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- Title: Artificial Snow and its Impacts in a Ski Resort and its Mountain Hydrosystem: Example of Avoriaz Resort
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Elodie Magnier
- Description: The practice of artificial snowmaking is recent (1950 in the United States) and since
1990, French resorts, including Avoriaz, as well as their Swiss...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-11.pdf
- Keywords: artificial snow, water resource, mountain area, catchment area, hydrosystem
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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 Upstream Catching Dam Slope on Powder Avalanche
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Caccamo P., Naaim-Bouvet F., Faug T.
- Description: The influence of an obstacle on the dynamics of a finite-volume density current modelling a powder-snow avalanche was investigated. A constant volume ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-16.pdf
- Keywords: powder snow avalanche, density current, water tank, catching dam, 3d acoustic velocimeter
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- Title: Plume Formation in Powder Snow Avalanches
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Perry Bartelt, Yves Bühler, Othmar Buser, Christian Ginzler
- Description: A long-standing problem in avalanche science is to model the formation and propagation of icedust clouds that accompany fast moving dry snow flowing a...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-18.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche dynamics, powder snow avalanches, plume formation, ice-dust cloud, blowout height, suspension layer
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- Title: Thermal Energy in Snow Avalanches
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Walter Steinkogler, Betty Sovilla, Tobias Jonas, Michael Lehning
- Description: Avalanches can exhibit many different flow regimes from powder clouds to slush flows. Flow regimes are largely controlled by the properties of the sno...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-19.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, thermal energy, snow entrainment, infrared radiation thermography
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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: Intermittent Drifting Snow – Combining Experimental and Model Studies
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Stefan Horender, Christine D. Groot Zwaaftink, Beni Walter, Michael Lehning
- Description: A study combining field observations and wind tunnel measurements of drifting snow is
presented. In field measurements we found fluctuations of the s...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-06.pdf
- Keywords: drifting snow, large eddy simulation, wind tunnel
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- Title: A Decade of Snow Water Equivalent Monitoring in the French Mountain Ranges
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Frédéric Gottardi, Paul Carrier, Emmanuel Paquet, Marie-Thérèse Laval, Joël Gailhard, Rémy Garçon
- Description: A decade of snow water equivalent monitoring in the French Mountain ranges. Snowpack estimation in mountains is important for hydroelectric power supp...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-08.pdf
- Keywords: cosmic ray, snow water equivalent, snowpack, automatic snow gauge
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- Title: CS725, An Accurate Sensor for the Snow Water Equivalent and Soil Moisture Measurements
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Yves Choquette, Pierre Ducharme, James Rogoza
- Description: The CS725 is manufactured by Campbell Scientific (Canada) Corp – CSC and patented by Hydro-Quebec. The CS725 is designed to determine four time...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-09.pdf
- Keywords: gamma radiation, attenuation, swe, snow melting, soil moisture, cs725
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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: Measuring Acoustic Emissions in an Avalanche Starting Zone to Monitor Snow Stability
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Ingrid Reiweger, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Evaluating snowpack stability still involves time-consuming and labour-intensive manual tests; in dangerous or remote areas performing such tests migh...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-14.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, avalanche release, snow stability evaluation, acoustic emission, precursor
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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: 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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