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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: 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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