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SnowFlurry 3 2018/19 | ISSW 2018 - The most interesting articles

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by Lukas Ruetz • 12/06/2018

372 written papers were submitted to the International Snow Science Workshop in Innsbruck last October. The Schneestöberer has distilled the most interesting 10% of them for the particularly ambitious readers and collected them with a direct link to the respective paper.

Tour planning

Avalanche terrain maps for backcountry skiing in Switzerland (Harvey et al.)
Quantitative Risk Reduction Method (QRM), a datadriven avalanche risk estimator (Schmudlach et al.)

Deciding in the terrain

Analysis of decisionmaking frameworks for avalanche terrain (Landrø et al.)
The Dangerator: a method for estimating avalanche danger in areas with no public avalanche forecast (Floyer et al.)
Acceptable risk for backcountry skiers and riders from avalanche hazards: Differences in uphill and downhill terrain selection (Miller et al.)
To go or not to go: Decision making at individual slope (Harvey et al.)
Are You Sharp While Ascending? (Hetland et al.)

Avalanche education

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Risk Communication

Avalanche Forecasting

Quantifying the obvious: the avalanche danger level (Schweizer)
Consistency in regional avalanche forecasts: a look across borders (Techel et al.)
How to assess and communicate persistent weak layers: a forecaster's perspective (Nairz et al.)
When do avalanches release: investigating time scales in avalanche formation (Herwijnen et al.)
Methods used in operational avalanche forecasting around the globe a comprehensive study (Ágoston et al.)

Snowpack: stability and stratification

Snowpack stabilization following storms: Field experiments and modelling of temporal changes in snow mechanical properties following loading (Birkeland et al.)
Release of avalanches on persistent weak layers in relation to loading events in Colorado, USA (Konigsberg et al.)
Measuring snow mechanical properties typical of storm snow instabilities (Reuter et al.)
Quantitative comparison of snow profiles (Hagenmuller et al.)
Red Snow: killer of the snowpack stability? (Valt et al.)
Investigation of the interplay between shear failure and normal collapse of weak layers using microstructurebased mechanical simulations (Mede et al.)
Graupel as a Persistent Weak Layer in a Maritime Climate (Reynaud)

What constitutes an avalanche warning — What makes an avalanche warning

Climate change

Climate change in the Alps and its consequences for snow (Gobiet et al.)
Global warming reduces the consequences of snowrelated hazards (Hestnes et al.)

Digital technology

The effect of communication equipment on avalanche transceivers (Forer et al
Designing a wearable persuasive avalanche warning system (Prezenski et al.)

Remote Sensing

Mysnowmaps: operative highresolution real-time snow mapping (Dall'Amico et al.)
Operational Monitoring of Alpine Snow Cover within the European Copernicus Program (Nagler et al.)
Using Time Lapse Photography to Document Terrain Preferences of Backcountry Skiers (Saly et al.)
Community Snow Observations (CSO): A Citizen Science Campaign to Validate Snow Remote Sensing Products (Wikstrom Jones et al.)

Ski Resort Management & Snow Production

Simulating snow conditions in ski resorts with the physically based snowpack models AMUNDSEN, Crocus, and SNOWPACK/Alpine3D (Hanzer et al.)

Computer models: From snow layering to avalanche dynamics

Model chains

Model fusion from weather activity to avalanche length (Jöbstl et al.)

Winter sports equipment

On the influence of changing snow properties onto the structural behavior of a snowboard undergoing a carved turn (Caillaud et al.)

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