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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...
Object ID: ISSW16_O17.01.pdf
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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: Selection Criteria for Snow Avalanche Mitigation Measures Considering Other Potential Geohazards: Examples From Colorado and Canadian Highways
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Dave Gauthier, Alex Strouth, Mark Vessely
Description: While unique in many ways, snow avalanches are one of many potential geohazards which threaten transportation and energy corridors, mine sites, etc., ...
Object ID: ISSW16_O19.01.pdf
Keywords: mitigation, geohazard, risk
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Title: Quantifying the Effectiveness of Active Mitigation on Transportation Corridors
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: David Hamre, Ethan Greene, Stefan Margreth
Description: Numerous efforts have been made to quantify avalanche risk in transportation corridors (Schaerer 1981, Hendrikx 2006, Margreth 2003, 2016), but little...
Object ID: ISSW16_O19.02.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, mitigation, risk reduction
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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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Title: Combining the Conceptual Model of Avalanche Hazard With the Bavarian Matrix
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Karsten Müller, Christoph Mitterer, Rune V. Engeset, Ragnar Ekker, Solveig Ø. Kosberg
Description: The European Avalanche Danger Scale provides definitions for each of the five danger levels. However, some terms used in the scale are not fully defin...
Object ID: ISSW16_O20.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, bavarian matrix, conceptual model of avalanche hazard, eaws
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Title: Avalanche Forecasting in the Central Asian Countries of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Doug Chabot, Aysha Kaba
Description: Home of the Karakorum, Hindu Kush and Pamir mountains, Central Asia has a serious avalanche hazard. A single 2012 avalanche cycle resulted in over 100...
Object ID: ISSW16_O20.04.pdf
Keywords: focus, avalanches, community training, weather monitoring, education
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Title: Towards the Automatic Detection of Avalanches in Seismic Data Using Hidden Markov Models
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Matthias Heck, Conny Hammer, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Schweizer, Donat Fäh
Description: Seismic monitoring systems are well suited for the remote detection of various mass movements, including snow avalanches. While this has been known si...
Object ID: ISSW16_O14.04.pdf
Keywords: automatic detection, classification, seismic monitoring
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Title: Using Structure From Motion Photogrammetry to Examine Glide Snow Avalanches
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Erich H. Peitzsch, Jordy Hendrikx, Daniel B. Fagre
Description: Structure from Motion (SfM), a photogrammetric technique, has been used extensively and successfully in many fields including geosciences over the pas...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.02.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanche, structure from motion, photogrammetry, glacier national park, montana
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