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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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- Title: Modeled Mass and Temperature Effects of Released and Entrained Snow on the Lubricated Flow Regime of Avalanches at Bird Hill, Southcentral Alaska
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Katreen Wikstrom Jones, Michael Loso, Perry Bartelt, Cesar Vera Valero
- Description: The unpredictable effects of released and entrained snow on avalanche run-out distances make hazard analysis difficult. At Bird Hill in southcentral A...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.03.pdf
- Keywords: snow entrainment, snow temperature, avalanche run-out, flow regimes, fluidization, lubrication
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- Title: Numerical Model Application on Snow Avalanche in Turkey
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Erhan Tekin, Onder Kocyigit, Levent Butun
- Description: Snow avalanches form a threat to human life in mountainous regions and significantly affect transportation condition. With recent developments in comp...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.06.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche velocity, friction factor, ramms, voellmy-salm
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- Title: Acceleration Processes of Snow Glide Prior to Full-Depth Avalanche Release on Shrub Slopes in the Temperate Heavy-Snow Region of Japan
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Katsuhisa Kawashima, Tsutomu Iyobe, Takane Matsumoto
- Description: In the temperate heavy-snow region of Japan, most of snow avalanche disaster arise as a consequence of the full-depth glide avalanche in the area with...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.07.pdf
- Keywords: full-depth glide avalanche, snow glide, avalanche release, shrub slope
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- Title: Deep Slab Instability: Loading and Settlement Rate Thresholds Related to Failure – Part II
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Patrick J. Wright, Bob Comey, Chris McCollister, Mike Rheam
- Description: Deep slab avalanches, which tend to be large and destructive, remain a challenge to accurately forecast. Using 42 seasons of historical data from Jack...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.08.pdf
- Keywords: deep slab, persistent slab, settlement, loading, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Human-Triggered Slab Avalanche Properties From the Catalan Pyrenees
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Montse Bacardit, Ivan Moner, Jordi Gavaldà , Glòria MartÃ, Carles Garcia
- Description: During the last three decades in the Catalan Pyrenees (Eastern side of the range), data on avalanche and snowpack characteristics from reported human-...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.09.pdf
- Keywords: slab avalanche, avalanche release, human-triggering, snowpack structure, snowpack stability
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- Title: Passive Avalanche Defense Mounds in the Bull of the Woods Avalanche Path, Wyoming
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jamie Yount, Brian Gorsage, Rod Newcomb, Lee Elder, Kelly Elder, Galen Richards
- Description: On February 16, 2014 a large natural avalanche (HS-N-R5-D5) released in the Bull of the Woods avalanche path at milepost 156.5 on US 191 in the Hoback...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.10.pdf
- Keywords: passive mitigation, defense mounds, berms, dendrochronology
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- Title: Characteristics of Snow Avalanche Release in Forests During a Heavy Snowfall Event
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Hiroki Matsushita, Koji Ishida
- Description: The heavy snowfall on February 14–15, 2014 caused many snow avalanches in the Kanto-Koshin region, Japan, where a thin snow cover exists during...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.11.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, forest, air temperature, snowfall intensity, hardness, stability
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- Title: Evaluation of Protection Measures Against Avalanches in Forested Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Thomas Feistl, Armin Fischer, Peter Bebi, Perry Bartelt
- Description: Small to medium sized avalanches release in forest gaps and open forest above roads and infrastructure in the Prealps regularly each winter. Avalanche...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.12.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, forest, public safety, modelling
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- Title: Drone-Based UWB Radar to Measure Snow Layering in Avalanche Starting Zones
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Rolf O. Rydeng Jenssen, Markus Eckerstorfer, Hannah Vickers, Kjell-Arild Høgda, Eirik Malnes, Svein K. Jacobsen
- Description: Slab avalanches release due to failure in a weak snow layer. Determining the spatial distribution and depth of weak layers in avalanche starting zones...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.15.pdf
- Keywords: uwb radar, uav, snow stratigraphy, avalanche risk assessment, avatech
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- Title: The Eye in the Sky: Avalanche Mapping From Space
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Regula Frauenfelder, Timothy Glassett, Christian Jaedicke, Malte Vöge, Carlo Robiati
- Description: The Seward Highway in Alaska has over one hundred avalanche paths spread out along a 150 km major transportation corridor, which traverses three diffe...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.18.pdf
- Keywords: glide avalanche, remote sensing, sentinel satellites, transportation corridor
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- Title: Snow Pressures on a Rigid Snow Supporting Structure at the Milepost 151 Avalanche, Jackson, Wyoming
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Joshua T. Hewes, Rand Decker, Sean Strain, Megan Stevens
- Description: Mitigation of avalanche hazard to roadways within the Western United States has historically been conducted by means of artificial release of explosiv...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.23.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, snow supporting structures, mitigation
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