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- Title: Evaluating the AK Block, A Sized Non-Cutback Snow Test
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Bill Glude, Randall Mullen
- Description: The AK Block is a snow test block sized to the tester’s weight and their ski or snowboard contact length, dug out on three sides, and loaded mu...
- Object ID: issw-2006-630-639.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, snow stability tests, block tests, sized-block, ak block, rutschblock
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- Title: Are You a Hard Hitter? Systematic Measurement Error in the Compression Test
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Spencer Logan
- Description: The compression test is an effective, internationally standardized stability test. One
reason for the widespread use is that results are generally re...
- Object ID: issw-2006-682.pdf
- Keywords: compression test, stability tests, measurement error
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- Title: Interaction of Flexible Rockfall Barriers With Avalanches and Snow Pressure
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Stefan Margreth, Andrea Roth
- Description: Rockfall barriers are optimized to absorb high punctual impact energies. In mountain
areas the barriers are also loaded by avalanches and snow pressu...
- Object ID: issw-2006-691-700.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche protection, rockfall barrier, avalanche dynamics, snow pressure
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- Title: Forecasting Snow Avalanche Days from Meteorological Data Using Classification Trees; Grasdalen, Western Norway
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Kalle Kronholm, Dagrun Vikhamar-Schuler, Christian Jaedicke, Ketil Isaksen, Asgeir Sorteberg, Krister Kristensen
- Description: Avalanches pose one of the most serious problems to infrastructure and people in the mountains in Norway. Processes leading to avalanche release are d...
- Object ID: issw-2006-786-795.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche release, climate, precipitation, wind, temperature
- View additional details about Forecasting Snow Avalanche Days from Meteorological Data Using Classification Trees; Grasdalen, Western Norway
- Title: Water Outflow from Snow During Rain and Melt Events; Milford Highway, New Zealand
- Date: 2006
- Authors: W. Carran, H. Conway
- Description: Avalanches often release within a few minutes after the onset of rain on new snow. The avalanche potential remains high until drainage through the sno...
- Object ID: issw-2006-796.pdf
- Keywords: stratigraphy, rain, melt, avalanche release, forecasting
- View additional details about Water Outflow from Snow During Rain and Melt Events; Milford Highway, New Zealand
- Title: Noaa’s National Snow Analyses
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Tom Carroll, Don Cline
- Description: NOAA’s National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC) provides comprehensive, near real-time, snow observations, snow analyses,...
- Object ID: issw-2006-797-805.pdf
- Keywords: energy-and-mass-balance snow model, remote sensing, airborne snow measurements, snow hydrology, water supply, snowmelt flooding
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- Title: Slope Scale Modeling of Snow Surface Temperature in Topographically Complex Terrain
- Date: 2006
- Authors: J.M. Staples, E.E. Adams, A. E. Slaughter, L.R. McKittrick
- Description: In mountainous terrain, landscape strongly influences the thermal state of snow. An energy balance model, Radtherm/RT, can be used to account for topo...
- Object ID: issw-2006-806-814.pdf
- Keywords: snow surface, temperature, topography, energy balance, modeling, radiation
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- Title: Assessment of Mountain Snow Transport Based on Measured Wind and Simulated Snow Cover
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Michael Lehning, Thomas Grünewald, Charles Fierz
- Description: A local to regional assessment of transported snow during snow storms or subsequent periods of strong winds is a prerequisite to reliably predict aval...
- Object ID: issw-2006-815-819.pdf
- Keywords: drift index, lee slope loading, avalanche warning, snowpack, snow cover simulation
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- Title: Shortwave Radiative Forcing by Dust Deposition in Mountain Snow Cover
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Thomas H. Painter, Andrew P. Barrett, Chris Landry
- Description: Regional, intracontinental, and intercontinental dust emission events frequently
deposit in mountain snow cover. Winter and spring storms entrain rad...
- Object ID: issw-2006-829-833.pdf
- Keywords: dust deposition, snow, albedo, radiative forcing, snowmelt
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- Title: Impact of Desert Dust on Meltrates and Runoff From Mountain Snowpacks
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Andrew P. Barrett, Thomas H. Painter, Chris Landry
- Description: Dust entrained from the Colorado Plateau is deposited over large areas of the snowcover of the San Juan Mountains, southwest Colorado. In most years, ...
- Object ID: issw-2006-834.pdf
- Keywords: snow, dust, snowmelt, runoff, albedo
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- Title: Snow Climatology of the Eastern Sierra Nevada
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Susan Burak, David Walker
- Description: The Sierra Nevada mountain range of California lies between 35° and 40° N
latitude and is located within 320 km (200 miles) of the Pacific Ocea...
- Object ID: issw-2006-851-859.pdf
- Keywords: eastern sierra, snowpack climatology, temperature gradient, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: From the Tree to the Forest - Investigating Snow Accumulation Around Individual Trees
- Date: 2006
- Authors: S.R. Fassnacht, M. Toro, S. Simonson, E.K. Bentley
- Description: Estimating the volume of water stored in a snowpack in a montane forest combines spatial measurements of snow depth with average snowpack density. The...
- Object ID: issw-2006-876-879.pdf
- Keywords: snow depth, snow density, forest canopy, picea engelmanii, abies lasiocarpa
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- Title: Soil Erosion Caused by Snow Avalanches: Preliminary Results of Two Case Studies in the Aosta Valley (NW-Italy)
- Date: 2006
- Authors: M. Freppaz, S. Lunardi , M. Maggioni, F. Valfrè, T. Bizzocchi, E. Zanini
- Description: Snow avalanches exert considerable erosive forces on soils, which may be torn
open and scraped away, especially in the transition zone, as a result o...
- Object ID: issw-2006-880-886.pdf
- Keywords: soil properties, avalanche deposits, alps, organic carbon, total nitrogen
- View additional details about Soil Erosion Caused by Snow Avalanches: Preliminary Results of Two Case Studies in the Aosta Valley (NW-Italy)
- Title: Ecological Implications of Snow Avalanches
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Elizabeth G. Hebertson, Michael J. Jenkins
- Description: Unavailable
- Object ID: issw-2006-887-891.pdf
- Keywords: forest, avalanche, ecology
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- Title: Little Cottonwood Canyon Transportation Study
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Jon Nepstad, Ritchie Taylor, Chris Stethem, Andrea Clayton
- Description: This project was commissioned by the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT)
in conjunction with Alta Ski Lifts, Snowbird, the Town of Alta, and the...
- Object ID: issw-2006-907-909.pdf
- Keywords: risk reduction, transportation, planning, traffic
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