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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: How Snow Fails
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Ingrid Reiweger, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Dry-snow slab avalanches start with a failure in a weak layer below a cohesive slab. Avalanche release models start with an initial crack which may pr...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-039.pdf
- Keywords: dry-snow slab, cohesive slab, surface hoar
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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: On Surface Warming and Snow Instability
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Warming is believed to be one of the most prominent causes of snow instability – although experimental evidence is rare. We know that – ...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-058.pdf
- Keywords: surface warming, slab avalanches, dry-snow, near-surface layers
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- Title: Some Insights Into Fracture Propagation in Weak Snowpack Layers
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Joachim Heierli, Alec van Herwijnen, Peter Gumbsch, Michael Zaiser
- Description: Dry snow slab avalanches form when fracture, once initiated in a weak snowpack layer, propagates over large distances, progressively debonding a vast ...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-078.pdf
- Keywords: dry snow, weak snowpack layers, fracture
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- Title: Fracture Energy of Weak Snowpack Layers
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen, Benjamin Reuter
- Description: Recent experimental and theoretical work has provided new insight into weak layer fracture in view of dry-snow slab avalanche release. The two main pa...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-079.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack layers, fracture, dry snow
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- Title: The Slab Test – The Missing Link in Stability Testing?
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Kjetil Brattlien, Jo Gunnar Ellevold
- Description: An avalanche is released when both the weak layer and the slab fails, still standard stability tests (e.g. CT, ECT) focus on the weak layer only. The ...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-011.pdf
- Keywords: slope stability, stability tests, slab test
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- Title: Characterizing Microstructural Arrangement and Effective Properties of Dry Snow: Thermal Conductivity
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Richard H. Shertzer, Edward E. Adams, Martin Schneebeli
- Description: A microstructural quantity, the contact tensor, is introduced to characterize the
directional arrangement of bonding in the snowpack. The contact ten...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-019.pdf
- Keywords: microstructure, metamorphism, effective properties, conductivity, fabric tensor
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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: Numerical Modeling of Fracture Propagation in Slabs
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Chris Borstad, David McClung
- Description: We present the results of numerical simulations of tensile failure of snow samples. Several material models for quasibrittle tensile failure were impl...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-042.pdf
- Keywords: fracture propagation, slab avalanche, elastic modulus, fracture energy
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- Title: On the Sustainability and Arrest of Weak Layer Fracture in Whumpfs and Avalanches
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Dave Gauthier, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Recent theoretical and practical descriptions of weak layer fracture have focused on the mechanics of achieving a state of propagation, which is assum...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-043.pdf
- Keywords: whumpfs, avalanches, en-echelon slab fractures,
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- Title: A Field Method for Measuring Slab Stiffness and Weak Layer Fracture Energy
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Joachim Heierli
- Description: Traditional field measurements, such as snow profiles and stability tests, are widely used to provide information on snow cover stability for avalanch...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-044.pdf
- Keywords: fracture energy, slab, avalanche forecasting,
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