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- Title: SNOWGRID – A New Operational Snow Cover Model in Austria
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Marc Olefs, Wolfgang Schöner, Martin Suklitsch, Christoph Wittmann, Bernd Niedermoser, Alfred Neururer, Arnulf Wurzer
- Description: We present first results of the newly developed, physically-based and spatially distributed snow cover model SNOWGRID. The model is driven with gridde...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-07.pdf
- Keywords: snow cover model, climate services, avalanche warning, inca, nowcasting, numerical 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: 40 Years of NGI’s Full-Scale Avalanche Test-Site Ryggfonn
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Peter Gauer, Krister Kristensen
- Description: The Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) has been running full-scale avalanche experiments at the Ryggfonn test-site in western Norway for close to ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-35.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, test-site, full-scale experiments
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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: SNOWPACK: Where Do We Stand Today?
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Charles Fierz, Mathias Bavay, Nander Wever, Michael Lehning
- Description: We present both snow depth and precipitation driven simulations of the snow cover at Weissfluhjoch, 2540 m a.s.l., near Davos, Switzerland. We perform...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-03.pdf
- Keywords: snow, snow settlement, snow-cover modelling
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- Title: Verification of SNOWPACK Model in the Western Caucasus, Russia, for Spatial Assessment of Snow Cover Stability
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Elena S. Klimenko
- Description: We applied physical model Snowpack, developed in Switzerland, to simulate the
evolution of snow cover in the Western Caucasus, Russia during three wi...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-04.pdf
- Keywords: snow cover evolution, physical modeling, snow properties, meteorological data
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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: Le Rôle du Chef d'Opération Sur Une Avalanche d'Envergure
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Colonel Blaise Agresti
- Description: L'objet de l'intervention est de proposer une méthodologie de décision et d'organisation adaptée à la gestion d'un secours en avalanche mu...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-06.pdf
- Keywords: gestion de crise, processus iteratif de decision, intuition
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- Title: Avalanche Crisis Management, (Not Including Outdoor Activities) New Practical Guide to the Attention of Mayors and Local Executives
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Oceane Vibert, Francois Rapin, et Jean-Pierre Requillard
- Description: In France, in case of avalanche risk, local politicians have to "prescribe measures required by the circumstances". This is the duty of legitimate con...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-07.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, prevention, crisis management, inhabitants
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- Title: Avalanche Rescue and Mission Risk in Norway 1996-2010
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Albert Lunde, Krister Kristensen
- Description: Well documented data from Norwegian avalanche rescue missions are evaluated according to risk assessment. Data have been collected from police records...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-08.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, risk assessment, risk management
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- Title: Survival Chance Optimized Procedures in Rescue and How to Minimize Injuries During Excavation
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Manuel Genswein
- Description: In companion rescue as well as in the start-up phase of organized rescue, shortage of rescue resources are very likely if multiple buried subjects / p...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-09.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche triage, excavation, injuries
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- Title: Artificial Snow and its Impacts in a Ski Resort and its Mountain Hydrosystem: Example of Avoriaz Resort
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Elodie Magnier
- Description: The practice of artificial snowmaking is recent (1950 in the United States) and since
1990, French resorts, including Avoriaz, as well as their Swiss...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-11.pdf
- Keywords: artificial snow, water resource, mountain area, catchment area, hydrosystem
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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: Assessing Weak Layer Failure and Changes in Snowpack Properties Due to Avalanche Control By Explosives
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Stephan Simioni, Jurg Schweizer
- Description: Avalanche control by explosives is among the key temporary preventive measures and today fixed avalanche control installations are widely used. Hither...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-13.pdf
- Keywords: snow properties, avalanche control, explosives, weak layer failure
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