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- Title: Automated Alpine Weather Forecasting for the Avalanche Practitioner
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Christopher Morin
- Description: There has been an explosion in scalable computing power, big data, and machine learning over the past 5 years. This has significantly changed how we i...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.13.pdf
- Keywords: weather forecasting, avalanche forecasting, cloud computing
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- Title: Description and Evaluation of the New French Operational Chain of Models for Avalanche Hazard Forecasting Incorporating a Drifting Snow Scheme
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Gilbert Guyomarch, Vincent Vionnet, Matthieu Lafaysse, Gérald Giraud, Yannick Déliot, Florence Naaim-Bouvet
- Description: It is well known by avalanche forecasters that wind plays a determinant role in shaping the small-scale distribution of snow and strongly influences t...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.14.pdf
- Keywords: drifting snow events, tools for avalanche forecasters, avalanche hazard forecasting
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- Title: Looking to the '20s: Computer-Assisted Avalanche Forecasting in Canada
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: James A. Floyer, Karl Klassen, Simon Horton, Pascal Haegeli
- Description: In contrast to weather forecasting, where public and professional adoption of computer-based numerical weather prediction systems has been dramatic, a...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.15.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, computer modelling, computer-assisted forecasting
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- Title: Characteristics of Avalanche Release and an Approach of Avalanche Forecasting System Using SNOWPACK Model in the Tianshan Mountains, China
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Osamu Abe, Lanhai Li, Lei Bai, Jiansheng Hao, Hiroyuki Hirashima, Junrong Xu
- Description: We summarized the characteristics of avalanche releases in the Tianshan Mountains of western China based on observations of snow cover and avalanche o...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.17.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche release, forecasting system, snowpack model, tianshan mountains
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- Title: Assigning Probabilities in Local Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Krister Kristensen
- Description: In some local forecasting programs there is a need to predict the probability of an avalanche encounter, i.e. the probability for an avalanche to reac...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.18.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, probability assessment
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- Title: Avalanche Problems in Norway -- How We Use Them and Does it Work?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Solveig Kosberg, Markus Landrø, Karsten Müller, Rune Engeset, Jostein Aasen
- Description: After four seasons of national avalanche forecasting, we consider the avalanche problems as the most important element of our bulletin. Our system is ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.22.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche problems, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Avalanche Forecasting and Messaging for Unusual Avalanche Conditions in a Maritime Snow Climate-Buried Surface Hoar
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Steve A. Reynaud
- Description: Atypical storm systems impacted the greater Lake Tahoe area during early January 2016 which contributed to the formation and preservation of buried su...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.23.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, messaging, buried surface hoar, avalanche fatality
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- Title: Case Study: Forecasting Challenges on San Francisco Peaks, Arizona; Anomalies of This Low Mid-Latitude Strata Volcano
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: David W. Lovejoy
- Description: San Francisco Peaks in northern Arizona is the focus of this case study which characterizes unique attributes of this mid-latitude, high elevation str...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.24.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, mid-latitude volcanoes, mountain weather
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- Title: Using Large Column Tests to Successfully Forecast Persistent Deep Slab Avalanches in the Central Sierra Nevada Mountains
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Brandon Schwartz, Andy Anderson
- Description: Forecasting of Persistent Deep Slab avalanches presents a unique and at times difficult problem for Backcountry Regional Forecasters, Guide Services, ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.26.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, persistent deep slab, propagation saw test (pst), extended column test (ect), sierra nevada
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- Title: Critical Length for the Onset of Crack Propagation in Snow: Reconciling Shear and Collapse
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Johan Gaume, Alec van Herwijnen, Guillaume Chambon, Nander Wever, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: The failure of a weak snow layer buried below cohesive slab layers is a necessary, but insufficient condition for the release of a dry-snow slab avala...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O1.02.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, crack propagation, critical length, slope angle, pst, slab, weak layer
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- Title: Using Thermal Imaging to Verify Avalanche Control Results
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Mark Saurer, Damian Jackson, Bill Nalli
- Description: As the population of the Salt Lake Valley and popularity of backcountry skiing in the Wasatch continues to grow, so do the logistic difficulties of co...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O2.02.pdf
- Keywords: thermal imaging, avalanche control, irt
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- Title: Use of Ground Based INSAR Radar to Monitor Glide Avalanches
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Ingrid Skrede, Lene Kristensen, Carlo Rivolta
- Description: Ground based InSAR radars are commonly used to monitor deformations on rock slopes, using acceleration to predict the risk of failure. During the spri...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O2.04.pdf
- Keywords: glide avalanche, insar, radar, monitoring, stavbrekkfonna
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- Title: Case Study: Natural Glide and Wet Slab Avalanche Cycle, Going-To-The-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana USA
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jake Hutchinson, Erich H. Peitzsch, Adam M. Clark
- Description: The Going-to-the-Sun Road (GTSR) is the premier tourist attraction in Glacier National Park, Montana. The GTSR also traverses through and under 40 ava...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O3.02.pdf
- Keywords: glide avalanche, wet slab avalanche, forecasting, glacier national park, montana
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- Title: Unusual Dry Slab Avalanche Releases Involving Dust-on-Snow Layers in Colorado
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Zach M. Guy, Jeffrey S. Deems
- Description: In recent decades, dust-on-snow events are increasing in both frequency and geographic extent in the Western U.S. Although dust layers have gained a r...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O3.03.pdf
- Keywords: dust, slab avalanches, metamorphism, forecasting
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- Title: Rescue at Cherry Bowl an Avalanche Canada Microsite Exploring the Many Learning Opportunities From a Successful Backcountry Avalanche Rescue
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Mary Clayton
- Description: Too often, educational opportunities in avalanche safety are based in tragedy. Rescue at Cherry Bowl is a lesson from success; three backcountry skie...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O4.01.pdf
- Keywords: rescue training, education, awareness, avalanche canada, rescue at cherry bowl
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