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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: Extended Column Test: Repeatability and Comparison to Slope Stability and the Rutschblock
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Frank Techel, Matthias Walcher, Kurt Winkler
- Description: Information on snow stability is key information when assessing the avalanche situation. However, stability tests like the Extended Column Test (ECT) ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.08.pdf
- Keywords: extended column test, rutschblock, test repeatability, snow stability, fracture propagation
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- Title: The AK Block, A Sized Non-cutback Snow Test
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: Bill Glude, Randall Mullen
- Description: The AK Block is a large block snow test sized to the tester's weight and their ski or snowboard contact length, dug out on three sides, and loaded by ...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P2.28.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, snow stability tests, block tests, sized-block, ak block, rutschblock
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- Title: Stability Tests and Their Association With the Local Avalanche Danger
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Shane Haladuick, Michael Schirmer, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: The avalanche forecast regions in Canada range from 100 to 30,000 km2, far larger than the 10 km2 covered in a typical backcountry day. This differenc...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-01.pdf
- Keywords: local avalanche danger, compression test, rutschblock test, avalanche problem, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Wet Snow Diurnal Evolution and Stability Assessment
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Frank Techel, Christine Pielmeier
- Description: Wet snow avalanches pose a threat to snow recreationists and to infrastructure such as mountain roads. The timing of wet snow avalanche formation is d...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0256-0261.pdf
- Keywords: wet snow, snow stability, water content, rutschblock test, extended column test, shovel shear test, persistent weak layer
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- Title: Estimating Rutschblock Stability from Snowmicropen Measurements
- Date: 2008-09-26
- Authors: Christine Pielmeier, Hans-Peter Marshall
- Description: Stability prediction from SnowMicroPen (SMP) profiles would support avalanche forecasting operations, since stability information could be gathered mo...
- Object ID: P__8126.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack stability, rutschblock, micro penetrometer, mechanical properties, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: AK Block Project Status Update 2008
- Date: 2008-09-26
- Authors: Bill Glude, Randall S. Mullen
- Description: The AK Block is a large block snow test sized to the tester's weight and their ski or snowboard contact length, dug out on three sides, and loaded muc...
- Object ID: P__8059.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, snow stability tests, block tests, sized-block, ak block, rutschblock
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- Title: Evaluating the AK Block, A Sized Non-Cutback Snow Test
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Bill Glude, Randall Mullen
- Description: The AK Block is a snow test block sized to the tester’s weight and their ski or snowboard contact length, dug out on three sides, and loaded mu...
- Object ID: issw-2006-630-639.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, snow stability tests, block tests, sized-block, ak block, rutschblock
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- Title: The Ak Block, A Sized-Block Snow Test
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Bill Glude
- Description: The AK Block is a snow test developed and used by the Southeast Alaska Avalanche
Center staff over a 20-year period. It is a block sized to the teste...
- Object ID: issw-2004-153-160.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, snow stability tests, block tests, sized-block, ak block, rutschblock
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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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- Title: A Comparison Study of the Shredblock and Rutschblock Snow Stability Tests
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Andy Gleason
- Description: The Shredblock snow stability test utilizes a snowboard to conduct a loaded column test similar to a Rutschblock test which utilizes skis. A compariso...
- Object ID: issw-1998-249-252.pdf
- Keywords: rutschblock, stability test, snowboard
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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: 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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- Title: Snowcover Stability Tests and the Areal Variability of Snow Strength
- Date: 1988
- Authors: Paul M.B. Fohn
- Description: This paper describes in a first part the advantages and drawbacks of the following tests: wedge test, shovel test, "Rutschblock-" test, shear frame te...
- Object ID: issw-1988-263-273.pdf
- Keywords: snow strength, stability, wedge test, shovel test, rutschblock test, shear frame test
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- Title: The Swiss Rutschblock Snow Stability Evaluation Test
- Date: 1986
- Authors: Danny Whitmore, Susan A. Burak, James Malone, Robert E. Davis
- Description: Conventional backcountry shear tests of the snow pack are compared with the Swiss Rutschblock test on steep, stable slopes. Conventional tests use a v...
- Object ID: issw-1986-207-209.pdf
- Keywords: snow pack, rutschblock, slab strength, backcountry skiing
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