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- Title: Slab Avalanche Crown Surface Fractography: Observations and Applications
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Dave Gauthier
- Description: Fractography is the study of the morphological fracture surface features in artificial and natural materials, including bone and rock. Several pattern...
- Object ID: issw-2012-115-120.pdf
- Keywords: crack propagation, fracture-line, crowns
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- Title: Formation of Depth Hoar Resulting from Thermal Optimization of Snow Microstructure
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Patrick J. Staron, Edward E. Adams, Daniel A. Miller
- Description: Snow metamorphism can be described by the flows of heat and mass that result
from gradients of temperature and water vapor concentration. The size of...
- Object ID: issw-2012-186-193.pdf
- Keywords: entropy, metamorphism, microstructure, optimization, snow, thermodynamics
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- Title: Cooling and Avalanches
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Penelope H. Goddard
- Description: Avalanches which occur during periods of cooling are important because they can surprise people, even very experienced practitioners. However, the inf...
- Object ID: issw-2012-580-585.pdf
- Keywords: freezing levels, slab failure, snow surface temperature, snowpack conditions
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- Title: Automated Detection and Monitoring of Glide-Snow Events Using Satellite Based Optical Remote Sensing and Terrestrial Photography
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Sebastian Feick, Christoph Mitterer, Lisa Dreier, Stephan Harvey, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: On steep slopes the full snowpack can glide on the ground, tension cracks may open and eventually the slope fails as full-depth avalanche (glide-snow ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-603-609.pdf
- Keywords: glide avalanches, soil-snow interface, time lapse camera
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- Title: Towards a Better Understanding of Glide-Snow Avalanche Formation
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Christoph Mitterer, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Full-depth avalanches (i.e. glide-snow avalanches) often release due to either a failure in the basal layer (e.g. depth hoar) or a failure at the snow...
- Object ID: issw-2012-610-616.pdf
- Keywords: glide avalanche, full depth avalanche, avalanche simulation, temperature gradients, rain on snow
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- Title: How to Explain Avalanche Dynamics to Children and Their Parents
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Thierry Faug, Frédéric Ousset, Xavier Ravanat, Paolo Caccamo
- Description: Snow avalanches threaten mountain communities worldwide: avalanches affect not only snow sport tourists but people can also be caught in inhabited are...
- Object ID: issw-2012-820-826.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, dynamics, small-scale model, education, general public
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- Title: Time-Lapse Photography as an Approach to Understanding Glide Avalanche Activity
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Erich H. Peitzsch, Daniel B. Fagre
- Description: Avalanches resulting from glide cracks are notoriously difficult to forecast, but are a
recurring problem for numerous avalanche forecasting programs...
- Object ID: issw-2012-872-877.pdf
- Keywords: glide crack activity, time lapse camera, going to the sun road, meteorology
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- Title: Seasonal Change in Conditions for Occurrence of Wet Snow Avalanches in Hokkaido
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Hiroki Matsushita, Masaru Matsuzawa, Hiroshi Nakamura, Shinji Ikeda, Yasuhiko Ito
- Description: To clarify the meteorological conditions for occurrence of wet snow avalanches in Hokkaido, located in the northern part of Japan, data analysis have ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-878-883.pdf
- Keywords: wet snow avalanches, full depth avalanche, temporal changes
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- Title: Timing of Wet Snow Avalanche Activity: An Analysis from Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Erich H. Peitzsch, Jordy Hendrikx, Daniel B. Fagre
- Description: Wet snow avalanches pose a problem for annual spring road opening operations along the Going-to-the-Sun Road (GTSR) in Glacier National Park, Montana,...
- Object ID: issw-2012-884-891.pdf
- Keywords: wet snow avalanches, glide avalanches, glacier national park, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Monitoring Glide Avalanches Using Time-Lapse Photography
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Ron Simenhois
- Description: Glide avalanches can present a significant hazard to people and property in snowy climates. These often destructive avalanches are difficult to foreca...
- Object ID: issw-2012-899-903.pdf
- Keywords: glide avalaches, time-lapse photography, start zones, switzerland
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- Title: Automatically Finding Avalanches in Geophone Data: A Pattern Recognition Workflow
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Marc J. Rubin, Tracy Camp, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: In this article we summarize a pattern recognition workflow to automatically detect
avalanche events from passive seismic data collected from geophon...
- Object ID: issw-2012-989-992.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche detection, danger level, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Laser Induced Fluorescence - Particle Tracking Velocimetry (LIF-PTV) Measurements of Water Flow Through Snow
- Date: 2012
- Authors: B. Walter, S. Horender, N. Wever, C. Gromke, M. Lehning
- Description: LIF-PTV-measurements of the micro-scale water flow through the pore space of a wet snow sample driven by either gravitational or capillary forces are ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-1023-1027.pdf
- Keywords: wet snow avalanches, glide avalanche, pore space
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- Title: Slushflow Formation, Flow Regimes and Consequences (Short Version)
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Erik Hestnes, Steinar Bakkehøi, Krister Kristensen
- Description: The term ‘slushflow’ was introduced by Washburn and Goldthwait (1958). Eight people
perished in slushflows during the winters 2010 and 2...
- Object ID: issw-2012-414-419.pdf
- Keywords: slushflow, snowpack, water level, formation, flow regimes, runout, hazard assessment
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- Title: Back-Analysis of an Avalanche Destructive Impact on Buildings
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Valerio De Biagi
- Description: This paper aims to perform a back-analysis of a snow avalanche event occurred in the Italian Alps on December 2008, in order to estimate impact pressu...
- Object ID: issw-2012-433-438.pdf
- Keywords: back analysis, dense snow avalanche, snow accumulation
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- Title: The Effect of Additional Snow Load on Extended Column Test and Propagation Saw Test Results
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Ron Simenhois, Karl Birkeland
- Description: The number of skier triggered dry slab avalanches typically increases during or shortly after snow loading events. However, field observations and res...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-041.pdf
- Keywords: extended column test, propagation saw test, snow, dry slab
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