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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: Using a Thin-Blade Tool for Measuring Snow Hardness and Change in Strength of Buried Surface Hoar
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Fraser Pogue, David M. McClung
- Description: Measuring and tracking changes in the properties of snow layers is important for avalanche forecasting. The accuracy of collecting snow data is depend...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.19.pdf
- Keywords: snow hardness, thin-blade, handheld device, penetration resistance
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- Title: Evaluation of AvaTech SP2 for Snow Research and Snow Science Education
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Hans Peter Marshall
- Description: This poster presents results from preliminary testing of the AvaTech SP2 for snow research and snow science education. The SP2 was used during a gradu...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.21.pdf
- Keywords: instrumentation, penetrometer, hardness, snowmicropen
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- Title: Ram Profiles With Swiss Penetrometer, Avatech SP2 Probe and Hand Tests. Comparison of the Hardness Profiles Obtained From on Site Detections in the Italian Alps During the 2015-2016 Season
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Flavio Berbenni, Igor Chiambretti, Flavio Papetti, Massimo Raviglione, Michela Barberis
- Description: In snowpack observations, the hardness profile of snow cover is determined by a ram profile and a hand test which are performed according to codified ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.36.pdf
- Keywords: ram penetrometer, avatech sp2, hand test, hardness profile
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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: 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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- Title: Operational Forecasting of Wet Snow Avalanche Activity: a Case Study for the Eastern European Alps
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Andreas Gobiet, Christoph Mitterer, Lisa Jöbstl, Walter Steinkogler, Hannes Rieder, Marc Olefs, Arnold Studeregger, Fabiano Monti, Sascha Bellaire
- Description: The prognostic operation of detailed snowpack models has recently been objective of extensive research, since many avalanche services start to move fr...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O6.02.pdf
- Keywords: forecast, wet-snow avalanches, lwcindex, snowpack
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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: UAV Borne Laser Scanning of Snow Surfaces
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Alexander Prokop, Florian Singer
- Description: In snow and avalanche research, different methods are used increasingly to efficiently and accurately map snow surfaces and depths over an area of sev...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O9.03.pdf
- Keywords: snow depth mapping, laser scanning, uav, uas
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- Title: Investigating the Thermophysical Properties of the Ice-Snow Interface, Part II: Thermal Contact Resistance
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Kevin Hammonds, Ian Baker
- Description: As it turns out, spending many an extra cold and blustery minute trying to get those last few temperature readings to complete a textbook perfect "eve...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O11.01.pdf
- Keywords: ice lens, temperature gradient, effective thermal conductivity, thermal contact resistance, kinetic snow metamorphism
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- Title: Measuring Snow Surface Temperature: Why, why Not, and How?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Michael Schirmer
- Description: Avalanche mitigation programs measures snow surface temperature, Tss, for up to three objectives: 1) to infer near surface faceting (NSF) from Tss and...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O11.02.pdf
- Keywords: surface temperature measurement, snow surface, infrared thermometers, contact thermometers, temperature gradient, near surface faceting
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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: Wind Slab Formation: Will New Experiments Improve Implementations in Snow-Cover Models?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Christian G. Sommer, Charles Fierz, Michael Lehning
- Description: Wind slabs are widespread in snow environments but the physics of what is often called wind-packing is poorly understood. Yet, wind slabs are of signi...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O11.04.pdf
- Keywords: wind tunnel, wind-packing, drifting and blowing snow
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