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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: On Estimating Avalanche Danger From Simulated Snow Profiles
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Estimating avalanche danger is the primary goal of avalanche warning services. Typically avalanche danger is estimated based on a variety of informati...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-01.pdf
Keywords: avalanche warning, avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger, snowpack, snow cover simulations, numerical weather prediction, data sparse areas
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Title: Towards a New Chain of Models for Avalanche Hazard Forecasting in French Mountain Ranges, Including Low Altitude Mountains
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Matthieu Lafaysse, Samuel Morin, Cecile Coleou, Matthieu Vernay, Damien Serca, Francois Besson, Jean-Marie Willemet, Gerald Giraud, Yves Durand
Description: Operational avalanche hazard warning carried out by Météo-France for the three main mountain ranges (Alps, Pyrenees, Corsica) have used snow sim...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-02.pdf
Keywords: snow modelling, operational, ground, mid-altitude
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Title: Identification of Slushflow Situations from Regional Weather Models
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Oyvind Armand Hoydal, Knut Helge Midtbo
Description: Slushflows are known phenomena that cause significant problems for settlements and infrastructure in Norway. Even though single events in the same loc...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-05.pdf
Keywords: slushflow, avalanche warning, weather models, forecasting
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Title: Will There (Still) Be Snow for the Upcoming Winter Holidays? On the Conditional Predictability of Snow Conditions Several Weeks to Months in Advance
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Samuel Morin, Matthieu Lafaysse, Cecile Coleou, Yves Lejeune
Description: Modern societies increasingly require anticipation capabilities in virtually all aspects of human life, including snow conditions in mountain regions,...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-12.pdf
Keywords: snowpack modelling, predictability, seasonal forecast
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Title: Design and Construction of Snow Supporting Structures for the Milepost 151 Avalanche, Jackson, Wyoming
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Joshua T. Hewes, Rand Decker, Scott M. Merry
Description: Reduction and management of avalanche threats to motorists on roads and highways threatened by avalanches can be accomplished by use of constructed de...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-15.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, hazard, transportation, snow structure, nepa, visual retention
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Title: Integration of a Drifting Snow Scheme in the French Operational Modeling for Avalanche Risk Forecasting: Validation Over 10 Years
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: G. Guyomarc’h, Y. Durand1, G. Giraud, F. Naaim-Bouvet
Description: For several years the Snow Study Centre of Météo-France and the Snow avalanche engineering and torrent control research unit of IRSTEA have been...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-04.pdf
Keywords: blowing snow modeling, in-situ measurements, operational forecast for avalanche hazard
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Title: NIVEXC: An Electronic Snow-Pole for Real-Time Monitoring of Avalanche Starting Zones
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Massimiliano Barbolini, Matteo Baudone, Francesco Ferro, Laura Ricchetti, Francesco Stefanini
Description: Knowledge of amount of new snow, total snow depth and internal property of snowcover in avalanche release zones are well known to be key factors for e...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-15.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, starting zone monitoring, snow depth measurement, temperature profile
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Title: Avalanche Hazard Mapping in Kazakhstan
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Blagovechshenskiy V., Gulyayeva T.
Description: Avalanche hazard maps in Kazakhstan are produced in small (< 1/500 000), medium (1/100 000 - 1/300 000), and large (> 1/100 000) scales. Avalanche ha...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-25.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard mapping
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Title: Spatial Predictions of Surface Hoar and Crust Formation
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Simon Horton, Michael Schirmer, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Understanding the distribution of critical snowpack layers is important when assessing avalanche hazard. Two common critical layers, surface hoar and ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-01.pdf
Keywords: surface hoar, sun crust, surface energy balance, avalanche forecasting, numeric weather prediction
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Title: Understanding the "True" Predictive Power of Statistical Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Matt Murphy
Description: Statistical avalanche forecasting tools using meteorological and snowpack predictors have been developed in many different snow avalanche environment...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-09.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, statistical forecasting, classification trees
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Title: Can Near Real-Time Avalanche Occurrence Data Improve Avalanche Forecasting?
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Avalanche forecasting is by large data driven – and experience-based. Snow instability data, which are of crucial importance, are scarce and of...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-10.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, avalanche forecasting, avalanche occurrence
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Title: Avalanche Danger Variability in Level 2 – Moderate and 3 – Considerable of the European Danger Scale Following the EAWS Bavarian Matrix: Experimental Use of Icons Representing Different Weight Within
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Mauro Valt, Flavio Berbenni
Description: The avalanche forecaster should describe and represent, unambiguously and clearly to users, the avalanche danger through the bulletin. The EAWS bavar...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-12.pdf
Keywords: bavarian matrix, avalanche forecast, avalanche danger scale
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Title: Avalanche Problems; An Important Part of the Norwegian Forecast, and a Useful Tool for the Users
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Markus Landrø, Solveig Kosberg, Karsten Müller
Description: The Norwegian Avalanche Warning Service uses avalanche problems in their bulletins to provide a compact, yet exact, description for the end user of th...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-14.pdf
Keywords: avalanche problems, avalanche patterns, avalanche forecasting, avalanche bulletin, norway
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Title: Comparison of Structural Instability Indices (Lemons), ECT and RB Results
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Chiambretti Igor, Fabiano Monti, Mauro Valt
Description: Almost all avalanche forecasting services have a network of traditional stations where an array of daily or weekly snowpack measurement or observation...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-03.pdf
Keywords: rb, ect, structural instability indices
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