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- Title: A 3D Model for Snow Drift and Snow Cover Development in Steep Alpine Terrain
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Michael Lehning, Judith Doorschot, Charles Fierz, Norbert Raderschall
- Description: Since blowing and drifting snow is a major factor influencing avalanche danger and the local micro climate, a high resolution, objective and quantitat...
- Object ID: issw-2002-579-589.pdf
- Keywords: arps, lee slope, avalanches, wind slab, flow simulation, saltation, suspension, erosion, snow preferential deposition
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- Title: Strength Changes of Layers of Faceted Snow Crystals in the Columbia and Rocky Mountain Snowpack Climates in Southwestern Canada
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Greg Johnson, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: The strength of layers of faceted crystals is important for forecasting snow stability. During the winters of 1993-2000, in the intermountain snowpack...
- Object ID: issw-2000-086-093.pdf
- Keywords: snow crystals, faceted crystals, snow strength, snow climate, avalanche, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Measurements of Human-Triggered Avalanches from the Swiss Alps
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Jurg Schweizer, Martina Lutschg
- Description: Ten years of avalanche incidents data from the Swiss Alps have been analyzed in order to find characteristics of human triggered avalanches. We were p...
- Object ID: issw-2000-200-207.pdf
- Keywords: snow, avalanche, avalanche accidents, avalanche release, snow stability, avalan forecasting, skier triggering
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- Title: Field Data and Theory for Human Triggered Whumpfs and Remote Avalanches
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Ben Johnson, Bruce Jamiesona, Colin Johnston
- Description: Remotely triggered avalanches and whumpfs (sometimes called "settlements") are common occurrences in many mountains ranges, but have received little r...
- Object ID: issw-2000-208-214.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche release, persistent weak layers, fracture propagation
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- Title: Measuring Snow Profiles with High Resolution: Interpretation of the Force-Distance Signal from a Snow Micro Penetrometer
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Christine Pielmeier, Martin Schneebeli
- Description: The classification of snow profiles is traditionally based on the discrete interpretation of snow layers in a snow pack. The layers are discriminated ...
- Object ID: issw-2000-215-222.pdf
- Keywords: snow pack, snow profile, snow classification, penetrometer, scale, spatial variability
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- Title: Snow Profile Interpretation
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Thomas Wiesinger, Jurg Schweizer
- Description: Snow profile interpretation is part of the every day work of any avalanche forecasting service. However, profile evaluation is considered rather an ar...
- Object ID: issw-2000-223-229.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow stability evaluation, stability tests
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- Title: Sintering of Unequal Grains
- Date: 2000
- Authors: S.C. Colbeck
- Description: Extended Abstract: The bonds are of fundamental importance in snow, and my photographs (J. Appl. Phys. 84, 4585, 1998) of the bonds in snow clearly sh...
- Object ID: issw-2000-238.pdf
- Keywords: sintering, grains
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- Title: Physical Models for Determining Changes in Microstructure of Snow During Metamorphism
- Date: 2000
- Authors: R.L. Brown, P.K. Satyawali, Micheal Lehning, Perry Bartelt
- Description: Since the internal microstructure is important for determining the mechanical, thermal and physical properties of snow, a study was undertaken to deve...
- Object ID: issw-2000-240-246.pdf
- Keywords: snow, microstructure, metamorphism, sintering
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- Title: Effect of Snow Texture on Snowpack Settlement Rates
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Charles Fierz, Michael Lehning
- Description: Unavailable
- Object ID: issw-2000-256-258.pdf
- Keywords: snow cover simulation, snow cover structure, snow texture, snow physical properties
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- Title: A Statistical Validation of the Snowpack Model in a Montana Climate
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Christopher C. Lundy, Robert L. Brown, Edward E. Adams, Karl W. Birkeland, Michael Lehning
- Description: Recently, a computer model has been developed by the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research that- simulates the evolution of a natura...
- Object ID: issw-2000-259-265.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack modeling, snow metamorphism, model validation, snowpack evolution
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- Title: NMR Imaging of Snow
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Toshihiro Ozeki, Akihiro Hachikubo, Katsumi Kose, Kouichi Nishimura
- Description: NMR imaging was introduced to visualize and analyze the three-dimensional structure
of snowpack. We used three types of snow; ice spheres, coarsened ...
- Object ID: issw-2000-402-406.pdf
- Keywords: nmr, three-dimensional imaging, snow structure, ice sphere, dodecane
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- Title: An Objective Snow Profile Comparison Method
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Michael Lehning, Charles Fierz, Chris Lundy
- Description: With the increasing use of numerical models predicting the snow cover status, the need for a simple and standardized evaluation procedure arises. We p...
- Object ID: issw-2000-440-446.pdf
- Keywords: snow pit, profile, snow cover simulation, snowpack, evaluation, grain type
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- Title: An Elevational Gradient in Snowpack Chemical Loading at Glacier National Park, Montana: Implications for Ecosystem Processes
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Daniel Fagre, Kathy Tonnessen, Kristi Morris, George Ingersoll, Lisa McKeon, Karen Holzer
- Description: The accumulation and melting of mountain snowpacks are major drivers of ecosystem processes in the Rocky Mountains. These include the influence of sno...
- Object ID: issw-2000-462-467.pdf
- Keywords: atmospheric deposition, nutrient loading, ecosystems, snowpack variability
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- Title: More Research We'd Like To See
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Doug Richmond
- Description: The ISSW brings together leading snow science researchers, educators, and field practitioners. Our project was an attempt to facilitate dialog, brains...
- Object ID: issw-2000-592-594.pdf
- Keywords: workshops, educators, field practitioners, snow properties
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- Title: Photographic Studies of Slab Avalanches in Heather Canyon, Mt. Hood, Oregon
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Todd Semmes
- Description: The avalanche control program for Heather Canyon-a large avalanche-prone canyon in the Mt Hood Meadows permit area-is reviewed. To help illustrate the...
- Object ID: issw-1998-013.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, avalanche tracks, avalanche types, snow slides
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