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- Title: A Mixed Flowing/Powder Snow Avalanche Model
- Date: 2000
- Authors: P.A. Bartel, M.A. Kern, M. Christen
- Description: One-dimensional layer-averaged equations describing the mechanics of mixed flowing/powder snow avalanches are- formulated and solved. The equations de...
- Object ID: issw-2000-280-289.pdf
- Keywords: density, model, snow, powder, flowing
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- Title: Particle Size Dependence of Horizontal Snow Mass Flux in Drifting Snow
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Konosuke Sugiura, Norikazu Maeno
- Description: For understanding the drifting snow structure on sattating particles with particle size
distribution over the loose surface, wind tunnel experiments ...
- Object ID: issw-2000-290-295.pdf
- Keywords: drifting snow, wind tunnel, saltation, mass flux
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- Title: The Schmidty Tension Fence - A Case Study in Snow Fence Design and Application
- Date: 2000
- Authors: D. Scott Schmidet
- Description: When designed and constructed correctly, snow fences are an efficient means for
controlling deposition of wind transported snow. Too often, however, ...
- Object ID: issw-2000-309-316.pdf
- Keywords: tension fence, design, wind
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- Title: Use of Vortex Generators to Eliminate Snow and Sand Drifting on Washington State Highways
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Mike Stanford
- Description: Drifting snow and sand on state highways has been a problem for travelers and state workers for as long as there have been roads. This presentation wi...
- Object ID: issw-2000-317-320.pdf
- Keywords: highways, generator, snow, sand, drifting
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- Title: Discussion of the Directional Characteristics of Explosives Commonly Used in Avalanche Hazard Reduction
- Date: 2000
- Authors: G. L. Sherwood
- Description: All explosives exhibit directional shock wave characteristics, the explosives commonly used for avalanche control also produce these same characterist...
- Object ID: issw-2000-321-324.pdf
- Keywords: characteristics, explosives, blasting, avalanche, hazard, mitigation
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- Title: Precision Blasting Techniques for Avalanche Control
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Kevin M Powell
- Description: Experimental firings sponsored by the Center For Snow Science at Alta, Utah have
demonstrated the potential of a unique prototype shaped charge devic...
- Object ID: issw-2000-325-332.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, explosives, blasting, shaped charges, artillery
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- Title: Prolonged Oxygenation During Snow Burial; The Role of Carbon Dioxide Exclusion
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Martin I. Radwin, Colin K. Grissom, Mary Beth Scholand, Chris H. Harmston
- Description: Asphyxiation, the cause of death in more than seventy five percent avalanche burial victims, is greatly accelerated by the rapid accumulation of exhal...
- Object ID: issw-2000-378-381.pdf
- Keywords: snow burial, asphyxiation, carbon dioxide
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- Title: Hypothermia During Snow Burial
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Mary Beth Scholand, Colin K. Grissom, Martin I Radwin, Chris H. Harmston
- Description: The development of hypothermia during avalanche burial has never been prospectively studied. Previous retrospective reports of core body temperature i...
- Object ID: issw-2000-382-389.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche rescue, hypothermia, hypercapnia
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- Title: Preliminary Tests and Evaluation of a Digital Snow Board
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Robert E. Davis, Jerry Johnson, Walter Rosenthal
- Description: Measurement of snowfall by automatic sensors in alpine and subalpine conditions has proven difficult. Those who require observations of snow loading h...
- Object ID: issw-2000-396-401.pdf
- Keywords: snowfall, snow accumulation, snow measurements
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- Title: Three-Dimensional Snow: How Snow Really Looks Like
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Martin Schneebeli
- Description: The three-dimensional structure of snow is difficult to see, because ice is highly transparent in the visible spectrum. An improved method of the reco...
- Object ID: issw-2000-407-408.pdf
- Keywords: reconstruction of snow, methods of preparation
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- Title: Snow Depth Measurements in Avalanche Starting Zones
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Magnus Mar Magnusso, Jon Gunnar Egilsson, Oddur Petursson
- Description: In the last few years, Iceland has started an extensive programme to build avalanche defense structuresfor threatened towns and villages. Part of thos...
- Object ID: issw-2000-417-423.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche starting zones, snow depth, snow mapping, acoustic depth sensors, laser distometers
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- Title: The Mammoth Mountain Cooperative Snow Study Site: Data Acquisition, Management, and Dissemination
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Thomas H. Painter, Deborah Donahue, Jeffrey C. Dozier, Weimin Li, Richard Kattelmann, Daniel Dawson, Robert E. Davis, John Fiori, Bryan Harrington, Paul Pugner
- Description: The University of California, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Mammoth Mountain Ski Area collaborate in a snow study site located at 2960 m on Mam...
- Object ID: issw-2000-447-451.pdf
- Keywords: snow, energy balance, measurement, database
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- Title: Characteristics of Artificial Snow and its Effect on Vegetation
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Veronika Stockli, Christian Rixen
- Description: The winter and early spring environment of plants under ski slopes is physically and
chemically changed due to grooming and the addition of artificia...
- Object ID: issw-2000-468-471.pdf
- Keywords: artificial snow, snow density, snow depth, ski slopes, temperature, vegetation
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- Title: Study of an Avalanche in the Northeastern Part of Japan - The Estimated Intensity of an Avalanche by Destroyed Trees
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Oohara Hideki
- Description: An avalanche occurred at the foot on the south slope of Mt. Yakeishi in 1997. The avalanche started at an altitude of 1,1 OOm. The debris point was at...
- Object ID: issw-2000-481-485.pdf
- Keywords: dry snow avalanche, destroyed trees, intensity of avalanche
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- Title: Study of the 1999 Avalanches in the Obergoms Valley, Switzerland, With Respect to Avalanche Hazard Mapping
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Urs Gruber, Perry Bartelt
- Description: The Obergoms valley is a highly visited tourist region in south-western Switzerland. It was dramatically struck by avalanches during the Winter of 199...
- Object ID: issw-2000-495-500.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche hazard mapping, avalanche dynamics, deflecting dams, deposition depths
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