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- Title: Snow Cornice Development and Failure Monitoring
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Robert A. Burrows, David M. McClung
- Description: Snow cornices are significant winter alpine and snow avalanche hazards. A cornice is a leeward growing mass of snow overhanging from a ridge or sharp ...
- Object ID: issw-2006-129.pdf
- Keywords: cornice failure, monitoring, slab fractures, solar radiation
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- Title: Study of Layered Snow Under Shear and Tension
- Date: 2006
- Authors: S.K.Joshi, P.Mahajan, Agraj Upadhyay
- Description: Natural avalanche release involves the failure by both tension and shear.
Clear illustration of this failure phenomenon individually or as a combinat...
- Object ID: issw-2006-165-173.pdf
- Keywords: tensile failure, shear failure, layered snow, interface, fine grained snow, melt- freeze snow
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- Title: Waiting Time Between Avalanches
- Date: 2006
- Authors: D.M. McClung
- Description: One of the requirements for a self-organized critical system is scale invariance in
the time or frequency domain. Sandpile avalanches and other types...
- Object ID: issw-2006-181.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanches, waiting time, critical system, self-organized criticality
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- Title: Snowpack Basal Layer Facets in the Sierra Nevada
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Randall Osterhuber
- Description: Though California’s Sierra Nevada generally experiences deep snowpacks and modest midwinter air temperatures, faceted snow grains do form and p...
- Object ID: issw-2006-183-186.pdf
- Keywords: facets, depth hoar, wet slab avalanche
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- Title: Glacier Snow Bridge Mechanics
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Rick R. Rochelle, Rodger D. Rochelle, PE
- Description: The vocabulary of avalanche mechanics is useful in describing the mechanics of glacier snow bridges. We calculate the forces involved in isotropic sno...
- Object ID: issw-2006-193-202.pdf
- Keywords: snow bridge, glacier, shear, tension, flexure, toughness
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- Title: Snow Slope Stability Evaluation Using Concepts of Fracture Mechanics
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Ian McCammon, J. Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Dry snow slab avalanche release is generally believed to proceed in three stages:
1) initiation of a local failure, 2) widespread propagation of that...
- Object ID: issw-2006-211-218.pdf
- Keywords: snow stability evaluation, avalanche formation, avalanche release, skier triggering, stability test, fracture
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- Title: Energy Dissipation Studies on Model Control Structures Using an Avalanche Chute
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Ansar Hamid Sheikh, Satish Chandra Verma, Amod Kumar
- Description: Design of avalanche control structures in middle and runout zones of an avalanche
requires a careful study of the flow-structure and its interaction ...
- Object ID: issw-2006-219-227.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche-like flows, dynamic similarity, froude number, large, scale snow experiments, energy dissipation ratio
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- Title: Mapping Snow Depth in the Alps
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Andreas Stoffel, Nando Foppa, Norbert Raderschall
- Description: The Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF publishes snow
depth maps of Switzerland. These maps provide valuable input for avala...
- Object ID: issw-2006-322-329.pdf
- Keywords: snow cover, snow cover mapping, interpolation, noaa avhrr, geographic information systems (gis)
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- Title: Lidar Measurement of Snow Depth: Accuracy and Error Sources
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Jeffrey S. Deems , Thomas H. Painter
- Description: Airborne laser altimetry (lidar) is a remote sensing technology that holds tremendous promise for mapping snow depth in snow hydrology and avalanche a...
- Object ID: issw-2006-330-338.pdf
- Keywords: lidar, snow depth, remote sensing, spatial variability
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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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- Title: Measuring Near-Surface Snow Temperature Changes Over Terrain
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Laura Bakermans, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: The energy balance at the snow surface results in substantial diurnal temperature
fluctuations within the top portion of the snowpack. These temperat...
- Object ID: issw-2006-377-386.pdf
- Keywords: daytime warming, near-surface temperature change, snow surface energy balance, radiation, seasonal snowcover
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- Title: Characterising Percolation and Wet-Snow Facies Variability on Devon Island Ice Cap, Nunavut, Canada
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Michael N. Demuth, Elizabeth M. Morris, Hans-Peter Marshall, David A. Fisher, John Sekerka, Roy M. Koerner, A. Laurence Gray
- Description: As the Earth’s coldest regions undergo marked changes due to atmospheric warming, so will the surface facies configurations of its glaciers and...
- Object ID: issw-2006-388.pdf
- Keywords: wet snow, variability, in situ, ice, stratigraphy
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- Title: Snow Water Studies and Comparative Electromagentic Measurements in the Austrian Alps: A 15 Year Field Study
- Date: 2006
- Authors: A. Denoth
- Description: Various methods for measuring the liquid water content of a natural snow cover have been tested extensively under field conditions: hot- and freezing ...
- Object ID: issw-2006-389-392.pdf
- Keywords: snow physics, electromagnetic properties, hydraulic properties, snow texture
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