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- Title: Waiting Time Between Avalanches
- Date: 2006
- Authors: D.M. McClung
- Description: One of the requirements for a self-organized critical system is scale invariance in
the time or frequency domain. Sandpile avalanches and other types...
- Object ID: issw-2006-181.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanches, waiting time, critical system, self-organized criticality
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- Title: Using GIS and Remote Sensing to Assess Avalanche Hazards for New Road Corridors in Alaska
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Douglas D. Scott
- Description: As part of HDR’s Chignik Connectors Project (a road system connecting the three communities of Chignik), assessment and mapping of potential av...
- Object ID: issw-2006-465-467.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche hazard assessment, alaska, transportation, geographic information systems (gis), terrain modeling, and remote sensing
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- Title: Challenges to an Avalanche Center in a Time of Seasonal Climate Variability: A Case Study
- Date: 2006
- Authors: David W. Lovejoy, Leland R. Dexter, Kevin Tatsugawa
- Description: Kachina Peaks (San Francisco Peaks) rising to nearly 13,000 ft. in northern Arizona represent an exception to the commonly held perception that snow a...
- Object ID: issw-2006-683-690.pdf
- Keywords: snow, avalanche forecasting, san francisco peaks, kpac, backcountry skiing
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- Title: Natural Glide Slab Avalanches, Glacier National Park, U.S.A.: A Unique Hazard and Forecasting Challenge
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Blase A. Reardon, Daniel B. Fagre, Mark Dundas, Chris Lundy
- Description: In a museum of avalanche phenomena, glide cracks and glide avalanches might be housed in the “strange but true†section. These oddities ar...
- Object ID: issw-2006-778-785.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, natural avalanches, glide avalanches, glacier national park
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- Title: Plant Species Composition Reveals Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Snow Slides in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Sara Simonson, Thomas Stohlgren, Chris Landry
- Description: Snow avalanche events are difficult to study due to the uncertainty of forecasting when and where they will occur, and the inherent dangers of traveli...
- Object ID: issw-2006-912.pdf
- Keywords: plant species diversity, disturbance ecology, january 2005 storm, snow avalanche path, treering record
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- Title: Natural Avalanches and Transportation: A Case Study from Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Blase A. Reardon, Daniel B. Fagre, Richard W. Steiner
- Description: In January 2004, two natural avalanches (destructive class 3) derailed a freight train in John F. Stevens Canyon, on the southern boundary of Glacier ...
- Object ID: issw-2004-582-597.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche history, avalanche forecasting, natural hazards, northern rocky mountains
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- Title: Numerical Modeling of a Slushflow Event
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Peter Gauer
- Description: Slushflows—flowing mixtures of snow and water—constitute a natural hazard especially in higher latitudes, i.e., Norway, Iceland, or Alas...
- Object ID: issw-2004-039-043.pdf
- Keywords: slushflow, numerical modeling, field observation
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- Title: Forecasting for Natural Avalanches During Spring Opening of the Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, USA
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Blase A. Reardon, Chris Lundy
- Description: The annual spring opening of the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park presents a unique avalanche forecasting challenge. The highway travers...
- Object ID: issw-2004-565-581.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, natural avalanches, wet snow avalanches, glacier national park
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- Title: Size/Frequency Power-Law Relationships for Several Groups of Snow Avalanche Paths
- Date: 2002
- Authors: K.W. Birkeland, C.C. Landry
- Description: Our poster summarizes the results of Birkeland and Landry (2002), where we direct the interested reader for more details on this research. Our results...
- Object ID: issw-2002-031.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, power laws, size/frequency distributions, scale invariance, self-organized criticality
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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: Creep Instability of the Weak Layer and Natural Slab Avalanche Triggerings
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Francois Louchet
- Description: The weak layer connecting the snow slab with the older snow substrate is modeled as an open cell ice foam made of an array of ice bonds. The compariso...
- Object ID: issw-2000-273-277.pdf
- Keywords: brittle ductile transition,creep, ice, snow, avalanche, toughness
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- Title: Snowpack Temperature and Decreases in Tensile Strength
- Date: 1998
- Authors: R. S. Rosso, D. Howlett, S. Calhoun
- Description: In an effort to understand post-control and other natural avalanches that occur shortly after rain begins or the sun's rays start to warm the starting...
- Object ID: issw-1998-508-513.pdf
- Keywords: rain-on-snow, snow temperature, snow strength
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- Title: Head Formation in Light Granular Avalanches
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Yasuaki Nohguchi, Koiti Nishimura
- Description: A sufficiently developed natural avalanche always has a head at the front end and a tail at the rear end. To experimentally simulate avalanches with s...
- Object ID: issw-1996-252-256.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, head, tail, similarity
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- Title: Weather and Snowpack Conditions Essential to Slushflow Release and Downslope Propagation
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Erik Hestnes, Steinar Bakkelwi, Frode Sandersen, Lars Andresen
- Description: Rapid mass movement of water-saturated snow, usually known as slushflow or slush avalanche, is a major natural hazard in Norway. Slushflows occur in w...
- Object ID: issw-1994-040-057.pdf
- Keywords: slushflow, depth hoar, grained snowpacks
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- Title: Model for Avalanches in Three Spatial Dimensions: Comparison of Theory to Experiments
- Date: 1994
- Authors: R.M. Lang, Brian R. Leo
- Description: Increases in land use and development in mountainous areas, anticipated warming of the earth's atmosphere, and the deforestation in alpine regions fro...
- Object ID: issw-1994-362-384.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche path, avalanche release, avalanche runout
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