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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: Physical and Isotopic Characteristics of Snowpack in NW Slovenia
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jaka Ortar, Manca Volk Bahun, Miha Pavšek, Iztok Sinjur, Gregor Vertačnik, Mihael Brenčič, Dušan Polajnar, Sergey A. Sokratov, Polona Vreča
Description: Snowpack is a reflection of different environmental factors, joining all three spheres: atmo-, hydro- and geosphere. Orographic diversity of Slovenia ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-11.pdf
Keywords: snowpack characteristics, oxygen isotopes, alpine watershed, nw slovenia
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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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Title: Modelling the Effect of Changing Snow Cover Regimes on Alpine Plant Species Distribution in Alpine Context
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jean-Pierre DEDIEU, Christophe RANDIN, Massimiliano ZAPPA, Stefan DULLINGER
Description: Snow cover is a critical parameter for the distribution of plant species in alpine regions. Earlier snow melt and an elongation and/or shift of the sn...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-25.pdf
Keywords: snow, mountains, climate change, alpine ecology
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Title: Spatial Distribution of HBV-ETH Model
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Zbyněk Klose, Jiří Pavlásek, Roman Juras, Jiří Roubínek
Description: The original HBV model is a conceptual, rainfall-runoff, semi-distributed model for daily runoff simulation. The advantage of this model is the minimu...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-26.pdf
Keywords: snow cover, snowmelt modelling, spatial distribution
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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: Strasser, U. and Marke, T. (2013): ESCIMO.spread - A Spreadsheet-Based Point Snow Surface Energy Balance Model to Calculate Hourly Snow Water Equivalent and Melt Rates for Climate
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Strasser, U., Marke, T.
Description: This paper describes the spreadsheet-based point energy balance model ESCIMO.spread which simulates the energy and mass balance as well as melt rates...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-30.pdf
Keywords: snow modeling, canopy interception, spread sheet, energy balance
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