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- Title: Strength Changes of Layers of Faceted Snow Crystals in the Columbia and Rocky Mountain Snowpack Climates in Southwestern Canada
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Greg Johnson, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: The strength of layers of faceted crystals is important for forecasting snow stability. During the winters of 1993-2000, in the intermountain snowpack...
- Object ID: issw-2000-086-093.pdf
- Keywords: snow crystals, faceted crystals, snow strength, snow climate, avalanche, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Case Study of a Deep Slab Instability and Associated Dry Avalanches
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Torsten Geldsetzer, Chris Stethem
- Description: This study considers the predictive merit of weather and snowpack data for avalanches that released throughout the winter on a layer of faceted crysta...
- Object ID: issw-2000-101-108.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche formation, faceted crystals, snow cover stability, snow cover structure, snow stratigraphy
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- Title: Estimating Dry Snow Density from Grain Form and Hand Hardness
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Torsten Geldsetzer, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Snow density has many applications in avalanche forecasting, including calculations of load over weak layers. However, density measurements of snowpac...
- Object ID: issw-2000-121-127.pdf
- Keywords: snow density, density estimation, hand hardness, grain form, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Snow Stability Trends at Wolf Creek Pass, Colorado
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Mark Mueller
- Description: While studying historical weather and avalanche data for Wolf Creek Pass (US 160), Colorado, I identified a relationship between average new snow dens...
- Object ID: issw-2000-147-152.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, avalanche forecasting, snow stability, weather and avalanche historical data
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- Title: Snow Temperature and Water Outflow During Rain and Melt; Milford Highway, New Zealand
- Date: 2000
- Authors: W. Carran, S. Hall, C. Kendall, A. 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-2000-173-177.pdf
- Keywords: snow, rain, avalanches
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- Title: The Spatial and Temporal Variability of Rain-On-Snow
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Sue A. Ferguson
- Description: Snow melt during rainfall causes large-scale flooding and avalanching. These rain-on-snow events are most well-documented in the coastal mountain rang...
- Object ID: issw-2000-178-183.pdf
- Keywords: snow, avalanches, rain-on-snow, floods
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- Title: Field Observations of Skier-Triggered Avalanches
- Date: 2000
- Authors: J. Schweizer, J. B. Jamieson
- Description: Snowpack characteristics for skier-triggered avalanches are described in order to better understand skier triggering, to improve snow profile observat...
- Object ID: issw-2000-192-199.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche formation, skier triggering, snow cover stability, physical properties
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- Title: Measuring Snow Profiles with High Resolution: Interpretation of the Force-Distance Signal from a Snow Micro Penetrometer
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Christine Pielmeier, Martin Schneebeli
- Description: The classification of snow profiles is traditionally based on the discrete interpretation of snow layers in a snow pack. The layers are discriminated ...
- Object ID: issw-2000-215-222.pdf
- Keywords: snow pack, snow profile, snow classification, penetrometer, scale, spatial variability
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- Title: Snow Profile Interpretation
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Thomas Wiesinger, Jurg Schweizer
- Description: Snow profile interpretation is part of the every day work of any avalanche forecasting service. However, profile evaluation is considered rather an ar...
- Object ID: issw-2000-223-229.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow stability evaluation, stability tests
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- Title: Physical Models for Determining Changes in Microstructure of Snow During Metamorphism
- Date: 2000
- Authors: R.L. Brown, P.K. Satyawali, Micheal Lehning, Perry Bartelt
- Description: Since the internal microstructure is important for determining the mechanical, thermal and physical properties of snow, a study was undertaken to deve...
- Object ID: issw-2000-240-246.pdf
- Keywords: snow, microstructure, metamorphism, sintering
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- Title: Place of Snow Recrystallization in Modeling the Snow Cover Evolution
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Sergey A. Sokratov
- Description: The paper presents results of analysis of experimental data on activity of snow recrystallization under temperature gradient conditions. In addition t...
- Object ID: issw-2000-247-251.pdf
- Keywords: snow metamor~hism, recrystallization rate, heat- and mass-transfer, volumetric mass production, acceleration of gravity
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- Title: Effect of Snow Texture on Snowpack Settlement Rates
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Charles Fierz, Michael Lehning
- Description: Unavailable
- Object ID: issw-2000-256-258.pdf
- Keywords: snow cover simulation, snow cover structure, snow texture, snow physical properties
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- Title: A Statistical Validation of the Snowpack Model in a Montana Climate
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Christopher C. Lundy, Robert L. Brown, Edward E. Adams, Karl W. Birkeland, Michael Lehning
- Description: Recently, a computer model has been developed by the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research that- simulates the evolution of a natura...
- Object ID: issw-2000-259-265.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack modeling, snow metamorphism, model validation, snowpack evolution
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- Title: Application of Snow Models to Snow Removal Operations on the Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Daniel B. Fagre, Frederick L. Klasner
- Description: Snow removal, and the attendant avalanche risk for road crews, is a major issue on
mountain highways worldwide. The Going-to-the-Sun Road is the only...
- Object ID: issw-2000-266-272.pdf
- Keywords: snow plowing, snow models, glacier national park, mountain highways
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- Title: Theoretical and Experimental Approach of Snow-Slab Stability Using Cohesive Materials
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Dominique Daudon, Francois Louchet
- Description: Unavailable
- Object ID: issw-2000-278-279.pdf
- Keywords: snow cover, rutchblock, equilibrium
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