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- Title: Wet Slab Instability at the Arapahoe Basin Ski Area
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: Hal Hartman, Leif Eric Borgeson
- Description: Empirical evidence gathered at the onset of ablation on a ski slope where a wet slab avalanche claimed the life of a skier indicates a chance of snowp...
- Object ID: P__8021.pdf
- Keywords: wet slab instability, volumetric water content
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- Title: Observation and Modeling of Buried Melt-Freeze Crust
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: Michael Smith, Bruce Jamieson, Charles Fierz
- Description: Melt-freeze crusts often occur as a result of wet snow, rain or strong insolation. Past observations have revealed the formation of weak layers at the...
- Object ID: P__8172.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow stratigraphy, snowpack modeling
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- Title: Water Movement and Capillary Barriers in a Stratified and Inclined Snowpack
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: Erich Peitzsch, Karl W. Birkeland, Kathy J. Hansen
- Description: Most avalanche fatalities occur due to dry slab avalanches. However, wet snow avalanches are also dangerous and can be particularly difficult to predi...
- Object ID: P__8087.pdf
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- Title: Deriving Spatial Stability Variations from Penetration Resistance Measurements
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Spatial variations of weak layer and slab properties affect snow slope stability. To quantify spatial variability at the slope scale, penetration resi...
- Object ID: P__8175.pdf
- Keywords: snow mechanical properties, snow stability, avalanche formation, spatial variability, geostatistics
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- Title: Predicting the Fracture Character of Potential Weak Layers in Penetrometer Signals
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: James Floyer, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Digital penetrometers have been shown to provide reliable assessments of snow hardness with depth; however, extracting useful information from the sig...
- Object ID: P__8222.pdf
- Keywords: snow penetrometer, fracture character, snowpack stratigraphy, avalanche forecasting, snowpack properties, snow hardness
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- Title: Modeling Short Wave Radiation Penetration into the Snowpack: What Can We Learn From Near-Surface Snow Temperatures?
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: Charles Fierz, Laura A. Bakermans, J. Bruce Jamieson, Michael Lehning
- Description: Short wave radiation penetrates the top portion of the snowpack and is responsible for both subsurface heating and fast changing temperature gradients...
- Object ID: P__8223.pdf
- Keywords: snow-cover modeling, short wave radiation, near-surface snow temperature
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- Title: The SM4 Snowpack Temperature and Snow Depth Sensor
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Örn Ingólfsson, Harpa GrÃmsdóttir
- Description: An instrument for measuring snow depth and snow temperature has been developed by POLS engineering in Iceland. The goal was to develop a simple, robus...
- Object ID: P__8174.pdf
- Keywords: snow depth sensor, avalanche monitoring, snowpack temperature
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- Title: Development of a Compact MRI System in Cold Room for Imaging of Structure of Snow and Ice
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Satoru Adachi, Toshihiro Ozeki, Katsumi Kose, Shinya Handa, Tomoyuki Haishi
- Description: We have developed a compact MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) system for visualizing the threedimensional microstructure of snow and ice by using a hig...
- Object ID: P__8264.pdf
- Keywords: compact mri, microstructure, cold room
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- Title: Study on Snow Type Quantification by Using Specific Surface Area and Intrinsic Permeability
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Hayato Arakawa, Kaoru Izumi, Katsuhisa Kawashima, Toshiyuki Kawamura
- Description: The release mechanism of snow avalanche depends on the mechanical property of snow, which is closely related to snow microstructure. The results of pr...
- Object ID: P__8077.pdf
- Keywords: snow type, permeability, specific surface area
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- Title: Shear Strength and Snowpack Stability Trends in Non-Persistant Weak Layers
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Catherine Brown, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Non-persistent weak layers in storm snow exhibit rapidly changing physical and mechanical properties. The shear strength and its rate of change, relev...
- Object ID: P__8266.pdf
- Keywords: shear strength, snow stability, avalanche forecasting, non-persistent weak layers
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- Title: Spatial Variability of Snow Characteristics and Snow Stability
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Pavel A. Chernous, Nikolay V. Barashev, Yuri V. Fedorenko
- Description: It is commonly recognized that spatial variability of snow characteristics is an obstacle for precise snow stability assessment. The work has been don...
- Object ID: P__8094.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, snow variability, stability assessment
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- Title: Wind Effect on Snow Over Arctic Sea-Ice: Evaluation of a Sea-Ice / Snow / Blowing Snow Model System
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Yi-Ching Chung, Stéphane Bélair, Jocelyn Mailhot
- Description: Blowing snow frequently occurs in the Arctic Ocean and Antarctica, transporting snow by saltation and suspension and yielding sublimation of snow part...
- Object ID: P__8054.pdf
- Keywords: piektuk, sntherm, sheba, blowing snow, sea ice
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- Title: 40 Years of Snow Physics at the University of Innsbruck, Austria: An Overview of Basic Studies, Development of Instruments and Results
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: A. Denoth
- Description: Starting 1968, basic investigations have been performed of snow electromagnetic parameters - such as dielectric and magnetic functions - and of hydrau...
- Object ID: P__8157.pdf
- Keywords: snow physics, electromagnetic properties, hydraulic properties, snow texture
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- Title: Methods of Photographing Snow Crystals
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Kelly Elder
- Description: Photography has been used to capture images of snow crystals for over a century. Microphotography and macrophotography allow quantification of shape a...
- Object ID: P__8063.pdf
- Keywords: snow crystals, macrophotography, microphotography
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- Title: Variability and Consistency in Select Colorado Snowcourses
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: S.R. Fassnacht, M. Skordahl, S. Simonson
- Description: The United States Department of Agriculture has been collecting snow data across the Western United States since the mid-1930s. These data were origin...
- Object ID: P__8249.pdf
- Keywords: snowcourses, colorado, swe, depth, coefficient of variation
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