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- Title: The Avalanche Catasthophe of El Teniente-Chile: August 8 of 1944
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Jose Vergara, Maria C. Baros
- Description: The avalanche of El Teniente-Chile (~34°S) August 8 of 1944, was the most serious avalanche accident in Chile of the last 100 years. On the night o...
- Object ID: issw-2002-225-227.pdf
- Keywords: chile, avalanches, andes mountains, avalanche disaster, historical snow records
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- Title: Avalanche Education for Snowmobilers: Efforts of the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Doug Chabot
- Description: The Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center, located in Bozeman, Montana, serves an area that receives tremendous snowmobile use. Backcountry snowmo...
- Object ID: issw-2002-237-241.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, snowmobiles, avalanches
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- Title: A Portable, Variable-Speed, Penetrometer for Snow Pit Evaluation
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Roderick Mackenzie, Warwick Payten
- Description: A new, portable, variable-speed, penetronmeter for snow-pit stability evaluation has been developed (named "SABRE"). Despite the heavy reliance on sno...
- Object ID: issw-2002-294-300.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, avalanche forecasting, avalanche protection
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- Title: Predicting Snow Layer Hardness with Meteorological Factors
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Mark C. Kozak, Kelly Elder, Karl Birkeland, Phillip Chapman
- Description: The majority of slab avalanche accidents occur when the victim triggers the slide. Slab hardness is an important property affecting skier-triggered av...
- Object ID: issw-2002-329-336.pdf
- Keywords: skier-triggered avalanches, hardness, temperature index
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- Title: Synoptic Scale Storm Tracks with Specific Density Trends, Leading to Natural Avalanches on HW 210, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Glen Merrill
- Description: A review of historical avalanche and meteorological data for Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah allowed a relationship to be found between synoptic scale ...
- Object ID: issw-2002-425-432.pdf
- Keywords: natural avalanches, density trends, synoptic scale storm tracks, historical weather data, historical avalanche data
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- Title: Snow Toughness Measurements and Possible Applications to Avalanche Triggering
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Jerome Faillettaz, Dominique Daudon, David Bonjean, Francois Louchet
- Description: A snow slab avalanche release usually results from the unstable expansion of a basal crack at the interface between an upper layer (slab) and an under...
- Object ID: issw-2002-540-543.pdf
- Keywords: snow, toughness, fractal, avalanches, granular materials
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- Title: Spatial Variability of Slab Stability in Avalanche Start Zones
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Kyle Stewart, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Spatial variability of slab stability in avalanche start zones has been observed by avalanche professionals but little research has been published tha...
- Object ID: issw-2002-544-548.pdf
- Keywords: snow stability, stability tests, avalanches, spatial variability
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- Title: Formation Zone Avalanche Control Scheme at D-10 Avalanche Site on National Highway, Jammu-Srinagar (India): A Case Study
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Vinay Chaudhary, Praveen Mathur, Gurpreet Singh
- Description: The Pir Panjal range in the Indian Himalaya in Jammu and Kashmir state lies in the lower Himalayan region between latitude 33°10' and 34°40'N. T...
- Object ID: issw-2002-569-576.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche defence, snow drifting, snow fence, snow load on structures, controlled release of avalanches
- View additional details about Formation Zone Avalanche Control Scheme at D-10 Avalanche Site on National Highway, Jammu-Srinagar (India): A Case Study
- Title: A 3D Model for Snow Drift and Snow Cover Development in Steep Alpine Terrain
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Michael Lehning, Judith Doorschot, Charles Fierz, Norbert Raderschall
- Description: Since blowing and drifting snow is a major factor influencing avalanche danger and the local micro climate, a high resolution, objective and quantitat...
- Object ID: issw-2002-579-589.pdf
- Keywords: arps, lee slope, avalanches, wind slab, flow simulation, saltation, suspension, erosion, snow preferential deposition
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- Title: NXD2000: An Improved Avalanche Forecasting Program Based on the Nearest Neighbor Method
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Martin Gassner, Hans-Jurg Etter, Karl Birkeland, Tom Leonard
- Description: To assist local avalanche forecasters, Buser (1983) developed an avalanche prediction
system based on the nearest neighbor method. NXD2000 is an impr...
- Object ID: issw-2000-052-059.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, avalanche forecasting, avalanche forecasting models, nearest neighbors
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- Title: Contrasting Stability Trends of Two Surface Hoar Layers in the Columbia Mountains, British Columbia, Canada
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Thomas S. Chalmers, Bruce Jamiesona
- Description: Buried layers of surface hoar pose a challenge to avalanche forecasters in many areas. Some layers stabilize quickly and others remain unstable for a ...
- Object ID: issw-2000-094-100.pdf
- Keywords: surface hoar, snow stability, skier triggering, avalanches
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- Title: Near-Surface Faceted Crystals and Avalanche Dynamics in High-Elevation, Tropical Mountains of Bolivia
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Douglas Hardy, Mark W. Williams, Carlos Escobar
- Description: The importance of near-surface faceted crystals in forming weak layers associated with snow avanches has recently received greater attention. However,...
- Object ID: issw-2000-109-114.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, avalanche formation, snow, snow stratigraphy, mountains
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- Title: Snow Stability Trends at Wolf Creek Pass, Colorado
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Mark Mueller
- Description: While studying historical weather and avalanche data for Wolf Creek Pass (US 160), Colorado, I identified a relationship between average new snow dens...
- Object ID: issw-2000-147-152.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, avalanche forecasting, snow stability, weather and avalanche historical data
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- Title: The Timing, Size, and Impact of Avlanches on the Milford Highway, New Zealand
- Date: 2000
- Authors: H. Conway, W. Carran, A. Carran
- Description: The timing of direct-action avalanches that threaten the Milford Highway can often be predicted to within a few hours by keeping track of the stress f...
- Object ID: issw-2000-167-172.pdf
- Keywords: snow, avalanches, sub-surface layers
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- Title: Snow Temperature and Water Outflow During Rain and Melt; Milford Highway, New Zealand
- Date: 2000
- Authors: W. Carran, S. Hall, C. Kendall, A. Carran, H. Conway
- Description: Avalanches often release within a few minutes after the onset of rain on new snow. The avalanche potential remains high until drainage through the sno...
- Object ID: issw-2000-173-177.pdf
- Keywords: snow, rain, avalanches
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