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Title: Synopsis, an Innovative Platform Supporting Avalanche Hazard Forecasting in France
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Cécile Coléou, Hugo Merzisen, Chantal Gendre, Yannick Danielou, Jean-Marie Willemet, Fabien Marty, Antoine Lasserre-Bigorry, Samuel Morin
Description: For more than 30 years, Météo-France has developed software which integrates a broad diversity of information for the daily operations of avalan...
Object ID: ISSW16_O15.02.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecast, operational workstation
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Title: Combining Snowpack Models and Observations for Better Avalanche Danger Assessments
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Fabiano Monti, Christoph Mitterer, Walter Steinkogler, Mathias Bavay, Andrea Pozzi
Description: Now-casting of avalanche danger is mainly based on direct snow stability observations (e.g. recent avalanches), snow stability tests combined with str...
Object ID: ISSW16_O15.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, manual observations, snow cover modeling, snow and weather data
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Title: The Avalanche Character Frequency of Reported Avalanche Events in Colorado, USA, 2011-2016
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Spencer Logan, Ethan Greene
Description: North American avalanche practitioners developed nine Avalanche Characters, based on risk treatment strategies, weak layer, and slab characteristics o...
Object ID: ISSW16_O15.04.pdf
Keywords: avalanche character, avalanche events, accidents
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Title: The Longyearbyen Fatal Avalanche Accident 19th December 2015, Svalbard - Lessons Learned From Avalanche Rescue Inside a Settlement
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Martin Indreiten, Christian Svarstad
Description: A fatal avalanche hit houses in the city of Longyearbyen early Saturday morning the 19th of December 2015 after an extreme winter storm event. The ava...
Object ID: ISSW16_O16.01.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, urban avalanche, rescue
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Title: Vulnerability of Houses and Persons Under Avalanche Impact – The Avalanche at Longyearbyen on 2015-12-19
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Dieter Issler, Jónsson Árni, Peter Gauer, Ulrik Domaas
Description: This study uses data from the avalanche that killed two persons and destroyed eleven essentially identical wood-frame houses in Longyearbyen, Svalbard...
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Title: Forecasting the Fatal Longyearbyen Avalanche. Possibilities and Challenges
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Erik Hestnes, Steinar Bakkehøi, Torgeir Mørk, Kjetil Brattlien
Description: One of the main questions after the fatal avalanche in Longyearbyen in December 2015, where two persons perished and eleven houses were destroyed, was...
Object ID: ISSW16_O16.04.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, forecasting, storm weather, wind measurements
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Title: A Smartphone Application for Estimating the Critical Slope Angle for Avalanche Release
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Ron Simenhois, Karl W. Birkeland, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Once a weak layer has fractured, slope steepness largely dictates whether or not an avalanche will release. Exceeding the critical slope angle, i.e. a...
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Title: Observer Independent Measures of Snow Instability
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Benjamin Reuter, Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Observer independent measures of snow instability are a prerequisite for modeling, verifying and improving avalanche forecasts. However, presently no ...
Object ID: ISSW16_O17.02.pdf
Keywords: snow instability, avalanche forecasting, snow micro-penetrometer, avalanche initiation, crack propagation, tensile strength, finite element modeling
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Title: Measuring the Mechanical Properties of Snow Relevant For Dry-Snow Slab Avalanche Release Using Particle Tracking Velocimetry
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Ned Bair, Karl Birkeland, Ben Reuter, Ron Simenhois, Bruce Jamieson, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) is a measurement technique widely used to determine displacement and velocity fields from video recordings. It is ...
Object ID: ISSW16_O17.03.pdf
Keywords: snow mechanical properties, avalanche release, particle tracking velocimetry, snow stability
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Title: Artificial Avalanche Release: Flat Field Experiments Using a Gas Exploder
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Stephan Simioni, Jürg Dual, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Fixed avalanche control installations are frequently used today due to their various advantages to artificially trigger avalanches. Gas mixtures or ex...
Object ID: ISSW16_O17.04.pdf
Keywords: avalanche control, gas exploder, avalanche formation, experiments
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Title: The Most Disastrous Avalanche Events in Austria Since 1946/47
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Peter Höller
Description: Avalanches are one of the principal natural hazards in alpine regions, resulting frequently in disastrous accidents. In this paper accidents with 5 or...
Object ID: ISSW16_O18.01.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche fatalities, avalanche history
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Title: The Establishment of the First Public Avalanche Forecasting Service in Sweden
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Per-Olov Wikberg, Petter Palmgren
Description: Sweden started in 2015 the establishment of its first public avalanche forecasting service. The establishment of the service was initiated by the Swed...
Object ID: ISSW16_O18.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, swedish environmental protection agency (sepa)
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Title: Automated Avalanche Risk Rating of Backcountry Ski Routes
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Günter Schmudlach, Jochen Köhler
Description: Avalanche accidents are often due to the fact, that many backcountry trips take place at locations with high avalanche risk at the time. A new web pla...
Object ID: ISSW16_O19.04.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk, platform, graphical reduction method, risk rating
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Title: North American Avalanche Danger Scale: Are Public Backcountry Forecasters Applying it Consistently?
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Brian Lazar, Simon Trautman, Mike Cooperstein, Ethan Greene, Karl Birkeland
Description: The North American Avalanche Danger Scale is a tool used by backcountry avalanche forecasters to communicate the potential for avalanches to cause har...
Object ID: ISSW16_O20.01.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger scale, avalanche danger ratings, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Variations in Individual Danger Level Estimates Within the Same Forecast Region
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Frank Techel, Lukas Dürr, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Forecasters in many public avalanche forecast operations rely on field observations and danger (or stability) assessments by experienced and well-trai...
Object ID: ISSW16_O20.02.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger level, observer-specific bias
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