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- Title: Study on the Model to Estimate the Snow Property of the Slope Snowpack
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Ryota Sato, Yasushi Kamata, Masaya Shishido
- Description: To ensure the safety of train operations for full depth avalanche, it is important to estimate the stability of the slope snow. And then, it is necess...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.37.pdf
- Keywords: stability of the slope snowpack, physical properties, amedas weather data
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- Title: The Effects of Different Methods of Compaction on Snowpack Stability
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Diana Saly, Jordy Hendrikx, Karl Birkeland, Stuart Challender, Tom Leonard
- Description: The interaction between snowpack layers determines the snowpack stability. It follows that disrupting layers may improve stability. Ski patrols and gu...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.02.pdf
- Keywords: compaction, snowpack stability, stability test, boot-packing, ski compaction
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- Title: Comparison of ECT, RB, Threshold Sum and Relative Threshold Sum Approach to To Snowpack Instability Evaluation - New Results
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Igor Chiambretti, Fabiano Monti, Mauro Valt
- Description: The Italian regional avalanche forecasting services (AINEVA) collect snowpack observations such as snowpack profiles or stability tests on a daily or ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.05.pdf
- Keywords: rutschblock (rb), extended column test (ect), structural instability indices, threshold sum (tsa), relative threshold sum (rta)
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- Title: Evaluation of SNOWPACK Metamorphism and Microstructure in a Canadian Context: a Case Study for Snow Stability Assessment
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jean-Benoit Madore, Kevin Côté, Alexandre Langlois
- Description: The snow thermodynamic multi-layer model SNOWPACK was developed in order to address the risk of avalanches by simulating the vertical geophysical and ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.06.pdf
- Keywords: snow grain, snowpack, avalanche, model, stability, metamorphism
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- Title: Extended Column Test: Repeatability and Comparison to Slope Stability and the Rutschblock
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Frank Techel, Matthias Walcher, Kurt Winkler
- Description: Information on snow stability is key information when assessing the avalanche situation. However, stability tests like the Extended Column Test (ECT) ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.08.pdf
- Keywords: extended column test, rutschblock, test repeatability, snow stability, fracture propagation
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- Title: Verification of SNOWPACK Model in the Western Caucasus, Russia, for Spatial Assessment of Snow Cover Stability
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Elena S. Klimenko
- Description: We applied physical model Snowpack, developed in Switzerland, to simulate the
evolution of snow cover in the Western Caucasus, Russia during three wi...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-04.pdf
- Keywords: snow cover evolution, physical modeling, snow properties, meteorological data
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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: 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: 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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- Title: The Systematic Snow Cover Diagnosis: A Process-Based Approach for Avalanche Danger Assessment
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Georg Kronthaler, Christoph Mitterer, Bernd Zenke, Michael Lehning
- Description: Recreationists and local avalanche warning services face often the problem of assessing the avalanche danger for a single slope or avalanche path. How...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-11.pdf
- Keywords: slope stability, snow cover test, weak layer
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- Title: Avalanche Risk Management in Winter 2012/13 in Monterosa Ski Resort – Aosta Valley (IT)
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Prola A., Welf A., Durand N., Frigo B., Dellavedova P., Segor V.
- Description: Monterosa Ski is one of the most important resorts in the North/West Italian Alps. Extending through three valleys in two regions (Aosta Valley and Pi...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-15.pdf
- Keywords: ski resort, avalanche, risk management
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- Title: Evaluation de la Stabilité du Manteau Neigeux
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Christian Reverbel
- Description: La vie d’une station de sport d’hiver est complétement dépendante de l’arrivée de la neige. Neige naturelle bien évid...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-17.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, stability
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- Title: Edge Effects In Propagation Tests
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Edward H. Bair, Ron Simenhois, Alec van Herwijnen, Karl Birkeland
- Description: Guidelines suggest beams with lengths around 1 m for Extended Column Tests (ECTs) and Propagation Saw Tests (PSTs). The longest unstable tests publish...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-02.pdf
- Keywords: crack propagation, extended column test, propagation saw test
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- Title: A Relative Difference Approach to Detect Potential Weak Layers Within a Snow Profile
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Fabiano Monti, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Reducing the subjectivity of stability evaluation derived from snow profiles and increasing the spatial and temporal resolution of snow stratigraphy i...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-30.pdf
- Keywords: snow stratigraphy, snow profile, snow stability evaluation
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- Title: Snow Profile Visualisations to Highlight Structural Instability Conditions
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Fabiano Monti, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Interpreting snow profiles is a fairly subjective process, especially when snow stratigraphy was recorded without performing a stability test at the s...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-31.pdf
- Keywords: snow stratigraphy, snow profile, snow stability evaluation
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