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Title: SAHARAN DUST DEPOSITION AND AVALANCHES: HOW MINERAL PARTICLES AFFECT THE SNOWPACK
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: C. Artoni, G. Lorenzoni, M.A.C. Potenza, B. Delmonte, C. Mangili, L. Teruzzi, V. Raspagni, V. Maggi
Description: Saharan dust intrusions are recurring events across the European Alps and other mid-latitude mountain ranges, depositing mineral particles onto season...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.43.pdf
Keywords: saharan dust, red snow, melt-freeze crust, faceted crystals, persistent weak layers, wet-snow avalanches, snowpack metamorphism, avalanche forecasting
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Title: A TWO-YEAR TIME SERIES OF SNOWPACK AND ENERGY BALANCE FIELD MEASUREMENTS ACROSS RECORD-BREAKING WINTERS AT ATWATER STUDY PLOT (ALTA, UT)
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Otto I. Lang, S. McKenzie Skiles
Description: At Alta, Utah, the 2021-2022 snow season was characterized by a multi-month snow drought and record-breaking dust-on-snow deposition. Although storms ...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.07.pdf
Keywords: dust on snow, precipitation extremes, snow metamorphism, hydrology
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Title: Effects of Tree Height on Snowpack Instability in the North Shore Mountains of Vancouver, BC Canada
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Zachary Wentz
Description: This study aims to understand if there is a relationship with an easily measurable variable, tree height, and snowpack instability; such that instabil...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P02.16.pdf
Keywords: spatial variability, vegetation effects, snow metamorphism, pwls, maritime snowpack climate, start zone characteristics.
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Title: iButton Thermochrons - An Affordable and Effective Technique for Measuring Temperature Gradients
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Greg Gagne
Description: iButton thermochrons are small, affordable, easily deployed devices that measure and log temperatures within a seasonal snowpack. These devices record...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P07.5.pdf
Keywords: metamorphism, temperature gradient, near-surface facets, ibutton
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Title: Unusual Dry Slab Avalanche Releases Involving Dust-on-Snow Layers in Colorado
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Zach M. Guy, Jeffrey S. Deems
Description: In recent decades, dust-on-snow events are increasing in both frequency and geographic extent in the Western U.S. Although dust layers have gained a r...
Object ID: ISSW16_O3.03.pdf
Keywords: dust, slab avalanches, metamorphism, forecasting
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Title: Investigating the Thermophysical Properties of the Ice-Snow Interface, Part II: Thermal Contact Resistance
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Kevin Hammonds, Ian Baker
Description: As it turns out, spending many an extra cold and blustery minute trying to get those last few temperature readings to complete a textbook perfect "eve...
Object ID: ISSW16_O11.01.pdf
Keywords: ice lens, temperature gradient, effective thermal conductivity, thermal contact resistance, kinetic snow metamorphism
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Title: Effects of Saharan Dust Outbreaks on the Snow Stability in the Pyrenees
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Laetitia Chomette, Montse Bacardit, Jordi Gavaldà, Ivan Moner
Description: Saharan dust outbreaks occur nearly every winter in the Pyrenees. It is well established that dust layers on the top of the snowpack reduce the snow a...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.02.pdf
Keywords: snowpack structure, variability and metamorphism; avalanche formation, release and dynamics
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Title: Evaluation of SNOWPACK Metamorphism and Microstructure in a Canadian Context: a Case Study for Snow Stability Assessment
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Jean-Benoit Madore, Kevin Côté, Alexandre Langlois
Description: The snow thermodynamic multi-layer model SNOWPACK was developed in order to address the risk of avalanches by simulating the vertical geophysical and ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.06.pdf
Keywords: snow grain, snowpack, avalanche, model, stability, metamorphism
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Title: Fine Structure Layering in Radiation Recrystallized Snow
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Edward E. Adams, David Walters
Description: Radiation recrystallization of snow is a near-surface metamorphism process that results in the development of a layer of faceted crystals. When such a...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O2.01.pdf
Keywords: snow, radiation recrystallization, kinetic growth, metamorphism, vaporpressure, gradient
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Title: Laboratory Investigations on the Thermophysical Properties of the Ice-Snow Interface While Under a Controlled Temperature Gradient
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Kevin Hammonds, Ross Lieb-Lappen, Zoe Courville, Arnold Song, Xuan Wang, Ian Baker
Description: Of critical importance to avalanche forecasting is the ability to draw meaningful conclusions from potentially only a small handful of field observati...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O2.02.pdf
Keywords: kinetic snow metamorphism, crystal growth, temperature gradient, ice lens, μ-ct, sem
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Title: Limitations of Using an Infrared Camera to Measure Snow Pit-Wall Temperatures
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Michael Schirmer, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Driven by temperature gradients, kinetic snow metamorphism is important for avalanche formation. Recent studies that visualized small scale (< 10 cm) ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-19.pdf
Keywords: measurement techniques, snow metamorphism, artifacts
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Title: Formation of Depth Hoar Resulting from Thermal Optimization of Snow Microstructure
Date: 2012
Authors: Patrick J. Staron, Edward E. Adams, Daniel A. Miller
Description: Snow metamorphism can be described by the flows of heat and mass that result from gradients of temperature and water vapor concentration. The size of...
Object ID: issw-2012-186-193.pdf
Keywords: entropy, metamorphism, microstructure, optimization, snow, thermodynamics
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Title: A Phase-Tracking Snow Micro-Structure Model
Date: 2012
Authors: Andrew E. Slaughter, Nicholas Zabaras
Description: Depending on the thermal conditions, snow metamorphoses via two processes: kinetic or equilibrium metamorphism. Kinetic growth occurs due to temperatu...
Object ID: issw-2012-395-397.pdf
Keywords: snow metamorphism, kinetic growth, thermistors
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Title: A Phase-Tracking Snow Micro-Structure Model
Date: 2012
Authors: Andrew E. Slaughter, Nicholas Zabaras
Description: Depending on the thermal conditions, snow metamorphoses via two processes: kinetic or equilibrium metamorphism. Kinetic growth occurs due to temperatu...
Object ID: issw-2012-395-397.pdf
Keywords: snow metamorphism, kinetic growth, thermistors
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Title: Characterizing Microstructural Arrangement and Effective Properties of Dry Snow: Thermal Conductivity
Date: 2010
Authors: Richard H. Shertzer, Edward E. Adams, Martin Schneebeli
Description: A microstructural quantity, the contact tensor, is introduced to characterize the directional arrangement of bonding in the snowpack. The contact ten...
Object ID: ISSW_O-019.pdf
Keywords: microstructure, metamorphism, effective properties, conductivity, fabric tensor
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