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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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