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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: 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: 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: Forecasting Factors for Skier-Triggered Avalanches at a Helicopter Skiing Operation
Date: 2000
Authors: Alan S.T. Jones, Bruce Jamieson, Mike Wiegele
Description: To forecast skier-triggered avalanches, stability, snowpack and meteorological variables, and records of previous avalanche activity are typically use...
Object ID: issw-2000-184-191.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, avalanche forecasting, avalanche triggering, skier triggering
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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: Measurements of Human-Triggered Avalanches from the Swiss Alps
Date: 2000
Authors: Jurg Schweizer, Martina Lutschg
Description: Ten years of avalanche incidents data from the Swiss Alps have been analyzed in order to find characteristics of human triggered avalanches. We were p...
Object ID: issw-2000-200-207.pdf
Keywords: snow, avalanche, avalanche accidents, avalanche release, snow stability, avalan forecasting, skier triggering
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Title: Overview of the 1999 Measurements at the SLF Test-Site Vallee De La Sionne
Date: 2000
Authors: Francois Dufour, Urs Gruber, Perry Bartelt, Walter J. Ammann
Description: Three large avalanches were artificially triggered on January 30th, February 10th and February 25th 1999, at the Vallee de la Sionne test site of the ...
Object ID: issw-2000-527-534.pdf
Keywords: avalanche deposits, avalanche dynamics, avalanche modelling, avalanche velocities, impact forces, avalanche experiments, avalanche forces
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Title: Case Study of a Deep Slab Instability and Associated Dry Avalanches
Date: 2000
Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Torsten Geldsetzer, Chris Stethem
Description: This study considers the predictive merit of weather and snowpack data for avalanches that released throughout the winter on a layer of faceted crysta...
Object ID: issw-2000-101-108.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche formation, faceted crystals, snow cover stability, snow cover structure, snow stratigraphy
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Title: Field Data and Theory for Human Triggered Whumpfs and Remote Avalanches
Date: 2000
Authors: Ben Johnson, Bruce Jamiesona, Colin Johnston
Description: Remotely triggered avalanches and whumpfs (sometimes called "settlements") are common occurrences in many mountains ranges, but have received little r...
Object ID: issw-2000-208-214.pdf
Keywords: avalanche release, persistent weak layers, fracture propagation
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Title: Lessons Learned: Cordova, Alaska's Residential Avalanche Accident, Jan. 26, 2000
Date: 2000
Authors: Doug Fesler, Jill Fredston
Description: During late January and early February 2000, a cycle of long-running, slab avalanches caused two deaths, blocked major transportation corridors, and h...
Object ID: issw-2000-486.pdf
Keywords: fatalities, accident, slab avalanche, residential, hazard
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Title: Study of the 1999 Avalanches in the Obergoms Valley, Switzerland, With Respect to Avalanche Hazard Mapping
Date: 2000
Authors: Urs Gruber, Perry Bartelt
Description: The Obergoms valley is a highly visited tourist region in south-western Switzerland. It was dramatically struck by avalanches during the Winter of 199...
Object ID: issw-2000-495-500.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard mapping, avalanche dynamics, deflecting dams, deposition depths
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Title: Effectiveness of Long Term Avalanche Defence Measures in Winter 1999 in Switzerland
Date: 2000
Authors: Stefan Margreth, Stephan Harvey, Christian Wilhelm
Description: The exceptional avalanche period of February 1999 in the Swiss Alps with more than 1000 destructive avalanches was a valuable test for the long term a...
Object ID: issw-2000-501-508.pdf
Keywords: destructive avalanches, avalanche defence, supporting structures
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Title: Occurrence Conditions of Two Catastrophic Avalanches at Chamonix, France
Date: 2000
Authors: Francois Rapin, Christophe Ancey
Description: In February 1999, in Chamonix, France, a large avalanche destroyed 14 houses and killed 12 people in a village called Montroc and another flowed throu...
Object ID: issw-2000-509-513.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, mitigation, chamonix
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