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Title: Deriving Mean Snow Depth in Complex Terrain From Flat Field Measurements
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Nora Helbig, Alec van Herwijnen, Tobias Jonas
Description: Snow depth is an important parameter for various applications, including hydrological and avalanche forecasting. Various measurement networks were the...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.46.pdf
Keywords: mean snow depth, avalanche forecasting, meteorological models, subgrid parameterization
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Title: Photogrammetrically Derived Estimates of Snow Depth Variability in Complex Terrain
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Gabriel Wolken, Erin Whorton, Alexander Gould
Description: Seasonal snow is a key cryospheric variable because of its influence on energy and wa-ter budgets, regional economies, and public safety. Quantitative...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.47.pdf
Keywords: snow depth, spatial variability, photogrammetry, structure from motion, avalanche, alaska
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Title: Simulation of Blowing Snow Weather Condition by WRF Model in Mayitasi, Xinjiang
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Lei Bai, Lanhi Li
Description: Snowcover play an import role in earth's ecosystem. In Apline and terrain with complex topography, the blowing snow have heavy impact on snow accumula...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.43.pdf
Keywords: partition, snowfall, news, criteria
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Title: Effects of Saharan Dust Outbreaks on the Snow Stability in the Pyrenees
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Laetitia Chomette, Montse Bacardit, Jordi Gavaldà, Ivan Moner
Description: Saharan dust outbreaks occur nearly every winter in the Pyrenees. It is well established that dust layers on the top of the snowpack reduce the snow a...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.02.pdf
Keywords: snowpack structure, variability and metamorphism; avalanche formation, release and dynamics
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Title: Back When it Used to Snow: An Analysis of 65 Years of Snowfall Data in the Pacific Northwest
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Dan Veenhuizen
Description: The Stevens Pass area has a long history of use as a transportation and recreation corridor. A major US highway and railroad run through the region, a...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.03.pdf
Keywords: snowfall trends, data analysis, el nino southern oscillation, stevens pass
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Title: Climate Change Impacts on Utah's Central Wasatch Snowpacks
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Rand Decker, Hugo Froyland
Description: Climate change has resulted in winters that are much different than in previous decades. For the better part of 20 years, the central and southern Roc...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.09.pdf
Keywords: snowpack distribution, climate change, snowmelt, drought
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Title: Effects of Bark Beetle Attacks on Snowpack and Snow Avalanche Hazard
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Michaela Teich, Martin Schneebeli, Peter Bebi, Andrew D. Giunta, Curtis A. Gray, Michael J. Jenkins
Description: Unprecedented bark beetle outbreaks across western North America have resulted in the death of millions of trees, which profoundly affects snowpack in...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.10.pdf
Keywords: subcanopy snow stratigraphy, avalanche protection forest, spruce beetle, snowmicropen
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Title: A Detailed Framework of the Snow and Avalanche Dynamics Class at the University of Utah
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Steven Clark
Description: Traditional certification-based avalanche education is often completed in short, intensive time periods that leaves many students wanting more detaile...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.43.pdf
Keywords: education, 5e instructional model, fieldwork, semester
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Title: Some Characteristics of Upside-Down Storms in the Northern Sierra Nevada, California-Nevada, USA
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Benjamin Hatchett, Michael L. Kaplan, Susan Burak
Description: Upside-down storms (UDSs) are winter precipitation events where temperature increases with time. We postulate that all mid-winter increases in streamf...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.03.pdf
Keywords: upside-down storm, snow level, snow hydrology, atmospheric river
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Title: Estimation of New Snow Density Using 42 Years of Meteorological Data from Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Wyoming
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Patrick J. Wright, Bob Comey, Chris McCollister, Mike Rheam
Description: New snow density is a key parameter for daily forecasting of avalanche hazard. However, there is currently not a reliable automated measurement of new...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.05.pdf
Keywords: snow density, snow water equivalent, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Synoptic Meteorological Conditions Associated With Snow Drift And Avalanche Activity in a High Arctic Maritime Snow Climate
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Holt J. Hancock, Jordy Hendrikx, Karl Birkeland, Markus Eckerstorfer, Hanne H. Christiansen
Description: Avalanche activity in snow climates dominated by direct-action avalanches is primarily controlled by the local and synoptic scale meteorological condi...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.06.pdf
Keywords: snow drift, synoptic avalanche forecasting, svalbard
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Title: Validation of a Coupled Weather and Snowpack Model Across Western Montana
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Kyle Van Peursem, Jordy Hendrikx, Karl Birkeland, Dan Miller, Chris Gibson
Description: Predicting avalanche danger depends on knowledge of the existing snowpack structure and the current and forecasted weather conditions. In remote and d...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.11.pdf
Keywords: snow cover models, weather models, snowpack, wrf, avalanche forecasting
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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: Monitoring Avalanches on Ca 120 in Yosemite National Park
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Sue Burak, Edward Bair
Description: Avalanches are a serious hazard to Yosemite National Park personnel during spring snow removal operations along California Highway 120, the Tioga Pass...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.21.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, glide, yosemite national park, wet snow
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Title: The Five Decisive Avalanche Problems
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Rudi Mair
Description: Making forecasts and compiling studies of hundreds of avalanches for 25 years have demonstrated one thing to us: Avalanches are no coincidence. They ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.25.pdf
Keywords: danger patterns, snowdrifts, gliding snow, old snow, fresh-fallen snow, wet snow
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