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- Title: Experimental Analysis of Snowpack Effects Induced by Blasts
- Date: 2010
- Authors: B. Frigo, B. Chiaia, M. Cardu, A. Giraudi, A. Godio, R. Rege
- Description: An experimental snowfield has been realized in Gressoney La Trinité (Italy) to analyse the response of snowpack to explosives and the induced artif...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-013.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack, explosives, air blast
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- Title: Slope-Scale Snowpack Stability Derived from Multiple Snowmicropen Measurements and High-Resolution Terrestrial FMCW Radar Surveys
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Hans-Peter Marshall, Christine Pielmeier, Scott Havens, Frank Techel
- Description: Slope-scale stability assessments from SnowMicroPen (SMP) profiles and from remote sensing techniques would support avalanche forecasting operations, ...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-018.pdf
- Keywords: snow cover, snow cover stability, snow stability evaluation, micro penetrometer, mechanical properties, avalanche forecasting, remote sensing, radar
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- Title: Insights into the It Depends Quantitative Explorations of the Assessment Expertise of Mountain Guides
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Roger Atkins
- Description: Unavailable
- Object ID: ISSW_O-022.pdf
- Keywords: decision-making, expertise, field observations, terrain, avalanche character
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- Title: What Does Your Gut Say and Should You Listen? The Intuitive-Analytical Decision Making Continuum in Mechanized Ski Guiding
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Iain Stewart-Patterson
- Description: Decision-making in avalanche terrain is a complex process. Professional guides have well developed strategies to help them navigate through the challe...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-024.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche terrain, snowpack, mechanized skiing, decision-making
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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: Snowpack Properties of Unstable Wet Snow Slopes: Observations From the Swiss Alps
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Frank Techel, Christine Pielmeier
- Description: Next to meteorological parameters, snowpack properties play a major role in the formation of wet snow avalanches. We investigated profiles observed at...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-036.pdf
- Keywords: wet snow, snow stability, fracture line profiles, snowpack properties
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- Title: The Big Loss: JHSP’s Avalanche Mitigation Fatality and the Resulting Program Changes
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Mike Rheam, Bob Comey
- Description: On January 5th, 2010, veteran patrolman Mark Wolling, known throughout the world as BIG WALLY triggered an avalanche that killed him during avalanche ...
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- Keywords: fatality, program changes, avalanche reduction, rescue efforts
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- Title: Anatomy of a Post Control Release: The Liberty Bowl Event at Big Sky Resort
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Scott Savage
- Description: An impressive early season avalanche cycle occurred during the 2007/2008 winter season at Big Sky Resort in southwestern Montana, culminating in a sig...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-065.pdf
- Keywords: post control release, deep slab instability, explosives, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: An Experimental Investigation of Explosives and Snowpack Dynamic Response
- Date: 2010
- Authors: R.G. Tichota, D.A. Miller, R. Larson, D. Richmond
- Description: Explosives are frequently used for avalanche control in public transportation corridors and within ski area boundaries, yet there has been little rese...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-016.pdf
- Keywords: explosives, snowpack, public transportation
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- Title: 3s Sonic Snow Sensor - A Prototype Acoustic Snow Penetrometer
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Michael Schober, Achim Heilig, Martin Schneebeli, Nora Staack
- Description: High-resolution snow penetrometry has resulted in an improved understanding of the mechanical and stratigraphic properties in a snowpack. However, the...
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- Keywords: snow penetrometer, mechanical properties, stratigraphic properties, avalanche warning
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- Title: An Avalanche Terrain Assessment of Proposed Manitoba Mountain and Whistle Stop Hut-to-Hut Systems Using a Geographical Information System
- Date: 2010
- Authors: E. Cleary, E. Latosuo, J. Geck, J. Wolfe
- Description: Alaska Mountain and Wilderness Hut Association has proposed a hut-to-hut system
on the Kenai Peninsula of Southcentral Alaska. A terrain assessment i...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-039.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche terrain, geographic information systems (gis), hut-to-hut system
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- Title: Prediction of Slushflow Hazard Based On Data From Local Meteorological Stations
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Steinar Bakkehøi, Erik Hestnes
- Description: Seeking objective criteria for slushflow prediction and warning, meteorological data has been recorded at two slushflow sites in Rana District, North ...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-067.pdf
- Keywords: slushflow, prediction, pressure transmitters, slushflow releases
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- Title: The Avalanche Situation in a Special Winter. Review of the 09/10 Season in Norway
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Kjetil Brattlien, Regula Frauenfelder, Krister Kristensen, Kalle Kronholm
- Description: The 2009/10 season featured significantly different snow conditions compared to the
usually maritime snow pack in most of Norway. A stable high-press...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-070.pdf
- Keywords: high-pressure system, depth hoar, weak layers, fatalities
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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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