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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: 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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Title: Infrasound Detection of Avalanches in Grasdalen and Indreeidsdalen, Norway
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Tore Humstad, Ørjan Søderblom, Giacomo Ulivieri, Stian Langeland, Halgeir Dahle
Description: Infrasound technology for detection of snow avalanches has been tested in mountainous terrain in Norway over the two last winter seasons. Two valleys,...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.25.pdf
Keywords: infrasound, avalanche detection, forecasting, ida
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Title: Utilisation of the SM4 Automatic Snowpack Sensor in Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Harpa Grimsdottir, Orn Ingolfsson, Magni H. Jonsson, Vidir Arnarson, Halfdan Ingolfsson, Sveinn Brynjolfsson, Gestur Hansson
Description: A small innovation company in Iceland, POLS Engineering, has developed the SM4 automatic snowpack sensor that is currently installed at over 30 locati...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.30.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow sensor, automatic warnings, snow crystals, snow depth, facets
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Title: Matching of Vertical Snow Profiles
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Pascal Hagenmuller
Description: Stratigraphic vertical profiles of snow properties measured a few meters from each other are usually different. In particular, slope-parallel variatio...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.42.pdf
Keywords: snow profile, matching, registration, clustering
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Title: The Effect of Slope-Scale Spatial Variability of Slab Characteristics on Propagation Saw Tests
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Chris Bilbrey, Jordy Hendrikx, Karl Birkeland, Stuart Challender, J. Andrew Gleason
Description: Understanding propagation in complex, non-uniform terrain is critically important for avalanche forecasting and mitigation. Currently we do not know h...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.45.pdf
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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: Terrain Classification of Norwegian Slab Avalanche Accidents
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Linda Hallandvik, Eivind Aadland, Odd L. Vikene
Description: It is difficult to rely on snow conditions, weather and human factors when making judgements about avalanche risk because these variables are dynamic ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain exposure scale (ates), fatal avalanche accidents, outdoor recreation, practical implications, from novice to expert
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