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Title: Comparing Local Stream Flow Peaks to the Onset of Wet Avalanche Cycles
Date: 2012
Authors: Mark Saurer
Description: When the snow has melted from the valley floors, peak flow levels in our local streams may help predict the onset of annual wet avalanche events. Park...
Object ID: issw-2012-069-076.pdf
Keywords: wet slab avalanches, avalanche forecasting, stream discharge
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Title: Slab Avalanche Crown Surface Fractography: Observations and Applications
Date: 2012
Authors: Dave Gauthier
Description: Fractography is the study of the morphological fracture surface features in artificial and natural materials, including bone and rock. Several pattern...
Object ID: issw-2012-115-120.pdf
Keywords: crack propagation, fracture-line, crowns
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Title: Avalanche Forecasting for Safe Travel in the Backcountry: The 5-Step Checklist
Date: 2012
Authors: Mike Wiegele
Description: Operators and ski guides are in-field practitioners with a responsibility to provide a safe and enjoyable experience for clients and employees. As pra...
Object ID: issw-2012-157-160.pdf
Keywords: back country, snowpack stability, avalanche awareness, solar radiation
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Title: Nowcast With a Forescast – Snow Cover Simulations on Slopes
Date: 2012
Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Bruce Jamieson
Description: The snow cover model SNOWPACK simulates the snow cover formation and evolution based on meteorological parameters. In the past, these parameters were...
Object ID: issw-2012-172-178.pdf
Keywords: snowpack, snow cover modeling, avalanche warning, numerical weather prediction models, snow cover stratigraphy, model output statistics
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Title: Formation of Depth Hoar Resulting from Thermal Optimization of Snow Microstructure
Date: 2012
Authors: Patrick J. Staron, Edward E. Adams, Daniel A. Miller
Description: Snow metamorphism can be described by the flows of heat and mass that result from gradients of temperature and water vapor concentration. The size of...
Object ID: issw-2012-186-193.pdf
Keywords: entropy, metamorphism, microstructure, optimization, snow, thermodynamics
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Title: A Mechanism for Cooling-Related Slab Avalanche Release
Date: 2012
Authors: James A. Floye
Description: Strong anecdotal evidence exists suggesting cooling is an important factor for slab avalanche release. Despite this, a viable mechanism for it has no...
Object ID: issw-2012-252-255.pdf
Keywords: slab release, strain rate, weak layer, near-surface temperature change
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Title: Effects of El Niño and La Niña on Snow Avalanche Patterns
Date: 2012
Authors: D.M. McClung
Description: El Niño and La Niña affect global climate and atmospheric circulation to determine winter temperature and precipitation patterns. Both the winte...
Object ID: issw-2012-256-258.pdf
Keywords: climate change impact, maritime climates, dry slab avalanche
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Title: Spatial Variability of Snow Stratigraphy From Microwave Radar
Date: 2012
Authors: Hans Peter Marshall, J. And rew Gleason, Achim Heilig, Gary Koh, Matthew Sturm
Description: Slab avalanches occur because of the layered nature of the seasonal snowpack. Differences in metrological conditions during deposition, as well as dif...
Object ID: issw-2012-259-263.pdf
Keywords: spatial variability, radar, snow stratigraphy, snow depth
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Title: Cooling and Avalanches
Date: 2012
Authors: Penelope H. Goddard
Description: Avalanches which occur during periods of cooling are important because they can surprise people, even very experienced practitioners. However, the inf...
Object ID: issw-2012-580-585.pdf
Keywords: freezing levels, slab failure, snow surface temperature, snowpack conditions
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Title: Relative Influence of Mechanical and Meteorological Factors on Avalanche Release Depth Distributions: An Application to French Alps
Date: 2012
Authors: Johan Gaume, Guillaume Chambon, Nicolas Eckert, Mohamed Naaim
Description: The evaluation of avalanche release depth distributions represents a challenging issue for the mapping, zoning and long-term hazard management in moun...
Object ID: issw-2012-644-649.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche release, snowpack stability, avalanche mechanics, deep slab avalanches
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Title: Automated Avalanche Deposit Mappping from VHR Optical Imagery
Date: 2012
Authors: Matthew J. Lato, Regula Frauenfelder, Yves Bühler
Description: Using eCognition we developed an algorithm to automatically detect and map avalanche deposits in Very High Resolution (VHR) optical remote sensing ima...
Object ID: issw-2012-392-394.pdf
Keywords: avalanche deposits, avalanche mapping, algorithm
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Title: Potential Dry Slab Avalanche Trigger Zones on Wind-Affected Slopes
Date: 2012
Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Wesley R. Farnsworth, Karl W. Birkeland
Description: Experience suggests that shallow, steep zones on slopes are likely spots for artificially triggering slab avalanches. However, a scientific understand...
Object ID: issw-2012-462-466.pdf
Keywords: slope, release zones, weak layer
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Title: Spatial Variabiity of Snowpack on Small Wind Effected Slopes, Central Svalbard
Date: 2012
Authors: Wesley R. Farnsworth, Markus Eckerstorfer, Hanne H. Christiansen
Description: Spatial variability studies of snowpack stability have predominantly been conducted on sheltered uniform slopes despite mountains and avalanche starti...
Object ID: issw-2012-467-472.pdf
Keywords: spatial variability, snowpack, slopes, artificial trigger points, weak layer
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Title: How Do You Stress the Snowpack?
Date: 2012
Authors: Scott Thumlert, Bruce Jamieson, Thomas Exner
Description: In the majority of fatal avalanches, skiers and snowmobilers apply load to the snowpack which triggers the initial failure in a weak layer. Understan...
Object ID: issw-2012-506-512.pdf
Keywords: dynamic stress, localized dynamic loading, snowmobile, snow stability, avalanche forecasting, snowpack stratigraphy
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Title: Use of Thermal Photography to Measure Snowpack Properties
Date: 2010
Authors: Cora Shea, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Many snow processes are linked to snow temperature. A thermal photograph captures tens of thousands of surface temperature measurements in a single, p...
Object ID: ISSW_O-005.pdf
Keywords: heat conduction, surface hoar, thermal photography, thermal profile
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