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- Title: Predicting the Fracture Character of Potential Weak Layers in Penetrometer Signals
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: James Floyer, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Digital penetrometers have been shown to provide reliable assessments of snow hardness with depth; however, extracting useful information from the sig...
- Object ID: P__8222.pdf
- Keywords: snow penetrometer, fracture character, snowpack stratigraphy, avalanche forecasting, snowpack properties, snow hardness
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- Title: Modeling Short Wave Radiation Penetration into the Snowpack: What Can We Learn From Near-Surface Snow Temperatures?
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: Charles Fierz, Laura A. Bakermans, J. Bruce Jamieson, Michael Lehning
- Description: Short wave radiation penetrates the top portion of the snowpack and is responsible for both subsurface heating and fast changing temperature gradients...
- Object ID: P__8223.pdf
- Keywords: snow-cover modeling, short wave radiation, near-surface snow temperature
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- Title: Development of a Compact MRI System in Cold Room for Imaging of Structure of Snow and Ice
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Satoru Adachi, Toshihiro Ozeki, Katsumi Kose, Shinya Handa, Tomoyuki Haishi
- Description: We have developed a compact MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) system for visualizing the threedimensional microstructure of snow and ice by using a hig...
- Object ID: P__8264.pdf
- Keywords: compact mri, microstructure, cold room
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- Title: Study on Snow Type Quantification by Using Specific Surface Area and Intrinsic Permeability
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Hayato Arakawa, Kaoru Izumi, Katsuhisa Kawashima, Toshiyuki Kawamura
- Description: The release mechanism of snow avalanche depends on the mechanical property of snow, which is closely related to snow microstructure. The results of pr...
- Object ID: P__8077.pdf
- Keywords: snow type, permeability, specific surface area
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- Title: Shear Strength and Snowpack Stability Trends in Non-Persistant Weak Layers
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Catherine Brown, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Non-persistent weak layers in storm snow exhibit rapidly changing physical and mechanical properties. The shear strength and its rate of change, relev...
- Object ID: P__8266.pdf
- Keywords: shear strength, snow stability, avalanche forecasting, non-persistent weak layers
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- Title: Spatial Variability of Snow Characteristics and Snow Stability
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Pavel A. Chernous, Nikolay V. Barashev, Yuri V. Fedorenko
- Description: It is commonly recognized that spatial variability of snow characteristics is an obstacle for precise snow stability assessment. The work has been don...
- Object ID: P__8094.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, snow variability, stability assessment
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- Title: Wind Effect on Snow Over Arctic Sea-Ice: Evaluation of a Sea-Ice / Snow / Blowing Snow Model System
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Yi-Ching Chung, Stéphane Bélair, Jocelyn Mailhot
- Description: Blowing snow frequently occurs in the Arctic Ocean and Antarctica, transporting snow by saltation and suspension and yielding sublimation of snow part...
- Object ID: P__8054.pdf
- Keywords: piektuk, sntherm, sheba, blowing snow, sea ice
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- Title: 40 Years of Snow Physics at the University of Innsbruck, Austria: An Overview of Basic Studies, Development of Instruments and Results
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: A. Denoth
- Description: Starting 1968, basic investigations have been performed of snow electromagnetic parameters - such as dielectric and magnetic functions - and of hydrau...
- Object ID: P__8157.pdf
- Keywords: snow physics, electromagnetic properties, hydraulic properties, snow texture
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- Title: Methods of Photographing Snow Crystals
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Kelly Elder
- Description: Photography has been used to capture images of snow crystals for over a century. Microphotography and macrophotography allow quantification of shape a...
- Object ID: P__8063.pdf
- Keywords: snow crystals, macrophotography, microphotography
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- Title: Variability and Consistency in Select Colorado Snowcourses
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: S.R. Fassnacht, M. Skordahl, S. Simonson
- Description: The United States Department of Agriculture has been collecting snow data across the Western United States since the mid-1930s. These data were origin...
- Object ID: P__8249.pdf
- Keywords: snowcourses, colorado, swe, depth, coefficient of variation
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- Title: Into the Belly of the Beast (Snow Depth Across Starting Zones Measured with Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave Radar)
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: J. Andrew Gleason, H. P. Marshall, James McCreight
- Description: Ultra broad band microwave frequency modulated continuous wave radar (FMCW) was used to estimate snow depth across the starting zones of avalanche pat...
- Object ID: P__8255.pdf
- Keywords: snow depth, fmcw radar, starting zone
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- Title: Implementation of Depth Hoar Factor into the Snowpack Model
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Hiroyuki Hirashima, Osamu Abe, Atsushi Sato, Michael Lehning
- Description: In the SNOWPACK model, shear strength has been estimated as a function of the snow density using expressions depending on grain types. Therefore, the ...
- Object ID: P__8025.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack model, faceted crystals, rounded grains, shear strength
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- Title: A Micro-Structural Approach to Snow Metamorphism: Computed Tomography Experiments and Numerical Simulations
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Thomas U. Kaempfer, Martin Schneedbeli, Bernd Pinzer
- Description: Snow on the ground is a porous material consisting of sintering ice-grains and air filled pore-space. Snow undergoes metamorphism, where mass fluxes c...
- Object ID: P__8093.pdf
- Keywords: snow, metamorphism, micro-tomography, numerical modeling
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- Title: A Multiple Snow Layer Model Including a Parameterization of Vertical Water Channel Process in Snowpack
- Date: 2008-09-26
- Authors: Takafumi Katsushima, Toshiro Kumakura, Yukari Takeuchi
- Description: Tohkamachi Experimental Station in Niigata prefecture, Japan, which locates along Sea of Japan, usually has heavy snow in winter. In this site, much s...
- Object ID: P__8219.pdf
- Keywords: preferential flow, water channel, parameterization, multiple snow layer model
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- Title: Vertical Profiles of Mass Flux for Different Particle Diameters in Drifting Snow Over Hard Snow Surfaces
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Kenji Kosugi, Takeshi Sato, Masaki Nemoto, Shigeto Mochizuki, Atsushi Sato
- Description: The vertical profile of horizontal snow mass flux is a fundamental structure of drifting snow. It is widely recognized that most of drifting snow part...
- Object ID: P__8097.pdf
- Keywords: drifting snow, wind-tunnel experiment, saltation, mass flux, snow cover
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