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- Title: Avalanche Forecasting and Messaging for Unusual Avalanche Conditions in a Maritime Snow Climate-Buried Surface Hoar
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Steve A. Reynaud
- Description: Atypical storm systems impacted the greater Lake Tahoe area during early January 2016 which contributed to the formation and preservation of buried su...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.23.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, messaging, buried surface hoar, avalanche fatality
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- Title: Case Study: Forecasting Challenges on San Francisco Peaks, Arizona; Anomalies of This Low Mid-Latitude Strata Volcano
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: David W. Lovejoy
- Description: San Francisco Peaks in northern Arizona is the focus of this case study which characterizes unique attributes of this mid-latitude, high elevation str...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.24.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, mid-latitude volcanoes, mountain weather
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- Title: Using Large Column Tests to Successfully Forecast Persistent Deep Slab Avalanches in the Central Sierra Nevada Mountains
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Brandon Schwartz, Andy Anderson
- Description: Forecasting of Persistent Deep Slab avalanches presents a unique and at times difficult problem for Backcountry Regional Forecasters, Guide Services, ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.26.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, persistent deep slab, propagation saw test (pst), extended column test (ect), sierra nevada
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- Title: Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Avalanche Problems in Western Canada: An Analysis of the Winters 2010-2016
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Bret Shandro, Pascal Haegeli, Grant Statham, James Floyer
- Description: Not all avalanches are the same. Different combinations of snowpack structures and meteorological conditions create different types of avalanche probl...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.34.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche danger, aval anche forecasting, avalanche hazard, avalanche problems
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- Title: Back Calculation of Avalanche Dimensions From Laser Scanning and sfm Photogrammetry
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Alexander Prokop, J.-M. Friedt, Ursula Enzenhofer, Florian Tolle
- Description: After avalanche events happen it is always difficult to collect useful data from the avalanche dimensions such as snow volume that was released in the...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.35.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche documentation, snow depth, laser scanning, sfm-photogrammetry, svalbard
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- Title: Decrease of Snow Avalanches Activity and Proliferation of Wet Snow Avalanches in French Alps Under Climate Warming
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Mohamed Naaim, Nicolas Eckert
- Description: The processing of the data, including cross analysis, of two well documented databases of snow and avalanches in France Alps (namely EPA avalanches ch...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.36.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, climate change, natural hazard, risk
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- Title: Multivariate Parameter Optimization for Operational Application of Extended Kinetic Theory in Simulation Software
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Andreas Kofler, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Andreas Huber, Wolfgang Fellin, Matthias Rauter, Matthias Granig, Elisabeth Hainzer, Christian Tollinger, Karl Kleemayr
- Description: State of the art avalanche simulation software is used for avalanche prediction and hazard mapping. Amongst other factors, the choice of an appropriat...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.37.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, computational avalanche dynamics, simulation optimization, design event
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- Title: Using Spatially Distributed Statistical Models for Avalanche Runout Estimation
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Andreas Huber, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Andreas Kofler, Karl Kleemayr
- Description: State of the art physical-dynamical avalanche models are a commonly used tool in avalanche research and practice. Research and practical experience ha...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.38.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, avalanche modeling, raster-based modeling, regional-scale, hazard-indicator maps
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- Title: Selected Observations From Avalanche Measurements at the Ryggfonn Test Site and Comparisons with Observations From Other Locations
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Peter Gauer
- Description: Selected observations from the full-scale avalanche test site Ryggfonn, Norway, like front velocity, runout distance, or pressure distributions, are p...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.40.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche observations, comparison, hazard mapping
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- Title: Avalanche Management in a Large Chilean Copper Mine
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Patricio Cerda, Luis Gallardo, Marcel Didier, Marcel Oyarzun Joaquin, Mujica Rodrigo, Cesar Vera
- Description: The Andina copper mine is located at an elevation of 4200 m. in the Rio Blanco Valley north of Santiago de Chile. It is one of the world?s most produc...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.42.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, management, risk, operation, mining
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- Title: Concept to optimize road closures due to avalanche hazard on low traffic roads in Norway
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Dag Theodor R. Andreassen, Ole-Andre Helgaas
- Description: The Norwegian road network connects remote communities to central parts of the country. These communities are often vulnerable to isolation due to ava...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.46.pdf
- Keywords: monitoring, warning, observation, avalanche control, hazard evaluation
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- Title: The White Pass and Yukon Route Avalanche Program, Forecasting and Risk Management for a Historical Railroad
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Bill Glude
- Description: The White Pass and Yukon Route (WPYR) is a narrow gauge railroad built in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush. Considered impossible to build by many w...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.48.pdf
- Keywords: railroad, avalanche program, alaska, yukon
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- Title: Stochastic Methods in Operational Avalanche Simulation - From Back Calculation to Prediction
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Valentin Hellweger, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Andreas Kofler, Andreas Huber, Wolfgang Fellin, Michael Oberguggenberger
- Description: Avalanche simulations are an integral part of hazard assessment. Determining the potential hazard requires a multidisciplinary approach, including dif...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.50.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche dynamics, parameter estimation, stochastic simulation, bayes’ theorem, metropolis-hastings algorithm, posterior distribution, back calculation, prediction
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- Title: Loveland Pass Avalanche Mitigation
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Fanny Bourjaillat, Ethan Greene, Raymond Mumford, Tyler Weldon, Philippe Berthet-Rambaud
- Description: Close to Denver, Loveland Pass is part of the route that provides access to some famous ski resorts such as Vail and Keystone and is among of the more...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.51.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche mitigation, loveland pass, protection strategy
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- Title: A Proposed Practical Model for Zoning with the Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Cam Campbell, Brian Gould
- Description: Since 2009, the Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) has been used to zone avalanche terrain in western Canada and many other alpine nations. Despi...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-02.pdf
- Keywords: ates, avalanche, terrain, zoning, model
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