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Title: Snow Avalanche Activity Monitoring From Space: Creating a Complete Avalanche Activity Dataset for a Norwegian Forecasting Region
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Hannah Vickers, Eirik Malnes
Description: Complete and consistent avalanche activity records, critical for avalanche forecasting, are with traditional monitoring methods not achievable in an e...
Object ID: ISSW16_O9.01.pdf
Keywords: radar remote sensing, avalanche detection, sentinel-1a, change detection
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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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Title: Microwave Radar Systems for Detecting Avalanches
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: David G. Long, Andre Brummer, Bill Nalli
Description: Key roads in the Western U.S. are often closed by avalanches during the winter. Fortunately, they generally occur in well-defined paths. Knowing when ...
Object ID: ISSW16_O14.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, radar, remote sensing
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Title: Forecasting the Fatal Longyearbyen Avalanche. Possibilities and Challenges
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Erik Hestnes, Steinar Bakkehøi, Torgeir Mørk, Kjetil Brattlien
Description: One of the main questions after the fatal avalanche in Longyearbyen in December 2015, where two persons perished and eleven houses were destroyed, was...
Object ID: ISSW16_O16.04.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, forecasting, storm weather, wind measurements
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Title: Wind and Snow Particle Distribution in Powder Snow Cloud
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Yoichi Ito, Kouichi Nishimura, Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Hervé Bellot, Xavier Ravanat
Description: An ultrasonic anemometer and a snow particle counter were newly installed in the avalanche test site locating at the Col du Lautaret pass, France. Sim...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-20.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, powder snow cloud, wind speed, particle size
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Title: Intermittent Drifting Snow – Combining Experimental and Model Studies
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Stefan Horender, Christine D. Groot Zwaaftink, Beni Walter, Michael Lehning
Description: A study combining field observations and wind tunnel measurements of drifting snow is presented. In field measurements we found fluctuations of the s...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-06.pdf
Keywords: drifting snow, large eddy simulation, wind tunnel
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Title: Remote Sensing of Avalanches in Northern Norway Using Synthetic Aperture Radar
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Eirik Malnes, Markus Eckerstorfer, Yngvar Larsen, Regula Frauenfelder, Árni Jónsson, Christian Jaedicke, Stian A. Solbø
Description: We present results from using synthetic aperture radar data (SAR) to analyse three avalanches in the county of Troms in northern Norway during the lat...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, remote sensing, synthetic aperture radar, uav
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Title: Lac Blanc Pass: A Natural Wind-Tunnel for Studying Drifting Snow at 2700ma.s.l
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Gilbert Guyomarc’h, Hervé Bellot, Yves Durand, Mohamed Naaim, Vincent Vionnet, Christophe Genthon, Kouichi Nishimura, Yoichi Ito, Alexander Prokop
Description: The investigation of the spatial variability of snow depth in high alpine areas is an important topic in snow hydrology, glacier and avalanche researc...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-30.pdf
Keywords: snow, wind, drifting snow, blowing snow, model, sensor
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Title: Monitoring Snowfall Events in Lombardia, Italy, by Specialized Observers Network and Advanced Remote Sensing Systems
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: O. Cazzuli, R. Cremonini, R.Grimaldelli, L. Craveri
Description: Real-time monitoring snowfall events in Po valley is often difficult due to fast temperature variations that change snow / rain limits. For this reaso...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-03.pdf
Keywords: instrumentation, monitoring, remote sensing
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Title: The Employment of MODIS Time Series and Soil Temperature to Monitor Snow Cover in the Majella National Park (Italian Central Apennines)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Godone D., Cocco S., Corti B., Freppaz M., Stanisci A.
Description: Italian Apennines are an unique mountain environment in the central Mediterranean basin as their peaks and massifs reach remarkable altitudes like Co...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-11.pdf
Keywords: daily soil temperature amplitude, phenology, remote sensing, snow cover duration
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Title: Improving Snow Properties Retrievals Thermodynamic Snow Models and Satellite Remote Sensing
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Langlois, A., Royer, A.
Description: Snow cover plays a key role in the climate system by influencing the transfer of energy, gas and mass between the soil and the atmosphere. In particul...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-13.pdf
Keywords: snow, passive microwave, model, snowpack, memls, swe, avalanche
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Title: Data Assimilation of Multilayer Snowpack on Argentière Glacier, Using X-band SAR Data, DMRT and a Detailed Snowpack Model
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Xuan-Vu Phan, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Michel Gay, Yves Durand, Marie Dumont, Samuel Morin, Guy d’Urso
Description: This study discuss the potential of using remote sensing data from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), couple with Dense Media Radiative Transfer (DMRT) m...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-14.pdf
Keywords: remote sensing, electromagnetic backscattering model, snow grain optical diameter, snow density, radar (sar), data assimilation
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Title: A Comparison of Terrain-Based Parameter, Wind-Field Modelling and TLS Snow Depth Data for Snow Drift Modelling
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Alexander Prokop, Peter Schön, Vincent Vionnet, Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Gilbert Guyomarc’h, Yves Durand, Hervet Bellot, Florain Singer, Kouichi Nishimura
Description: Wind and the associated snow drift are dominating factors determining the snow distribution and accumulation in alpine areas, resulting in a in high s...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-60.pdf
Keywords: snow, wind, redistribution, tls, terrain parameter, arps
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Title: Wind Tunnel Blowing Snow Study: Steady and Unsteady Properties of Wind Velocity, Mass Fluxes and Mass Exchanges
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Mohamed Naaim, Florence NAAIM-BOUVET, Kouichi NISHIMURA, Osamu ABE, Yoichi ITO, Masaki NEMOTO, Kenji KOSUGI
Description: Several CFD snow drift models were proposed in the literature. These models include various assumptions and scaling laws representing the mass exchan...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-62.pdf
Keywords: wind, boundary layer, snow, drifting snow, experimental investigations, saltation, roughness, erosion rate
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Title: Technical Handbook “Wind Drift Control Structures in Mountainous Areas”
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Florence Naaim-Bouvet, et Michel Truche
Description: In mountainous areas, drifting snow generates a heterogeneous distribution of the snow: snow is eroded in high wind areas and deposited in sheltered a...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-66.pdf
Keywords: snow, wind, avalanche, wind drift control structure, snow fence, jet roof, wind baffle
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