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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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- Title: Effects of an Early Season Rain Crust on Snow Pack Stability within the Continental Climate
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Dan Moroz
- Description: On January 6th and 7th, 2002, the central and northern mountains of Colorado, and
Copper Mountain ski resort, experienced a "freezing rain" weather e...
- Object ID: issw-2002-502-507.pdf
- Keywords: fracture, stability, snowpack, climate
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- Title: Interpreting Fracture Character in Stability Tests
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: For at least a decade or two, some avalanche safety programs have recorded and interpreted the character of fractures in stability tests. It has been ...
- Object ID: issw-2002-514-520.pdf
- Keywords: snow stability tests, snow fracture, snow layer, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Spatial Variability of Slab Stability in Avalanche Start Zones
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Kyle Stewart, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Spatial variability of slab stability in avalanche start zones has been observed by avalanche professionals but little research has been published tha...
- Object ID: issw-2002-544-548.pdf
- Keywords: snow stability, stability tests, avalanches, spatial variability
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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: Determining the Width of a Search Strip for Avalanche Beacons
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Felix Meier
- Description: The width of the coarse search strip that is applied when scanning an avalanche is a
major factor influencing the time to locate buried victims. Wide...
- Object ID: issw-2000-345-350.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche beacons, search strip, field tests
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- Title: Preliminary Tests and Evaluation of a Digital Snow Board
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Robert E. Davis, Jerry Johnson, Walter Rosenthal
- Description: Measurement of snowfall by automatic sensors in alpine and subalpine conditions has proven difficult. Those who require observations of snow loading h...
- Object ID: issw-2000-396-401.pdf
- Keywords: snowfall, snow accumulation, snow measurements
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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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