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- Title: Observations of Snow Avalanches on Dynamic Internal Structures at Alta, Utah
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Osamu Abe, Tsutomu Nakamura, Yasuaki Nohguchi, Rand Decker, Thor Femenias, Daniel Howlett
- Description: Observations of snow avalanches on dynamic internal structures were carried out at Alta, Utah as a Japan/U.S. joint research project. A pylon to measu...
- Object ID: issw-1994-385-392.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche path, avalanche release
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- Title: Terrain Parameters of Avalanche Starting Zones and Their Effect on Avalanche Frequency
- Date: 1994
- Authors: J. Andrew Gleason
- Description: Avalanche frequency data for 44 avalanche paths on Lone Mountain in southwest Montana were correlated with data on the terrain features of avalanche s...
- Object ID: issw-1994-393-404.pdf
- Keywords: starting zones, terrain, artificial release, artificial release
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- Title: Correlation of Fast Rates of Snow Glide with Full-Depth Avalanche Occurrence
- Date: 1994
- Authors: J.A. Clarke, D.M. McClung
- Description: Snow glide is the translational slip of the entire snow pack over a sloping ground surface. Requirements for snow glide have been established from fie...
- Object ID: issw-1994-405-407.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow gliding, avalanche release, snow pack
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- Title: Avalanche Starting Zones Below the Timber Linestructure of Forest
- Date: 1992
- Authors: Martin Schneebeli, Martin Meyer-Grass
- Description: Avalanches starting in small clearings of forests are not uncommon in Switzerland. Forests covering steep slopes are the main means to shelter roads a...
- Object ID: issw-1992-176-181.pdf
- Keywords: starting zone, release, density
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- Title: Installation Design of the Avalanche Impact Pylon Facility, Alta, Utah
- Date: 1992
- Authors: Andrea Clayton, Rand Decker, Charles Richardson, Osamu Abe
- Description: In order to research avalanche forces, an impact pylon was installed at Alta Ski Area, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah. The pylon is located beneath Mo...
- Object ID: issw-1992-182-190.pdf
- Keywords: epoxy anchor belts, ski lifts, avalanche path, release
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- Title: Effects of Explosives on the Mountain Snowpack
- Date: 1992
- Authors: Jon Ueland
- Description: A seismograph was used in a series of tests to measure the shockwaves produced in
the snowpack from the detonation of explosives. Two different explo...
- Object ID: issw-1992-205-213.pdf
- Keywords: explosives, shockwave, snowpack, avalanche release
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- Title: Analysis of Avalanche Prediction from Meteorological Data at Berthoud Pass, Colorado
- Date: 1992
- Authors: H. S. Boyne, Knox Williams
- Description: In an attempt to identify the most critical meteorological parameters influencing the temporal behavior of avalanche release in a continental snowpack...
- Object ID: issw-1992-229-235.pdf
- Keywords: methods, avalanche release, slab
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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: Remote On Line Snow Cover Profiling in Avalanche Release Zones Using Microwave Radar
- Date: 1988
- Authors: H. Gubler, M. Hiller, P. Weilenmann
- Description: Microwave FMCW Radar is used for automatic remote snow cover profiling in avalanche release zones. The radars are buried in the ground below the snow ...
- Object ID: issw-1988-166-174.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, release zones, snow cover, microwave radar, electromagnetic, stratigraphy
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- Title: Snow Creep as a Model for Postcontrol Release
- Date: 1984
- Authors: Thomas E. Pratt
- Description: Abstract.--Field experiments indicate that the compressional blast of an explosive can cause a substantial reduction in the rate of snow creep (10-45%...
- Object ID: ISSW-1984-058-066.pdf
- Keywords: post control release, compressional blast, slab
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- Title: The Effects of Snow Compaction on Water Release and Sediment Yield
- Date: 1982
- Authors: Thomas Richard Grady
- Description: Ski area development is taking place at a rapid rate in the western U.S. Coincident with this expansion is the increased use of over snow vehicles for...
- Object ID: issw-1982-015-016.pdf
- Keywords: snow compaction, water release, ski area, ice lenses, snow grain
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- Title: Theoretical Snowpack Behavior Associated With Postcontrol Avalanches
- Date: 1982
- Authors: Thomas E. Pratt
- Description: Postcontrol avalanches are commonly associated with two conditions: (l) inability of
explosives to produce slope failure even though unstable conditi...
- Object ID: issw-1982-023-024.pdf
- Keywords: triggering, slope release, postcontrol, creep rate
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- Title: Bomb-Trams and Aerial Detonation of Avalanche Control Explosives
- Date: 1982
- Authors: Rand Decker, R. L. Brown
- Description: Aerial detonation of avalanche control explosives, optimally between 2 and 10 feet
above the snow surface has proved to be an efficient method of art...
- Object ID: issw-1982-025.pdf
- Keywords: release, explosives, avalanche control method
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- Title: Tides--Their Effects and Nature, and a Computer Prediction Program in Forecasting
- Date: 1980
- Authors: Steve W. Hackett
- Description: Over the centuries, numerous attempts have been made to relate many physical, as well as biological and psychological, phenomena to the positions of t...
- Object ID: issw-1980-120-127.pdf
- Keywords: forecasting, release, triggering, snowpack
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- Title: High Explosives and Artillery in Avalanche Control
- Date: 1976
- Authors: R. Perla
- Description: Avalanche technology in North America depends heavily on explosives for artificial release and stability testing. Approximately 10 5 explosive charges...
- Object ID: issw-1976-042-049.pdf
- Keywords: explosives, technology, artillery, artifical release
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