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- Title: PREDICTION OF THE DESTRUCTIVE SIZE OF DRY SLAB AVALANCHES FROM FIELD MEASUREMENTS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: DM McClung, Nicola Pugno
- Description: In this paper we present estimates of the Destructive Size of dry snow slab avalanches based on field measurements of initial dimensions. The dimensio...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.51.pdf
- Keywords: dry slab avalanche, destructive size, statistical prediction
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- Title: TWO SEVERE AVALANCHE CYCLES IN 2020 AND 2023 IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS IN ICELAND PROVIDE VALUABLE INFORMATION ON AVALANCHE PROTECTIVE STRUCTURES
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Óliver Hilmarsson, Kristín Martha Hákonardóttir, Tómas Jóhannesson, Harpa Grímsdóttir
- Description: More than fifty snow avalanches have interacted with snow-supporting structures, braking mounds, deflecting dams, splitters and catching dams in Icela...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.30.pdf
- Keywords: dry slab avalanches, protective structures, fluidized front
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- Title: COMPARING STABILITY TESTS AND UNDERSTANDING THEIR LIMITATIONS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Alec van Herwijnen, Frank Techel, Edward H. Bair, Benjamin Reuter, Ron Simenhois, Bruce Jamieson, Alex Marienthal, Doug Chabot, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Our paper focuses on four popular snowpack tests, the Rutschblock Test (RB), Compression
Test (CT), Extended Column Test (ECT), and Propagation Saw T...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O2.05.pdf
- Keywords: dry slab avalanche, snow stability test, snow stability, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Depth Hoar, Avalanches, and Wet Slabs: A Case Study of the Historic March, 2012 Wet Slab Avalanche Cycle at Bridger Bowl, Montana
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Alex Marienthal, Jordy Hendrikx, Doug Chabot, Pete Maleski, Karl Birkeland
- Description: During this past winter, southwest Montana had many large avalanches and days of high avalanche danger. In the Bridger Mountains the most prominent an...
- Object ID: issw-2012-062-068.pdf
- Keywords: bridger mountains, hoar layer, wet slab avalanche, dry slab avalanche, rain on snow
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- Title: Measurements of ECT Scores and Crack-Face Friction in Non-Persistent Weak Layers: What are the Implications for Practitioners?
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Ron Simenhois, Karl W. Birkeland, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: Field observations suggest that avalanches releasing on non-persistent weak layers tend to slide on steeper slopes than other dry slab avalanches. Rec...
- Object ID: issw-2012-104-110.pdf
- Keywords: weak snowpack layers, extended column test, slopes, dry slab avalanche,
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- Title: Effects of El Niño and La Niña on Snow Avalanche Patterns
- Date: 2012
- Authors: D.M. McClung
- Description: El Niño and La Niña affect global climate and atmospheric circulation to determine winter temperature and precipitation patterns. Both the winte...
- Object ID: issw-2012-256-258.pdf
- Keywords: climate change impact, maritime climates, dry slab avalanche
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- Title: Mechanics of Weak Layer Snow Under Cyclic Loading Studied By FEM
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Evgeny A. Podolskiy, Guillaume Chambon
- Description: The mechanical behavior of snow weak layers is a crucial element in dry snow slab
avalanche forecasting. Here, we use Finite Element Method (FEM) mod...
- Object ID: issw-2012-617-621.pdf
- Keywords: dry slab avalanche, elasticity, weak layer
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- Title: The Effect of Additional Snow Load on Extended Column Test and Propagation Saw Test Results
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Ron Simenhois, Karl Birkeland
- Description: The number of skier triggered dry slab avalanches typically increases during or shortly after snow loading events. However, field observations and res...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-041.pdf
- Keywords: extended column test, propagation saw test, snow, dry slab
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- Title: Fracture Toughness for Dry Slab Avalanches
- Date: 2002
- Authors: David M. McClung
- Description: Dry slab avalanches release by propagating shear fractures. Since alpine snow is a quasi-brittle strain softening material, it is implied that fractur...
- Object ID: issw-2002-304-306.pdf
- Keywords: fracture, dry slab avalanche
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- Title: Bridal Veil Falls Avalanche 1996
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Kevin Griffith
- Description: Bridal Veil Falls avalanche path released January 31, 1996.The resulting avalanche ran down to and across the floor of Provo Canyon. It continued up t...
- Object ID: issw-1996-271-275.pdf
- Keywords: airblast, crown face, dry slab avalanche, highway, slidepath
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- Title: Experience with Rutschblocks
- Date: 1992
- Authors: J.B. Jamieson, C.D. Johnston
- Description: During the winters of 1990-1992, rutschblock technique and limitations, variability and precision of rutschblock scores, and applications of rutschblo...
- Object ID: issw-1992-150-159.pdf
- Keywords: dry slab, rutschblock, slopes
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- Title: Effects of Forests Near Timberline on Avalanche Formation
- Date: 1990
- Authors: H. Gubler, J. Rychetnik
- Description: In high alpine forests, extreme dry slab avalanches with fracture heights between 0.8 and 1.5m, corresponding to slope angles from 35 to 45- in the st...
- Object ID: issw-1990-073-092.pdf
- Keywords: forests, dry slab avalanches, stress field, snow distribution, radiation balance, weak layers
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- Title: Differential Heat Transfer--It's Effects on Avalanche Release the Mountain Snowpack
- Date: 1990
- Authors: Nick Logan
- Description: Certain correlations are observed when examining recent avalanche accidents in Colorado. An examination into six backcountry incidents reveals the pre...
- Object ID: issw-1990-095-096.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack, heat, trasfer, dry slab avalanche, release, accidents
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- Title: Dry Slab Avalanches Triggered by Skiers
- Date: 1990
- Authors: Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Most skiers buried and killed in a slab avalanche triggered "their" avalanche themselves.
Avalanche forecasting should reflect this fact. In times of...
- Object ID: issw-1990-307-309.pdf
- Keywords: stability, forecasting, rutschblock test, skiing, dry slab
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