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- Title: Nowcast With a Forescast – Snow Cover Simulations on Slopes
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: The snow cover model SNOWPACK simulates the snow cover formation and evolution
based on meteorological parameters. In the past, these parameters were...
- Object ID: issw-2012-172-178.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack, snow cover modeling, avalanche warning, numerical weather prediction models, snow cover stratigraphy, model output statistics
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- Title: Using a Thermal Imager to Quantify Buried Thermal Structure in Natural Snow
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Cora Shea, Bruce Jamieson, Karl Birkeland
- Description: Avalanche researchers and practitioners have long measured snowpack temperatures in snow pits with thermometers about 10 cm apart. This led to the ass...
- Object ID: issw-2012-267-276.pdf
- Keywords: temperature gradient, thermal imaging, snow crystals, snow stability tests
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- Title: Close Encounters With Avalanches During Rain-On-Snow: Lessons Learned
- Date: 2012
- Authors: W. Carran, H. Conway, A. Carran, Milford Team
- Description: Two close encounters with avalanches during rain-on-snow in the spring of 1996
were aha-moments for the Milford Road avalanche program; these definin...
- Object ID: issw-2012-285-289.pdf
- Keywords: instability assessment, snow stability evaluation, explosives, start zones
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- Title: A Modified Extended Column Test to Reduce Slab Degradation: Preliminary Results
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Maggi Kraft, Matt Wieland, Jordy Hendrikx
- Description: Snow profiles and stability tests are commonly used to evaluate the strength of the
snowpack. While conducting a stability test such as the extended ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-1028-1032.pdf
- Keywords: slabs, weak layer, snowpack stability test,
- View additional details about A Modified Extended Column Test to Reduce Slab Degradation: Preliminary Results
- Title: Deformation Analysis of the Propagation Saw Test
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Chris Borstad, David McClung
- Description: We present results of high speed photography films which show that the scale of slope
normal deformation prior to unstable fracture in the propagatio...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-009.pdf
- Keywords: propagation saw test, kootenay pass, british columbia
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- Title: The Effect of Additional Snow Load on Extended Column Test and Propagation Saw Test Results
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Ron Simenhois, Karl Birkeland
- Description: The number of skier triggered dry slab avalanches typically increases during or shortly after snow loading events. However, field observations and res...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-041.pdf
- Keywords: extended column test, propagation saw test, snow, dry slab
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- Title: The Effect of Changing Slope Angle on Extended Column Test Results: Can We Dig Pits in Safer Locations?
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Ron Simenhois, Joachim Heierli
- Description: Avalanche practitioners often assume that weak snowpack layers fracture more easily in steeper terrain. We are typically reluctant to conduct stabilit...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-010.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, ect, alaska, montana
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- Title: The Slab Test – The Missing Link in Stability Testing?
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Kjetil Brattlien, Jo Gunnar Ellevold
- Description: An avalanche is released when both the weak layer and the slab fails, still standard stability tests (e.g. CT, ECT) focus on the weak layer only. The ...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-011.pdf
- Keywords: slope stability, stability tests, slab test
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- Title: Numerical Modeling of Fracture Propagation in Slabs
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Chris Borstad, David McClung
- Description: We present the results of numerical simulations of tensile failure of snow samples. Several material models for quasibrittle tensile failure were impl...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-042.pdf
- Keywords: fracture propagation, slab avalanche, elastic modulus, fracture energy
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- Title: French Avalanche Research : Experimental Test Sites
- Date: 2010
- Authors: X. Ravanat, F. Ousset
- Description: A variety of small-scale and full scale measurement instruments have been developed by Cemagref (ETNA research unit, Grenoble France) to study avalanc...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-012.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, experimental test site, full-scale, small-scale
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- Title: Free-Ride: Local Evaluation of Avalanche Danger in Valgrisenche - Aosta Valley (I)
- Date: 2010
- Authors: P. Dellavedova, D. Garin, V. Segor
- Description: During the months of February and March 2010, in the north-west part of Western Alps in Aosta Valley where the practice of free-ride heliski is regula...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-022.pdf
- Keywords: free-ride, stability test
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- Title: Some Insights Into Fracture Propagation in Weak Snowpack Layers
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Joachim Heierli, Alec van Herwijnen, Peter Gumbsch, Michael Zaiser
- Description: Dry snow slab avalanches form when fracture, once initiated in a weak snowpack layer, propagates over large distances, progressively debonding a vast ...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-078.pdf
- Keywords: dry snow, weak snowpack layers, fracture
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- Title: Evaluation of the Failure Mode Transition in High Strength TMCP Steel Weld By Charpy Impact Test
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Chin-Hyung Lee, Hyun-Seop Shin, Su-Tae Kang, Bong-Chul Joo, Ki-Tae Park
- Description: There are strong demands for lightweight structures in cold regions, where construction cost penalties increase tremendously with remoteness of the lo...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-083.pdf
- Keywords: high strength steel, tmcp
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- Title: The Upgraded Full-Scale Avalanche Test-Site Ryggfonn, Norway
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Peter Gauer, Hedda Breien, Dieter Issler, Krister Kristensen, Kalle Kronholm, Erik Lied, Karstein Lied
- Description: Measurements of full-scale avalanches are expensive and time consuming, but are indispensable to gain in-depth understanding of the flow behavior of a...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-084.pdf
- Keywords: test site, catching dam, runout zone, slf full-scale tests
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- Title: Validating the Propagation Saw Test on the Slope Scale
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Cameron Ross, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Over the past few seasons, the Propagation Saw Test (PST) has gained increasing
acceptance in some guiding and highway operations in western North Am...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0282-0286.pdf
- Keywords: fracture propagation, snowpack stability, propagation saw test, avalanche forecasting
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