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- Title: Chinook Pass: 25 Years On
- Date: 2008-09-25
- Authors: John Stimberis
- Description: Washington State Route 410 over Chinook Pass (1656 m) is generally closed from late November through late May each year due to heavy snow loads and av...
- Object ID: P__8149.pdf
- Keywords: forecasting, avalanche control, highways
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- Title: Operational Highway Avalanche Forecasting Using the Infrasonic Avalanche Detection System
- Date: 2008-09-25
- Authors: Jamie Yount, Adam Naisbitt, Ernest D. Scott
- Description: Highway avalanche forecasting programs typically rely on weather and field observations to make road closure and hazard evaluations. Recently, infraso...
- Object ID: P__8187.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche monitoring, infrasound, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Challenges in Forecasting, Chile 2005
- Date: 2008-09-25
- Authors: Matt McKee
- Description: When accepting an Avalanche Forecasting job on the other side of the hemisphere it is hard to know exactly what you are getting yourself into. E-mails...
- Object ID: P__8017.pdf
- Keywords: mining, forecasting, avalauncher
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- Title: Analysis of High Arctic Snow Properties at Svalbard in Light of Thermal Gradient Triggered Avalanches
- Date: 2008-09-25
- Authors: Louis Delmas, Carl E. Bøggild
- Description: Due to climate change, Arctic regions may experience warmer temperatures and higher precipitations. This has become a concern in Longyearbyen, Svalbar...
- Object ID: P__8064.pdf
- Keywords: arctic, temperature gradient, permafrost, slab avalanche
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- Title: Avalanche Crown Depth Distributions
- Date: 2008-09-25
- Authors: Edward H. Bair, Jeff Dozier, Karl W. Birkeland
- Description: Other researchers have suggested that crown depths follow either a scaling distribution (Birkeland and Landry, 2002; Faillettaz et al., 2004; Rosentha...
- Object ID: P__8011.pdf
- Keywords: power laws, statistical distributions, extreme value theory, scaling
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- Title: Determining the Critical New Snow Depth for a Destructive Avalanche by Considering the Return Period
- Date: 2008-09-25
- Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Christoph Mitterer, Lukas Stoffel
- Description: Snow avalanche danger assessment for avalanche paths threatening a highway or a residential area is usually related to new snow depth. Given the exten...
- Object ID: P__8188.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, snow stability evaluation, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: On Wet Slab Mechanics and Yellow Snow: A Practitioner's Observations
- Date: 2008-09-25
- Authors: Adam Brown
- Description: Wet slab avalanches remain a vexing phenomenon to theoreticians and practitioners alike. Empirically based studies that employ the same field methods ...
- Object ID: P__8251.pdf
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- Title: A Solar Warming Model (Swarm) to Estimate Diurnal Changes in Near-Surface Snowpack Temperatures for Back-Country Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 2008-09-25
- Authors: Laura Bakermans, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Diurnal temperature fluctuations occur in near-surface snowpack layers as a result of the energy balance at the snow surface. While there is some unde...
- Object ID: P__8092.pdf
- Keywords: solar radiation, short wave radiation, near-surface warming, surface energy balance, snowpack temperatures, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Deep Slab Instability Characterizing the Phenomena - Part 1
- Date: 2008-09-25
- Authors: Bob Comey, Chris McCollister
- Description: Deep slab avalanches cause property damage and kill people. A better understanding of the characteristics of deep slab avalanches could increase the e...
- Object ID: P__8136.pdf
- Keywords: deep slab avalanches, avalanche database search
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- Title: Alaskasnow: A Practitioners
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Peter E. Carter, Sarah A. Carter
- Description: This poster presentation describes the enhancement of AlaskaSnow.org, the Valdez Chugach Region network of avalanche professionals, with a practitione...
- Object ID: P__8240.pdf
- Keywords: valdez chugach region network, avalanche safety, online data sharing
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- Title: Evaluating the Importance of Crystal-Type on New Snow Instability: A Strength vs. Stress Approach Using the SNOSS Model
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Jerry Casson, Mark Stoelinga, John Locatelli
- Description: Understanding new snow instability is the key factor in predicting the release of direct action avalanches during storm cycles. The compaction rates, ...
- Object ID: P__8046.pdf
- Keywords: crystal-type, shear strength, densification, direct action avalanche, stability
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- Title: The Relationship Between Wind Direction and Patterns of Natural Avalanche Activity at Gothic, Colorado
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Tara Chesley, Karl Birkeland, Kathy Hansen
- Description: Though most avalanche forecasting operations require recognizing and assessing patterns of avalanche activity at the scale of large valleys or drainag...
- Object ID: P__8074.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, avalanche forecasting, awareness
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- Title: Verification of Statistical Avalanche Forecasting Based on Numerical Weather Prediction Inputs
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: P. Cordy, D.M. McClung, C.J. Hawkins, J. Tweedy, T. Weick
- Description: Electronic meteorological stations are increasingly being used to supplement manual weather measurements in avalanche mitigation programs. The British...
- Object ID: P__8152.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, numerical weather forecasting, nearest neighbours
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- Title: Developments in Avalanche Forecasting and Other Prevention Measures and their Potential Effects on Avalanche Fatalities
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Hans-Juerg Etter, Thomas Stucki, Benjamin Zweifel, Christine Pielmeier
- Description: Despite the ever-increasing attractions of backcountry and off-piste winter sports as well as the ever more heavily frequented mountain routes in Swit...
- Object ID: P__8245.pdf
- Keywords: prevention, avalanche forecasting, avalanche fatalities
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- Title: Nine Avalanche Fatalities from 2 December 2007 to 4 January 2008 in the Washington Cascades
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Garth Ferber
- Description: An unprecedented nine persons were killed in avalanches in the Washington Cascades between 2 December 2007 and 4 January 2008. Five of the fatalities ...
- Object ID: P__8118.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, statistics, cascades
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