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- Title: Near-Surface Faceting on South Aspects in Southwest Montana
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: D. McCabe, H. Munter, D. Catherine, I. Henninger, M. Cooperstein, T. Leonard, E.E. Adams, A.E. Slaughter, P.J. Staron
- Description: In the winter seasons of 2006/2007 and 2007/2008, Montana State University researchers set up weather stations on north and south aspects to gather de...
- Object ID: P__8110.pdf
- Keywords: near-surface facets, radiation recrystallization, temperature gradients, southerly aspects, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Slope Scale Spatial Variability Across Time and Space: Comparison of Results from Continental and Maritime Climates
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Karl Birkeland
- Description: Understanding the spatial variability of the snowpack is a crucial step to improve accuracy in field data collection and avalanche forecasting. While ...
- Object ID: P__8036.pdf
- Keywords: spatial variability, temporal variability, fracture initiation, fracture propagation
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- Title: Wet Slab Instability at the Arapahoe Basin Ski Area
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: Hal Hartman, Leif Eric Borgeson
- Description: Empirical evidence gathered at the onset of ablation on a ski slope where a wet slab avalanche claimed the life of a skier indicates a chance of snowp...
- Object ID: P__8021.pdf
- Keywords: wet slab instability, volumetric water content
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- Title: Observation and Modeling of Buried Melt-Freeze Crust
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: Michael Smith, Bruce Jamieson, Charles Fierz
- Description: Melt-freeze crusts often occur as a result of wet snow, rain or strong insolation. Past observations have revealed the formation of weak layers at the...
- Object ID: P__8172.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow stratigraphy, snowpack modeling
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- Title: Water Movement and Capillary Barriers in a Stratified and Inclined Snowpack
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: Erich Peitzsch, Karl W. Birkeland, Kathy J. Hansen
- Description: Most avalanche fatalities occur due to dry slab avalanches. However, wet snow avalanches are also dangerous and can be particularly difficult to predi...
- Object ID: P__8087.pdf
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- Title: Deriving Spatial Stability Variations from Penetration Resistance Measurements
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Spatial variations of weak layer and slab properties affect snow slope stability. To quantify spatial variability at the slope scale, penetration resi...
- Object ID: P__8175.pdf
- Keywords: snow mechanical properties, snow stability, avalanche formation, spatial variability, geostatistics
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- Title: Predicting the Fracture Character of Potential Weak Layers in Penetrometer Signals
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: James Floyer, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Digital penetrometers have been shown to provide reliable assessments of snow hardness with depth; however, extracting useful information from the sig...
- Object ID: P__8222.pdf
- Keywords: snow penetrometer, fracture character, snowpack stratigraphy, avalanche forecasting, snowpack properties, snow hardness
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- Title: Modeling Short Wave Radiation Penetration into the Snowpack: What Can We Learn From Near-Surface Snow Temperatures?
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: Charles Fierz, Laura A. Bakermans, J. Bruce Jamieson, Michael Lehning
- Description: Short wave radiation penetrates the top portion of the snowpack and is responsible for both subsurface heating and fast changing temperature gradients...
- Object ID: P__8223.pdf
- Keywords: snow-cover modeling, short wave radiation, near-surface snow temperature
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- Title: On Snow Avalanche Flow Regimes: Inferences from Observations and Measurements
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Peter Gauer, Dieter Issler, Karstein Lied, Krister Kristensen, Frode Sandersen
- Description: Mixed dry-snow avalanches are commonly thought to consist of a dense core and a dilute suspension layer, even though observations and measurements fro...
- Object ID: P__8041.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche dynamics, flow regimes, observations, measurements
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- Title: Making the News: Using the Media for Avalanche Safety
- Date: 2008-09-26
- Authors: Mary Clayton
- Description: Canada is an alpine nation, yet most Canadians have little or no effective knowledge of avalanches. At the CAA and CAC we are focusing significant eff...
- Object ID: P__8173.pdf
- Keywords: education, safety
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- Title: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card: Facts, Fictions, and Controversies
- Date: 2008-09-26
- Authors: Bob Uttl, Jan Uttl, Meaghen Henry
- Description: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card, consisting of the Trip Planner and Obvious Clues (Haegeli and McCammon, 2006), is marketed as a deci...
- Object ID: P__8161.pdf
- Keywords: risk, avalanche education, decision making
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- Title: Avalanche Fatalities in California's Sierra Nevada, Winters 1987-2008
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Randall Osterhuber
- Description: This paper analyzes the 17 avalanche fatalities in the Sierra Nevada of California during 22 winters, 1987 through 2008. The avalanche deaths are eval...
- Object ID: P__8040.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche fatality, avalanche death
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- Title: Wisegoat: A Community Based Knowledge Sharing for a Canadian Backcountry User Group
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Tannis Dakin
- Description: This is a practitioner case example presented as a poster at ISSW 2008. It describes the background, rationale and methods used to create a community ...
- Object ID: P__8221.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education
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- Title: Avalanche Data: To Share or Not to Share?
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Duclos Alain, Laffon Julie, Chapelle Jerome
- Description: An obvious way to assess snow avalanche risk consists in consulting a database. The first data collection organized in France traces back to 1900, and...
- Object ID: P__8167.pdf
- Keywords: database, share, knowledge, software
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- Title: The V-Shaped Snow Conveyor-Belt
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Manuel Genswein, Ragnhild Eide
- Description: The excavation of buried subjects takes by far the greatest amount of time during rescue. The Vshaped snow conveyor-belt has been developed and field ...
- Object ID: P__8248.pdf
- Keywords: rescue, efficient rescue, companion rescue, excavation strategy, snow conveyor
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