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- Title: COMPARING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE ECT, PST AND CT FOR ASSESSING SNOW STABILITY
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Alex Marienthal, Doug Chabot, Karl Birkeland
- Description: Avalanche professionals utilize small-block tests such as the Extended Column Test (ECT), Propagation Saw Test (PST), and Compression Test (CT) to aug...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O9.04.pdf
- Keywords: stability tests, false-stable rates, ect, pst, ct
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- Title: Comparison of ECT, RB, Threshold Sum and Relative Threshold Sum Approach to To Snowpack Instability Evaluation - New Results
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Igor Chiambretti, Fabiano Monti, Mauro Valt
- Description: The Italian regional avalanche forecasting services (AINEVA) collect snowpack observations such as snowpack profiles or stability tests on a daily or ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.05.pdf
- Keywords: rutschblock (rb), extended column test (ect), structural instability indices, threshold sum (tsa), relative threshold sum (rta)
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- Title: Using Large Column Tests to Successfully Forecast Persistent Deep Slab Avalanches in the Central Sierra Nevada Mountains
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Brandon Schwartz, Andy Anderson
- Description: Forecasting of Persistent Deep Slab avalanches presents a unique and at times difficult problem for Backcountry Regional Forecasters, Guide Services, ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.26.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, persistent deep slab, propagation saw test (pst), extended column test (ect), sierra nevada
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- Title: Evaluating the Local Avalanche Danger in Tromsø, Northern Norway Using Field Monitoring, Field Investigations and the SURFEX/ISBA-CROCUS Snowpack Model
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Eirik Malnes, Dagrun Vikhamar-Schuler, Yngve Antonsen
- Description: During the winter 2013/2014 we conducted frequent fieldwork, collecting snowpack property
and stability data from five monitoring sites along a verti...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P1.07.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche danger scale, stability test, ect, surfex/isba-crocus snowpack model,norway
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- Title: The PST with a Twist: Comparing the Standard PST to the Cross Slope PST
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: Eric Knoff
- Description: In recent years, the propagation saw test (PST) gained popularity for both avalanche professionals and backcountry recreationalists. A limiting factor...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P2.30.pdf
- Keywords: propagation saw test (pst), cross-slope propagation saw test (cpst), extended columntest (ect), critical cut length, slope-angle, fracture propagation
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- Title: Comparison of Structural Instability Indices (Lemons), ECT and RB Results
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Chiambretti Igor, Fabiano Monti, Mauro Valt
- Description: Almost all avalanche forecasting services have a network of traditional stations where an array of daily or weekly snowpack measurement or observation...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-03.pdf
- Keywords: rb, ect, structural instability indices
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- Title: The Effect of Changing Slope Angle on Extended Column Test Results: Can We Dig Pits in Safer Locations?
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Ron Simenhois, Joachim Heierli
- Description: Avalanche practitioners often assume that weak snowpack layers fracture more easily in steeper terrain. We are typically reluctant to conduct stabilit...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-010.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, ect, alaska, montana
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- Title: The Extended Column Test: Test Effectiveness, Spatial Variability, and Comparison with the Propagation Saw Test
- Date: 2008-09-26
- Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Ron Simenhois
- Description: The Extended Column Test (ECT) is a new stability test that aims to assess the fracture propagation potential across a 90 cm wide isolated column. Ini...
- Object ID: P__8190.pdf
- Keywords: ect, extended column test, fracture propagation, stability evaluation, avalanches
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- Title: The Effect of Changing Slab Thickness on Fracture Propagation
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Ron Simenhois, Karl Birkeland
- Description: Many avalanches are triggered from shallower parts of a slope. Past research demonstrates that initiating fractures in such areas is easier than in de...
- Object ID: P__8045.pdf
- Keywords: ect, extended column test, pst, propagation saw test, fracture propagation
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