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- Title: Near-Surface Faceted Crystals on a Slope Covered with Stone Pine Trees
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Peter Höller
- Description: This paper presents snow surface temperature measurements as well as snow
temperature investigations in the uppermost layer of the snowpack on a slop...
- Object ID: issw-2004-107-111.pdf
- Keywords: snow metamorphism, forest, avalanches
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- Title: A Simple Model of Snow Slope Stability During Storms
- Date: 2004
- Authors: P. Hayes, C. Wilbour, R. Gibson, H.P. Marshall, H. Conway
- Description: Snow slope stability is controlled by the geometry of the start zone and the mechanical properties of the snow pack. Here we report progress toward de...
- Object ID: issw-2004-165-171.pdf
- Keywords: snow slope stability, avalanches, modeling
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- Title: Temporal Changes in the Spatial Variability of Shear Strength and Stability
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Spencer Logan, Karl Birkeland, Kalle Kronholm, Kathy Hansen
- Description: Avalanche forecasting involves the prediction of spatial and temporal variability of the snowpack. To predict avalanches with more accuracy it is impo...
- Object ID: issw-2004-315-334.pdf
- Keywords: spatial variability, avalanches, avalanche forecasting, temporal change
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- Title: Avalanche Victim Search by Ground Penetrating Radar
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Christian Jaedicke
- Description: Ground penetrating radar (GPR) systems are used in many applications of snow and ice research. The information from the GPR is used to identify and in...
- Object ID: issw-2004-383-388.pdf
- Keywords: ground penetrating radar (gpr), snow avalanches, search and rescue
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- Title: A Practitioner’s Guide for Using Dendroecological Techniques to Determine the Extent and Frequency of Avalanches
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Michael J. Jenkins, Elizabeth G. Hebertson
- Description: Mountain resorts, highway departments, real estate offices and others often require
information on the extent and frequency of avalanches in paths th...
- Object ID: issw-2004-423-434.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanches, tree-ring analyses, disturbance ecology
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- Title: Storm Lewis: A Rain-on-Snow Event on the Milford Road, New Zealand
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Transit New Zealand Milford Road Avalanche Program
- Description: We report and discuss observations and measurements during Storm Lewis, a
160mm rain-on-snow event on the Milford Road, New Zealand from 21-23 Octobe...
- Object ID: issw-2004-557-564.pdf
- Keywords: rain-on-snow, avalanches
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- Title: Forecasting for Natural Avalanches During Spring Opening of the Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, USA
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Blase A. Reardon, Chris Lundy
- Description: The annual spring opening of the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park presents a unique avalanche forecasting challenge. The highway travers...
- Object ID: issw-2004-565-581.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, natural avalanches, wet snow avalanches, glacier national park
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- Title: Size/Frequency Power-Law Relationships for Several Groups of Snow Avalanche Paths
- Date: 2002
- Authors: K.W. Birkeland, C.C. Landry
- Description: Our poster summarizes the results of Birkeland and Landry (2002), where we direct the interested reader for more details on this research. Our results...
- Object ID: issw-2002-031.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, power laws, size/frequency distributions, scale invariance, self-organized criticality
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- Title: Estimating Avalanche Runout on the Milford Road, New Zealand
- Date: 2002
- Authors: H. Conway, W. Carran, A. Carran
- Description: For operational purposes it is of interest to determine when and whether an avalanche will affect the road. The size and runout of an avalanche depend...
- Object ID: issw-2002-067-070.pdf
- Keywords: snow, avalanches, runout distances
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- Title: Field Observations, Full-Scale Tests, Laboratory Investigations and Numerical Modelling of Snow Avalanches in Switzerland
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Betty Sovilla, Marc Christen, Francois Dufour, Urs Gruber, Martin Kern, Margherita Maggioni, Felix Tiefenbacher, Barbara Turnbull, Perry Bartelt
- Description: There are still many unresolved questions in snow avalanche dynamics. This was apparent during the catastrophic avalanche Winter of 1999. In this pape...
- Object ID: issw-2002-071-078.pdf
- Keywords: flowing avalanches, powder avalanches, chute experiments, optical velocity sensors, capacitance density probes, velocity profiles, radar, mass balance, snow cover entrainment, numerical modelling
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- Title: High Frequency Avalanches: Release Area Characteristics and Run Out Distances
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Urs Gruber Schmid, Stefanie Sardemann
- Description: The motivation of this study was a hypothesis of permafrost researchers, that the occurrence of permafrost is more likely in areas that are usually co...
- Object ID: issw-2002-084-089.pdf
- Keywords: release area characterization, frequent avalanches, numerical modeling, permafrost
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- Title: Cornice - Development of a Nearest Neighbours Model Applied in Backcountry Avalanche Forecasting in Scotland
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Ross Purves, Keith Morrison, Graham Moss, Blyth Wright
- Description: This paper describes the development and refinement of a nearest neighbors avalanche forecasting model in Scotland. Avalanche forecasting in Scotland ...
- Object ID: issw-2002-117-122.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanches, computer models
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- Title: Estimating the Strength of Faceted Snow Layers for an Avalanche Forecasting Model
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Antonia Zeidler, Bruce Jamiesona
- Description: Current multivariate forecasting models make limited use of stability indices partly because the required manual measurements of snowpack properties a...
- Object ID: issw-2002-130-137.pdf
- Keywords: snow stratigraphy, snow properties, snow strength, avalanche forecasting, slab avalanches, snow crystals
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- Title: Formation and Forecasting of Large (Catastrophic) New Snow Avalanches
- Date: 2002
- Authors: P. Foehn, M. Stoffel, P. Bartelt
- Description: The catastrophic avalanche winter 1998/99 in the Alps demonstrated that still larger deficiencies exist within the themes: "formation" and "forecastin...
- Object ID: issw-2002-141-148.pdf
- Keywords: snow mechanics, slab avalanche fonnation, avalanche forecasting, catastrophic avalanches
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- Title: Climate Factors Associated with Major Avalanche Events on the Wasatch Plateau, Utah
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Elizabeth G. Hebertson, Michael J. Jenkins
- Description: Dendro-ecological methods were used to construct avalanche chronologies for 16 paths on the Wasatch Plateau, Utah. Major avalanche years between 1928-...
- Object ID: issw-2002-159-166.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanches, intermountain climate, tree-ring analyses, disturbance ecology
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