derived Avalanche Inventory Data
Date: 2012
Authors: Regula Frauenfelder, Rune Solberg, Siri Øyen Larsen, Arnt-Børre Salberg, Heidi Bjordal
Description: Every year snow avalanches pose a significant threat to transportation infrastructure. The societal demand to minimize closures of the main transport ...
Object ID: issw-2012-398-403.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, transportation, meteorology, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Automated Detection and Mapping of Rough Snow Surfaces Including Avalanche Deposits Using Airborne Optical Remote Sensing
Date: 2009
Authors: Yves Bühler, Andreas Hüni, Marc Christen, Roland Meister, Tobias Kellenberger
Description: The characteristics of snow pack surfaces are spatially and temporally highly variable. Today, in situ field observations provide mostly isolated info...
Object ID: issw-2009-0170-0174.pdf
Keywords: remote sensing, avalanche mapping, airborne digital scanner, rapid mapping, snow surface roughness, wind modelled snowpack
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Title: Could Retrieval of Snow Layer Formation by Optical Satellite Remote Sensing Help Avalanche Forecasting? Presentation of First Results.
Date: 2009
Authors: Rune Solberg, Regula Frauenfelder, Hans Koren, Kalle Kronholm
Description: Of special interest within the field of avalanche research and avalanche warning are properties related to snow grain type and snow grain size at the...
Object ID: issw-2009-0207-0210.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, remote sensing, snow grain size, snow temperature, snow wetness
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Title: An Observation of Depth Hoar in the Maritime
Date: 2006
Authors: S. Ikeda, M. Ryan
Description: Generally speaking, in continental climates thick depth hoar layer may develop near at or near the ground, where in maritime climates a compacted sno...
Object ID: issw-2006-132-138.pdf
Keywords: depth hoar, maritime climate, wind erosion, rainfall
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Title: Measuring Snow Depth With a Terrestrial Laser Ranging System
Date: 2006
Authors: Philipp Jörg, Reinhard Fromm, Rudolf Sailer, Andreas Schaffhauser
Description: Knowledge on the spatial and temporal distribution of snow depth is one of the key parameter in the assessment of avalanche hazards, for snow drift a...
Object ID: issw-2006-452-460.pdf
Keywords: tsl, terrestrial scanning laser, remote sensing, snow depth distribution
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Title: Using GIS and Remote Sensing to Assess Avalanche Hazards for New Road Corridors in Alaska
Date: 2006
Authors: Douglas D. Scott
Description: As part of HDR’s Chignik Connectors Project (a road system connecting the three communities of Chignik), assessment and mapping of potential av...
Object ID: issw-2006-465-467.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard assessment, alaska, transportation, geographic information systems (gis), terrain modeling, and remote sensing
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Title: Airborne Detection of Avalanche Victims with Ground Penetrating Radar
Date: 2006
Authors: Achim Heilig, Martin Schneebeli
Description: The detection of buried avalanche victims not wearing a beacon is an important problem for rescue operations. The development of a fast and reliable ...
Object ID: issw-2006-660-666.pdf
Keywords: ground penetrating radar (gpr), avalanche victim, airborne detection
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Title: Noaa’s National Snow Analyses
Date: 2006
Authors: Tom Carroll, Don Cline
Description: NOAA’s National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC) provides comprehensive, near real-time, snow observations, snow analyses,...
Object ID: issw-2006-797-805.pdf
Keywords: energy-and-mass-balance snow model, remote sensing, airborne snow measurements, snow hydrology, water supply, snowmelt flooding
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Title: "When the Dust Settles" Year 2 – A Multivariable Study of the Patterns of Near and Far Dispersal of Windblown Particulate Matter
Date: 2006
Authors: Amy David, Jayne Thompson
Description: What are dispersal patterns of windblown dust into adjacent and mountain snowpack? This question arose from concern about increased aerosol particulat...
Object ID: issw-2006-835-842.pdf
Keywords: particulate matter, dispersal, snowpack, melt rate, water supply
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Title: The Coupling of Mountains and Deserts: Biogeochemical Influence of Eolian Deposition in the San Juan Mountains, CO USA
Date: 2006
Authors: Corey Lawrence, Jason Neff, Sarah Castle, Thomas H. Painter
Description: Several studies have indicated that eolian material can be an ecologically significant source of calcium (Ca) in Rocky Mountain ecosystems. However, t...
Object ID: issw-2006-898.pdf
Keywords: snow chemistry, dust, nutrient loading, eolian
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Title: Hyperspectral Analysis of Direct Shortwave Radiative Forcing of Dust in Mountain Snowcover
Date: 2006
Authors: Thomas H. Painter, Maureen P. Cassidy
Description: Springtime desert dust storms regularly deposit radiatively absorbing dust on the snow cover of the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. The ...
Object ID: issw-2006-910.pdf
Keywords: snow, dust, radiative forcing, hyperspectral, remote sensing
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