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Title: COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT STABILITY TESTS REGARDING THEIR UTILITY FOR SNOWPACK STABILITY ASSESSMENTS IN GUIDING OPERATIONS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Anna Heuberger, Ingrid Reiweger
Description: Guiding operations in commercial helicopter skiing mostly depend on their own manual stability tests for snowpack stability assessment. With limited...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P3.10.pdf
Keywords: stability tests, fracture character, snowpack properties, test comparison
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Title: Predicting the Fracture Character of Potential Weak Layers in Penetrometer Signals
Date: 2008-09-23
Authors: James Floyer, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Digital penetrometers have been shown to provide reliable assessments of snow hardness with depth; however, extracting useful information from the sig...
Object ID: P__8222.pdf
Keywords: snow penetrometer, fracture character, snowpack stratigraphy, avalanche forecasting, snowpack properties, snow hardness
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Title: Spatial Variability of Rutschblock Results in Avalanche Start Zones
Date: 2004
Authors: Cam Campbell, Bruce Jamieson
Description: During the winters of 2003 and 2004, 29 spatial arrays consisting of a total of 705 rutschblock tests were performed in avalanche start zones in the ...
Object ID: issw-2004-288-297.pdf
Keywords: rutschblock test, fracture character, variability, start zones, avalanche forecasting, snow stability
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