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Title: A Micro-Structural Approach to Snow Metamorphism: Computed Tomography Experiments and Numerical Simulations
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Thomas U. Kaempfer, Martin Schneedbeli, Bernd Pinzer
Description: Snow on the ground is a porous material consisting of sintering ice-grains and air filled pore-space. Snow undergoes metamorphism, where mass fluxes c...
Object ID: P__8093.pdf
Keywords: snow, metamorphism, micro-tomography, numerical modeling
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Title: A Multiple Snow Layer Model Including a Parameterization of Vertical Water Channel Process in Snowpack
Date: 2008-09-26
Authors: Takafumi Katsushima, Toshiro Kumakura, Yukari Takeuchi
Description: Tohkamachi Experimental Station in Niigata prefecture, Japan, which locates along Sea of Japan, usually has heavy snow in winter. In this site, much s...
Object ID: P__8219.pdf
Keywords: preferential flow, water channel, parameterization, multiple snow layer model
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Title: Vertical Profiles of Mass Flux for Different Particle Diameters in Drifting Snow Over Hard Snow Surfaces
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Kenji Kosugi, Takeshi Sato, Masaki Nemoto, Shigeto Mochizuki, Atsushi Sato
Description: The vertical profile of horizontal snow mass flux is a fundamental structure of drifting snow. It is widely recognized that most of drifting snow part...
Object ID: P__8097.pdf
Keywords: drifting snow, wind-tunnel experiment, saltation, mass flux, snow cover
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Title: Potential Impacts of Climate Change for Western U.S. Ski Areas: Adaptation and Sustainability in the 21st Century
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Brian Lazar, Mark Williams
Description: We evaluate how climate change resulting from increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions may affect snow coverage for two case studies: Aspen Mountain a...
Object ID: P__8084.pdf
Keywords: climate change, snow, aspen, park city, ski areas, general circulation models
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Title: Snow Slope Stability Modeling of Direct-Action Avalanches in a Continental Climate: Red Mountain Pass, Colorado
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Hans - Peter Marshall, Chris Landry, Susan Hale, Jerry Roberts, Howard Conway
Description: Direct-action, or storm related avalanches occur due to rapid loading during snowfall. Previous studies have shown that a simple snow slope stability ...
Object ID: P__8237.pdf
Keywords: snow stability, snowpack modeling, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Inputs for Blowing Snow Numerical Model: In Situ Measurement Are Still Needed
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Hervé Bellot, François-Xavier Cierco, Mohamed Naaim
Description: The NEMO numerical model of drifting snow, whose general outlines are presented in this paper, is based on a physical model for saltation and turbulen...
Object ID: P__8142.pdf
Keywords: blowing snow, field measurements
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Title: Study of Network Image of a Snowpack Microstructure for Quantification Using a Morphorometrical Method
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Toshihiro Ozeki, Yasuko Fujita, Satoru Adachi, Katsumi Kose, Tomoyuki Haishi
Description: Computer tomography has advanced with respect to diagnostic imaging over the last several years in terms of the increasing capacity of computers. The ...
Object ID: P__8228.pdf
Keywords: snow structure, morphometry, structural classification, structure parameters, mri
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Title: The First Wetting of Snow: Micro-Structural Hardness Measurements Using a Snow Micro Penetrometer
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Frank Techel, Christine Pielmeier, Martin Schneebeli
Description: Wet snow avalanches are responsible for avalanche fatalities but more frequently they threaten infrastructure, as mountain pass roads, in spring. A we...
Object ID: P__8125.pdf
Keywords: wet snow, water flow, liquid water content, micro-structural hardness, mechanical properties
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Title: Snowpack Stratifictaion Variability In Pir Panjal Range (India)
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Amreek Singh, Devi Chand, Ashwagosha Ganju
Description: Snowpack variability is of prime concern to avalanche forecasters for its direct effect on slope stability. The interplay of weather and terrain is be...
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Keywords: avalanche, snow model, variability
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Title: Ice Chromatography, A New Physicochemical Approach to Water-Ice Surface
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Yuiko Tasaki, Tetsuo Okada
Description: The molecular interactions on a water-ice surface are involved in the phenomena occurring in global environments, and thus, the elucidation of the phy...
Object ID: P__8031.pdf
Keywords: water-ice particle, ice/liquid interface, hydrogen-bonding adsorption, quasi-liquid layer
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Title: Micro Structural Snowpack Parameters Associated with Fracture Character in Compression Tests
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Sascha Bellaire, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Compression tests are snow stability tests which are widely used by avalanche professional and snow researchers to identify potential weak snowpack l...
Object ID: P__8211.pdf
Keywords: snow microstructure, snow mechanical properties, snow stability evaluation, stability test
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Title: Spatial Variability -- So What?
Date: 2006
Authors: Jürg Schwizer, Kalle Kronholm, J. Bruce Jamieson, Karl W. Birkeland
Description: Since the landmark papers of Conway and Abrahamson many studies have tried quantify spatial variability. Many different methods have been used and the...
Object ID: issw-2006-365-376.pdf
Keywords: radiation, wind, forecasting, snow stability
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Title: Spatial Variability of Some Snow Characteristics on a Slope and Interpretation of Measurements for Snow Stability Assessment
Date: 2006
Authors: Pavel Chernous, Yuri Fedorenko, Nikolay Barashev
Description: Snow thickness, density, shear strength and temperature are analyzed. Spatial distributions of the snow characteristics are considered as random field...
Object ID: issw-2006-339-348.pdf
Keywords: snow characteristics spatial variability, accuracy estimations, measurements' interpretation, simulation
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Title: Spatial Variability of the Snowpack: Experiences with Measurements at a Wide Range of Length Scales With Several Different High Precision Instruments
Date: 2006
Authors: Hans Peter Marshall, Gary Koh, Matthew Sturm, Jerome Johnson, Mike Demuth, Chris Landry, Jeff Deems, Andy Gleason
Description: Snow exhibits an extremely wide range of material properties over both short spatial as well as temporal scales compared with most other materials. Re...
Object ID: issw-2006-359-364.pdf
Keywords: spatial variability, radar, penetrometer, snow depth, snow instrumentation
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Title: Spatial Variability – So What?
Date: 2006
Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Kalle Kronholm, J. Bruce Jamieson, Karl W. Birkeland
Description: Since the landmark papers of Conway and Abrahamson many studies have tried to quantify spatial variability. Many different methods have been used and ...
Object ID: issw-2006-365-376.pdf
Keywords: snow mechanical properties, snow slope stability evaluation, avalanche formation, avalanche forecasting, spatial variability, numerical modeling
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