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- Title: Avalanche Hazard Evaluation at Ski Areas
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Jon Ueland
- Description: There is a lot of literature written about avalanche hazard evaluation and forecasting, but it's seldom from the perspective of a ski area avalanche w...
- Object ID: issw-1996-217-218.pdf
- Keywords: hazard assessment, stability evaluation, intuition
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- Title: Density and Friction Measurements in a Flowing Dry Snow Avalanche
- Date: 1996
- Authors: K.J. Burrell, J.D. Dent, M.Y. Louge, D.S. Schmidt, E.E. Adams, T.G. Jazbutis
- Description: Using the Revolving Door avalanche facility near the Bridger Bowl Ski Area (Dent et al1994), measurements of density and dynamic friction in a flowing...
- Object ID: issw-1996-219-223.pdf
- Keywords: density, friction, dry snow, runout
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- Title: Snow Avalanche Experiments at Ski Jump
- Date: 1996
- Authors: K. Nishimura, Y. Nohguch, Y. Ito, K. Kosugi, K. Izumi
- Description: In 1995, we have started the experiments at a ski jump to investigate the avalanche dynamics and internal structures in detail. In winter, natural sno...
- Object ID: issw-1996-244-251.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche experiment, ski jump, ping-pong balls
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- Title: Secondary Alpine Hazards Induced by the 1995-1996 Eruption of Ruapehu Volcano, New Zealand
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Harry (J.R.) Keys
- Description: Hazards due to the 1995-1996 eruption included lahars, ballistic blocks and ashfall, and a wide variety of secondary hazards induced by them, includin...
- Object ID: issw-1996-279-284.pdf
- Keywords: secondary hazards, lahar, avalanche, volcanic ash, skifield management
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- Title: Snowpack Study in Technical Communication
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Richard M. Chisholm
- Description: In the section I teach of Technical Writing at Plymouth State College in New Hampshire, students learn to handle the content, form, and style of scien...
- Object ID: issw-1996-299-305.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack study, snow science, science writing, science teaching, teaching technical writing
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- Title: Effective Medium Approximations for Snow Thermal and AC Electrical Conductivities
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Edward M. Arons, Samuel C. Colbeck, W. Randy McGilvary, Victor F. Petrenko
- Description: The goal of this research was to develop a physical model to explain how the thermal and AC electrical conductivities of snow are affected by fundamen...
- Object ID: issw-1994-001.pdf
- Keywords: metamorphism, thermal response, resistance network theory, ac electrical conductivity
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- Title: Observations of Sun Crust Formation
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Toshihiro Ozeki, Eizi Akitaya, Keisuke Suzuki
- Description: The mechanism of sun crust formation was investigated through field observations. During the observations, sun crust formed 12 times. The sun crust is...
- Object ID: issw-1994-002-013.pdf
- Keywords: heat, metamorphism, sun crust, ice particles
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- Title: I.S.S.W., Past, Present, and Future
- Date: 1994
- Authors: John Montagne, Peter Schaerer
- Description: The purpose of this paper is to provide a background for the current series of biennial snow science meetings in North America. Such a background may ...
- Object ID: issw-1994-105-115.pdf
- Keywords: issw, avalanche hazard, avalanche control, communication
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- Title: Long-Term Observation of the Water Content of an Alpine Snowpack
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Charles Fierz, Paul M. B. Fohn
- Description: Relatively little is known about both the infiltration of water in subfreezing snow covers and its influence on the snow strength as well as on releas...
- Object ID: issw-1994-117-131.pdf
- Keywords: snow cover, snow strength, water content
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- Title: Formation Rate of Surface Hoar Crystals Under Various Wind Velocities
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Akihiro Hachikubo, Takuya Fukuzawa, Eizi Akitaya
- Description: Field observation of surface hoar crystals formation was carried out with measuring
vapor condensation and meteorological elements: snow surface temp...
- Object ID: issw-1994-132-137.pdf
- Keywords: snow surface temperature, humidity, wind velocity, water vapor
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- Title: Processing a High Strength Snow for South Pole Compacted Snow Runway: Test Results from Winter 1992-1993
- Date: 1994
- Authors: R.M. Lang, G.L. Blaisdell, C. D'Urso, G. Reinemer, M. Lesher
- Description: Field studies were required in order to identify the optimum snow processing
technique that will produce a compact and bonded snow suitable for the c...
- Object ID: issw-1994-156-175.pdf
- Keywords: density, bonding, snow strength, powered tiller
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- Title: Effect of Microslructure on Heat and Vapor Transport in Snow Composed of Uniform Fine Ice Spheres
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Atsushi Sato, Edward E. Adams, Robert L. Brown
- Description: The formation of weak layers in the snowpack of slopes causes avalanches. One of the most important weak layers is known as depth hoar due to vapor tr...
- Object ID: issw-1994-176-184.pdf
- Keywords: depth hoar, weak layer, temperature gradient, thermal conductivity, water vapor
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- Title: A Database Design for Storage and Retrieval of Snow Profiles on a PC
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Peter Weir
- Description: An application for plotting snow profiles has been designed for the Windows Personal
Computer operating environment. A Graphical User Interface allow...
- Object ID: issw-1994-185-196.pdf
- Keywords: density, snowpack conditions, pc
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- Title: Toward the Development of Areal Warning System of Blowing Snow
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Masao Higashiura, Takeshi Sato, Tadashi Kimura, Masayuki Maki, Koyuru Iwanami
- Description: With rapid progress of motorization, automobile transportation has come into wide use in snowy regions in Japan. But such automobile transportation so...
- Object ID: issw-1994-203-210.pdf
- Keywords: blowing snow, transportation, forecasting, warning system
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- Title: Blowing Snowand Avalanches
- Date: 1994
- Authors: G. Guyomarc'h, L. Merindol, T. Castelle, F. Sivardiere, L. Buisson
- Description: Blowing snow is one of the most important factors for avalanche forecasting, but the effect of this phenomenon is difficult to quantify and most obser...
- Object ID: issw-1994-211-221.pdf
- Keywords: blowing snow, forecasting, slab, snow crystals
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