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Title: The ‘Optimal Skiing Day’: The Future of Ski Resorts Under Climate Change Conditions
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schmude
Description: The purpose of this presentation is to implement and apply a model permitting to identify and assess the most economical days of a skiing season in or...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-27.pdf
Keywords: climate change, skiing tourism, profitability, modeling, christmas-easter-shift
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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: 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: Analysis of Detected Avalanches by Using Meteorological Data of Nearby Monitoring Stations in Ischgl Austria
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Lisa Jöbstl, Arnold Studeregger, Arnulf Wurzer, Daniel Stock, Richard Koschuh
Description: A set of detected avalanches from January to April 2012 on a hillside southeast of Ischgl, Austria is given. The avalanches are off-the-cut or caused ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-17.pdf
Keywords: detected avalanches, meteorological weather stations, avalanche danger, snow pack
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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: Protection de l´Industrie Minière Dans Les Andes
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Pablo Galleguillos Acuña
Description: Minera Los Pelambres (http://www.pelambres.cl/) is a copper (Cu) mining company situated high in the Andean Mountain Range, in a country of South Ame...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-56.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, accidents, weather
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Title: Experiences from a Heavy Avalanche Season 2013, Caused by a Weak Snow Layer, and Leading to Several Road Closures in Northern Norway
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Silje S. Haaland, Jeanette Kvalvaagnes, Ole-André Helgaas
Description: During the last week of March and first days of April 2013 a significant large number of avalanches hit roads and cut off all infrastructures to sever...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-58.pdf
Keywords: snowpack, avalanche, weak layers, norway
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Title: Data Assimilation of Multilayer Snowpack on Argentière Glacier, Using X-band SAR Data, DMRT and a Detailed Snowpack Model
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Xuan-Vu Phan, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Michel Gay, Yves Durand, Marie Dumont, Samuel Morin, Guy d’Urso
Description: This study discuss the potential of using remote sensing data from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), couple with Dense Media Radiative Transfer (DMRT) m...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-14.pdf
Keywords: remote sensing, electromagnetic backscattering model, snow grain optical diameter, snow density, radar (sar), data assimilation
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Title: Real-Time Detection of Natural Snow Avalanches by Infrasonic Array Network (IAN) on December 2012 in Valtournenche – Aosta Valley (IT)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Durand N., Ulivieri G., Marchetti E., Frigo B., Dellavedova P., Ripepe M., Segor V.
Description: Since 2009 and within the Operational programme Italy-France (Alps ALCOTRA) – Projects “DynAval” (2009-2012) and “Map3“...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-33.pdf
Keywords: infrasonic array, snow avalanches, real-time monitoring
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Title: Simulations of Blowing Snow Over Antarctica
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Hubert Gallée, Alexandre Trouvilliez, Charles Amory, Cécile Agosta, Christophe Genthon, Xavier Fettweis, Vincent Favier, Florence Naaim-Bouvet
Description: The regional climate model MAR has been used to simulate transport of snow by the wind in Adélie Land, Antarctica, over a small domain (500 x 500 k...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-64.pdf
Keywords: climate modeling, antarctica, snow transport by the wind, snow pack
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Title: Tracking Melt-Freeze Crust Evolution in Val d’Aran (Catalan Pyrenees)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jon Apodaka, Montserrat Bacardit, Iván Moner, Jordi Gavaldá
Description: In the Pyrenees, melt-freeze and wind crusts are a very common element in the snow cover. Such layers have an important role in both dry and wet slab ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-03.pdf
Keywords: melt-freeze crust, tracking, evolution, nivology, val d’aran, pyrenees
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Title: Small-Scale Meteorological Conditions at an Avalanche Slope
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Reinhard Fromm, Friedrich Obleitner, Thomas Gigele
Description: The seasonal development of the Alpine snow cover is mainly influenced by terrain features, surface properties, vegetation and atmospheric processes n...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-05.pdf
Keywords: micro-meteorology, atmospheric variables, statistical analysis
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Title: Comparison of a Snowpack on a Slope and Flat Land by Focusing on the Effect of Water Infiltration
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Shinji Ikeda, Takafumi Katsushima, Yasuhiko Ito, Hiroki Matsushita, Yukari Takeuchi, Kazuya Akiyama
Description: Water infiltration of snowpack plays an important role in wet avalanche formation. Several studies have examined water infiltration of snowpacks on fl...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-17.pdf
Keywords: water infiltration of snowpack, wet snow, snow stratigraphy, snowpack model
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Title: Modelling the Effect of Changing Snow Cover Regimes on Alpine Plant Species Distribution in Alpine Context
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jean-Pierre DEDIEU, Christophe RANDIN, Massimiliano ZAPPA, Stefan DULLINGER
Description: Snow cover is a critical parameter for the distribution of plant species in alpine regions. Earlier snow melt and an elongation and/or shift of the sn...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-25.pdf
Keywords: snow, mountains, climate change, alpine ecology
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