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- Title: Educating Ski Patrollers at Chimbulak (Shymbulak) Ski Resort, Kazakhstan
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Alexander Prokop, Peter Dirninger
- Description: Chimbulak ski resort, located close to the former capital city of Kazakhstan, Almaty, has challenging preconditions to make their resort avalanche saf...
- Object ID: issw-2012-831-833.pdf
- Keywords: ski patrolling, avalanche risk management, artificially triggered, snow control
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- Title: Examining the Drivers That Control the Spatial Variability of Surface Hoar and Near-Surface Facets
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Tom Leonard, Irene Henninger, Doug McCabe, Ian Hoyer
- Description: Surface hoar and near-surface facets, once buried, often produce a persistent weak layer that is a common instability problem in the snow pack in SW M...
- Object ID: issw-2012-1005-1010.pdf
- Keywords: surface hoar, weak layer, grain form, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Surface Hoar Distribution at the Scale of a Helicopter Skiing Operation
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Matthew Borish, Karl W. Birkeland, Stephan Custer, Stuart Challender, Jordy Hendrikx
- Description: Understanding what controls coarse scale snowpack properties, such as surface hoar distribution, is imperative for predicting snow avalanches. Due in ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-1040-1046.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack, surface hoar, spatial variability, weak layers
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- Title: Field and Analytical Examination of Near-Surface Facets
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Andrew E. Slaughter, Edward E. Adams
- Description: North- and south-facing field research locations were established that included meteorological stations coupled with daily observations and grain-scal...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-006.pdf
- Keywords: near-surface facets, radiation recrystallization, heat-transfer model, sensitivity analysis, monte carlo simulations
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- Title: The Spatial Distribution of Two Surface Hoar Events in the Chilkat and Takhinsha Mountains of Southeast Alaska
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Matthew Borish, Karl W. Birkeland, Stuart Challender, Stephan Custer
- Description: Understanding the spatial distribution of weak layers is a significant challenge for avalanche forecasters. Thus, improving our understanding of the p...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-014.pdf
- Keywords: chilkat and takhinsha mountains, avalanche, near-surface facets
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- Title: Shear Deformation of Radiation Recrystallized Near Surface Facets
- Date: 2010
- Authors: David J. Walters, Edward E. Adams, Patrick J. Staron, Ladean R. McKittrick
- Description: A layer of radiation recrystallized near surface facets was produced in a controlled
environmental chamber at Montana State University. Environmental...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-015.pdf
- Keywords: radiation recrystallization, shear, strain, optical, mechanics, snow
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- Title: How Snow Fails
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Ingrid Reiweger, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Dry-snow slab avalanches start with a failure in a weak layer below a cohesive slab. Avalanche release models start with an initial crack which may pr...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-039.pdf
- Keywords: dry-snow slab, cohesive slab, surface hoar
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- Title: Monitoring Diurnal Near-Surface Faceting
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Brett Kobernik, Wendy Wagner
- Description: Near-surface faceting produces weak snow grains at or near the snow surface and
once buried has the potential to form weak layers in the snowpack str...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-010.pdf
- Keywords: near-surface faceting, snowpack structure, fatalities, ibuttons
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- Title: An Experimental Investigation of Explosives and Snowpack Dynamic Response
- Date: 2010
- Authors: R.G. Tichota, D.A. Miller, R. Larson, D. Richmond
- Description: Explosives are frequently used for avalanche control in public transportation corridors and within ski area boundaries, yet there has been little rese...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-016.pdf
- Keywords: explosives, snowpack, public transportation
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- Title: Surface Hoar Morphology and Association With Snow Surface Substrate
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Eric White, Edward E. Adams
- Description: Field observations of surface hoar crystal formation onto the snow surface raised the question of the potential influence which the surface snow grain...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-027.pdf
- Keywords: snow crystals, snowpack, surface hoar, macrophotography
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- Title: On Surface Warming and Snow Instability
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Warming is believed to be one of the most prominent causes of snow instability – although experimental evidence is rare. We know that – ...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-058.pdf
- Keywords: surface warming, slab avalanches, dry-snow, near-surface layers
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- Title: A Historical Analysis of the Stanley Avalanche Area with Implications for Predicting Road-Hit Avalanches, Berthoud Pass, Colorado
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Matthew Primomo, Mark W. Williams
- Description: The Stanley avalanche area is commonly regarded as one of the most dangerous to impact a roadway in the state of Colorado. Weather and snowpack struct...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-071.pdf
- Keywords: berthoud pass, snowpack, forecast, wind patterns, precipitation
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- Title: Numerical Investigation of Factors Causing Near-Surface Metamorphism
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Andrew E. Slaughter, Edward E. Adams
- Description: Buried layers of surface hoar or near-surface facets within the snowpack are well known to be the culprit in a majority of avalanches. Near-surface me...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0072-0076.pdf
- Keywords: facets, surface hoar, radiation-recrystallization, numerical analysis, monte carlo, sensitivity
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- Title: Modeling Variation of Surface Hoar and Radiation Recrystallization Across a Slope
- Date: 2009
- Authors: E. Adams, L. McKittrick, A. Slaughter, P. Staron, R. Shertzer, D. Miller, T. Leonard, D. McCabe, I. Henninger, D. Catharine, M. Cooperstein, K. Laveck
- Description: Faceted ice crystals (plane faced grains) are frequently observed in investigations of
slab snow avalanches. Morphologies of this sort can develop wh...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0097-0101.pdf
- Keywords: snow, metamorphism, near surface faceting, surface hoar
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- Title: Aerodynamic and Surface Characteristic Length Scales of Snow Covered Flat Planes
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Christof Gromke, Michele Guala, Costantino Manes, Benjamin Walter, Michael Lehning
- Description: Velocity profiles over fresh fallen snow surfaces have been measured in the SLF cold
atmospheric boundary layer wind tunnel. Aerodynamic roughness le...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0136-0140.pdf
- Keywords: aerodynamic roughness length, digital image analysis, snow surface roughness, structure functions, surface characteristic length scales, turbulent boundary layer flow
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