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- Title: Avalanche Forecasting for Safe Travel in the Backcountry: The 5-Step Checklist
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Mike Wiegele
- Description: Operators and ski guides are in-field practitioners with a responsibility to provide a safe and enjoyable experience for clients and employees. As pra...
- Object ID: issw-2012-157-160.pdf
- Keywords: back country, snowpack stability, avalanche awareness, solar radiation
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- Title: Nowcast With a Forescast – Snow Cover Simulations on Slopes
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: The snow cover model SNOWPACK simulates the snow cover formation and evolution
based on meteorological parameters. In the past, these parameters were...
- Object ID: issw-2012-172-178.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack, snow cover modeling, avalanche warning, numerical weather prediction models, snow cover stratigraphy, model output statistics
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- Title: Modelling Surface Hoar Formation and Evolution on Mountain Slopes
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Simon Horton, Sascha Bellaire, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Predicting the spatial distribution and persistence of surface hoar layers is a challenge to avalanche forecasters and backcountry recreationists. Thi...
- Object ID: issw-2012-194-200.pdf
- Keywords: surface hoar, avalanche forecasting, snowpack stratigraphy, persistence, weak snowpack layer
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- Title: Avalanche Impact Performance of a Light-Weight Diversion Structure Snettisham Transmission Line, Southeast Alaska
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Chris Wilbur, Mike Janes, Art Mears
- Description: The 138kV Snettisham electrical transmission line is the main power source for
Juneau, Alaska. The line was constructed in 1973 and traverses steep r...
- Object ID: issw-2012-294-299.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche impact pressure, hydroelectric, weather forecasting
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- Title: Properties of Weak Layers Composed of Precipitation Particles In and Near Avalanche Starting Zones in Japan
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Shinji Ikeda, Tomoyuki Noro
- Description: To gain further insight into the properties of weak layers composed of precipitation
particles(PP weak layer), we analyzed 18 measurement datasets. A...
- Object ID: issw-2012-586-590.pdf
- Keywords: weak layer, fracture lines, snow crystals, avalanche forecast
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- Title: Tracking Wetting Front Adavance With Upward-Looking Ground-Penetrating Radar
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Lino Schmid, Christoph Mitterer, Achim Heilig, Jürg Schweizer, Olaf Eisen
- Description: Percolating melt water combined with snow stratigraphy are thought to be the dominating drivers for the formation of wet-snow avalanches. It is, howev...
- Object ID: issw-2012-599-602.pdf
- Keywords: wet snow avalanches, snow stratigraphy, meltwater, avalanche activity
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- Title: Mechanics of Weak Layer Snow Under Cyclic Loading Studied By FEM
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Evgeny A. Podolskiy, Guillaume Chambon
- Description: The mechanical behavior of snow weak layers is a crucial element in dry snow slab
avalanche forecasting. Here, we use Finite Element Method (FEM) mod...
- Object ID: issw-2012-617-621.pdf
- Keywords: dry slab avalanche, elasticity, weak layer
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- Title: Practical Outputs for Avalanche Experts from Two Research Projects in Aosta Valley (NW Italy)
- Date: 2012
- Authors: B. Frigo, M. Maggioni, A. Debernardi, V. Segor, L. Pitet, B. Chiaia, M. Freppaz, E. Zanini
- Description: In agreement with the idea of the ISSW “a merging of theory and practiceâ€, we describe the activities carried out in Aosta Valley (NW Ital...
- Object ID: issw-2012-795-799.pdf
- Keywords: expert’s education, courses, guide lines, web based training
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- Title: Real Time Snow Slope Stability Modeling of Direct Action Avalanches
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Scott Havens, H.P. Marshall, Chris Covington, Bill Nicholson, Howard Conway
- Description: Improved prediction of the timing of direct action avalanches that occur during storms is needed for highway forecasting operations. A SNOw Slope Stab...
- Object ID: issw-2012-866-871.pdf
- Keywords: direct action avalanche, avalanche observation, snowpack model, meteorological data
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- Title: Handler Perceptions of Optimal Scenting Conditions for Avalanche Rescue Dogs
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Ryan R. Gould, Eeva Latosuo
- Description: Little research has been done to directly link environmental factors such as wind speed, humidity and air temperature to scenting conditions for avala...
- Object ID: issw-2012-363-366.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue dogs, dog handlers, scenting conditions, environmental factors, practical experience
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- Title: Axisymmetric Measurements of Extended Deformation Around the Snow Micropenetrometer Tip
- Date: 2012
- Authors: A.M. LeBaron, D.A. Miller, A. Van Herwijnen
- Description: Current physical models for the snow micropenetrometer (SMP) make the assumption that the tip of the SMP probe only stresses or fractures the ice grai...
- Object ID: issw-2012-408-413.pdf
- Keywords: snow micropenetrometer, strain, compaction
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- Title: Spatial Variabiity of Snowpack on Small Wind Effected Slopes, Central Svalbard
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Wesley R. Farnsworth, Markus Eckerstorfer, Hanne H. Christiansen
- Description: Spatial variability studies of snowpack stability have predominantly been conducted on sheltered uniform slopes despite mountains and avalanche starti...
- Object ID: issw-2012-467-472.pdf
- Keywords: spatial variability, snowpack, slopes, artificial trigger points, weak layer
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- Title: How Do You Stress the Snowpack?
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Scott Thumlert, Bruce Jamieson, Thomas Exner
- Description: In the majority of fatal avalanches, skiers and snowmobilers apply load to the
snowpack which triggers the initial failure in a weak layer. Understan...
- Object ID: issw-2012-506-512.pdf
- Keywords: dynamic stress, localized dynamic loading, snowmobile, snow stability, avalanche forecasting, snowpack stratigraphy
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- Title: Continuous Monitoring of the Seasonal Snowpack Evolution Utilizing Upward-Looking GPR Technology
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Achim Heilig, Christoph Mitterer, Susanna Hoinkes, Jürg Schweizer, Olaf Eisen
- Description: A temporally continuous observation of the seasonal evolution of the snow stratigraphy at a single site requires non-invasive monitoring technology. W...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-003.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, snowpack, stratigraphy, switzerland
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- Title: Suitability of Infrared Thermography to Examining Temperature Profiles in Snow Pack
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Paul Brusseau
- Description: Thermography, using fully radiometric infrared imagers, is a still emerging field. Thermal imaging technology is continually improving and is easy to ...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-004.pdf
- Keywords: infrared thermography spot size, emissivity, snow temperature
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