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- Title: Possibility of Increasing the Slope Distance Between Avalanche Prevention Bridges
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Hiroki Matsushita, Masaru Matsuzawa, Hiroshi Nakamura
- Description: Snow bridges are installed on roadside slopes as a major measure for preventing avalanches in susceptible areas in Japan. Current methods of designing...
- Object ID: issw-2012-696-702.pdf
- Keywords: snow bridge, avalanche prevention, slope analysis
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- Title: Evaluation of Dynamic Actions on Active Snow-Nets Placed in Starting Zones Testing in Site During Winter Seasons 2008-2009-2010-2011
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Raviglione Massimo, Iori Maurizio
- Description: Avalanche prevention projects with active installations provide the execution of structural systems which minimize the avalanche trigger in starting z...
- Object ID: issw-2012-709-715.pdf
- Keywords: snow net systems, starting zones, snow gliding
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- Title: Rescue Compass – A Decision Making Tool for Avalanche Rescue
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Michael Bründl, Hans-Jürg Etter
- Description: During avalanche rescue operations rescuers can face considerable risk, while the
degree of risk a rescuer should take to save a life is open to deba...
- Object ID: issw-2012-746-749.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, avalanche accident, decision support, risk management
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- Title: Infrared Imagery Visual Aids for Snow Science Education
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Paul Brusseau, Eeva Latosuo
- Description: Thermography or infrared imaging, has emerged as a method by which to study snow. Two independent articles were presented at ISSW 2010 as to its suita...
- Object ID: issw-2012-786-787.pdf
- Keywords: infrared imaging, thermography, visual aid, snow
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- Title: How to Explain Avalanche Dynamics to Children and Their Parents
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Thierry Faug, Frédéric Ousset, Xavier Ravanat, Paolo Caccamo
- Description: Snow avalanches threaten mountain communities worldwide: avalanches affect not only snow sport tourists but people can also be caught in inhabited are...
- Object ID: issw-2012-820-826.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, dynamics, small-scale model, education, general public
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- Title: Linking Avalanche Problems to Avalanche Danger— A First Statistical Examination of the Conceptual Model of Avalanche Hazard
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Markus Falk, Karl Klassen
- Description: At the 2010 ISSW, Statham et al. (2010a) introduced a new North American avalanche danger scale to replace the two scales that were used in Canada and...
- Object ID: issw-2012-859-865.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche danger scale, avalanche forecasting, public safety, data recording
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- Title: Seasonal Change in Conditions for Occurrence of Wet Snow Avalanches in Hokkaido
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Hiroki Matsushita, Masaru Matsuzawa, Hiroshi Nakamura, Shinji Ikeda, Yasuhiko Ito
- Description: To clarify the meteorological conditions for occurrence of wet snow avalanches in Hokkaido, located in the northern part of Japan, data analysis have ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-878-883.pdf
- Keywords: wet snow avalanches, full depth avalanche, temporal changes
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- Title: Timing of Wet Snow Avalanche Activity: An Analysis from Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Erich H. Peitzsch, Jordy Hendrikx, Daniel B. Fagre
- Description: Wet snow avalanches pose a problem for annual spring road opening operations along the Going-to-the-Sun Road (GTSR) in Glacier National Park, Montana,...
- Object ID: issw-2012-884-891.pdf
- Keywords: wet snow avalanches, glide avalanches, glacier national park, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Investigating the Snow Climate of Turnagain Pass, Alaska
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Wendy Wagner
- Description: Turnagain Pass, Alaska, which is a popular destination for backcountry enthusiasts
located 40 miles southeast of Anchorage, does not fit neatly into ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-913-917.pdf
- Keywords: backcountry, snow climate, avalanche terrain
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- Title: Hysteresis in the Water Retention Curve of Snow Measured Using an MRI System
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Satoru Adachi, Satoru Yamaguchi, Toshihiro Ozeki, Katsumi Kose
- Description: Recently, a compact magnetic resonance (MR) imager was developed for use in a cold-room. A new method for determining the distribution of water in sno...
- Object ID: issw-2012-918-922.pdf
- Keywords: compact mri, cold room, water retention curve
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- Title: Can We Estimate Precipitation Rate During Snowfall Using a Scanning Terrestrial Lidar?
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Edward H. Bair, Robert E. Davis, David C. Finnegan, Adam L. LeWinter, Ethan Guttmann, Jeff Dozier
- Description: Accurate snowfall measurements in windy areas have proven difficult. To examine a new approach, we have installed an automatic scanning terrestrial Li...
- Object ID: issw-2012-923-929.pdf
- Keywords: precipitation, lidar, mass flux
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- Title: The Multi-Angle Snowflake Camera
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Timothy J. Garrett, Edward H. Bair, Cale J. Fallgatter, Konstantin Shkurko, Robert E. Davis, Daniel Howlett
- Description: We introduce a new instrument called the Multi-Angle Snowflake Camera (MASC). The MASC provides 10 to 40 μm resolution stereoscopic images of indiv...
- Object ID: issw-2012-930-933.pdf
- Keywords: precipitation, photography, fallspeed
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- Title: Quantifying Snow Transport Using Snow Fences and Sonic Sensors
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Svetlana Stuefer, Matthew Sturm
- Description: Using two snow fences we constructed in northern Alaska, and an existing municipal fence near Barrow, we measured the growth and size of the snow drif...
- Object ID: issw-2012-934-936.pdf
- Keywords: snow fence, snowdrift, transportation, flux
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- Title: Snow Cover Dynamics and Ecology: An Analysis of Modis Time Series in the Italian Alps
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Godone D., Terzago S., Filippa G., Fratianni S., Garnero G., Barbero S., Rivella E., Freppaz M.
- Description: snow cover is a critical factor among environmental variables in mountainous ecosystems. It influences several processes such as water supply, avalanc...
- Object ID: issw-2012-948-955.pdf
- Keywords: snow cover, topography, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Measurement Campaigns to Investigate Blowing Snow and Snow Drift Conditions at a High Altitude Site
- Date: 2012
- Authors: G. Guyomarc’h, H. Bellot, Y. Durand, F. Naaim-Bouvet, A. Prokop, V. Vionnet
- Description: In order to make progress in avalanche research and to improve avalanche risk forecasting, at least two elements must be taken into account: the inves...
- Object ID: issw-2012-961-967.pdf
- Keywords: blowing snow modeling, in-situ measurements
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