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Title: The Role of Collapse in Avalanche Release: Review and Implications for Practitioners and Future Research
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Edward Bair, Johan Gaume, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Reports of collapses and whumpfing sounds and their links to instability in the snowpack have been around for decades, but like many areas of snow sci...
Object ID: ISSW16_O1.04.pdf
Keywords: fracture, collapse, anticrack, extended column test, propagation saw test
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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: Changes in Extended Column Test Results with Varying Depths
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Ian Hoyer, Ethan Greene, Doug Chabot, Karl W. Birkeland
Description: Knowing the Extended Column Test's (ECT's) effectiveness at different slab thicknesses is critically important for practitioners. To better understand...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.29.pdf
Keywords: extended column test, snowpack test, propagation
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Title: The Effect of Increasing Load on Weak Layer Fracture
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Avalanches failing on buried weak layers tend to be easier to trigger during or immediately following snowfall, suggesting that loading favorably chan...
Object ID: ISSW16_O1.03.pdf
Keywords: fracture, loading, slab, particle tracking velocimetry, propagation saw test
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Title: Wet-Snow Fracture Propagation
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Ingrid Reiweger, Markus Zöchling, Martin Forster, Thomas Wiesinger, Christoph Mitterer
Description: Fracture propagation within wet snow is a key issue in order to understand and predict wet-snow slab avalanches. In our preliminary field study we inv...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.33.pdf
Keywords: wet snow, fracture propagation, wet-snow avalanches, propagation saw test
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Title: The Effect of Slope-Scale Spatial Variability of Slab Characteristics on Propagation Saw Tests
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Chris Bilbrey, Jordy Hendrikx, Karl Birkeland, Stuart Challender, J. Andrew Gleason
Description: Understanding propagation in complex, non-uniform terrain is critically important for avalanche forecasting and mitigation. Currently we do not know h...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.45.pdf
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Title: The Effects of Different Methods of Compaction on Snowpack Stability
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Diana Saly, Jordy Hendrikx, Karl Birkeland, Stuart Challender, Tom Leonard
Description: The interaction between snowpack layers determines the snowpack stability. It follows that disrupting layers may improve stability. Ski patrols and gu...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.02.pdf
Keywords: compaction, snowpack stability, stability test, boot-packing, ski compaction
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Title: A New Mechanical Framework to Interpret Weak Layer and Slab Fracture in the Propagation Saw Test
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Lorenzo Benedetti, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Johan Gaume
Description: This work aims to provide a mechanical model for the Propagation Saw Test (PST) based on the Euler-Bernoulli beam, allowing a description of the slab ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.01.pdf
Keywords: fracture, critical length, propagation length, mechanical model
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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: Edge Effects In Propagation Tests
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Edward H. Bair, Ron Simenhois, Alec van Herwijnen, Karl Birkeland
Description: Guidelines suggest beams with lengths around 1 m for Extended Column Tests (ECTs) and Propagation Saw Tests (PSTs). The longest unstable tests publish...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-02.pdf
Keywords: crack propagation, extended column test, propagation saw test
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Title: Uncut Column Stability Tests For Hard Slab Snow Conditions
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Wesley R. Farnsworth, Markus Eckerstorfer
Description: This study aims to better understand a slabs influence on the mechanics of artificial avalanches. It seems that stability tests do not represent stab...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-01.pdf
Keywords: slab properties, propagation saw test, hard slab, uncut columns
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Title: Preliminary Results at the Hijiori Avalanche Test Site
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Osamu Abe, Masaki Nemoto, Kenji Kosugi, Isao Kamiishi
Description: Hijiori is one of the heaviest snow areas in Japan. Recently to observe blowing snow and avalanches, an almost perfect place was found in this area. T...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-32.pdf
Keywords: avalanche test site, avalanche dynamics, snow cornice
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Title: The Full-Scale Avalanche Dynamics Test Site Vallée de la Sionne Betty
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Betty Sovilla, Jim McElwaine, Walter Steinkogler, Martin Hiller, François Dufour, Emma Suriñach, Cristina Perez Guillen, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Emmanuel Thibert, Djebar Baroudi
Description: The full-scale avalanche dynamics test site Vallée de la Sionne (VdlS) is providing scientists and engineers with essential data to understand and...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-33.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, vallée de la sionne, full-scale test site
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Title: The Full-Scale Avalanche Test Site, Lautaret, France
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Emmanuel THIBERT, Hervé BELLOT, Xavier RAVANAT, Frédéric OUSSET, Gaëtan PULFER, Mohamed NAAIM, Florence NAAIM-BOUVET, Koichi NISHIMURA, Yoichi ITO, Djebar Baroudi, Alexander PROKOP, Peter SCHÖN, P. Alvaro SORUCO, Christian VINCENT, Ali LIMAM, Damianao PESARESI
Description: The Lautaret full-scale avalanche test site in the southern French Alps has been used by IRSTEA (Cemagref) Research Institute since 1973. Over the rec...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-34.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, test-site, full-scale experiments
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