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Title: Investigation of the Wallowa Mountains Snow Avalanche Climate
Date: 2010
Authors: Keith R. Stebbings, Tom Kimbrough, Wendy Wagner
Description: The Wallowa Avalanche Center’s first year of operation (2009/10) has lead to an interest in determining and/or verifying the snow avalanche cl...
Object ID: ISSW_P-074.pdf
Keywords: intermountain climate, snotel stations, raws, nws
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Title: Avalanche Ecology and Large Magnitude Avalanche Events – Glacier National Park, Montana, usa
Date: 2010
Authors: Daniel B. Fagre, Erich H. Peitzsch
Description: Large magnitude snow avalanches play an important role ecologically in terms of wildlife habitat, vegetation diversity, and sediment transport within ...
Object ID: ISSW_P-095.pdf
Keywords: ecology, wildlife habitat, vegetation diversity, sediment transport, post-avalanche vegetation
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Title: Results of 50 Years of Climate Reanalysis in the French Pyrenees (1958-2008) Using the Safran and Crocus Models
Date: 2009
Authors: Malou N.A. Maris, Gérald Giraud, Yves Durand, Jean-Pierre Navarre, Laurent Mérindol
Description: Due to the lack of a sufficient amount of directly observed long-term snow data, the SAFRAN-CROCUS model chain, usually applied to operational avalan...
Object ID: issw-2009-0219-0223.pdf
Keywords: validation, climatology, pyrenees, snow height, trend
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Title: Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Snow Avalanche Activity in France Over the Last 60 Winters Using Hierarchical Bayesian Change Point Models
Date: 2009
Authors: N. Eckert, E. Parent, M. Naaim
Description: This study focuses on avalanche occurrences and runout altitudes in France over the last 61 winters. For both variables, the interannual fluctuations ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0234-0238.pdf
Keywords: avalanche occurrence, runout altitude, climate change impact, change point models
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Title: Skisim - A Tool to Assess the Impact of Climate Change on Ski Season Length and Snowmaking
Date: 2009
Authors: Robert Steiger
Description: A semi-distributed ski season simulation model (“SkiSim”) was developed to analyze potential impacts of climate change on ski season lengt...
Object ID: issw-2009-0239-0243.pdf
Keywords: climate change, snowmaking, ski tourism, austria
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Title: Avalanche Risk in a Changing Climate Development of a Landslide and Avalanche Risk Model
Date: 2009
Authors: Heidi Bjordal, Jan Otto Larsen
Description: In Norway, approximately 2000 landslides and avalanches affect the road network every year. Projected climate changes will give a milder and wetter cl...
Object ID: issw-2009-0564-0566.pdf
Keywords: climate change, landslide and avalanche frequency, acceptable risk level
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Title: A Study of Snow Climates in the Japan Alps
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Shinji Ikeda, Ryuzo Wakabayashi
Description: The Japan Alps on Japan's main island of Honshu consist of 3 mountainous areas broken into the North, Central and South Alps that are located between ...
Object ID: P__8206.pdf
Keywords: snow climate, japan alps, snow-pack structure, snow grain type, weak layer
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Title: San Juan Mountains Snow System Observatory & Research Venue
Date: 2006
Authors: Christopher C. Landry
Description: Building on a legacy of San Juan Mountains snow research begun in the 1970's, the Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies is hosting and conducting inte...
Object ID: issw-2006-407-410.pdf
Keywords: san juan mountains, snow system science, snow hydrology, snow ecology, mountain climate monitoring
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Title: Snow Climatology of the Eastern Sierra Nevada
Date: 2006
Authors: Susan Burak, David Walker
Description: The Sierra Nevada mountain range of California lies between 35° and 40° N latitude and is located within 320 km (200 miles) of the Pacific Ocea...
Object ID: issw-2006-851-859.pdf
Keywords: eastern sierra, snowpack climatology, temperature gradient, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Climate Change in Western Ski Areas: Timing of Wet Avalanches in Aspen Ski Area in the Years 2030 and 2100
Date: 2006
Authors: Brian Lazar, Mark Williams
Description: We evaluate how climate change resulting from increased greenhouse gas emissions may affect the timing of wet avalanches at Aspen Mountain in the year...
Object ID: issw-2006-899-906.pdf
Keywords: climate change, wet avalanches, aspen, ski areas, gcm
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Title: A Comparison of the Spatial Structure of the Penetration Resistance of Snow Layers in Two Different Snow Climates
Date: 2004
Authors: Karl Birkeland, Kalle Kronholm, Spencer Logan
Description: This paper compares the spatial structure of the compressive strength of slab and weak layers from two different snow climates. Our data come from ar...
Object ID: ISSW-2004-003.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, avalanche forecasting, spatial variability, snow layers, stratigraphy
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Title: Field Measurement of Snow Creep in a Radiation Snow Climate, San Juan Mountains, Colorado
Date: 2004
Authors: Nicholas G. Caselli
Description: Real-time creep data may one day be incorporated into avalanche forecasting practices. Although numerous methods of creep data collection have contri...
Object ID: issw-2004-012-021.pdf
Keywords: snow creep, avalanches, creep measurement, radiation snow climate, melt-freeze crusts
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Title: Initial Description of Avalanche Winter Regimes for Western Canada
Date: 2004
Authors: Pascal Hageli, David M. McClung
Description: Existing snow climate classifications rely heavily on meteorological parameters that describe the average weather during the main winter months. Field...
Object ID: issw-2004-247-254.pdf
Keywords: snow climate, avalanche climate, avalanche winter regime, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Climate Database for Avalanche Warning in Norway
Date: 2004
Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Steinar Bakkehøi
Description: Climate data is an essential tool for the study of weather induced geotechnical processes like avalanches. Climate data provides on overview of normal...
Object ID: issw-2004-255-260.pdf
Keywords: avalanche warning, climate, mountain weather
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Title: Probabilistic Analysis of Recent Snow Avalanche Activity and Climate in the French Alps
Date: 2004
Authors: Vincent Jomelli, Cécile Delval, Delphine Grancher, Sebastien Escande, Daniel Brunstein, Bernard Hetu, Louise Filion, Pierre Pech
Description: The characterization of statistical relationships between snow avalanche occurrence and climate can be useful for avalanche prediction. We investigat...
Object ID: issw-2004-261-269.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, climate, statistic modelling, occurrence probability, french alps
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