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- Title: Uncut Column Stability Tests For Hard Slab Snow Conditions
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Wesley R. Farnsworth, Markus Eckerstorfer
- Description: This study aims to better understand a slabs influence on the mechanics of artificial
avalanches. It seems that stability tests do not represent stab...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-01.pdf
- Keywords: slab properties, propagation saw test, hard slab, uncut columns
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- Title: Measuring Acoustic Emissions in an Avalanche Starting Zone to Monitor Snow Stability
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Ingrid Reiweger, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Evaluating snowpack stability still involves time-consuming and labour-intensive manual tests; in dangerous or remote areas performing such tests migh...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-14.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, avalanche release, snow stability evaluation, acoustic emission, precursor
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- Title: Effect of High Elevation Birch Forest on Snow Stability
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Hedda Breien, Øyvind A. Høydal
- Description: Forest and especially evergreen conifers like pine and spruce are known to reduce
avalanche formation due to their physical anchoring effect and thei...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-05.pdf
- Keywords: birch, deciduous forest, protection forest, avalanche, anchoring effect
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- Title: Can Near Real-Time Avalanche Occurrence Data Improve Avalanche Forecasting?
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: Avalanche forecasting is by large data driven – and experience-based. Snow instability data, which are of crucial importance, are scarce and of...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-10.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, avalanche forecasting, avalanche occurrence
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- Title: The Systematic Snow Cover Diagnosis: A Process-Based Approach for Avalanche Danger Assessment
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Georg Kronthaler, Christoph Mitterer, Bernd Zenke, Michael Lehning
- Description: Recreationists and local avalanche warning services face often the problem of assessing the avalanche danger for a single slope or avalanche path. How...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-11.pdf
- Keywords: slope stability, snow cover test, weak layer
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- Title: Avalanche Risk Management in Winter 2012/13 in Monterosa Ski Resort – Aosta Valley (IT)
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Prola A., Welf A., Durand N., Frigo B., Dellavedova P., Segor V.
- Description: Monterosa Ski is one of the most important resorts in the North/West Italian Alps. Extending through three valleys in two regions (Aosta Valley and Pi...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-15.pdf
- Keywords: ski resort, avalanche, risk management
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- Title: Evaluation de la Stabilité du Manteau Neigeux
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Christian Reverbel
- Description: La vie d’une station de sport d’hiver est complétement dépendante de l’arrivée de la neige. Neige naturelle bien évid...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-17.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, stability
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- Title: A Relative Difference Approach to Detect Potential Weak Layers Within a Snow Profile
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Fabiano Monti, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Reducing the subjectivity of stability evaluation derived from snow profiles and increasing the spatial and temporal resolution of snow stratigraphy i...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-30.pdf
- Keywords: snow stratigraphy, snow profile, snow stability evaluation
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- Title: Snow Profile Visualisations to Highlight Structural Instability Conditions
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Fabiano Monti, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Interpreting snow profiles is a fairly subjective process, especially when snow stratigraphy was recorded without performing a stability test at the s...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-31.pdf
- Keywords: snow stratigraphy, snow profile, snow stability evaluation
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- Title: Avalanches Induced by Earthquake in North Tochigi Prefecture on 25 February 2013
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Hiroki Matsushita, Shinji Ikeda, Yasuhiko Ito, Masaru Matsuzawa, Hiroshi Nakamura
- Description: We have investigated characteristics of avalanches induced by the North Tochigi Prefecture earthquake with magnitude of 6.3 on February 2012 in Japan ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-41.pdf
- Keywords: earthquake-induced avalanches, snow pit observation, stability index
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- Title: Experiences from a Heavy Avalanche Season 2013, Caused by a Weak Snow Layer, and Leading to Several Road Closures in Northern Norway
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Silje S. Haaland, Jeanette Kvalvaagnes, Ole-André Helgaas
- Description: During the last week of March and first days of April 2013 a significant large number of avalanches hit roads and cut off all infrastructures to sever...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-58.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack, avalanche, weak layers, norway
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- Title: A Snow Stratigraphy Comparison with the Ramsonde and Thin-Blade Penetrometer
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Christopher DeVito, Andrea Tupy, Brandon Gonzales
- Description: Variations in snow density and bond strength throughout a seasonal snow pack play a major role in the formation of avalanches. Various mechanisms and ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-28.pdf
- Keywords: ramsonde, thin-blade penetrometer, tool comparison
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- Title: Tracking Melt-Freeze Crust Evolution in Val d’Aran (Catalan Pyrenees)
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Jon Apodaka, Montserrat Bacardit, Iván Moner, Jordi Gavaldá
- Description: In the Pyrenees, melt-freeze and wind crusts are a very common element in the snow cover. Such layers have an important role in both dry and wet slab ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-03.pdf
- Keywords: melt-freeze crust, tracking, evolution, nivology, val d’aran, pyrenees
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- Title: The Effect of Spatial Variations of Snowpack Properties on Snow Slope Stability: A Mechanically-Based Statistical Approach
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Johan Gaume, Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen, Guillaume Chambon, Nicolas Eckert, Mohamed Naaim
- Description: The spatial variability of snowpack properties has an important impact on snow slope
stability and thus on avalanche formation. Hence, the determinat...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-07.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, avalanche release, slab, weak layer, spatial variability, slope stability
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- Title: Linking Weather Conditions to Snow Property Variations
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Benjamin Reuter, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: One of the challenges to modern avalanche forecasting is to enhance the forecasts’ content with information on how snow instability varies in t...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-08.pdf
- Keywords: snow microstructure, snow properties, fracture, snow stability, spatial variability, weather
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