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- Title: Trend Analysis of Snow Density and Water Equivalent in the Alpine Region
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Christoph Marty, Anna-Maria Tilg, Tobias Jonas
- Description: Snow density is an important property for the characterisation of a snow cover. It is also a key factor for retrieving the snow water equivalent (SWE)...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-24.pdf
- Keywords: snow density, snow water equivalent, alpine region, variability
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- Title: Recent Changes in Avalanche Activity in the French Alps and Their Links With Climatic Drivers: An Overview
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Nicolas Eckert, Aurore Lavigne, Hélène Castebrunet, Gérald Giraud, Mohamed Naaim
- Description: This paper synthetizes our ongoing work on relations between natural avalanche activity and climate change in the French Alps and subregions. Firm res...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-25.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche activity, climate change, time trends, french alps
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- Title: Weather Preceding Persistent Deep Slab Avalanches
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Michael Conlan, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Deep slab avalanches release on persistent weak layers of facets, surface hoar, depth hoar, or poorly bonded crusts and are generally hard to forecast...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-01.pdf
- Keywords: deep slab avalanche, persistent weak layer, weather, natural, localized dynamic load
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- Title: Peut-On Identifier des Conditions Favorables au Départ d’Avalanches de Plaques de Fond en Neige Sèche Grâce à la Modélisation de la Neige?
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Gilles Brunot
- Description: The conditions of natural triggering of full-depth slab avalanches are not well known. The mechanism is complex , due to creep phenomena which are ver...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-02.pdf
- Keywords: full depth avalanche, favourable conditions, triggering, modelling
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- Title: Toward Better Decision Tools for the Management of Frequent Avalanches
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Segor, V., Pitet, L., Bovet E., Dellavedova P., Sovilla B., Steinkogler W., Veitinger J., Maggioni M., Chiambretti I., Prola M.
- Description: Avalanche safety personnel often face with the problem of whether to close a road or a ski-resort exposed frequently to avalanches. Such decisions are...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-03.pdf
- Keywords: strada, frequent avalanches, management, routes, ski-resorts, strategies
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- Title: Winter Types and Snow Avalanche Activity Along the Arpaş and Bâlea Glacial Valleys - Făgăraş Massif (Southern Carpathians)
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Mircea,Voiculescu, Alexandru Onaca, PatrikChiroiu, Dana Micu
- Description: This paper discusses the correlation between winter types and snow avalanche activity, in the Arpaş and the Bâlea glacial valleys, located on th...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-04.pdf
- Keywords: winter types, snow avalanches, arpaş and bâlea glacial valleys, făgăraş massif, southern carpathians, romanian carpathians
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- Title: How Big is Big: Results of the Avalanche Size Classification Survey
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Ivan Moner, Sara Orgué, Jordi Gavaldà , Montse Bacardit
- Description: Avalanche size is a key parameter in avalanche danger rating as well as in the communication between technicians. In 2009 the European Avalanche Warni...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-05.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche size, survey, eaws
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- Title: Automatic Classification of Manual Snow Profiles by Snow Structure
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Frank Techel, Christine Pielmeier
- Description: Manual snowpack observations are an important component of avalanche hazard assessment for the Swiss avalanche forecasting service. Approximately 900 ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-07.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack structure, avalanche forecasting, snow profile analysis
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- Title: Recreational Avalanche Accidents in Switzerland: Trends and Patterns With an Emphasis on Burial, Rescue Methods and Avalanche Danger
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Frank Techel, Benjamin Zweifel
- Description: During the last 20 years (1992/93 to 2011/12) more than 90% of the avalanche fatalities in Switzerland occurred in uncontrolled avalanche terrain (rec...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-08.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche survival, mortality, rescue methods
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- Title: New Tool for Avalanche Forecasting in the Krkonoše Mountains
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Roman Juras, Jiřà Pavlásek, Jan Blahůt, Petr BaÅ¡ta, ZbynÄ›k Klose, VÃtÄ›slav Moudrý, Jan Balek
- Description: The Krkonoše Mts., with the highest peak reaching 1602 m a.s.l., is the highest mountain range in the Czech Republic. Despite its low altitude they...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-09.pdf
- Keywords: czech republic, expert forecasting system, modelling
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- Title: Integration of a Drifting Snow Scheme in the French Operational Modelling for Avalanche Risk Forecasting: Evaluation by Avalanche Forecasters
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Daniel Goetz, Vincent Latu, Gilbert Guyomarc’h, Yves Durand, Gérald Giraud, Jean-Marie Willemet
- Description: Snow drift modelling is a difficult challenge due to the large range of concerned working scales and the permanent interaction between snow, meteorolo...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-10.pdf
- Keywords: drifting snow, modelling, avalanche risk, forecast, evaluation
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- Title: Modeling a Fluid/Solid Transition in Snow Weak Layers Application to Snow Avalanche Release
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: François Louchet, Alain Duclos, Stephane Caffo
- Description: A transition between solid and a fluid-like phases was evidenced and studied in the
material made of loose ice crystals involved in snow avalanche re...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-11.pdf
- Keywords: slab, triggering, weak layer, collapse, shear, whumpf
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- Title: NAVAL: A Computer-Based Tool for Avalanche Risk Scenarios Definition
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Massimiliano Barbolini, Francesco Stefanini, Lisa Bonomi
- Description: The software NAVAL has been developed in order to support avalanche experts and decision makers to promptly define and visualise probable avalanche ri...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-12.pdf
- Keywords: risk management, avalanche risk scenarios, computer-based tool, google earth
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- Title: The expert tool XGEO and its applications in the Norwegian Avalanche Forecasting Service
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Emma Barfod, Karsten Müller, Tuomo Saloranta, Jess Andersen, Nils Kristian Orthe, Anders Wartianien, Tore Humstad, Steinar Myrabø, Rune Engeset
- Description: Norway is highly dependent on tracking the changing snow cover, not only for the avalanche forecasting but also for hydropower production planning, fl...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-13.pdf
- Keywords: map centric tool, observations, snow model, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Single and Mass Avalanching Similarity of Avalanching in Space
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Pavel Chernous
- Description: Sometimes it is possible to observe only single avalanche release in a big area with
numerous avalanche paths, but sometimes avalanches occur in many...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-15.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, mass avalanching, similarity of avalanching in space
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