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- Title: Near-Surface Faceted Crystals on a Slope Covered with Stone Pine Trees
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Peter Höller
- Description: This paper presents snow surface temperature measurements as well as snow
temperature investigations in the uppermost layer of the snowpack on a slop...
- Object ID: issw-2004-107-111.pdf
- Keywords: snow metamorphism, forest, avalanches
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- Title: Faceting Above Crusts and Associated Slab Avalanching in the Columbia Mountains
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Paul Langevin
- Description: Numerous slab avalanches including unexpected human triggered avalanches are reported on crusts. For 70 dry slab avalanches that slid on a crust in th...
- Object ID: issw-2004-112-120.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snowpack stratigraphy, crusts, melt-freeze layers, faceted crystals
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- Title: Correlating Snow Micro-Structure with Snow Shear Strength
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Eric R. Lutz, Karl W. Birkeland , Kalle Kronholm , Kathy Hansen , Richard Aspinall
- Description: Extended Abstract
- Object ID: issw-2004-121-123.pdf
- Keywords: snow microstructure, shear strength, stability, persistent weak layer
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- Title: On the Relation Between Mountain Permafrost and Snowpack Stability
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Marcia Phillips, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Many recreational avalanche accidents occur in areas where mountain permafrost exists. Consequently, it has been proposed that the presence of sub-zer...
- Object ID: issw-2004-133-137.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack stability, stability evaluation, permafrost
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- Title: Evaluating the Stuffblock and Tilt Board Snowpack Stability Tests as Snow Avalanche Forecasting Tools
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Peter Carter, Matt Heavner, Eran Hood
- Description: Snow avalanche forecasting relies on, among other factors, an assessment of snowpack stability derived from careful observation of snow cover stratigr...
- Object ID: issw-2004-138-144.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack stability tests, tilt board, stuffblock
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- Title: The Ak Block, A Sized-Block Snow Test
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Bill Glude
- Description: The AK Block is a snow test developed and used by the Southeast Alaska Avalanche
Center staff over a 20-year period. It is a block sized to the teste...
- Object ID: issw-2004-153-160.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, snow stability tests, block tests, sized-block, ak block, rutschblock
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- Title: A Simple Model of Snow Slope Stability During Storms
- Date: 2004
- Authors: P. Hayes, C. Wilbour, R. Gibson, H.P. Marshall, H. Conway
- Description: Snow slope stability is controlled by the geometry of the start zone and the mechanical properties of the snow pack. Here we report progress toward de...
- Object ID: issw-2004-165-171.pdf
- Keywords: snow slope stability, avalanches, modeling
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- Title: Application of the Snowmicropen to Derive Stability Information for Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Christine Pielmeier, Jürg Schweizer, Thomas Stucki
- Description: Snowpack measurements and stability tests are currently the basis for snowpack
stability assessment in most avalanche warning operations. The SnowMic...
- Object ID: issw-2004-177-181.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack stability, avalanche forecasting, snow profile, mechanical properties, snow hardness
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- Title: Fracture Character in Compression Tests
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Stability tests are widely used to identify and qualify potential failure layers for slab avalanches. As an addition to stability test scores, some av...
- Object ID: issw-2004-182-191.pdf
- Keywords: stability test, avalanche forecasting, fracture initiation, fracture propagation, stability evaluation
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- Title: Assessing the Probability of Skier Triggering from Snow Layer Properties
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Jurg Schweizer , Charles Fierz , J. Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Snow profile interpretation has developed in the last few years from being based on
experience into a semi-quantitative scientific method. Emphasizin...
- Object ID: issw-2004-192-198.pdf
- Keywords: snow stability, stability evaluation, avalanche forecasting, skier triggering
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- Title: Approach to Spatial Avalanche Forecasting Using a Non-Hydrostatic Model and a Snow Cover Model
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Satoru Yamaguchi, Atsushi Sato, Katsushi Iwamoto, Sento Nakai , Michael Lehning
- Description: To estimate the spatial variation in snowpack characteristics, two numerical models, a regional meteorological model (NHM) and a snow cover model (SNO...
- Object ID: issw-2004-199-204.pdf
- Keywords: snow disaster, avalanche forecast, snow cover model, non-hydrostatic model, japan
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- Title: Snow Transport Rate: Field Measurements at Short Time Scales
- Date: 2004
- Authors: F.-X. Cierco, F. Naaim-Bouvet, H. Bellot
- Description: So as to study snowdrift at short time scales on an experimental field located in l’Alpe
d’Huez, France, at an elevation of 2700 meters...
- Object ID: issw-2004-205-216.pdf
- Keywords: snow drifting, snow engineering, acoustic sensors
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- Title: Get the Drift, Effects of Snow Fence Variables on Wind Patterns, Snow Drift Geometry and Volume
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Erica David
- Description: What are the effects of snow fence variables on wind patterns, and geometry and volume of snow collected in drifts? This question arose from a need to...
- Object ID: issw-2004-217-226.pdf
- Keywords: snow fences, snow control, blowing snow, snowdrifts, snow fence models
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- Title: 2D Snowdrift Modeling and Validation
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Gilbert Guyomarc’h, Yves Durand, Dominique Lecorps, Laurent Mérindol , Philippe Puglièse
- Description: One of the objectives of the Centre d’Etudes de la Neige (Snow Study Centre of Météo-France) is to improve the modeling of snow cover evo...
- Object ID: issw-2004-227-231.pdf
- Keywords: snowdrift modeling, land-based photography, geo-referencing, wind effects on snow distribution, albedo
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- Title: Faceted Snow and Deep Slab Instabilities in the Maritime Climate of the Cascades
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Jon Andrews
- Description: Forecasting for deep slab instabilities in dense, deep snow can be tricky, especially when the slabs are too dense for most, common stability tests to...
- Object ID: issw-2004-239-243.pdf
- Keywords: forecasting, faceted snow, maritime climates, deep slab instabilities
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