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- Title: Automated Avalanche Risk Rating of Backcountry Ski Routes
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Günter Schmudlach, Jochen Köhler
- Description: Avalanche accidents are often due to the fact, that many backcountry trips take place at locations with high avalanche risk at the time. A new web pla...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O19.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk, platform, graphical reduction method, risk rating
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- Title: North American Avalanche Danger Scale: Are Public Backcountry Forecasters Applying it Consistently?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Brian Lazar, Simon Trautman, Mike Cooperstein, Ethan Greene, Karl Birkeland
- Description: The North American Avalanche Danger Scale is a tool used by backcountry avalanche forecasters to communicate the potential for avalanches to cause har...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O20.01.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche danger scale, avalanche danger ratings, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Variations in Individual Danger Level Estimates Within the Same Forecast Region
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Frank Techel, Lukas Dürr, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Forecasters in many public avalanche forecast operations rely on field observations and danger (or stability) assessments by experienced and well-trai...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O20.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger level, observer-specific bias
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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: Simulation of Snow Avalanche Based on Thixotropy Model for Snow-Covered Model
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Kenichi Oda, Masatoshi Yamada, Yoshikazu Kobayashi, Isao Kamiishi
- Description: In this research, the CFD-based numerical method for snow avalanche using Bingham fluid model is development. This simulation model has already been c...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, cfd, snow-covered condition, thixotropy
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- Title: Monitoring the Stavbrekka Glide Avalanche
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Tore Humstad, Martin Venås, Halgeir Dahle, Knut I. Orset, Ingrid Skrede
- Description: The yearly Stavbrekka glide avalanche is problematic for the summer opening of the tourist road between Breidalen and Geiranger in Norway. Several eff...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.05.pdf
- Keywords: wet snow, glide avalanche, monitoring, instrumentation
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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: 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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