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Title: Variability and Consistency in Select Colorado Snowcourses
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: S.R. Fassnacht, M. Skordahl, S. Simonson
Description: The United States Department of Agriculture has been collecting snow data across the Western United States since the mid-1930s. These data were origin...
Object ID: P__8249.pdf
Keywords: snowcourses, colorado, swe, depth, coefficient of variation
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Title: Into the Belly of the Beast (Snow Depth Across Starting Zones Measured with Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave Radar)
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: J. Andrew Gleason, H. P. Marshall, James McCreight
Description: Ultra broad band microwave frequency modulated continuous wave radar (FMCW) was used to estimate snow depth across the starting zones of avalanche pat...
Object ID: P__8255.pdf
Keywords: snow depth, fmcw radar, starting zone
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Title: Slab Avalanches at Mt. Kamihorokamettoku in Hokkaido in November 2007: Report of New Avalanche Research Team in Hokkaido Branch of JSSI
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Toshihiro Ozeki, Akihiro Hachikubo, Go Iwahana, Kazuki Nakamura, Kazuo Higuchi, Hitoshi Onishi, Daisuke Sasaki, Eizi Akitaya
Description: Slab avalanches occurred at Mt. Kamihorokamettoku, Tokachi Mountain Range, in Hokkaido Prefecture in November 2007. The first slab avalanche occurred ...
Object ID: P__8230.pdf
Keywords: slab avalanche, depth hoar, mt kamihorokamettoku, hokkaido branch of jssi
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Title: Shear Strength of Natural and Artificial Depth Hoar Layers
Date: 2006
Authors: Osamu Abe, Junrong Xu, Jian Liu, Hiroyuki Hirashima, Shigeto Mochizuki, Satoru Yamaguchi, Takeshi Sato, Atsushi Sato
Description: Many data on shear strength and density of natural depth hoar layers were collected from Japan, west China and Alaska. Snow metamorphism experiments u...
Object ID: issw-2006-007-014.pdf
Keywords: shear strength, depth hoar, avalanche occurrence
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Title: An Observation of Depth Hoar in the Maritime
Date: 2006
Authors: S. Ikeda, M. Ryan
Description: Generally speaking, in continental climates thick depth hoar layer may develop near at or near the ground, where in maritime climates a compacted sno...
Object ID: issw-2006-132-138.pdf
Keywords: depth hoar, maritime climate, wind erosion, rainfall
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Title: Snowpack Basal Layer Facets in the Sierra Nevada
Date: 2006
Authors: Randall Osterhuber
Description: Though California’s Sierra Nevada generally experiences deep snowpacks and modest midwinter air temperatures, faceted snow grains do form and p...
Object ID: issw-2006-183-186.pdf
Keywords: facets, depth hoar, wet slab avalanche
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Title: Lidar Measurement of Snow Depth: Accuracy and Error Sources
Date: 2006
Authors: Jeffrey S. Deems , Thomas H. Painter
Description: Airborne laser altimetry (lidar) is a remote sensing technology that holds tremendous promise for mapping snow depth in snow hydrology and avalanche a...
Object ID: issw-2006-330-338.pdf
Keywords: lidar, snow depth, remote sensing, spatial variability
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Title: Spatial Variability of the Snowpack: Experiences with Measurements at a Wide Range of Length Scales With Several Different High Precision Instruments
Date: 2006
Authors: Hans Peter Marshall, Gary Koh, Matthew Sturm, Jerome Johnson, Mike Demuth, Chris Landry, Jeff Deems, Andy Gleason
Description: Snow exhibits an extremely wide range of material properties over both short spatial as well as temporal scales compared with most other materials. Re...
Object ID: issw-2006-359-364.pdf
Keywords: spatial variability, radar, penetrometer, snow depth, snow instrumentation
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Title: Measuring Snow Depth With a Terrestrial Laser Ranging System
Date: 2006
Authors: Philipp Jörg, Reinhard Fromm, Rudolf Sailer, Andreas Schaffhauser
Description: Knowledge on the spatial and temporal distribution of snow depth is one of the key parameter in the assessment of avalanche hazards, for snow drift a...
Object ID: issw-2006-452-460.pdf
Keywords: tsl, terrestrial scanning laser, remote sensing, snow depth distribution
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Title: From the Tree to the Forest - Investigating Snow Accumulation Around Individual Trees
Date: 2006
Authors: S.R. Fassnacht, M. Toro, S. Simonson, E.K. Bentley
Description: Estimating the volume of water stored in a snowpack in a montane forest combines spatial measurements of snow depth with average snowpack density. The...
Object ID: issw-2006-876-879.pdf
Keywords: snow depth, snow density, forest canopy, picea engelmanii, abies lasiocarpa
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Title: Modeling and Measuring Snow for Assessing Climate Change Impacts in Glacier National Park, Montana
Date: 2002
Authors: Daniel B. Fagre, David Selkowitz, Blase Reardon, Karen Holzer, Lisa McKeon
Description: A 12-year program of global change research at Glacier National Park by the U.S. Geological Survey and numerous collaborators has made progress in qua...
Object ID: issw-2002-417-424.pdf
Keywords: snow depth, snow water equivalent, variability, pacific decadal oscillation, modeling
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Title: Snow Depth Measurements in Avalanche Starting Zones
Date: 2000
Authors: Magnus Mar Magnusso, Jon Gunnar Egilsson, Oddur Petursson
Description: In the last few years, Iceland has started an extensive programme to build avalanche defense structuresfor threatened towns and villages. Part of thos...
Object ID: issw-2000-417-423.pdf
Keywords: avalanche starting zones, snow depth, snow mapping, acoustic depth sensors, laser distometers
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Title: Characteristics of Artificial Snow and its Effect on Vegetation
Date: 2000
Authors: Veronika Stockli, Christian Rixen
Description: The winter and early spring environment of plants under ski slopes is physically and chemically changed due to grooming and the addition of artificia...
Object ID: issw-2000-468-471.pdf
Keywords: artificial snow, snow density, snow depth, ski slopes, temperature, vegetation
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Title: Experiments of Depth Hoar Formation Under Extremely Low Temperature
Date: 1998
Authors: Y.Kamata, A.Sato
Description: To investigate the growth of depth hoar crystals in a very cold region, an experiment was carried out for three days with temperature gradients of 200...
Object ID: issw-1998-254-259.pdf
Keywords: depth hoar, extremely low temperature, saturated water vapor concentration
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Title: Test of a Multiplex Snow-Depth Sensor Along a Down Slope
Date: 1996
Authors: G. Guyomarc'h, L. Merindol, M. Sudul
Description: For 2 years, the CEN (Centre d'Etudes de la Neige - Snow Study Centre) has been making snow depth measurements on a location of avalanche starting zon...
Object ID: issw-1996-173-178.pdf
Keywords: automatic snow-depth profile, erosion rate, wind effect
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