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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: Using Time-Lapse Photography in Avalanche Research
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Nicole Berthod, Ron Simenhois, Christoph Mitterer
- Description: To improve our understanding of avalanche release processes, more accurate avalanche activity data are required. Usually, data on avalanche occurrence...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-16.pdf
- Keywords: time-lapse photography, image processing, avalanche activity, glide-snow avalanche
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- Title: Remote Sensing of Avalanches in Northern Norway Using Synthetic Aperture Radar
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Eirik Malnes, Markus Eckerstorfer, Yngvar Larsen, Regula Frauenfelder, Ãrni Jónsson, Christian Jaedicke, Stian A. Solbø
- Description: We present results from using synthetic aperture radar data (SAR) to analyse three avalanches in the county of Troms in northern Norway during the lat...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-17.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche detection, remote sensing, synthetic aperture radar, uav
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- Title: Why Don’t Avalanche-Dynamics Models of Higher Complexity Necessarily Lead to Better Predictions?
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Christophe Ancey
- Description: The avalanche-dynamics approach has a long history in avalanche prediction. In the absence of computers, scientists and engineers focused on idealized...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-20.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche-dynamics model, saint-venant equation, prediction and uncertainty, maps
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- Title: Impulse Water Waves Generated by Snow Avalanches
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Mohamed Naaim
- Description: Retaining dams devoted to artificial snow production, are most of the time located in the vicinity of steep slope areas and may be threatened by snow ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-21.pdf
- Keywords: impulse water waves, snow avalanches, mountain lakes
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- Title: Integrating Gaming Technology to Map Avalanche Hazard
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Donna Delparte, Michael R. Peterson, John Perkins, Jahrain Jackson
- Description: As gaming physics engines advance, snow scientists have the opportunity to utilize
these engines to animate and model avalanche flow and runout. Nume...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-22.pdf
- Keywords: hazard mapping, gis, avalanche terrain modelling, dem, genetic algorithms
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- Title: Validating a Relationship Between Avalanche Runout Distance and Frequency
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Alexandra Sinickas, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Statistical runout models can provide good estimates of extreme avalanche runout, but do not estimate more frequent runout distances such as ten or th...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-23.pdf
- Keywords: runout ratio, frequency, magnitude, poisson, avalanche runout, trim lines
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- Title: The Historical Investigation as a Tool to Improve the Hazard Maps: The Case Study of the Historical Avalanche of Avieil (Valle d’Aosta - Italy)
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: S. Roveyaz, A. Debernardi, E. Ceaglio, V. Segor
- Description: Some avalanches, which in the past resulted in catastrophic events, but no more observed, are often very poorly understood. Therefore, for rediscoveri...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-24.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche cadastre, aosta valley, year 1888, serious damage, historical memory
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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: Effect of High Elevation Birch Forest on Snow Stability
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Hedda Breien, Øyvind A. Høydal
- Description: Forest and especially evergreen conifers like pine and spruce are known to reduce
avalanche formation due to their physical anchoring effect and thei...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-05.pdf
- Keywords: birch, deciduous forest, protection forest, avalanche, anchoring effect
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- Title: A Multi-Dimensional Water Transport Model to Reproduce the Preferential Flow in a Snowpack
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Hiroyuki Hirashima, Satoru Yamaguchi, Takafumi Katsushima
- Description: Modeling of liquid water transport in snowpack is important for the prediction of wet snow avalanches. In this study, a multi-dimensional water transp...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-06.pdf
- Keywords: water transport in the snowpack, numerical model, preferential flow, slope effect
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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: Evaluation of an Avalanche Triggered by a Local Earthquake at the Vallée de la Sionne (Switzerland) Experimental Site
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: C. Pérez- Guillén, E. Suriñach, G. Furdada, M. Hiller, M. Tapia
- Description: The snow avalanche group of the University of Barcelona in a collaboration with the SLF (Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos (Suiza)) mon...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-08.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, earthquake, seismic data, infrasound, snow stability factor
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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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