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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: Safety Concept for Hazards Caused by Ice Avalanches from the Whymper Hanging Glacier in the Mont Blanc Massif
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Stefan Margreth, Martin Funk, Marco Vagliasindi, Massimo Broccolato
- Description: The Whymper glacier is a hanging glacier located on the south face of the Grandes Jorasses (Mont Blanc Massif, Italy). Combined snow and ice avalanche...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-055.pdf
- Keywords: ice avalanche, safety concept, hazard map
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- Title: A Practitioner’s Tool for Assessing Glide Crack Activity
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Erich H. Peitzsch, Daniel B. Fagre
- Description: Glide cracks can result in full-depth glide avalanche release. Avalanches from glide cracks are notoriously difficult to forecast, but are a reoccurri...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-009.pdf
- Keywords: glide crack activity, snow climates, going to the sun road, forecasting
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- Title: Infrasound Monitoring of Snow Avalanches Activity in the Italian Alps
- Date: 2010
- Authors: M. Ripepe, G. Ulivieri, Marchetti E., V. Segor, I. Chiambretti, L. Pitet, P. Dellavedova
- Description: Risk assessment of snow avalanches is mostly related to weather conditions and snow cover. However a rigorous risk validation is required to identify ...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-017.pdf
- Keywords: infrasound monitoring, infrasound array, avalanche
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- Title: Potential Changes in the Frequency of Rain-On-Snow Events for U.S. Cascades Ski Areas As A Result of Climate Change: Projections for Mt Bachelor, Oregon in the 21rst Century
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Brian Lazar, Mark W. Williams
- Description: We evaluate how climate change resulting from increased greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions may affect the frequency of rain-on-snow events at Mt. Bachelo...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-024.pdf
- Keywords: climate change, rain-on-snow, avalanches, mt bachelor, ski areas, cascades
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- Title: Visitor Risk Management Applied to Avalanches in New Zealand
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Don Bogie, Mike Davies
- Description: The Department of Conservation (DOC) manages a third of the land in New Zealand. This is also where the majority of avalanches occur. Many huts, track...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-037.pdf
- Keywords: visitor risk management, department of conservation, avalanche terrain
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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: A Historical Analysis of the Stanley Avalanche Area with Implications for Predicting Road-Hit Avalanches, Berthoud Pass, Colorado
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Matthew Primomo, Mark W. Williams
- Description: The Stanley avalanche area is commonly regarded as one of the most dangerous to impact a roadway in the state of Colorado. Weather and snowpack struct...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-071.pdf
- Keywords: berthoud pass, snowpack, forecast, wind patterns, precipitation
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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: A Look Back on the Avalanche Cycle in Queyras in December 2008
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Romain Gaucher, Sebastien Escand, Mylene Bonnefoy, Xavier Pasquier, Nicolas Eckert
- Description: Almost ten years after the catastrophic avalanche in Chamonix, which killed 39 people in February 1999, the French Alps has been the theatre of a new ...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-090.pdf
- Keywords: accumulation, unpredicted avalanches
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- Title: Full-Depth Avalanches and Soil Erosion: An Experimental Site in Aosta Valley (NW Italian Alps)
- Date: 2010
- Authors: E. Ceaglio, V. Segor, M. Freppaz, M. Maggioni, G. Filippa, P. Dellavedova, D. Canone, S. Ferraris
- Description: Snow gliding and full-depth avalanches are often associated with soil erosion in the starting and track areas, with the release of significant amount ...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-100.pdf
- Keywords: soil physical properties, liquid and plastic limits, snow gliding, soil-snow interface
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- Title: Avalanches in the Sibillini Mounts (Marche, Italy)
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Alessandro Fabbrizio, Giuliano Mainini
- Description: Generally we are capacities to think that the avalanche is an event that happens in high mountains or inhabited centers near alpine zones in concomita...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0039-0043.pdf
- Keywords: sibillini, avalanche, inhabited centers, ski touring, road, ski resort
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- Title: Avalanches and Snow Mobile Traffic Around Longyearbyen, Svalbard
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Hanne H. Christiansen, Ullrich Neumann
- Description: Longyearbyen is situated in a mountainous landscape, thus infrastructure, living and
travelling in and around Longyearbyen is highly affected by moun...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0044-0047.pdf
- Keywords: high arctic, svalbard, snow avalanches, radar traffic counting
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- Title: Major Avalanches in Eastern Pyrenees and North Atlantic Oscillation
- Date: 2009
- Authors: C. Garcia, J.C. Peña, G. MartÃ, P. Olle, P. MartÃnez
- Description: The number of major avalanche episodes registered in Eastern Pyrenees (north-east of the Iberian Peninsula) is correlated to the North Atlantic Oscill...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0048-0052.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, north atlantic oscillation, eastern pyrenees
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