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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: 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: 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: 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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Title: Russian-Norwegian Project on Seismicity-Induced Avalanches
Date: 2002
Authors: P. Chernouss, E. Mokrov, Y. Feorenko, E. Husebye, E. Beketova
Description: Sometime a direct damage of earthquake can be less than that occurs due to triggered phenomena such as landslides, avalanches, etc. It is very difficu...
Object ID: issw-2002-025-030.pdf
Keywords: seismisity, snow stability, avalanche, simulation
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Title: High Frequency Avalanches: Release Area Characteristics and Run Out Distances
Date: 2002
Authors: Urs Gruber Schmid, Stefanie Sardemann
Description: The motivation of this study was a hypothesis of permafrost researchers, that the occurrence of permafrost is more likely in areas that are usually co...
Object ID: issw-2002-084-089.pdf
Keywords: release area characterization, frequent avalanches, numerical modeling, permafrost
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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: Climate Factors Associated with Major Avalanche Events on the Wasatch Plateau, Utah
Date: 2002
Authors: Elizabeth G. Hebertson, Michael J. Jenkins
Description: Dendro-ecological methods were used to construct avalanche chronologies for 16 paths on the Wasatch Plateau, Utah. Major avalanche years between 1928-...
Object ID: issw-2002-159-166.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, intermountain climate, tree-ring analyses, disturbance ecology
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Title: Modeling the Interface Between Two Layers of Snow
Date: 2002
Authors: H.P. Marshall
Description: Although dry slab avalanches in maritime climates can occur due to failure within a layer, avalanches in more continental climates are often caused by...
Object ID: issw-2002-314-322.pdf
Keywords: snow slope stability, finite element modeling, weak layers, interfaces
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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: Synoptic Scale Storm Tracks with Specific Density Trends, Leading to Natural Avalanches on HW 210, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah
Date: 2002
Authors: Glen Merrill
Description: A review of historical avalanche and meteorological data for Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah allowed a relationship to be found between synoptic scale ...
Object ID: issw-2002-425-432.pdf
Keywords: natural avalanches, density trends, synoptic scale storm tracks, historical weather data, historical avalanche data
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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: 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: 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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