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- Title: Avalanche Forecasting in a Heavy Snowfall Area Using the Snowpack Model
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Hiroyuki Hirashima, Kouichi Nishimura, Satoru Yamaguchi, Atsushi Sato, Michael Lehning
- Description: We describe the use of a snow cover model — SNOWPACK — for a heavy snowfall area. The area along the Sea of Japan received record-breaki...
- Object ID: issw-2006-054-062.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack model, avalanche forecasting, heavy snow, stability index
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- Title: Evaluating a Prototype Field Test for Weak Layer Fracture and Failure Propagation
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Dave Gauthier, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Researchers and practitioners currently lack a quantitative field test that indicates the propensity of a given slab and weak layer combination to pro...
- Object ID: issw-2006-107-116.pdf
- Keywords: fracture propagation, field test, extended column, snowpack stability, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Fuzzy Modeling of the Snowpack Evolution
- Date: 2006
- Authors: P. Carrara, M. Freppaz, M. Maggioni, P. Piccini, E. Zanini
- Description: The assessment of snow conditions and transformations is an important task; it is
included in the more general field of environmental monitoring in m...
- Object ID: issw-2006-130.pdf
- Keywords: snow metamorphism, fuzzy sets, temperature environment, soft thresholds
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- Title: The Effect of Slab and Bed Surface Stiffness on the Skier-Induced Shear Stress in Weak Snowpack Layers
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Alan Jones, Bruce Jamieson, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: A finite element model was developed to simulate a snowpack with localized surface loading of a skier on a slab of varying stiffness overlaying a thin...
- Object ID: issw-2006-157-164.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, avalanche formation, skier triggering, numerical modeling
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- Title: Improvements in the Application of the Snowmicropen to Derive Stability Information for Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Christine Pielmeier, Jürg Schweizer, Hans Peter Marshall
- Description: Local snowpack measurements and local stability tests are currently the basis for the assessment of snowpack stability in most avalanche warning opera...
- Object ID: issw-2006-187-192.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack stability, avalanche forecasting, snow profile, mechanical properties, snow hardness
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- Title: Spatial Variability of Some Snow Characteristics on a Slope and Interpretation of Measurements for Snow Stability Assessment
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Pavel Chernous, Yuri Fedorenko, Nikolay Barashev
- Description: Snow thickness, density, shear strength and temperature are analyzed. Spatial distributions of the snow characteristics are considered as random field...
- Object ID: issw-2006-339-348.pdf
- Keywords: snow characteristics spatial variability, accuracy estimations, measurements' interpretation, simulation
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- Title: Assessment of Spatial Correlation Structure of Penetration Resistance of Snow Layers Using Random Field Theory and its Implication for Snow Stability
- Date: 2006
- Authors: P.K. Srivastava, A. Chaudhary, P.K. Satyawali
- Description: Avalanche researchers have long recognized that stability information from
specific snow pits may or may not represent the stability conditions on th...
- Object ID: issw-2006-349-358.pdf
- Keywords: spatial correlation structure, snowmicropen, cellular automata
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- Title: Spatial Variability of the Snowpack: Experiences with Measurements at a Wide Range of Length Scales With Several Different High Precision Instruments
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Hans Peter Marshall, Gary Koh, Matthew Sturm, Jerome Johnson, Mike Demuth, Chris Landry, Jeff Deems, Andy Gleason
- Description: Snow exhibits an extremely wide range of material properties over both short spatial as well as temporal scales compared with most other materials. Re...
- Object ID: issw-2006-359-364.pdf
- Keywords: spatial variability, radar, penetrometer, snow depth, snow instrumentation
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- Title: Rough Correlations of Common Snowpack Stability Tests
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Mark Moore
- Description: Because each different layer of snow can respond to applied stress in a variety of ways, and because the mechanical properties of snow layers often ch...
- Object ID: issw-2006-428-434.pdf
- Keywords: stability test, snowpack strength, avalanche danger, snowpack structure, snow profile, shear test
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- Title: Automated Numerical Prediction Using Electronic Meteorological and Manual Snowpack Data
- Date: 2006
- Authors: P. D. Cordy, D. M. McClung , C. J. Hawkins, T. Weick
- Description: Nearest neighbor algorithms using manual observation data can provide useful and
accurate predictions of avalanche activity (McClung and Tweedy 1994,...
- Object ID: issw-2006-612-617.pdf
- Keywords: numerical avalanche prediction, nearest neighbours, mart, highways
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- Title: Are You a Hard Hitter? Systematic Measurement Error in the Compression Test
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Spencer Logan
- Description: The compression test is an effective, internationally standardized stability test. One
reason for the widespread use is that results are generally re...
- Object ID: issw-2006-682.pdf
- Keywords: compression test, stability tests, measurement error
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- Title: Winter 2003 in Southern BC – Perspective, Recognition, Management
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Chris Stethem, Marc Piché
- Description: The winter of 2002-03 began with the formation of a rain crust in November, followed by an extended period of fair weather and the development of a pe...
- Object ID: issw-2006-742-746.pdf
- Keywords: accidents, below average snowpacks, winter mountain travel, mechanized skiing
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- Title: "When the Dust Settles" Year 2 – A Multivariable Study of the Patterns of Near and Far Dispersal of Windblown Particulate Matter
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Amy David, Jayne Thompson
- Description: What are dispersal patterns of windblown dust into adjacent and mountain snowpack? This question arose from concern about increased aerosol particulat...
- Object ID: issw-2006-835-842.pdf
- Keywords: particulate matter, dispersal, snowpack, melt rate, water supply
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- Title: The Influence of a Dust Event on Snowpack Chemistry
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Chuck Rhoades, Kelly Elder, Ethan Greene
- Description: In mid February 2006, windstorms in Arizona and Utah distributed a layer of dust across the surface of the snowpack throughout much of the Colorado Ro...
- Object ID: issw-2006-911.pdf
- Keywords: snow chemistry, watershed biogeochemistry, aeolian deposition, ionic composition, snow hydrology
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- Title: Snowpack Spatial Variability in the Chugach Mountain Range
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Jerry Hance
- Description: A case study: how spatial variations in snowpack influence guides directing human
travel patterns during a day of heliskiing near Thompson Pass in th...
- Object ID: issw-2004-298.pdf
- Keywords: spatial variability, safety, snowpack, structures
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