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Title: Storm and Weather Factors Related to Dry Slab Avalanche Activity
Date: 1998
Authors: Robert E. Davis, Kelly Elder, Daniel Howlett, Eddy Bouzaglou
Description: Storm cycle factors affect slab avalanche response primarily in terms of loading in starting zones. Wind velocity and supply of transportable snow, re...
Object ID: issw-1998-025-034.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, avalanche forecasting, snow accumulation, snow cover stability
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Title: Snowpack Factors Associated With Strength Changes of Buried Surface Hoar Layers
Date: 1998
Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Colin Johnston
Description: Every winter in North America, failures in layers of buried surface hoar (frost) release many slab avalanches, some of which kill recreationists. Some...
Object ID: issw-1998-074-085.pdf
Keywords: snow strength, avalanches, avalanche forecasting, snow metamorphism, snow physical properties, snow temperature
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Title: The Effect of Avalanche Accidents on the Recorded Avalanche History and the Avalanche Work in Iceland
Date: 1998
Authors: Svanbj6rg Helga Haraldsdottir
Description: Avalanche accidents have had a major effect on the development of the avalanche work in Iceland. The revised avalanche history of Flateyri and the da...
Object ID: issw-1998-140-145.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche protection, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Avalanche Warning Switzerland 2000
Date: 1998
Authors: Tom Russi, Walter Ammann, Bernhard Brabec, Michael Lehning, Roland Meister
Description: Avalanche Warning has been a key task of the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research in Davos (SLF) since it was established over hal...
Object ID: issw-1998-146-153.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, avalanche forecasting, snow cover
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Title: Compexities of Avalanche Forcasting in Western Himalaya - An Overview
Date: 1998
Authors: Maj. Gen S.S. Sharma, A. Ganju, KC
Description: Himalaya, the longest chain of mountains in the world shows complex variations in snow and meteorological conditions as one traverses from east to wes...
Object ID: issw-1998-154-160.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche activity, avalanche zones
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Title: An Overview of Avalanche Forecasting in North America
Date: 1998
Authors: Knox Williams
Description: Regional avalanche forecast centers provide valuable public safety services. They are responsible for monitoring and forecasting avalanche danger in b...
Object ID: issw-1998-161-169.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, forecast methodology, north america
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Title: A Method for the Forecasting of Wind in Mountainous Regions
Date: 1998
Authors: Gilbert Guyomarc'h, Laurent Merindol, Haraldur Olafsson
Description: To forecast blowing snow in mountainous regions one needs precise information on the velocity and direction of the wind. In order to reach this objec...
Object ID: issw-1998-171-177.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow drifting, blowing snow, wind forecasting
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Title: Verification of mm5 Precipitation Forecasts Near the Crest of the Washington Cascades During the 1997-98 Winter Season
Date: 1998
Authors: Garth Ferber, Brian Colle
Description: Twice daily forecasts from the Penn State/National Center for Atmospheric Research mesoscale model (MM5) are currently available for the Pacific Nort...
Object ID: issw-1998-178-182.pdf
Keywords: weather forecasting, precipitation
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Title: FLOWCAPT: A New Acoustic Sensor to Measure Snowdrift and Wind Velocity for Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 1998
Authors: V. Chritin, R. Bolognesi, H. Gubler
Description: Wind can create even greater unstable accumulations of snow in mountainous areas than heavy snowfalls. But knowing wind conditions is not sufficient ...
Object ID: issw-1998-197-201.pdf
Keywords: snow drifting, snow engineering, avalanche forecasting, acoustics, jet roof
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Title: A Portable Capacitance Snow Sounding Instrument
Date: 1998
Authors: Michel Y. Louge, Robert L. Foster, Newel Jensen, Ralph Patterson
Description: We describe a penetration field-portable capacitance instrument capable of recording profiles of dielectric permittivity at a horizontal resolution of...
Object ID: issw-1998-202-207.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow density, snow electrical properties, snow water equivalent, snow stratigraphy
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Title: Storm Characteristics, Patterns of Snowfall Distribution and Avalanche Response at Mammoth Mountain, California 1996-1998
Date: 1998
Authors: Susan A. Burak, Robert E. Davis, Eddy Bouzaglou
Description: Avalanche activity responding to storm cycles depends on the interaction between synoptic and local scale meteorological variables and terrain factors...
Object ID: issw-1998-236-242.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, snow accumulation, snow water equivalent
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Title: Snow Cover Evolution in Complex Alpine Terrain: Measurements and Modeling Including Snow Drift Effects
Date: 1998
Authors: Charles Fierz, Peter Gauer
Description: In mountainous areas, snowpack evolution, formation of weak snow layers as well as drifting and blowing snow are key factors in avalanche formation. ...
Object ID: issw-1998-284-289.pdf
Keywords: snow cover, snow cover structure, snow drifting, snow cover simulation
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Title: Zen in the Art of Avalanche Hazard Forecasting
Date: 1998
Authors: R.L. Sam Davis
Description: Avalanche hazard forecasters seek: to comprehend the true nature of the avalanche hazard by developing a feeling for the terrain, for the likelihood ...
Object ID: issw-1998-335-338.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanches, snow
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Title: Local Verification of the Swiss Avalanche Bulletin
Date: 1998
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Roland Meister, Heiri Leuthold, Britta Allgower
Description: Verification is a difficult yet important part to improve avalanche forecasting. During winter 1996/97 verification activities took place for the are...
Object ID: issw-1998-339-343.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, geographic information systems (gis), verification, visualisation
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Title: Forecasting Avalanches from Atmospheric Cross-Sections
Date: 1998
Authors: Nicholas Logan
Description: The weather fashions both weak and strong snow layers. The weather forecast and snowpack data are key ingredients to an accurate avalanche forecast. ...
Object ID: issw-1998-344-346.pdf
Keywords: snow drifting, snow precipitation, avalanche forecasting
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