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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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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 Patterns – A New Approach to Snow and Avalanche Analysis
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Rudi Mair, Patrick Nairz
Description: In recent years, backcountry winter sports far removed from secured ski slopes have undergone a surprising upsurge. Connected with this boom are heig...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-13.pdf
Keywords: danger pattern, threat of avalanches, danger level, avalanche bulletin, avalanche warning service
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Title: Avalanche Risk Management in Winter 2012/13 in Monterosa Ski Resort – Aosta Valley (IT)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Prola A., Welf A., Durand N., Frigo B., Dellavedova P., Segor V.
Description: Monterosa Ski is one of the most important resorts in the North/West Italian Alps. Extending through three valleys in two regions (Aosta Valley and Pi...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-15.pdf
Keywords: ski resort, avalanche, risk management
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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: Avalanche Safety in Ski Areas – The Legal Position in Austria
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Siegfried Sauermoser, Marianne Fritz, Gebhard Walter
Description: The avalanche safety in the area of ropeways is regulated on the basis of the Austrian Ropeway Act 2003 (version of 2012) in the so-called “Ava...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-16.pdf
Keywords: avalanche safety, austrian ropeway act 2003, ski areas, avalanche commission, cableway, ropeway installation
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Title: Evaluation de la Stabilité du Manteau Neigeux
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Christian Reverbel
Description: La vie d’une station de sport d’hiver est complétement dépendante de l’arrivée de la neige. Neige naturelle bien évid...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, stability
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Title: Impressions from Applying ISO 31000 to an Avalanche Mitigation Project
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Alan Jones
Description: ISO 31000 is an international standard for risk management. It offers standard risk concepts, terminology and processes for diverse organizations and ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-18.pdf
Keywords: iso 31000, risk management, avalanche risk, avalanche mitigation
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Title: Geo-Historical Analysis of the Interactions Between Forest and Avalanche Dynamics in a Medium-High Mountain: The Case of the Vosges Range (France)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Florie Giacona, Brice Martin
Description: Ten meters of snow. This is the height, important for the Massif of Vosges, of the deposit of the avalanche of the end of January, 2012 in the bottom ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-25.pdf
Keywords: vosges mountains, geohistory, avalanche, forest
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Title: An Integrated System to Assess Snow Forces on Avalanche Defense Structures From Snow-Gliding: La Tour Test Site - Aosta Valley (IT)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: V. De Biagi, M. Barbero, F. Barpi, M. Borri Brunetto, E. Bovet, B. Chiaia, B. Frigo, O. Pallara, M. Maggioni, E. Ceaglio, M. Freppaz, D. Viglietti, E. Zanini, V. Segor
Description: A new test site devoted to the measurement of the effects of snow-gliding on active defense structures has been conceived and built in Aosta Valley, n...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-31.pdf
Keywords: snow gliding, snow load, avalanche defense structures, snow umbrellas, integrated approach
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Title: Preliminary Results at the Hijiori Avalanche Test Site
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Osamu Abe, Masaki Nemoto, Kenji Kosugi, Isao Kamiishi
Description: Hijiori is one of the heaviest snow areas in Japan. Recently to observe blowing snow and avalanches, an almost perfect place was found in this area. T...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-32.pdf
Keywords: avalanche test site, avalanche dynamics, snow cornice
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