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- Title: Changes of Snow Cover Area in Different Aspects in Kaidu River Basin Based on Modis Data
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Feiyun Zhang, Lanhai Li
- Description: Snow cover plays an important role in balancing earth surface heat and generating runoff in alpine basins. Snowpack accumulation depends on snowfall a...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.38.pdf
- Keywords: modis; snow cover; aspects; kaidu river basin
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- Title: Regional Forecasting of Wet Snow Avalanche Cycles: an Essential Tool for Avalanche Warning Services?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Alec van Herwijnen, Christoph Mitterer, Nora Helbig, Tobias Jonas, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Wet-snow avalanches are relatively poorly understood and difficult to forecast. By definition, liquid water is required in the snow cover, thus predic...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O6.03.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, wet-snow avalanche, snow cover modelling, numerical weather prediction
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- Title: Variations of Snow Instability Seen From a Bird's Eye
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Benjamin Reuter, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: The layering of the seasonal snowpack resembles an archive of the season's meteorological history. Whereas at the mountain range scale mainly meteorol...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O11.03.pdf
- Keywords: snow micro-penetrometer, spatial variability, snow instability, geostatistical modeling, snow cover modeling
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- Title: Combining Snowpack Models and Observations for Better Avalanche Danger Assessments
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Fabiano Monti, Christoph Mitterer, Walter Steinkogler, Mathias Bavay, Andrea Pozzi
- Description: Now-casting of avalanche danger is mainly based on direct snow stability observations (e.g. recent avalanches), snow stability tests combined with str...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O15.03.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, manual observations, snow cover modeling, snow and weather data
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- Title: Modeled Mass and Temperature Effects of Released and Entrained Snow on the Lubricated Flow Regime of Avalanches at Bird Hill, Southcentral Alaska
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Katreen Wikstrom Jones, Michael Loso, Perry Bartelt, Cesar Vera Valero
- Description: The unpredictable effects of released and entrained snow on avalanche run-out distances make hazard analysis difficult. At Bird Hill in southcentral A...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.03.pdf
- Keywords: snow entrainment, snow temperature, avalanche run-out, flow regimes, fluidization, lubrication
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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: Characterizing Snow Stratigraphy: a Comparison of SP2, Snowmicropen, Ramsonde and Hand Hardness Profiles
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Christine Pielmeier, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: Information on the structure of the snow cover is of great importance for operational avalanche forecasting. Manually observed snow profiles including...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.16.pdf
- Keywords: snow cover, stratigraphy, snow penetrometer, snowmicropen, sp2, ramsonde, hand hardness index, snow density
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- Title: SnopViz, an Interactive Visualization Tool for Both Snow-Cover Model Output and Observed Snow Profiles
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Charles Fierz, Thomas Egger, Matthias Gerber, Frank Techel, Mathias Bavay
- Description: "SnopViz" is primarily a visualization tool for both observed snow profiles (CAAML V5.0 Snow Profile IACS) and simulation output of the snow-cover mod...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.29.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack, graphical user interface, caaml-format
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- Title: Climate Change Impacts on Utah's Central Wasatch Snowpacks
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Rand Decker, Hugo Froyland
- Description: Climate change has resulted in winters that are much different than in previous decades. For the better part of 20 years, the central and southern Roc...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.09.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack distribution, climate change, snowmelt, drought
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- Title: Validation of a Coupled Weather and Snowpack Model Across Western Montana
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Kyle Van Peursem, Jordy Hendrikx, Karl Birkeland, Dan Miller, Chris Gibson
- Description: Predicting avalanche danger depends on knowledge of the existing snowpack structure and the current and forecasted weather conditions. In remote and d...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.11.pdf
- Keywords: snow cover models, weather models, snowpack, wrf, avalanche forecasting
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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: The Role of Collapse in Avalanche Release: Review and Implications for Practitioners and Future Research
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Edward Bair, Johan Gaume, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: Reports of collapses and whumpfing sounds and their links to instability in the snowpack have been around for decades, but like many areas of snow sci...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O1.04.pdf
- Keywords: fracture, collapse, anticrack, extended column test, propagation saw test
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- Title: Inter-Comparison of Snow Penetrometers (Ramsonde, Avatech SP2 and SnowMicroPen) in the Framework of Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Pascal Hagenmuller, Thibault Pilloix, Yves Lejeune
- Description: Snow hardness, defined as the resistance against penetration of an object into snow, is a good mechanical indicator of the snowpack stratigraphy and i...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O2.01.pdf
- Keywords: penetrometer, hardness, avatech sp2, ramsonde, snowmicropen
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- Title: Unusual Dry Slab Avalanche Releases Involving Dust-on-Snow Layers in Colorado
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Zach M. Guy, Jeffrey S. Deems
- Description: In recent decades, dust-on-snow events are increasing in both frequency and geographic extent in the Western U.S. Although dust layers have gained a r...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O3.03.pdf
- Keywords: dust, slab avalanches, metamorphism, forecasting
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- Title: Comparison of Measured and Modelled Snow Cover Liquid Water Content to Improve Local Wet-Snow Avalanche Prediction
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Christoph Mitterer, Achim Heilig, Lino Schmid, Alec van Herwijnen, Olaf Eisen, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Wet-snow avalanches can be difficult to forecast. However, recent studies have suggested that an index (LWCindex) related to the mean liquid water con...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O6.01.pdf
- Keywords: wet-snow avalanches, avalanche forecasting, liquid water content
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