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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: Characteristics of Avalanche Release and an Approach of Avalanche Forecasting System Using SNOWPACK Model in the Tianshan Mountains, China
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Osamu Abe, Lanhai Li, Lei Bai, Jiansheng Hao, Hiroyuki Hirashima, Junrong Xu
Description: We summarized the characteristics of avalanche releases in the Tianshan Mountains of western China based on observations of snow cover and avalanche o...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche release, forecasting system, snowpack model, tianshan mountains
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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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Title: Back Calculation of Avalanche Dimensions From Laser Scanning and sfm Photogrammetry
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Alexander Prokop, J.-M. Friedt, Ursula Enzenhofer, Florian Tolle
Description: After avalanche events happen it is always difficult to collect useful data from the avalanche dimensions such as snow volume that was released in the...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.35.pdf
Keywords: avalanche documentation, snow depth, laser scanning, sfm-photogrammetry, svalbard
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Title: SNOWGRID – A New Operational Snow Cover Model in Austria
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Marc Olefs, Wolfgang Schöner, Martin Suklitsch, Christoph Wittmann, Bernd Niedermoser, Alfred Neururer, Arnulf Wurzer
Description: We present first results of the newly developed, physically-based and spatially distributed snow cover model SNOWGRID. The model is driven with gridde...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-07.pdf
Keywords: snow cover model, climate services, avalanche warning, inca, nowcasting, numerical weather prediction
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Title: Towards a New Chain of Models for Avalanche Hazard Forecasting in French Mountain Ranges, Including Low Altitude Mountains
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Matthieu Lafaysse, Samuel Morin, Cecile Coleou, Matthieu Vernay, Damien Serca, Francois Besson, Jean-Marie Willemet, Gerald Giraud, Yves Durand
Description: Operational avalanche hazard warning carried out by Météo-France for the three main mountain ranges (Alps, Pyrenees, Corsica) have used snow sim...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-02.pdf
Keywords: snow modelling, operational, ground, mid-altitude
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Title: SNOWPACK: Where Do We Stand Today?
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Charles Fierz, Mathias Bavay, Nander Wever, Michael Lehning
Description: We present both snow depth and precipitation driven simulations of the snow cover at Weissfluhjoch, 2540 m a.s.l., near Davos, Switzerland. We perform...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-03.pdf
Keywords: snow, snow settlement, snow-cover modelling
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Title: Verification of SNOWPACK Model in the Western Caucasus, Russia, for Spatial Assessment of Snow Cover Stability
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Elena S. Klimenko
Description: We applied physical model Snowpack, developed in Switzerland, to simulate the evolution of snow cover in the Western Caucasus, Russia during three wi...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-04.pdf
Keywords: snow cover evolution, physical modeling, snow properties, meteorological data
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Title: Will There (Still) Be Snow for the Upcoming Winter Holidays? On the Conditional Predictability of Snow Conditions Several Weeks to Months in Advance
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Samuel Morin, Matthieu Lafaysse, Cecile Coleou, Yves Lejeune
Description: Modern societies increasingly require anticipation capabilities in virtually all aspects of human life, including snow conditions in mountain regions,...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-12.pdf
Keywords: snowpack modelling, predictability, seasonal forecast
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Title: Influence of Summer and Winter Surface Topography on Numerical Avalanche Simulations
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Maggioni M., Bovet, E., Dreier, L., Buehler, Y., Godone, D., Bartelt, P., Freppaz M., Chiaia, B., Segor V.
Description: Numerical avalanche dynamics models are widely used to calculate extreme avalanches for hazard mapping and mitigation measure planning. A basic model ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-21.pdf
Keywords: avalanche modelling, surface topography, running surface, uncertainty
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Title: Systematic Practical Evaluation of Snow Entrainment With the Avalanche Simulation Model SamosAT
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Matthias Granig, Philipp Jorg, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: In computational avalanche simulations snow entrainment is one of the key criteria. This fact is displayed for many observed avalanches that could rea...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-22.pdf
Keywords: avalanche simulation, samosat, frontal ploughing, basal erosion, snow entrainment, avalanche case study
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Title: Comparing Different MODIS Snow Products With Distributed Simulation of the Snowpack in the French Alps
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Luc Charrois, Marie Dumont, Pascal Sirguey, Samuel Morin, Matthieu Lafaysse, Fatima Karbou
Description: Satellite images of the Earth surface are increasingly used to assist in the spatiotemporal assessment of ground conditions, including the presence of...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-12.pdf
Keywords: remote sensing, seasonal snow cover, modelling
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Title: The Systematic Snow Cover Diagnosis: A Process-Based Approach for Avalanche Danger Assessment
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Georg Kronthaler, Christoph Mitterer, Bernd Zenke, Michael Lehning
Description: Recreationists and local avalanche warning services face often the problem of assessing the avalanche danger for a single slope or avalanche path. How...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-11.pdf
Keywords: slope stability, snow cover test, weak layer
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Title: Impact of Climate Versus Land-Use Changes on Snow Cover in Bassiès, Pyrenees
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Camille Szczypta, Simon Gascoin, Thomas Houet, Pascal Fanise
Description: In the context of the global change, the Pyrenees mountains represent a real scientific and environmental challenge. They will probably be affected by...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-22.pdf
Keywords: global change, snow cover, vegetation, pyrenees
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