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- Title: Observations of an Increase in Slab Thickness After Fracture
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Robbie Fuller
- Description: In the fracturing of snow peripheral to avalanches and in events where slabs have
fractured but did not slide, the failed, or downslope, part of the ...
- Object ID: issw-2004-032-038.pdf
- Keywords: strain, elastic, rebound
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- Title: Faceted Snow and Deep Slab Instabilities in the Maritime Climate of the Cascades
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Jon Andrews
- Description: Forecasting for deep slab instabilities in dense, deep snow can be tricky, especially when the slabs are too dense for most, common stability tests to...
- Object ID: issw-2004-239-243.pdf
- Keywords: forecasting, faceted snow, maritime climates, deep slab instabilities
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- Title: A Comparison of the Spatial Patterns of Penetration Resistance of Slabs and Weak Layers
- Date: 2004
- Authors: K. Birkeland, K. Kronholm
- Description: Several studies have quantified the spatial variability of snow stability and structure
on specific slopes. One consequence of such spatial variabili...
- Object ID: issw-2004-287.pdf
- Keywords: pattern, weak layer, slab, grain, snow stability
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- Title: Snowpack Spatial Variability in the Chugach Mountain Range
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Jerry Hance
- Description: A case study: how spatial variations in snowpack influence guides directing human
travel patterns during a day of heliskiing near Thompson Pass in th...
- Object ID: issw-2004-298.pdf
- Keywords: spatial variability, safety, snowpack, structures
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- Title: Optimal Preparation of Alpine Ski Runs
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Mathieu Fauve, Hansueli Rhyner, Martin Schneebeli, Walter Ammann
- Description: The demands on the quality of ski runs have grown with the development of sports
equipment. A skiing run must nowadays provide perfect grip, have a c...
- Object ID: issw-2004-656-660.pdf
- Keywords: ski run, snow grooming, weather, snow properties, snow sintering, machine-made snow
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- Title: Collaboration Between University and Operation in Developing a New National Standard for Avalanche Work in Sweden
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Stefan Martensson
- Description: Sweden is currently developing a new national standard for avalanche work. Much of
the new paradigms in both education and practice are inspired from...
- Object ID: issw-2004-723.pdf
- Keywords: triggered avalanche, slab avalanche, education, persistent layers
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- Title: Size/Frequency Power-Law Relationships for Several Groups of Snow Avalanche Paths
- Date: 2002
- Authors: K.W. Birkeland, C.C. Landry
- Description: Our poster summarizes the results of Birkeland and Landry (2002), where we direct the interested reader for more details on this research. Our results...
- Object ID: issw-2002-031.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, power laws, size/frequency distributions, scale invariance, self-organized criticality
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- Title: Evidence of Chaos in Slab Avalanches
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Walter Rosenthal, Kelly Elder
- Description: We present evidence that slab avalanching is a chaotic process. A 20-year set of 8062 avalanches running on more than 140 paths at Mammoth Mountain wa...
- Object ID: issw-2002-013-018.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, chaos, fractals, attractors
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- Title: Fracture Toughness for Dry Slab Avalanches
- Date: 2002
- Authors: David M. McClung
- Description: Dry slab avalanches release by propagating shear fractures. Since alpine snow is a quasi-brittle strain softening material, it is implied that fractur...
- Object ID: issw-2002-304-306.pdf
- Keywords: fracture, dry slab avalanche
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- Title: Modeling the Interface Between Two Layers of Snow
- Date: 2002
- Authors: H.P. Marshall
- Description: Although dry slab avalanches in maritime climates can occur due to failure within a layer, avalanches in more continental climates are often caused by...
- Object ID: issw-2002-314-322.pdf
- Keywords: snow slope stability, finite element modeling, weak layers, interfaces
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- Title: Predicting Snow Layer Hardness with Meteorological Factors
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Mark C. Kozak, Kelly Elder, Karl Birkeland, Phillip Chapman
- Description: The majority of slab avalanche accidents occur when the victim triggers the slide. Slab hardness is an important property affecting skier-triggered av...
- Object ID: issw-2002-329-336.pdf
- Keywords: skier-triggered avalanches, hardness, temperature index
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- Title: Preliminary Results from Controlled Experiments on the Growth of Faceted Crystals Above a Wet Snow Layer
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Alec van Herwi jnen
- Description: Faceted crystals have been observed above melt-freeze crusts, and the layers of such crystals form the failure layer for some hard-to-predict dry slab...
- Object ID: issw-2002-337-342.pdf
- Keywords: snow heat flux, snow metamorphism, snow stability, slab avalanche, avalanche formation
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- Title: Snowpack Characteristics Found in Hakuba, Northern Alps, Japan
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Shinji Ikeda
- Description: Snowpack properties aiming at avalanche safety for backcountry recreations were investigated at Hakuba, NORTHAN ALPS, JAPAN. Snow profile results of t...
- Object ID: issw-2002-361-365.pdf
- Keywords: snow cover structure, snow cover distribution, avalanche, japan northan alps
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- Title: Structural Phase Changes of the Liquid Water Component in Alpine Snow
- Date: 2002
- Authors: A. Denoth
- Description: The way free water is arranged in the complex texture of Alpine snow is measured by a series of different methods: Broadband electro-magnetic measurem...
- Object ID: issw-2002-374-375.pdf
- Keywords: snow physics, electromagnetic properties, hydraulic properties
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- Title: Three-Dimensional MR Microscopy of Snowpack Structures
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Toshihiro Ozeki, Katsumi Kose, Tomoyuki Haishi, Seitarou Hashimoto, Shun-ichi Nakatsubo, Kouichi Nishimura
- Description: A magnetic resonance microscopy technique was developed to visualize and quantify the three-dimensional structure of snowpack. Because the NMR signal ...
- Object ID: issw-2002-380-383.pdf
- Keywords: snow crystal structure, magnetlc resonance imaging, three-dimensional structure, dodecane
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