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Title: Critical Length for the Onset of Crack Propagation in Snow: Reconciling Shear and Collapse
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Johan Gaume, Alec van Herwijnen, Guillaume Chambon, Nander Wever, Jürg Schweizer
Description: The failure of a weak snow layer buried below cohesive slab layers is a necessary, but insufficient condition for the release of a dry-snow slab avala...
Object ID: ISSW16_O1.02.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, crack propagation, critical length, slope angle, pst, slab, weak layer
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Title: Use of Ground Based INSAR Radar to Monitor Glide Avalanches
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Ingrid Skrede, Lene Kristensen, Carlo Rivolta
Description: Ground based InSAR radars are commonly used to monitor deformations on rock slopes, using acceleration to predict the risk of failure. During the spri...
Object ID: ISSW16_O2.04.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanche, insar, radar, monitoring, stavbrekkfonna
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Title: Southcentral Alaska's Crack Problem: a 2015/16 Glide Avalanche Case Study
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Aleph Johnston-Bloom, Scott Hilliard, Wendy Wagner, Timothy Glassett, Heather Thamm
Description: Along the Seward Highway corridor in Southcentral Alaska, the winter of 2015/16 was defined by a profound and active glide avalanche cycle. Persisting...
Object ID: ISSW16_O3.01.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanches, alaska, operational decision-making, message fatigue
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Title: Case Study: Natural Glide and Wet Slab Avalanche Cycle, Going-To-The-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana USA
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Jake Hutchinson, Erich H. Peitzsch, Adam M. Clark
Description: The Going-to-the-Sun Road (GTSR) is the premier tourist attraction in Glacier National Park, Montana. The GTSR also traverses through and under 40 ava...
Object ID: ISSW16_O3.02.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanche, wet slab avalanche, forecasting, glacier national park, montana
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Title: A New Crack Propagation Criterion for Skier-Triggered Snow Slab Avalanches
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Johan Gaume, Benjamin Reuter, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Dry-snow slab avalanches begin with a local failure in a weak snowpack layer buried below cohesive slab layers. If the size of the failed zone exceeds...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.01.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, skier-triggering, failure initiation, crack propagation, pst, slab, weak layer
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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: 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: The Eye in the Sky: Avalanche Mapping From Space
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Regula Frauenfelder, Timothy Glassett, Christian Jaedicke, Malte Vöge, Carlo Robiati
Description: The Seward Highway in Alaska has over one hundred avalanche paths spread out along a 150 km major transportation corridor, which traverses three diffe...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.18.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanche, remote sensing, sentinel satellites, transportation corridor
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Title: Use of Time-Lapse Camera in the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) to Monitor Known Release Areas for Glide Avalanches in Norway
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Julie E. Bjørlien, Njål Farestveit, Jens Tveit
Description: Glide avalanches represent one of the major avalanche problems for the Norwegian Public Road Administration in Western Norway and are notoriously diff...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.35.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanches, time-lapse photography
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Title: Monitoring Avalanches on Ca 120 in Yosemite National Park
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Sue Burak, Edward Bair
Description: Avalanches are a serious hazard to Yosemite National Park personnel during spring snow removal operations along California Highway 120, the Tioga Pass...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.21.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, glide, yosemite national park, wet snow
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Title: Using Time-Lapse Photography in Avalanche Research
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Nicole Berthod, Ron Simenhois, Christoph Mitterer
Description: To improve our understanding of avalanche release processes, more accurate avalanche activity data are required. Usually, data on avalanche occurrence...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-16.pdf
Keywords: time-lapse photography, image processing, avalanche activity, glide-snow avalanche
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Title: Remote and Real Time Avalanche Monitoring With Wi-Fi
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Marek Biskupič, Milan Lizuch, Jozef Richnavský, Filip Kyzek, Igor Žiak
Description: Žiarska dolina in Tatra Mountains (Slovakia) is one of the most avalanche prone locations in the Carpathian mountain range. The avalanches frequent...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-21.pdf
Keywords: avalanche monitoring, wifi, live video stream
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Title: An Integrated System to Assess Snow Forces on Avalanche Defense Structures From Snow-Gliding: La Tour Test Site - Aosta Valley (IT)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: V. De Biagi, M. Barbero, F. Barpi, M. Borri Brunetto, E. Bovet, B. Chiaia, B. Frigo, O. Pallara, M. Maggioni, E. Ceaglio, M. Freppaz, D. Viglietti, E. Zanini, V. Segor
Description: A new test site devoted to the measurement of the effects of snow-gliding on active defense structures has been conceived and built in Aosta Valley, n...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-31.pdf
Keywords: snow gliding, snow load, avalanche defense structures, snow umbrellas, integrated approach
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Title: Recent Changes in Avalanche Activity in the French Alps and Their Links With Climatic Drivers: An Overview
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Nicolas Eckert, Aurore Lavigne, Hélène Castebrunet, Gérald Giraud, Mohamed Naaim
Description: This paper synthetizes our ongoing work on relations between natural avalanche activity and climate change in the French Alps and subregions. Firm res...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-25.pdf
Keywords: avalanche activity, climate change, time trends, french alps
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Title: Winter Types and Snow Avalanche Activity Along the Arpaş and Bâlea Glacial Valleys - Făgăraş Massif (Southern Carpathians)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Mircea,Voiculescu, Alexandru Onaca, PatrikChiroiu, Dana Micu
Description: This paper discusses the correlation between winter types and snow avalanche activity, in the Arpaş and the Bâlea glacial valleys, located on th...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-04.pdf
Keywords: winter types, snow avalanches, arpaş and bâlea glacial valleys, făgăraş massif, southern carpathians, romanian carpathians
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