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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: Impulse Water Waves Generated by Snow Avalanches
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Mohamed Naaim
- Description: Retaining dams devoted to artificial snow production, are most of the time located in the vicinity of steep slope areas and may be threatened by snow ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-21.pdf
- Keywords: impulse water waves, snow avalanches, mountain lakes
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- Title: The Historical Investigation as a Tool to Improve the Hazard Maps: The Case Study of the Historical Avalanche of Avieil (Valle d’Aosta - Italy)
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: S. Roveyaz, A. Debernardi, E. Ceaglio, V. Segor
- Description: Some avalanches, which in the past resulted in catastrophic events, but no more observed, are often very poorly understood. Therefore, for rediscoveri...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-24.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche cadastre, aosta valley, year 1888, serious damage, historical memory
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- Title: Effect of High Elevation Birch Forest on Snow Stability
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Hedda Breien, Øyvind A. Høydal
- Description: Forest and especially evergreen conifers like pine and spruce are known to reduce
avalanche formation due to their physical anchoring effect and thei...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-05.pdf
- Keywords: birch, deciduous forest, protection forest, avalanche, anchoring effect
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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: Evaluation of an Avalanche Triggered by a Local Earthquake at the Vallée de la Sionne (Switzerland) Experimental Site
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: C. Pérez- Guillén, E. Suriñach, G. Furdada, M. Hiller, M. Tapia
- Description: The snow avalanche group of the University of Barcelona in a collaboration with the SLF (Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos (Suiza)) mon...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-08.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, earthquake, seismic data, infrasound, snow stability factor
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- Title: Can Near Real-Time Avalanche Occurrence Data Improve Avalanche Forecasting?
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: Avalanche forecasting is by large data driven – and experience-based. Snow instability data, which are of crucial importance, are scarce and of...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-10.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, avalanche forecasting, avalanche occurrence
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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: Avalanche Danger Patterns – A New Approach to Snow and Avalanche Analysis
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Rudi Mair, Patrick Nairz
- Description: In recent years, backcountry winter sports far removed from secured ski slopes have
undergone a surprising upsurge. Connected with this boom are heig...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-13.pdf
- Keywords: danger pattern, threat of avalanches, danger level, avalanche bulletin, avalanche warning service
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- Title: Evaluation de la Stabilité du Manteau Neigeux
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Christian Reverbel
- Description: La vie d’une station de sport d’hiver est complétement dépendante de l’arrivée de la neige. Neige naturelle bien évid...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-17.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, stability
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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: Blowing Snow in Antarctica: 3 Years of Continuous Observations in Adélie Land
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Alexandre Trouvilliez, Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Christophe Genthon, Vincent Favier, Luc Piard, Hervé Bellot, Cécile Agosta, Cyril Palerme, Charles Amory
- Description: The Surface Mass Balance (SMB) of the Antarctic ice sheet is probably the only important negative contribution to the sea-level rise. Net erosion of s...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-29.pdf
- Keywords: aeolian transport, blowing snow, drifting snow, antarctica, flowcapt
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- Title: Lac Blanc Pass: A Natural Wind-Tunnel for Studying Drifting Snow at 2700ma.s.l
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Gilbert Guyomarc’h, Hervé Bellot, Yves Durand, Mohamed Naaim, Vincent Vionnet, Christophe Genthon, Kouichi Nishimura, Yoichi Ito, Alexander Prokop
- Description: The investigation of the spatial variability of snow depth in high alpine areas is an important topic in snow hydrology, glacier and avalanche researc...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-30.pdf
- Keywords: snow, wind, drifting snow, blowing snow, model, sensor
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- Title: Preliminary Results at the Hijiori Avalanche Test Site
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Osamu Abe, Masaki Nemoto, Kenji Kosugi, Isao Kamiishi
- Description: Hijiori is one of the heaviest snow areas in Japan. Recently to observe blowing snow and avalanches, an almost perfect place was found in this area. T...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-32.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche test site, avalanche dynamics, snow cornice
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- Title: The Full-Scale Avalanche Dynamics Test Site Vallée de la Sionne Betty
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Betty Sovilla, Jim McElwaine, Walter Steinkogler, Martin Hiller, François Dufour, Emma Suriñach, Cristina Perez Guillen, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Emmanuel Thibert, Djebar Baroudi
- Description: The full-scale avalanche dynamics test site Vallée de la Sionne (VdlS) is providing
scientists and engineers with essential data to understand and...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-33.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche dynamics, vallée de la sionne, full-scale test site
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