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Title: Wind Tunnel Blowing Snow Study: Steady and Unsteady Properties of Wind Velocity, Mass Fluxes and Mass Exchanges
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Mohamed Naaim, Florence NAAIM-BOUVET, Kouichi NISHIMURA, Osamu ABE, Yoichi ITO, Masaki NEMOTO, Kenji KOSUGI
Description: Several CFD snow drift models were proposed in the literature. These models include various assumptions and scaling laws representing the mass exchan...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-62.pdf
Keywords: wind, boundary layer, snow, drifting snow, experimental investigations, saltation, roughness, erosion rate
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Title: Simulations of Blowing Snow Over Antarctica
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Hubert Gallée, Alexandre Trouvilliez, Charles Amory, Cécile Agosta, Christophe Genthon, Xavier Fettweis, Vincent Favier, Florence Naaim-Bouvet
Description: The regional climate model MAR has been used to simulate transport of snow by the wind in Adélie Land, Antarctica, over a small domain (500 x 500 k...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-64.pdf
Keywords: climate modeling, antarctica, snow transport by the wind, snow pack
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Title: Preliminary Measurements and Survey of Snowdrift at the Seehore Avalanche Test Site – Aosta Valley (IT)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Maggioni M., Durand N., Frigo B., Pallara O., Freppaz M., Dellavedova P., Segor V., Naaim- Bouvet F., Bellot H.
Description: In high elevation areas drifting snow influences the snowpack spatial distribution and consequently its stability. The amount of snow drifted from th...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-65.pdf
Keywords: snowdrift, avalanche release zone, experimental data, nw italian alps
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Title: Technical Handbook “Wind Drift Control Structures in Mountainous Areas”
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Florence Naaim-Bouvet, et Michel Truche
Description: In mountainous areas, drifting snow generates a heterogeneous distribution of the snow: snow is eroded in high wind areas and deposited in sheltered a...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-66.pdf
Keywords: snow, wind, avalanche, wind drift control structure, snow fence, jet roof, wind baffle
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Title: Size Distribution, Schmidt Number and Terminal Velocity of Blowing Snow Particles in the French Alps: Comparison With Previous Studies
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Hervé Bellot, Mohamed Naaim, Kouichi Nishimura
Description: Wind-transported snow is a common phenomenon in French Alps, creating snowdrifts and contributing significantly to the loading of avalanche release a...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-67.pdf
Keywords: snow, wind, drifting snow, blowing snow, model, sensor
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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: Tracking Melt-Freeze Crust Evolution in Val d’Aran (Catalan Pyrenees)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jon Apodaka, Montserrat Bacardit, Iván Moner, Jordi Gavaldá
Description: In the Pyrenees, melt-freeze and wind crusts are a very common element in the snow cover. Such layers have an important role in both dry and wet slab ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-03.pdf
Keywords: melt-freeze crust, tracking, evolution, nivology, val d’aran, pyrenees
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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: The Effect of Spatial Variations of Snowpack Properties on Snow Slope Stability: A Mechanically-Based Statistical Approach
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Johan Gaume, Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen, Guillaume Chambon, Nicolas Eckert, Mohamed Naaim
Description: The spatial variability of snowpack properties has an important impact on snow slope stability and thus on avalanche formation. Hence, the determinat...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-07.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, avalanche release, slab, weak layer, spatial variability, slope stability
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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: Can a Point Measurement Represent the Snow Depth in its Vicinity? A Comparison of Areal Snow Depth Measurements With Selected Index Sites
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Thomas Grünewald, Michael Lehning
Description: Information on the amount of snow stored in a catchment or on a mountain is an important issue for hydrology, natural hazards, winter tourism or mount...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-13.pdf
Keywords: index-site, representativeness of point measurement, snow depth, airborne laser scanning, lidar
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Title: Comparison of a Snowpack on a Slope and Flat Land by Focusing on the Effect of Water Infiltration
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Shinji Ikeda, Takafumi Katsushima, Yasuhiko Ito, Hiroki Matsushita, Yukari Takeuchi, Kazuya Akiyama
Description: Water infiltration of snowpack plays an important role in wet avalanche formation. Several studies have examined water infiltration of snowpacks on fl...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-17.pdf
Keywords: water infiltration of snowpack, wet snow, snow stratigraphy, snowpack model
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Title: Digital Flow for Grain Segmentation from 3D Microtomographic Images of Snow
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Xi Wang, Frédéric Flin, David Coeurjolly, Bernard Lesaffre
Description: We propose in this article a shape segmentation method for granular structures in 3D based on medial axis. We define a two-step algorithm: the first ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-19.pdf
Keywords: medial axis, digital flow, snow grain segmentation
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Title: Description of the Snow Microstructure as a 3D Assembly of Grains
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Pascal Hagenmuller, Guillaume Chambon, Frédéric Flin, Xi Wang, Bernard Lesaffre, Mohamed Naaim
Description: The concept of snow grain is commonly used in the snow community, either in situ to identify the snow type or in numerical models to reproduce the phy...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-22.pdf
Keywords: snow, microstructure, grains, segmentation, bonds, mechanics
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