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Title: The New Challenge is No More to Improve Prediction, But to Better Manage the Unexpected
Date: 2012
Authors: Alain Duclos
Description: While researchers are devoting their efforts for decades to improve avalanche forecasting, it still appears that the victims are almost always surpris...
Object ID: issw-2012-473-478.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche risk reduction, hazard
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Title: Fiber Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing in Avalanche Research
Date: 2010
Authors: M. Woerndl, A. Prokop, S. W. Tyler, C. E. Hatch, J. Dozier
Description: Knowledge about snow pack stability at a certain location and at a certain point in time is important for avalanche practitioners and backcountry trav...
Object ID: ISSW_P-007.pdf
Keywords: snow temperature, snow pack, driving forces
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Title: When To Dig? Thoughts On Estimating Slope Stability
Date: 2010
Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Bruce Jamieson, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Information about the snow cover stability is crucial for avalanche forecasting and for winter backcountry recreation. For a reliable estimation of sn...
Object ID: ISSW_P-020.pdf
Keywords: slope stability, avalanche forecasting, winter backcountry recreation
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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: Snow Variability and Validity of Snow Stability Assessment
Date: 2010
Authors: Pavel Chernous, Yuri Fedorenko, Nikolay Barashev, Yuri Seliverstov
Description: Results of the field studies of spatial snow variability on mountain slopes for such regions as: the Khibini Mountains, the Altai Mountains, the Baika...
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Keywords: snow stability, mountain slopes, snow thickness, density, shear strength
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Title: Wet Snow Diurnal Evolution and Stability Assessment
Date: 2009
Authors: Frank Techel, Christine Pielmeier
Description: Wet snow avalanches pose a threat to snow recreationists and to infrastructure such as mountain roads. The timing of wet snow avalanche formation is d...
Object ID: issw-2009-0256-0261.pdf
Keywords: wet snow, snow stability, water content, rutschblock test, extended column test, shovel shear test, persistent weak layer
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Title: Rainonsnow Avalanches: Forecasting the Return to Stability
Date: 2009
Authors: Howard Conway, Wayne Carran, Ann Carran
Description: Mid-winter rain-on-snow often results in avalanches that threaten the Milford Road between TeAnau and Milford Sound on the southwest coast of new Zea...
Object ID: issw-2009-0267-0270.pdf
Keywords: rainonsnow, avalanches, forecasting
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Title: The Effect of Daytime Warming on Snowpack Creep
Date: 2009
Authors: Thomas Exner, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Snowpack warming is, besides loading by precipitation and wind-transport, one of the major triggers contributing to natural avalanche release. Establi...
Object ID: issw-2009-0271-0275.pdf
Keywords: snowpack creep, daytime warming, stability, field measurements, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Where to Dig? – On Optimizing Sampling Strategy
Date: 2009
Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Sascha Bellaire
Description: Snow slope stability evaluation is often based on a single test location within a slope. However, we know that snow cover properties and stability may...
Object ID: issw-2009-0298-0300.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche release, snow stability evaluation, snow stability test
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Title: Regional Stability Evaluation With Modelled Snow Cover Data
Date: 2009
Authors: Michael Schirmer, Jürg Schweizer, Michael Lehning
Description: Stability (or the probability of avalanche occurrence or release) is probably the key factor defining the avalanche danger level. Most snow stability ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0306-0312.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow stability, avalanche danger, snow cover, numerical modelling
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Title: The 2008-2009 Exceptional Snowfalls in the Italian Alpa: Threshold Sum Approach and Analysis of the SNOWPACK Model Stability Indices
Date: 2009
Authors: Fabiano Monti, Anselmo Cagnati, Mauro Valt
Description: The 2008-2009 winter season has been characterized by exceptional snowfalls in the Italian Alps; it has been one of the 3-4 snowiest seasons since 193...
Object ID: issw-2009-0318-0322.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow stability evaluation, snowpack stratigraphy, snowpack model
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Title: Snow and Avalanche: The Influence of Forest on Snowpack Stability
Date: 2009
Authors: D. Viglietti, S. Letey, R. Motta, M. Maggioni, M. Freppaz
Description: Snow avalanches are among the most important disturbances that affect mountain ecosystems, influencing forest dynamics, establishment and mortality pr...
Object ID: issw-2009-0323-0327.pdf
Keywords: forest, snow, avalanches, protective function
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Title: Comparing Fracture Propagation Tests and Relating Test Results to Snowpack Characteristics
Date: 2008-09-26
Authors: Cameron Ross, Bruce Jamieson
Description: The Propagation Saw Test (PST) and the Extended Column Test (ECT) are two recently and independently developed field tests that indicate the propensit...
Object ID: P__8177.pdf
Keywords: fracture propagation, snowpack stability test, extended column test, propagation saw test, avalanche forecasting, snowpack properties
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Title: Application of the Field Stability Evaluation Methods to the Snow Conditions of the Eastern Pyrenees
Date: 2008-09-26
Authors: Ivan Moner, Jordi Gavaldà, Montserrat Bacardit, Carles Garcia, Glòria Martí
Description: Field methods for stability evaluation were recently developed and validated on the basis of skiertriggered slopes data from Switzerland and North Ame...
Object ID: P__8164.pdf
Keywords: slab avalanche, snow stability, stability evaluation, skier triggering, pyrenees
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Title: Comparison of Different Snow Stability Tests Including the Extended Column Test
Date: 2008-09-26
Authors: Kurt Winkler, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Several tests have been proposed in the past for evaluating snow stability. However, their performance is presently unclear since few comparative stud...
Object ID: P__8124.pdf
Keywords: snow cover stability, snow stability evaluation, stability test, avalanche forecasting
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