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- Title: Size Effects in Slab Avalanche Fractures
- Date: 2006
- Authors: D.M. McClung, C. Borstad
- Description: Size effects in snow failure are an important aspect of avalanche release. A
size effect implies that larger samples have smaller strength than small...
- Object ID: issw-2006-182.pdf
- Keywords: size effect, avalanche fractures, tensile, shear, snow mechanics
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- Title: Some Results of Statistical Processing of Avalanche Geometric Characteristics in the Khibini Mountains
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Pavel Chernous
- Description: Results of statistical analysis of such geometric characteristics as: length and thickness of fracture line, area of its surface, avalanche runout dis...
- Object ID: issw-2006-387.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche dimensions, statistics, catastrophic avalanches
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- Title: Natural Glide Slab Avalanches, Glacier National Park, U.S.A.: A Unique Hazard and Forecasting Challenge
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Blase A. Reardon, Daniel B. Fagre, Mark Dundas, Chris Lundy
- Description: In a museum of avalanche phenomena, glide cracks and glide avalanches might be housed in the “strange but true†section. These oddities ar...
- Object ID: issw-2006-778-785.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, natural avalanches, glide avalanches, glacier national park
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- Title: Evaluating the Stuffblock and Tilt Board Snowpack Stability Tests as Snow Avalanche Forecasting Tools
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Peter Carter, Matt Heavner, Eran Hood
- Description: Snow avalanche forecasting relies on, among other factors, an assessment of snowpack stability derived from careful observation of snow cover stratigr...
- Object ID: issw-2004-138-144.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack stability tests, tilt board, stuffblock
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- Title: Assessing the Probability of Skier Triggering from Snow Layer Properties
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Jurg Schweizer , Charles Fierz , J. Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Snow profile interpretation has developed in the last few years from being based on
experience into a semi-quantitative scientific method. Emphasizin...
- Object ID: issw-2004-192-198.pdf
- Keywords: snow stability, stability evaluation, avalanche forecasting, skier triggering
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- Title: Snow Avalanche Climatology of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, California
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Susan Burak
- Description: The Sierra Nevada mountain range of California lies between 35o and 40oN and is
located within 320 km (200 miles) of the Pacific Ocean. Previous inve...
- Object ID: issw-2004-245.pdf
- Keywords: weak layers, temperature gradient, human triggered, climatology
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- Title: Highland Bowl – A Ski Area Expansion
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Kevin Heinecken
- Description: The Highland Bowl is a large area which rises above the current lift structures south of the Aspen Highlands Ski Area and has recently been opened to ...
- Object ID: issw-2004-661-665.pdf
- Keywords: skiing, starting zones, runout, triggered
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- Title: Forecasting for Natural Avalanches During Spring Opening of the Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, USA
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Blase A. Reardon, Chris Lundy
- Description: The annual spring opening of the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park presents a unique avalanche forecasting challenge. The highway travers...
- Object ID: issw-2004-565-581.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, natural avalanches, wet snow avalanches, glacier national park
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- Title: Glide Avalanche Detection on a Smooth Rock Slope, Snoqualmie Pass, Washington
- Date: 2004
- Authors: John Stimberis, Charles Rubin
- Description: Glide avalanches involve the full release of the snow pack over a rock slab and are often difficult to forecast. This type of avalanche release is dep...
- Object ID: issw-2004-608-610.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche detection, forecasting, glide
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- Title: Forecasting Shear Strength and Skier-Triggered Avalanches for Buried Surface Hoar Layers
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Thomas S. Chalmers, J. Bruce Jamieson
- Description: In the Columbia Mountains of western Canada, skier-triggered slab avalanches on weak layers of buried surface hoar occur mostly within the first 10 to...
- Object ID: issw-2002-138-140.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snowpack stratigraphy, surface hoar, snow strength, snow stability
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- Title: Predicting Snow Layer Hardness with Meteorological Factors
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Mark C. Kozak, Kelly Elder, Karl Birkeland, Phillip Chapman
- Description: The majority of slab avalanche accidents occur when the victim triggers the slide. Slab hardness is an important property affecting skier-triggered av...
- Object ID: issw-2002-329-336.pdf
- Keywords: skier-triggered avalanches, hardness, temperature index
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- Title: Avalanche Incidents in Switzerland in Relation to the Predicted Danger Degree
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Stephan Harvey
- Description: All known avalanche incidents from 1987/88 to 1998/99 (12 years) have been analyzed with respect to the scale of avalanche danger of the Swiss avalanc...
- Object ID: issw-2002-443-448.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche incident, avalanche accident statistics, avalanche forecast, avalanche bulletin, avalanche danger degree
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- Title: Contrasting Stable and Unstable Snow Profiles with Respect to Skier Loading
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Jurg Schweizer, J. Bruce Jamieson
- Description: A Swiss-Canadian data set of over 400 snow profiles from skier-triggered slopes and slopes that have been skied but not triggered was contrasted to de...
- Object ID: issw-2002-499-501.pdf
- Keywords: snow stratigraphy, avalanche formation, avalanche forecasting, snow cover stability, snow stability evaluation, skier triggering
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- Title: Characterization of a Deep Slab Instability
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Ethan Greene, Greg Johnson
- Description: In early January 2002, a warm and moist storm formed an ice crust on the snow surface throughout the Wasatch Mountains of northern Utah. Faceted snow ...
- Object ID: issw-2002-491-498.pdf
- Keywords: snow, avalanche, avalanche accidents, avalanche release, snow stability, forecasting, skier triggering
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- Title: Evidence of Chaos in Slab Avalanches
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Walter Rosenthal, Kelly Elder
- Description: We present evidence that slab avalanching is a chaotic process. A 20-year set of 8062 avalanches running on more than 140 paths at Mammoth Mountain wa...
- Object ID: issw-2002-013-018.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, chaos, fractals, attractors
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