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- Title: Reconstructing Ancient Avalanches of the Sierra Nevada Range
- Date: 1998
- Authors: P. R. Caterino
- Description: The surface elevations of the lakes of the Sierra Nevada have stood considerably lower than the present for extended periods of time. The magnitude of...
- Object ID: issw-1998-183-187.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, snow cover, snow precipitation
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- Title: Passive Snow Removal With a Vortex Generator
- Date: 1998
- Authors: R. M. Lang, George L. Blaisdell
- Description: During the construction phase of the Pegasus runway on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, relatively large amounts of snow and ice were cleared to meet basic grad...
- Object ID: issw-1998-190-196.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche defense, snow fences, snow erosion, snow removal
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- Title: FLOWCAPT: A New Acoustic Sensor to Measure Snowdrift and Wind Velocity for Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 1998
- Authors: V. Chritin, R. Bolognesi, H. Gubler
- Description: Wind can create even greater unstable accumulations of snow in mountainous areas
than heavy snowfalls. But knowing wind conditions is not sufficient ...
- Object ID: issw-1998-197-201.pdf
- Keywords: snow drifting, snow engineering, avalanche forecasting, acoustics, jet roof
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- Title: A Portable Capacitance Snow Sounding Instrument
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Michel Y. Louge, Robert L. Foster, Newel Jensen, Ralph Patterson
- Description: We describe a penetration field-portable capacitance instrument capable of recording profiles of dielectric permittivity at a horizontal resolution of...
- Object ID: issw-1998-202-207.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow density, snow electrical properties, snow water equivalent, snow stratigraphy
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- Title: Nondestructive Collection of Natural Snow Specimens for Use With CT Scan Analysis
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Christopher Lundy, Edward E. Adams
- Description: Recently, CT (CAT) scanning technology has been utilized to analyze snow and ice
samples. To facilitate applying this technology to natural snow, a p...
- Object ID: issw-1998-208-213.pdf
- Keywords: snow and ice, methods of sampling, snow cover structure, computed tomography
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- Title: Experimental Study on the Spectral Reflectance of Snow
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Tsutomu Nakamura, Reina Tamura, Takeshi Ohta, Osamu Abe
- Description: The spectral reflectance of snow was measured experimentally. Prior to taking the
measurements for snow, the spectral reflectance of glass beads of k...
- Object ID: issw-1998-214-224.pdf
- Keywords: snow reflective properties, snow optics, snow physics, snow, snow cover
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- Title: A Network of Automatic Weather and Snow Stations and Supplementary Model Calculations Providing Snowpack Information for Avalanche Warning
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Michael Lehning, Perry Bartelt, Bob Brown, Tom Russi, Urs Stockli, Martin Zimmerli
- Description: The Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) began to
construct a network of high Alpine automatic weather and snow measurement ...
- Object ID: issw-1998-225-233.pdf
- Keywords: remote weather and snow measurements, snowcover simulation, snow cover structure, snow metamorphism, mass balance, energy balance
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- Title: Storm Characteristics, Patterns of Snowfall Distribution and Avalanche Response at Mammoth Mountain, California 1996-1998
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Susan A. Burak, Robert E. Davis, Eddy Bouzaglou
- Description: Avalanche activity responding to storm cycles depends on the interaction between synoptic and local scale meteorological variables and terrain factors...
- Object ID: issw-1998-236-242.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, snow accumulation, snow water equivalent
- View additional details about Storm Characteristics, Patterns of Snowfall Distribution and Avalanche Response at Mammoth Mountain, California 1996-1998
- Title: Wet Snow Pendular Regime: The Amount of Water in Ring-Shaped Configurations
- Date: 1998
- Authors: A. Denoth
- Description: The water saturation of a natural snow cover varies, in general, from zero to approximately 20% of the pore volume, whereby two essentially different ...
- Object ID: issw-1998-243-248.pdf
- Keywords: snow physics, snow electromagnetic properties, snow water content
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- Title: A Comparison Study of the Shredblock and Rutschblock Snow Stability Tests
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Andy Gleason
- Description: The Shredblock snow stability test utilizes a snowboard to conduct a loaded column test similar to a Rutschblock test which utilizes skis. A compariso...
- Object ID: issw-1998-249-252.pdf
- Keywords: rutschblock, stability test, snowboard
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- Title: Experiments of Depth Hoar Formation Under Extremely Low Temperature
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Y.Kamata, A.Sato
- Description: To investigate the growth of depth hoar crystals in a very cold region, an experiment was carried out for three days with temperature gradients of 200...
- Object ID: issw-1998-254-259.pdf
- Keywords: depth hoar, extremely low temperature, saturated water vapor concentration
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- Title: Basal Stress Measurements of Artificial Avalanches
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Kenji Kosugi, Osamu Abe, Atsushi Sato, Yasuaki Nohguchi, Kouichi Nishiniura, Yoichi Ito, Masaki Nemoto, Kaoru Izumi
- Description: Measurements of basal stress of artificial snow avalanches and table tennis ball avalanches in motion were carried out with drag meters at a ski jump ...
- Object ID: issw-1998-260-264.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, snow, artificial avalanche, table tennis balls
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- Title: The Temporal Variations of Near-Surface Faceted Crystals, Red Mountain Pass Corridor, Colorado
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Joe Stock, Kelly Elder, Karl Birkeland
- Description: Avalanches are an important natural hazard. Slab avalanches initiate when a more cohesive layer lies over a less cohesive weak layer and the stresses ...
- Object ID: issw-1998-265-269.pdf
- Keywords: snow crystals, snow metamorphism, snow stability, avalanches
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- Title: Simulation of Above Treeline Snowdrift Formation Using a Numerical Snow-Transport Model
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Ethan M. Greene, Glen E. Liston, Roger A. Pielke, Sr.
- Description: A physically based, numerical snow-transport model (SnowTran-3D) is used to successfully simulate the above treeline snowdrift evolution around Montgo...
- Object ID: issw-1998-272-278.pdf
- Keywords: snow distribution, snow drifting, snow evaporation
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- Title: Calculation of Snowdrift Around Roadside Safety Barriers
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Per-Arne Sundsbo, Borre Bang
- Description: Snow accumulations and low visibility due to snow drifting is often a reason for
temporary or seasonal closing of mountain highways. Safety devices l...
- Object ID: issw-1998-279-283.pdf
- Keywords: snow, snow drifting, snow engineering
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