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- Title: Forest Service Avalanche Center Safety: Examining Current Practice
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Simon Trautman, Scott Savage, Karl Birkeland
- Description: In 2013 the Forest Service National Avalanche Center created guidelines designed to reduce worker risk at Forest Service (FS) backcountry avalanche fo...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.36.pdf
- Keywords: safety, risk, avalanche center
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- Title: Characteristics of Snow Avalanche Release in Forests During a Heavy Snowfall Event
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Hiroki Matsushita, Koji Ishida
- Description: The heavy snowfall on February 14–15, 2014 caused many snow avalanches in the Kanto-Koshin region, Japan, where a thin snow cover exists during...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.11.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, forest, air temperature, snowfall intensity, hardness, stability
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- Title: Evaluation of Protection Measures Against Avalanches in Forested Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Thomas Feistl, Armin Fischer, Peter Bebi, Perry Bartelt
- Description: Small to medium sized avalanches release in forest gaps and open forest above roads and infrastructure in the Prealps regularly each winter. Avalanche...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.12.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, forest, public safety, modelling
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- Title: Passive and Fan-Aspirated Radiation Shields in High-Elevation Open and Closed-Forested Environments: A Comparative Study
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: David Pedersen
- Description: This study investigates the differences between a passive radiation shield in a relatively closed-forest setting (Timberline Campus Weather Station), ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.31.pdf
- Keywords: temperature differentiation, forest edge, radiation shield, wind run
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- Title: Effects of Bark Beetle Attacks on Snowpack and Snow Avalanche Hazard
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Michaela Teich, Martin Schneebeli, Peter Bebi, Andrew D. Giunta, Curtis A. Gray, Michael J. Jenkins
- Description: Unprecedented bark beetle outbreaks across western North America have resulted in the death of millions of trees, which profoundly affects snowpack in...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.10.pdf
- Keywords: subcanopy snow stratigraphy, avalanche protection forest, spruce beetle, snowmicropen
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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: Geo-Historical Analysis of the Interactions Between Forest and Avalanche Dynamics in a Medium-High Mountain: The Case of the Vosges Range (France)
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Florie Giacona, Brice Martin
- Description: Ten meters of snow. This is the height, important for the Massif of Vosges, of the deposit of the avalanche of the end of January, 2012 in the bottom ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-25.pdf
- Keywords: vosges mountains, geohistory, avalanche, forest
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- Title: Forecasting Forest Avalanches: A Review of Winter 2011/12
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Michaela Teich, Frank Techel, Peder Caviezel, Peter Bebi
- Description: Mountain forests play a crucial role in avalanche mitigation by hindering avalanche formation. Nevertheless, due to the complex interactions between e...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-24.pdf
- Keywords: forest avalanches, forecasting, road, railway, ski-run safety
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- Title: Development of a Simple Raster-Based Model for Gravitational Mass Movement Processes Applied to the Regional Assessment of Forest Stands With Direct Protective Functionality
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Andreas Huber, Frank Perzl, Reinhard Fromm, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Klaus Klebinder, Bernadette Sotier
- Description: This contribution describes the development of a model suitable for regional scale delineation of zones potentially affected by gravitational mass mov...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-46.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, rockfall, protective forests, raster-based modeling
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- Title: The Role of Slope Angle, Ground Roughness and Stauchwall Strength in the Formation of Glide-Snow Avalanches in Forest Gaps
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: T. Feistl, P. Bebi, P. Bartelt
- Description: Mountain forests are a cost-efficient measure to prevent the release of glide-snow avalanches. However, avalanches still release in forest gaps. Well-...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-57.pdf
- Keywords: forest avalanches, glide-snow avalanche, release, snow cover
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- Title: Influence of Forest on Snow Avalanche Hazard – Norwegian Challenges
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Hedda Breien, Øyvind A. Høydal
- Description: Forested areas are less prone to snow avalanches, due to the trees' influence on snow
accumulation, snow pack layering, energy balance and the armori...
- Object ID: issw-2012-633-638.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche hazard, forests, hazard zoning, runout zones
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- Title: Stopping Behavior of Snow Avalanches in Forests
- Date: 2012
- Authors: T. Feistl, P. Bebi, Y. B ̈uhler, M. Christen, M. Teich, P. Bartelt
- Description: A longstanding problem in avalanche science is to understand how forests stop small and medium sized avalanches. Avalanche dynamics models have tradit...
- Object ID: issw-2012-420-426.pdf
- Keywords: forests, avalanche science, runout, dynamics
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- Title: Snow and Avalanche: The Influence of Forest on Snowpack Stability
- Date: 2009
- Authors: D. Viglietti, S. Letey, R. Motta, M. Maggioni, M. Freppaz
- Description: Snow avalanches are among the most important disturbances that affect mountain ecosystems, influencing forest dynamics, establishment and mortality pr...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0323-0327.pdf
- Keywords: forest, snow, avalanches, protective function
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- Title: Styrian Avalanche Service – Danger Scale 5 – More than 200 Avalanches
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Arnold Studeregger, Hannes Rieder
- Description: In Styria there are 35 avalanche commissions for 47 parishes. They are divided into
11 different political areas. The local avalanche commission has ...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0346-0349.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, avalanche warning service styria, danger scale
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- Title: The Lower Austria Avalanche Warning Service - The Youngest in the Alps
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Arnold Studeregger, Hannes Rieder, Fritz Salzer
- Description: The avalanche warning service was established by the government of lower Austria together with the avalanche experts of the Institute for Meteorology ...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0350-0352.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, avalanche warning service, alps
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