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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: 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: Potential Dry Slab Avalanche Trigger Zones on Wind-Affected Slopes
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Wesley R. Farnsworth, Karl W. Birkeland
- Description: Experience suggests that shallow, steep zones on slopes are likely spots for artificially triggering slab avalanches. However, a scientific understand...
- Object ID: issw-2012-462-466.pdf
- Keywords: slope, release zones, weak layer
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- Title: Meteorological and Environmental Observations from Three Glide Avalanche Cycles and the Resulting Hazard Management Technique
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Ron Simenhois, Karl Birkeland
- Description: Glide avalanches are a significant hazard that threatens people and property in many snowy climates. They are hard to control, poorly understood, and ...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-104.pdf
- Keywords: glide avalanches, cylces, hazard management, snowpack
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- Title: Spatial Variations in Snowslope Stability: Insights from Observations During Active Control on the Milford Road, New Zealand
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Zach M. Guy, Karl W. Birkeland
- Description: Slab avalanches initiate from relatively small (1-10m length) zones of basal
weakness. Knowledge of the location of these “deficit zonesâ€...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-017.pdf
- Keywords: milford road, spatial variations, snowslope stability
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- Title: On the Practical Knowledge About Snow and Avalanches - What Are the Improvements in the Last Century or Do We Still Use Well-Known Findings?
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Peter Höller
- Description: This somewhat provocative title induces a couple of further provocative questions: Are welltried findings which were already identified 80 to 100 year...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-021.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, historical overview, backcountry skiing
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- Title: Characteristics of Old-Deep-Slab Avalanches
- Date: 2010
- Authors: David Tracz, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Deep and old slab avalanches (ODS) are often hard-to-forecast. The size and destructive potential of ODS avalanches can be disturbing. As a starting p...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-028.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, slab depth, age
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- Title: Which OBS for Which Avalanche Type?
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Jürg Schweizer, Grant Statham, Pascal Haegeli
- Description: At the 2004 ISSW, Roger Atkins proposed that—early in the terrain selection process— backcountry travellers could identify which types o...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-029.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches types, atkins’ approach
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- Title: Predicting Wet Snow Avalanches at the Arapahoe Basin Ski Area
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Leif Eric Borgeson, Hal Hartman
- Description: Premature terrain closures, due to wet snow instability, lead to unhappy skiers during the annual snowmelt period. Furthermore, wet snow avalanches ar...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-031.pdf
- Keywords: wet snow instability, wetting fronts, crack propagation pathways
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- Title: New Insights Into Skier-Triggering of Slab Avalanches
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Joachim Heierli, Karl W. Birkeland, Ron Simenhois, Peter Gumbsch
- Description: Most skiers trigger the slab avalanche in which they are caught. Preventing those accidents necessitates a better understanding of the factors contrib...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-040.pdf
- Keywords: skier-triggering, slab avalanches, anticrack model, risk
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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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