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Title: Spatial Variability of Snow Stability on Small Slopes
Date: 2002
Authors: Kalle Kronholm, Jurg Schweizer, Martin Schneebeli
Description: Spatial snowpack variability is thought to strongly influence the fracture initiation and fracture propagation properties of the snowpack, thereby lar...
Object ID: issw-2002-549-554.pdf
Keywords: snow stability, snow stratigraphy, stability tests, avalanche formation, spatial variability
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Title: Strength Changes of Layers of Faceted Snow Crystals in the Columbia and Rocky Mountain Snowpack Climates in Southwestern Canada
Date: 2000
Authors: Greg Johnson, Bruce Jamieson
Description: The strength of layers of faceted crystals is important for forecasting snow stability. During the winters of 1993-2000, in the intermountain snowpack...
Object ID: issw-2000-086-093.pdf
Keywords: snow crystals, faceted crystals, snow strength, snow climate, avalanche, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Contrasting Stability Trends of Two Surface Hoar Layers in the Columbia Mountains, British Columbia, Canada
Date: 2000
Authors: Thomas S. Chalmers, Bruce Jamiesona
Description: Buried layers of surface hoar pose a challenge to avalanche forecasters in many areas. Some layers stabilize quickly and others remain unstable for a ...
Object ID: issw-2000-094-100.pdf
Keywords: surface hoar, snow stability, skier triggering, avalanches
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Title: Snow Stability Trends at Wolf Creek Pass, Colorado
Date: 2000
Authors: Mark Mueller
Description: While studying historical weather and avalanche data for Wolf Creek Pass (US 160), Colorado, I identified a relationship between average new snow dens...
Object ID: issw-2000-147-152.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, avalanche forecasting, snow stability, weather and avalanche historical data
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Title: Field Observations of Skier-Triggered Avalanches
Date: 2000
Authors: J. Schweizer, J. B. Jamieson
Description: Snowpack characteristics for skier-triggered avalanches are described in order to better understand skier triggering, to improve snow profile observat...
Object ID: issw-2000-192-199.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche formation, skier triggering, snow cover stability, physical properties
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Title: Snow Profile Interpretation
Date: 2000
Authors: Thomas Wiesinger, Jurg Schweizer
Description: Snow profile interpretation is part of the every day work of any avalanche forecasting service. However, profile evaluation is considered rather an ar...
Object ID: issw-2000-223-229.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow stability evaluation, stability tests
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Title: Quantified Loaded Column Stability Test: Mechanics, Methodology, & Preliminary Trials
Date: 2000
Authors: Christopher C. Landry, John J. Borkowski, Robert L. Brown
Description: Avalanche forecasters have employed ad-hoc "collapse" (loaded column) stability tests for decades, stacking blocks of snow on top of an isolated colum...
Object ID: issw-2000-230-237.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, stability test
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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: The Temporal Variations of Near-Surface Faceted Crystals, Red Mountain Pass Corridor, Colorado
Date: 1998
Authors: Joe Stock, Kelly Elder, Karl Birkeland
Description: Avalanches are an important natural hazard. Slab avalanches initiate when a more cohesive layer lies over a less cohesive weak layer and the stresses ...
Object ID: issw-1998-265-269.pdf
Keywords: snow crystals, snow metamorphism, snow stability, avalanches
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Title: Activites of International Yukigata Research Group
Date: 1998
Authors: Yasuaki Nohguch, Kaoru Izumi, Toshiichi Kobayashi, Katsuhisa Kawashima, Yukari Takeuch, Yasoichi Endo, Stefen Keller, Takatsugu Yamada, Masaki Kaneda, Hiroe Miyamoto
Description: Yukigata is a Japanese which means the shapes created by snow patches surrounded by bare ground (positive yukigata) or by open ground surrounded by sn...
Object ID: issw-1998-318-323.pdf
Keywords: yukigata, mountain snow, topography, education
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Title: Alternative Risk Management; Fat Man, Utile Boy and the Winch Roller
Date: 1998
Authors: Craig Sterbenz
Description: "Slope compaction and deep slab instability; alternative avalanche risk management: In recent years, ski area expansion into 'extreme' avalanche terr...
Object ID: issw-1998-348-351.pdf
Keywords: snow compaction, snow cover stability, avalanche counter measures, snow vehicles
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Title: Snow Stability Patterns in the Bridger Range, Montana
Date: 1998
Authors: Karl W. Birkeland
Description: Though avalanche workers and scientists recognize that distinct patterns of snow stability exist in mountainous terrain, no field-based research has b...
Object ID: issw-1998-362-367.pdf
Keywords: wind exposure, avalanche forecasters, snow stability
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Title: Why Measure New Snow Density - Precipitation and Air Temperature?
Date: 1998
Authors: H. Conway, C. Wilbour
Description: The evolution of snow slope stability during storms is investigated using simple models to calculate the shear strength of a buried layer (from its de...
Object ID: issw-1998-466-473.pdf
Keywords: storm and avalanche cycles, snow slope stability
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Title: Snow Stability and Its Variation in Course of Time
Date: 1998
Authors: Peter Holler
Description: One of the most important questions in avalanche warning is snowpack stability. A main factor when elaborating avalanche bulletins is the settlement ...
Object ID: issw-1998-474-477.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, snow cover, snow stability
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Title: Contribution on the Role of Deficit Zones or Imperfections in Dry Snow Slab Avalanche Release
Date: 1998
Authors: Jurg Schweizer
Description: Dry snow slab avalanche formation starts with failure in the weak layer underlying the slab. The stress has to locally exceed the strength that strong...
Object ID: issw-1998-489-501.pdf
Keywords: snow mechanics, avalanche mechanics, avalanche release
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