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Title: Thermal Energy in Snow Avalanches
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Walter Steinkogler, Betty Sovilla, Tobias Jonas, Michael Lehning
Description: Avalanches can exhibit many different flow regimes from powder clouds to slush flows. Flow regimes are largely controlled by the properties of the sno...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-19.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, thermal energy, snow entrainment, infrared radiation thermography
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Title: Influence of Summer and Winter Surface Topography on Numerical Avalanche Simulations
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Maggioni M., Bovet, E., Dreier, L., Buehler, Y., Godone, D., Bartelt, P., Freppaz M., Chiaia, B., Segor V.
Description: Numerical avalanche dynamics models are widely used to calculate extreme avalanches for hazard mapping and mitigation measure planning. A basic model ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-21.pdf
Keywords: avalanche modelling, surface topography, running surface, uncertainty
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Title: Uncut Column Stability Tests For Hard Slab Snow Conditions
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Wesley R. Farnsworth, Markus Eckerstorfer
Description: This study aims to better understand a slabs influence on the mechanics of artificial avalanches. It seems that stability tests do not represent stab...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-01.pdf
Keywords: slab properties, propagation saw test, hard slab, uncut columns
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Title: On How to Measure Snow Mechanical Properties Relevant to Slab Avalanche Release
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Benjamin Reuter, Martin Proksch, Henning Loewe, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Schweizer
Description: The release of a slab avalanche is preceded by a sequence of fractures. The main material properties relevant for the fracture processes are the spec...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-02.pdf
Keywords: snow microstructure, snow mechanical properties, snow fracture, snow stability evaluation, avalanche release
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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: The Full-Scale Avalanche Test Site, Lautaret, France
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Emmanuel THIBERT, Hervé BELLOT, Xavier RAVANAT, Frédéric OUSSET, Gaëtan PULFER, Mohamed NAAIM, Florence NAAIM-BOUVET, Koichi NISHIMURA, Yoichi ITO, Djebar Baroudi, Alexander PROKOP, Peter SCHÖN, P. Alvaro SORUCO, Christian VINCENT, Ali LIMAM, Damianao PESARESI
Description: The Lautaret full-scale avalanche test site in the southern French Alps has been used by IRSTEA (Cemagref) Research Institute since 1973. Over the rec...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-34.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, test-site, full-scale experiments
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Title: Terrain Analysis of Skier-Triggered Avalanche Starting Zones
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Irene Vontobel, Stephan Harvey, Ross S. Purves
Description: Terrain is one of the main factors contributing to avalanche formation and important for the assessment of avalanche risk. Terrain characteristics of ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-05.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, avalanche starting zone, terrain, gis
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Title: The Role of Avalanche Character in Public Avalanche Safety Products
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Karl Klassen, Pascal Haegeli, Grant Statham
Description: Avalanche character is a significant factor in professional decision-making (Atkins, 2004). Weak layer/interface, slab properties, persistence, weak l...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-13.pdf
Keywords: wet slab, slab, cornice
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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: The Influence of Weather on Glide-Snow Avalanches
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Lisa Dreier, Christoph Mitterer, Sebastian Feick, Stephan Harvey
Description: During the winter 2011-2012 the Swiss Alps experienced high glide-snow activity. The danger of glide-snow avalanches combined with large snow depths p...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-06.pdf
Keywords: snow gliding, weather influence, glide-snow avalanche, multivariate statistic
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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: An Operational Supporting Tool for Assessing Wet-Snow Avalanche Danger
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Christoph Mitterer, Frank Techel, Charles Fierz, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Assessing the danger due to wet-snow avalanches is notoriously difficult, in particular, since conditions favouring wet-snow avalanches may persist on...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-28.pdf
Keywords: wet-snow avalanches, forecast, energy balance, avalanche danger assessment
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Title: Avalanches Induced by Earthquake in North Tochigi Prefecture on 25 February 2013
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Hiroki Matsushita, Shinji Ikeda, Yasuhiko Ito, Masaru Matsuzawa, Hiroshi Nakamura
Description: We have investigated characteristics of avalanches induced by the North Tochigi Prefecture earthquake with magnitude of 6.3 on February 2012 in Japan ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-41.pdf
Keywords: earthquake-induced avalanches, snow pit observation, stability index
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Title: Automatic Detection of Avalanches Using Infrasound and Seismic Signals
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: A. Schimmel, J. Hübl
Description: The ability to detect avalanches as they occur is essential for avalanche management and avalanche forecasting. Past studies have shown that avalanche...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-67.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, warning systems, infrasound, seismic
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Title: Towards a Basic Avalanche Characterization Based on the Generated Seismic Signal
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Lisa Dreier, Perry Bartelt
Description: The primary reasons to study the seismic signal generated by avalanches are (1) to remotely detect snow avalanches and (2) to improve our understandin...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-24.pdf
Keywords: seismic monitoring, avalanche activity, avalanche dynamics
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