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- Title: Investigations of New Economical Designs of “Thick Snow Fences†to Preserve Snow for Maximum Water Conservation
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Erica David
- Description: What are effects of snow fences on interception of snow? Snow is a vital consideration as potential water conservation method during drought. Dense dr...
- Object ID: issw-2006-545-554.pdf
- Keywords: blowing snow, interception, drifting snow, snow fences, water conservation
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- Title: Avalanche Size Increase Resulting from Forest Removal and Wind Loading – A Case Study from Central Colorado Using AVAL-1D
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Arthur I. Mears, Arthur I. Mear
- Description: Forest removal for a proposed ski run within a ski-area expansion would increase the
amount of wind-deposited snow in a downwind avalanche starting z...
- Object ID: issw-2006-775-777.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, design-magnitude avalanche, runout distance, aval-1d, forest removal, windtransported snow
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- Title: Modeling and Validation of Snow Redistribution by Wind
- Date: 2006
- Authors: G. Guyomarc'h, Y. Durand, L. Mérindol
- Description: As part of the effort of the Centre d'Etudes de la Neige - Météo-France (Snow Research Centre), for the improvement in modeling snow cover evolu...
- Object ID: issw-2006-820-828.pdf
- Keywords: blowing snow, modeling, in-situ validation
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- Title: Uncertainties in Assessing the Stability of Fractured Slopes
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Scott Savage, Simon Trautman, Kalle Kronholm, Spencer Logan, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: While doing avalanche mitigation work or traveling in the backcountry, occasionally a
sizable part of a slope fractures without triggering an avalanc...
- Object ID: issw-2006-029-037.pdf
- Keywords: snow stability, fracture, whumpf, avalanche release, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: The History of ISSW and the ISSW Steering Committee
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Richard Marriott
- Description: The International Snow Science Workshop began as meetings held informally in
the 50s and early 60's. Early meetings were held as special sessions or ...
- Object ID: issw-2006-420-427.pdf
- Keywords: issw, history, steering committee, future
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- Title: Evolving Shear Strength, Stability and Snowpack Properties in Storm Snow
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Catherine Brown, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: There is a lack of measurements on the rapidly changing mechanical and physical
properties of non-persistent instabilities in storm snow. Given the i...
- Object ID: issw-2006-015-021.pdf
- Keywords: non-persistent weak layers, storm snow, shear strength, stability indices
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- Title: The Microstructual Effects of Kinetic Growth Metamorphism in a Layered Snow Structure
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Ethan M. Greene, Martin Schneebeli, Kelly Elder
- Description: Faceted snow near a hard crust often poses a dangerous problem for avalanche forecasters. producing a persistent weakness where the avalanches are dif...
- Object ID: issw-2006-022-026.pdf
- Keywords: snow microstructure, kinetic growth metamorphism, facets near crusts
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- Title: Associations Between Shear Strength of a Buried Surface Hoar Layer and Stratigraphic, Topographic and Vegetation Characteristics on a “Uniform†Slope
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Eric Lutz, Karl W. Birkeland, Martin Schneebeli, Kathy J. Hansen, Kalle Kronholm
- Description: In this study we quantify 1) changes in spatial and aspatial characteristics of the
shear strength of a buried surface hoar layer, and 2) identify ch...
- Object ID: issw-2006-027-028.pdf
- Keywords: shear strength, snow stratigraphy, snow microstructure, slope uniformity
- View additional details about Associations Between Shear Strength of a Buried Surface Hoar Layer and Stratigraphic, Topographic and Vegetation Characteristics on a “Uniform†Slope
- Title: Uncertainties in Assessing the Stability of Fractured Slopes
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Scott Savage, Simon Trautman, Kalle Kronholm, Spencer Logan, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: While doing avalanche mitigation work or traveling in the backcountry, occasionally a
sizable part of a slope fractures without triggering an avalanc...
- Object ID: issw-2006-029-037.pdf
- Keywords: snow stability, fracture, whumpf, avalanche release, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Spatial Clusters of Slab Stability and Snowpack Properties Within Avalanche Start Zones
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Cam Campbell, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: During the winters of 2000-01 and 2001-02, 36 spatial arrays of closely spaced smallcolumn-type stability tests were performed, each in a day. Each ar...
- Object ID: issw-2006-044-053.pdf
- Keywords: spatial variability, snow stability, avalanche start zones, clustering, snowpack stratigraphy, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: The Extended Column Test: A Field Test for Fracture Initiation and Propagation
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Ron Simenhois, Karl Birkeland
- Description: For dry slab avalanches, fractures initiate and propagate in a weak layer or along an
interface. Current field tests like compression or stuffblock t...
- Object ID: issw-2006-079-085.pdf
- Keywords: stability test, avalanche forecasting, stability assessment, fracture propagation
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- Title: Interfacial Crack Velocities in a Snow Slab – Numerical Simulation
- Date: 2006
- Authors: P. Mahajan, S.K. Joshi
- Description: A snow pack consists of weak layers embedded in strong layers. The interface bond
between a weak layer and layers in between which it is sandwiched m...
- Object ID: issw-2006-092-100.pdf
- Keywords: cohesive zone, dynamic crack growth, weak layer, snow, finite element
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- Title: A Snow Microstructure Supplement to Sntherm Model
- Date: 2006
- Authors: R.K. Aggarwal, M.R. Ravi, P. Mahajan
- Description: SNTHERM is a one dimensional heat and mass transfer model that predicts change in surface temperature, temperature of snow and soil layers, settlement...
- Object ID: issw-2006-117-126.pdf
- Keywords: thermal conductivity, viscosity, microstructure, bond, grain
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- Title: Dissipation and Most Probable Flow States: The Role of Mechanical Work and Granular Fluctuations in Snow Avalanches
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Perry Bartelt, Martin Kern, Othmar Buser
- Description: There are many simple questions in snow avalanche dynamics that remain unanswered: why do snow avalanches travel so far and appear to have so little f...
- Object ID: issw-2006-127.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche dynamics
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- Title: Dynamic Modeling of Speed Profiles of Extreme Dry Snow Avalanches
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Christopher P. Borstad, David M. McClung
- Description: We present an improved method for calculating the speed of extreme dry snow
avalanches for land-use planning applications. This work is a response to...
- Object ID: issw-2006-128.pdf
- Keywords: dynamics, extreme events, land use planning, hazard mapping, avalanche speed
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