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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: 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: 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: 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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Title: Relationships Among Atmosphere-Cryosphere-Biosphere in a Transitional Glacial Catchment (Sabbione Lake, North-Western Italian Alps)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Nicola Colombo, Simona Fratianni, Elisa Giaccone, Luca Paro
Description: The present study was carried out in the Sabbione Basin (North-Western Italian Alps, Piedmont). Climatological and geomorphological studies were condu...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-23.pdf
Keywords: climate change, alps, periglacial processes, glaciers, geomorphology, nw italy
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Title: Le Sappeyen Chartreuse Ski Resort: How it is Managed and How to Take into Account Climate Change?
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Hubert Gallée, Antoine Kévorkian, Thierry Grenet, Pascale Huyghe
Description: The Sappey-en-Chartreuse is situated in the Chartreuse mountains, in the French Alps. The low elevation ski resort spans a range of 1000 to 1300 m a.s...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-26.pdf
Keywords: ski resort, french alps, snow cover
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Title: The Employment of MODIS Time Series and Soil Temperature to Monitor Snow Cover in the Majella National Park (Italian Central Apennines)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Godone D., Cocco S., Corti B., Freppaz M., Stanisci A.
Description: Italian Apennines are an unique mountain environment in the central Mediterranean basin as their peaks and massifs reach remarkable altitudes like Co...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-11.pdf
Keywords: daily soil temperature amplitude, phenology, remote sensing, snow cover duration
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Title: The Avalanche Detector - A New Avalanche Monitoring Tool Using Distributed Acoustic Fibre Optic Sensing
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Alexander Prokop, Anna Wirbel, Markus Jungmayr
Description: Information on avalanche activity is a paramount parameter in avalanche forecasting. When avalanches are released spontaneously, the risk of avalanche...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-23.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, monitoring, detection, fibre optic sensing
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Title: Towards a Basic Avalanche Characterization Based on the Generated Seismic Signal
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Lisa Dreier, Perry Bartelt
Description: The primary reasons to study the seismic signal generated by avalanches are (1) to remotely detect snow avalanches and (2) to improve our understandin...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-24.pdf
Keywords: seismic monitoring, avalanche activity, avalanche dynamics
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Title: Mathematical Modeling of Slope Flows Entraining Bottom Material
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Eglit M.E, Yakubenko A.E.
Description: Entrainment of bottom material by the slope flows (such as snow avalanches, debris flows and so on) essentially influences on their dynamics, so it s...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-56.pdf
Keywords: slope flows, entrainment of bottom material
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Title: Physical and Isotopic Characteristics of Snowpack in NW Slovenia
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jaka Ortar, Manca Volk Bahun, Miha Pavšek, Iztok Sinjur, Gregor Vertačnik, Mihael Brenčič, Dušan Polajnar, Sergey A. Sokratov, Polona Vreča
Description: Snowpack is a reflection of different environmental factors, joining all three spheres: atmo-, hydro- and geosphere. Orographic diversity of Slovenia ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-11.pdf
Keywords: snowpack characteristics, oxygen isotopes, alpine watershed, nw slovenia
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Title: Modelling the Effect of Changing Snow Cover Regimes on Alpine Plant Species Distribution in Alpine Context
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jean-Pierre DEDIEU, Christophe RANDIN, Massimiliano ZAPPA, Stefan DULLINGER
Description: Snow cover is a critical parameter for the distribution of plant species in alpine regions. Earlier snow melt and an elongation and/or shift of the sn...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-25.pdf
Keywords: snow, mountains, climate change, alpine ecology
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Title: How Short Warm Events Disrupt Snowcover Dynamics Example of a Polar Basin – Spitsberg, 79°N
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Éric Bernard, Florian Tolle, Jean Michel Friedt, Christelle Marlin, Madeleine Griselin
Description: Arctic is a reliable indicator of global climate changes. Snow dynamics are directly affected, and following processes becomes challenging: some fast...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-41.pdf
Keywords: climate change, arctic, snow dynamics, geomatic
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