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- Title: Ash and Snow, Impact on the Avalanche Hazard of Ash Layers in the Snowpack
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Cedric Larcher, Diego Seba
- Description: On the 4th of June 2011, the Cordon del Caulle Volcano situated in the Chilean Andes
exploded sending a huge amount of ash and volcanic material into...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-05.pdf
- Keywords: ash, volcano, avalanche, snow, snowpack, stability
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- Title: Collecting Snow Measurements with Ushahidi: Arpa Piemonte Experience During Winter 2013
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: R. Cremonini, A. R. Gaeta, E. Solero, R. Pispico, M. Faletto, M.C, Prola, S. Barbero
- Description: Accurate and updated measurements are critical for snow stability conditions assessment and avalanche risk evaluation. Recently, Arpa Piemonte has cus...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-43.pdf
- Keywords: snow measurements, smartphone app, geo-referred information
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- Title: Using High-Speed Video to Better Understand Extended Column Tests
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: Extended Column Tests (ECTs) have become increasingly popular for assessing snowpack stability. However, we still do not fully understand what happen...
- Object ID: issw-2012-098-103.pdf
- Keywords: extended column test, propagation saw test, snowpack stability test,
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- Title: The Propagation Saw Test (PST): A Review of its Development, Applications, and Recent Research
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Dave Gauthier, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: The Propagation Saw Test (PST) method was developed independently in Switzerland and in Canada in 2005 and 2006. It was inspired partly by observation...
- Object ID: issw-2012-1047-1053.pdf
- Keywords: fracture propagation, snow stability tests, avalanche safety
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- Title: Changes in Stability Test Usage by Snowpilot Users
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Doug Chabot
- Description: Professionals and recreationists utilize stability tests to assess snow stability. Our goal is to determine whether or not people are changing the typ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-1065-1068.pdf
- Keywords: snow pit, snow stability, avalanche fractures
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- Title: Measurements at Recent Deep Slab Avalanches
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Michael J.W. Conlan, David Tracz, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Hard-to-forecast deep slab avalanches can release unpredictably under diverse conditions ranging from storms to clear days to locally induced stress t...
- Object ID: issw-2012-055-061.pdf
- Keywords: persistent weak layer, cohesive slab, avalanche forecasting, snow stability, snow strength
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- Title: Slab Avalanche Crown Surface Fractography: Observations and Applications
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Dave Gauthier
- Description: Fractography is the study of the morphological fracture surface features in artificial and natural materials, including bone and rock. Several pattern...
- Object ID: issw-2012-115-120.pdf
- Keywords: crack propagation, fracture-line, crowns
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- Title: The Underestimated Role of the Stauchwall in Full-Depth Avalanche Release
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Perry Bartelt, Christine Pielmeier, Stefan Margreth, Stephan Harvey, Thomas Stucki
- Description: During the winter 2011/12 the Swiss Alps experienced repeated cycles with high activity of snow gliding and full-depth avalanches. Up to 8 m deep glid...
- Object ID: issw-2012-127-133.pdf
- Keywords: snow gliding, full-depth avalanche, compacted zone,
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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: Properties of Weak Layers Composed of Precipitation Particles In and Near Avalanche Starting Zones in Japan
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Shinji Ikeda, Tomoyuki Noro
- Description: To gain further insight into the properties of weak layers composed of precipitation
particles(PP weak layer), we analyzed 18 measurement datasets. A...
- Object ID: issw-2012-586-590.pdf
- Keywords: weak layer, fracture lines, snow crystals, avalanche forecast
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- Title: The Effect of External Interference on Avalanche Transceiver Functionality
- Date: 2012
- Authors: John Barkhausen
- Description: For over 40 years, avalanche transceivers have been helping searchers locate and rescue victims buried in avalanches. They rely on internal electronic...
- Object ID: issw-2012-348-352.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche transceiver, interference, functionality
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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: 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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