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- Title: The Lavanchers Avalanche of February 23rd 1999, Aosta Valley, Italy
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Massimiliano Barbolini, Enrico Ceriani, Giorgio Del Monte, Valerio Segor, Fabrizio Savi
- Description: The purpose of the present contribution is to present and analyse in detail an avalanche event which occurred on February 23rd 1999 in the Western Ita...
- Object ID: issw-2000-519-526.pdf
- Keywords: catastrophic avalanches, winter 1999, italian alps, lavanchers avalanche, protective measures
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- Title: Effect of Snow Temperatures on Skier Triggering of Dry Slab Avalanches
- Date: 1996
- Authors: D.M. McClung, Jurg Schweizer
- Description: Field observations and experience show that snow temperatures can have a strong influence on dry snow slab instability. Experience shows that there ar...
- Object ID: issw-1996-113-117.pdf
- Keywords: dry snow, snow temperature, snow strength, slab avalanche, avalanche formation, skier triggering
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- Title: Monitoring a Shear Frame Stability Index and Skier-Triggered Slab Avalanches Involving Persistent Snowpack Weaknesses
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Colin Johnston
- Description: Ski guides routinely decide whether to ski or avoid particular avalanche slopes. Similarly, avalanche forecasters for ski areas and highways decide wh...
- Object ID: issw-1994-014-021.pdf
- Keywords: forecasters, safety decisions, terrain, stability, skier triggering
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- Title: Model for Avalanches in Three Spatial Dimensions: Comparison of Theory to Experiments
- Date: 1994
- Authors: R. M. LANG, B. R. LEO
- Description: A three-dimensional theory is derived to describe the temporal behavior of gravity currents of cohesionless granular media, in an attempt to model the...
- Object ID: issw-1994-360-361.pdf
- Keywords: runout, cohesionless granular media
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- Title: Observations of Snow Avalanches on Dynamic Internal Structures at Alta, Utah
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Osamu Abe, Tsutomu Nakamura, Yasuaki Nohguchi, Rand Decker, Thor Femenias, Daniel Howlett
- Description: Observations of snow avalanches on dynamic internal structures were carried out at Alta, Utah as a Japan/U.S. joint research project. A pylon to measu...
- Object ID: issw-1994-385-392.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche path, avalanche release
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- Title: Avalanche Hazard Risk Management for the Yule Marble Quarry
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Christopher C. Landry
- Description: Snow avalanches may have been the least anticipated and most tragically underestimated natural hazard faced by the rapidly-spreading Colorado mining b...
- Object ID: issw-1994-548-563.pdf
- Keywords: snow removal, snowfall, hazard, risk management
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- Title: Table Tennis Ball Avalanche Experiments
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Kenji Kosugi, Atsushi Sato, Osamu Abe, Yasuaki Nohguchi, Yutaka Yamada, Kouichi Nishimura, Kaoru Izumi
- Description: Table tennis ball avalanche (TTBA) experiments were carried out on an inclined chute to study the dynamics and the structures of snow avalanches. The ...
- Object ID: issw-1994-636-642.pdf
- Keywords: velocity, tennis balls, snow avalanche
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- Title: The Climate of Major Avalanche Cycles
- Date: 1994
- Authors: S. Ferguson, P. Hayes, T. Nakamura, T. Ikarashi, Y. Yamada
- Description: Every winter, mountainous areas throughout the world experience numerous snow avalanches. Most are small, killing only one or two people at a time or ...
- Object ID: issw-1994-670.pdf
- Keywords: stratigraphy, forecasting, avalanche risk, avalanche casualties
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- Title: Rain on Snow Disaster Prediction
- Date: 1994
- Authors: S. Ferguson, P. Hayes, T. Nakamura, Y. Yamada, H. Nakamura, Y. Nohguchi
- Description: Heavy rain that falls onto an existing snow cover can cause major snow avalanches, slushflows, and contribute to disastrous flooding. These rain on sn...
- Object ID: issw-1994-671.pdf
- Keywords: slushflow, flooding, damages, snowcover
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- Title: Snow Temperature Patterns and Artificial Avalanche Release
- Date: 1992
- Authors: Nicholas Logan
- Description: Temperature gradient plays a vital role in snow metamorphism. Acting as a heat
source, rock outcrops buried in the snowpack produce stronger local gr...
- Object ID: issw-1992-037-046.pdf
- Keywords: temperature gradient, metamorphism, triggering,
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- Title: Measurements of Snow Temperature During Rain
- Date: 1992
- Authors: H. Conway, R. Benedict
- Description: Measurements from a spatial array of thermistors set in a natural snowpack are used to track the progress of the O·C isotherm during two rain on sn...
- Object ID: issw-1992-028-036.pdf
- Keywords: rain, liquid water, vertical channels, stability
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- Title: A Statistical Analysis of the Effectiveness of Air Blasts and Surface Blasts in Producing Avalanches
- Date: 1990
- Authors: George Austiguy
- Description: To address the relative effectiveness of aerial charges compared with surface charges in producing snow avalanches, control route data obtained from B...
- Object ID: issw-1990-175-183.pdf
- Keywords: air blasts, surface blasts, avalanches, aerial charges, surface charges
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- Title: The Width of Unconfined Slab Avalanches Based on Field Measurements of Slab Properties
- Date: 1990
- Authors: J.B. Jamieson, C.D. Johnston
- Description: Using principles of fracture mechanics, a linear elastic model of an unconfined dry slab and simplifying assumptions, expressions are derived for the ...
- Object ID: issw-1990-234-244.pdf
- Keywords: field measurements, fracture mechanics, starting zone
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- Title: Northwest Avalanches
- Date: 1990
- Authors: S.A. Ferguson, M.B. Moore, R.T. Marriott, K. Kramer
- Description: Dramatically fluctuating winter weather, complex topography, and an extended snow season in the Northwest cause a unique pattern of avalanches and rel...
- Object ID: issw-1990-302.pdf
- Keywords: harard, accident, fatalities, forecasting, stability
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- Title: Rain on Snow Avalanche Events Some Observations
- Date: 1988
- Authors: Larry Heywood
- Description: Methods of prediction of rain-induced avalanches are examined. Historical avalanche events are evaluated with respect to rainfall amounts, rainfall in...
- Object ID: issw-1988-125-136.pdf
- Keywords: snow, rainfall, avalanche, predications
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