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- Title: Measurements and Modeling of Snow Energy Balance and Sublimation from Snow
- Date: 1994
- Authors: David G. Tarboton
- Description: Snow melt runoff is an important factor in runoff generation for most Utah rivers and a large contributer to Utah's water supply and periodically floo...
- Object ID: issw-1994-260-279.pdf
- Keywords: sublimation, runoff, snow melting, snow energy
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- Title: Computer Assistance in Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 1994
- Authors: David M. McClung
- Description: In this paper, I discuss two computerized modules for avalanche forecasting, including results of field testing and experiences with the products. Ava...
- Object ID: issw-1994-310-313.pdf
- Keywords: forecasting, snow profiles, snow stability
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- Title: A Relational Database for Snow Avalanches
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Magnus Mar Magnusson, Halla Bjorg Baldursdottir
- Description: In order to be able to have a better overview of the avalanche history and to try and analyze the prevailing meteorological conditions at the time of ...
- Object ID: issw-1994-314-326.pdf
- Keywords: forecasting, hazard analyses, zoning
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- Title: Statistical Modelling of Snow Cover Stability in Mountain Slopes
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Pavel A. Chemouss
- Description: New class of snow cover stability models are suggested. The base of such models are determined models of snow cover mechanical equilibrium and paramet...
- Object ID: issw-1994-341-345.pdf
- Keywords: algorithm, snow model, stability, snow cover, statistics
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- Title: Velocity and Mass Transport Measurements in a Snow Avalanche
- Date: 1994
- Authors: J.D. Dent, B.E. Adams, I.J. Bailey, T.G. Jazbutis, D.S. Schmidt
- Description: A small avalanche path near the Bridger Bowl Ski Area in Southwestern Montana has been instrumented to measure avalanche velocities in the interior of...
- Object ID: issw-1994-347-359.pdf
- Keywords: velocity, avalanche properties, avalanche path
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- Title: Model for Avalanches in Three Spatial Dimensions: Comparison of Theory to Experiments
- Date: 1994
- Authors: R. M. LANG, B. R. LEO
- Description: A three-dimensional theory is derived to describe the temporal behavior of gravity currents of cohesionless granular media, in an attempt to model the...
- Object ID: issw-1994-360-361.pdf
- Keywords: runout, cohesionless granular media
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- Title: Observations of Snow Avalanches on Dynamic Internal Structures at Alta, Utah
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Osamu Abe, Tsutomu Nakamura, Yasuaki Nohguchi, Rand Decker, Thor Femenias, Daniel Howlett
- Description: Observations of snow avalanches on dynamic internal structures were carried out at Alta, Utah as a Japan/U.S. joint research project. A pylon to measu...
- Object ID: issw-1994-385-392.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche path, avalanche release
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- Title: Correlation of Fast Rates of Snow Glide with Full-Depth Avalanche Occurrence
- Date: 1994
- Authors: J.A. Clarke, D.M. McClung
- Description: Snow glide is the translational slip of the entire snow pack over a sloping ground surface. Requirements for snow glide have been established from fie...
- Object ID: issw-1994-405-407.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow gliding, avalanche release, snow pack
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- Title: Snow Creep Movement in the San Juan Mountain Snowpack Red Mountain Pass
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Walter Walker
- Description: During the winter of 1992/93 and 1993/94 an attempt was made to measure and document the amount of snow creep on a north-facing slope near the St. Pau...
- Object ID: issw-1994-408-413.pdf
- Keywords: snow growth, snowpack, accelerated creep
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- Title: Validations of Objective Models to Simulate Snow Cover Stratigraphy and Avalanche Risk for Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 1994
- Authors: G. Giraud, E. Brun, Y. Durand, E. Martin
- Description: This paper describes the current state of a complete automatic chain of three objective models to simulate snow cover stratigraphy and avalanche risk ...
- Object ID: issw-1994-509-517.pdf
- Keywords: stratigraphy, forecasting, avalanche risk, avalanche casualties
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- Title: Avalanche Hazard Risk Management for the Yule Marble Quarry
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Christopher C. Landry
- Description: Snow avalanches may have been the least anticipated and most tragically underestimated natural hazard faced by the rapidly-spreading Colorado mining b...
- Object ID: issw-1994-548-563.pdf
- Keywords: snow removal, snowfall, hazard, risk management
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- Title: The Role of Bacterial Protein for Snowmaking and as an Antifreeze
- Date: 1994
- Authors: David A. Lind
- Description: Since making of artificial snow for ski area application is now widely practiced at most major resorts, an understanding of the basis for the process ...
- Object ID: issw-1994-589-600.pdf
- Keywords: ice crystals, temperature, snow making
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- Title: Table Tennis Ball Avalanche Experiments
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Kenji Kosugi, Atsushi Sato, Osamu Abe, Yasuaki Nohguchi, Yutaka Yamada, Kouichi Nishimura, Kaoru Izumi
- Description: Table tennis ball avalanche (TTBA) experiments were carried out on an inclined chute to study the dynamics and the structures of snow avalanches. The ...
- Object ID: issw-1994-636-642.pdf
- Keywords: velocity, tennis balls, snow avalanche
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- Title: A Simple and Inexpensive Master Snow Stake
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Denny Hogan, Don Bachman
- Description: On November 1, 1992. the Silverton Forecast Office of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, (CAIC). was established to provide daily avalanche co...
- Object ID: issw-1994-643.pdf
- Keywords: storm systems, forecasting, snowstake
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- Title: Contributory Factors to Avalanche Occurrence on Red Mountain Pass, San Juan Mountains, Southwest Colorado
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Sally Thompson, Douglas K. McCarty
- Description: Avalanche occurrence is a result of current and previous weather influences. Using 12 months (two six month seasons between 1971 and 1973) of avalanch...
- Object ID: issw-1994-645-656.pdf
- Keywords: wind direction, speed, temperature
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