ISSW 2018 | Die interessantesten Beiträge – Linksammlung SchneeGestöber #3 18/19

Beim International Snow Science Workshop in Innsbruck im vergangenen Oktober wurden 372 schriftliche Arbeiten eingereicht. Der Schneestöberer hat für die besonders ambitionierten Leser die interessantesten 10% daraus destilliert und mit direktem Link zur jeweiligen Arbeit gesammelt.

Tourenplanung

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

Entscheiden im Gelände

• 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.)

Lawinenausbildung

• Avalanche education in Austria about the current status and a new concept (Ruetz, Walcher)
• The „essential distinctions“ rethinking avalanche education and communication habits (Ruetz)

• How do experts interpret avalanche terrain from a map? (Schmudlach et al.)
• Are avalanche courses the new highrisk sport? – Use of Sensation Seeking Scale in avalanche education highlights the need for reassessment of participants’ true nature and suggests that the test itself can serve as a learning tool (Mårtensson et al.)

Gefahrenkommunikation

• Show, Don’t Tell: Modelling behaviour on social media as a strategy for influencing behaviour in data sparse regions (Coulter et al.)
• Avalanche Canada’s Special Public Avalanche Warning: Development and Evolution of an Effective Risk Communications Tool (Clayton et al.)
• Efficacy in communication of avalanche warnings (Engeset et al.)

• Peer Ambassadors at Work: Modeling Good DecisionMaking in „Aggro“ Freeride Films (Edgerly)
• Words of Estimative Probability and the Language of the North American publich Avalanche Danger Scale. Are We All Communicating the Same Risk? (Tart)

Lawinenvorhersage

• 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.)

Schneedecke: Stabilität und Schichtung

• 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)

  

Klimawandel

• Climate change in the Alps and its consequences for snow (Gobiet et al.)

• Global warming reduces the consequences of snowrelated hazards (Hestnes et al.)

Digitale Technologie

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

Fernerkundung

• Mysnowmaps: operative highresolution real-time snow mapping (Dall’Amico et al.)
• Operational Monitoring of Alpine Snow Cover within the European Copernicus Programme (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.)

Skigebietsmanagement & Schneeproduktion

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

Computermodelle: Von Schneeschichtung bis Lawinendynamik

• Application of physical snowpack models in support of operational avalanche hazard forecasting: a status report on current implementations and prospects for the future (Morin et al.)

• Distributed modelling of snow cover instability at regional scale (Bellaire et al.)
• Unified modeling of the release and flow of snow avalanches using the Material Point Method (Gaume et al.)
• Rezoning after installing avalanche mitigation measures: case study of the Vallascia avalanche in Airolo, Switzerland (Stefan Margreth)
• Anticrack nucleation in snowpacks without assuming initial defects: modeling dry snow slab avalanches (Rosendahl et al.)

Modellketten

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

Wintersportgeräte

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