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- Title: Are You a Hard Hitter? Systematic Measurement Error in the Compression Test
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Spencer Logan
- Description: The compression test is an effective, internationally standardized stability test. One
reason for the widespread use is that results are generally re...
- Object ID: issw-2006-682.pdf
- Keywords: compression test, stability tests, measurement error
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- Title: Hyperspectral Analysis of Direct Shortwave Radiative Forcing of Dust in Mountain Snowcover
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Thomas H. Painter, Maureen P. Cassidy
- Description: Springtime desert dust storms regularly deposit radiatively absorbing dust on the
snow cover of the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. The ...
- Object ID: issw-2006-910.pdf
- Keywords: snow, dust, radiative forcing, hyperspectral, remote sensing
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- Title: The Influence of a Dust Event on Snowpack Chemistry
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Chuck Rhoades, Kelly Elder, Ethan Greene
- Description: In mid February 2006, windstorms in Arizona and Utah distributed a layer of dust across the surface of the snowpack throughout much of the Colorado Ro...
- Object ID: issw-2006-911.pdf
- Keywords: snow chemistry, watershed biogeochemistry, aeolian deposition, ionic composition, snow hydrology
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- Title: Evaluating the Stuffblock and Tilt Board Snowpack Stability Tests as Snow Avalanche Forecasting Tools
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Peter Carter, Matt Heavner, Eran Hood
- Description: Snow avalanche forecasting relies on, among other factors, an assessment of snowpack stability derived from careful observation of snow cover stratigr...
- Object ID: issw-2004-138-144.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack stability tests, tilt board, stuffblock
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- Title: Relating Spatial Variability to Snow Stability Using a Cellular Automation Model Initialized with Field Data
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Kalle Kronholm , Karl W. Birkeland
- Description: This research uses a two-dimensional cellular automaton model, with inputs taken from field data, to mimic snow slab avalanche release. The initial we...
- Object ID: ISSW-2004-007.pdf
- Keywords: stochastic, avalanche release, shear strength, shear stress, fracture propagation
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- Title: Temporal Changes in the Spatial Variability of Shear Strength and Stability
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Spencer Logan, Karl Birkeland, Kalle Kronholm, Kathy Hansen
- Description: Avalanche forecasting involves the prediction of spatial and temporal variability of the snowpack. To predict avalanches with more accuracy it is impo...
- Object ID: ISSW-2004-009.pdf
- Keywords: spatial variability, avalanches, avalanche forecasting, temporal change
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- Title: Investigations of Wet Snow Stability in the Intermountain Climate Zone
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Simon A. Trautman, Stephan G. Custer, Karl W. Birkeland
- Description: Bridger Bowl Ski Area outside of Bozeman, MT, USA, has encountered annual problems forecasting large, wet loose avalanches that occur during warming e...
- Object ID: issw-2004-074.pdf
- Keywords: wet avalanche, shear strength, stability, avalanche activity
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- Title: Verification of Snow-Cover Modeling on Slopes
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Charles Fierz, Michael Lehning
- Description: A correct representation of snow-cover evolution on slopes is crucial to enable the use of snow-cover models as a valuable tool for avalanche forecast...
- Object ID: issw-2004-094-098.pdf
- Keywords: snow-cover modeling, snow stratigraphy, snow stability
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- Title: On the Relation Between Mountain Permafrost and Snowpack Stability
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Marcia Phillips, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Many recreational avalanche accidents occur in areas where mountain permafrost exists. Consequently, it has been proposed that the presence of sub-zer...
- Object ID: issw-2004-133-137.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack stability, stability evaluation, permafrost
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- Title: The Ak Block, A Sized-Block Snow Test
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Bill Glude
- Description: The AK Block is a snow test developed and used by the Southeast Alaska Avalanche
Center staff over a 20-year period. It is a block sized to the teste...
- Object ID: issw-2004-153-160.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, snow stability tests, block tests, sized-block, ak block, rutschblock
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- Title: A Simple Model of Snow Slope Stability During Storms
- Date: 2004
- Authors: P. Hayes, C. Wilbour, R. Gibson, H.P. Marshall, H. Conway
- Description: Snow slope stability is controlled by the geometry of the start zone and the mechanical properties of the snow pack. Here we report progress toward de...
- Object ID: issw-2004-165-171.pdf
- Keywords: snow slope stability, avalanches, modeling
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- Title: Application of the Snowmicropen to Derive Stability Information for Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Christine Pielmeier, Jürg Schweizer, Thomas Stucki
- Description: Snowpack measurements and stability tests are currently the basis for snowpack
stability assessment in most avalanche warning operations. The SnowMic...
- Object ID: issw-2004-177-181.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack stability, avalanche forecasting, snow profile, mechanical properties, snow hardness
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- Title: Fracture Character in Compression Tests
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Stability tests are widely used to identify and qualify potential failure layers for slab avalanches. As an addition to stability test scores, some av...
- Object ID: issw-2004-182-191.pdf
- Keywords: stability test, avalanche forecasting, fracture initiation, fracture propagation, stability evaluation
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- Title: Spatial Variability of Rutschblock Results in Avalanche Start Zones
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Cam Campbell, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: During the winters of 2003 and 2004, 29 spatial arrays consisting of a total of 705
rutschblock tests were performed in avalanche start zones in the ...
- Object ID: issw-2004-288-297.pdf
- Keywords: rutschblock test, fracture character, variability, start zones, avalanche forecasting, snow stability
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- Title: Temporal Changes in the Spatial Variability of Shear Strength and Stability
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Spencer Logan, Karl Birkeland, Kalle Kronholm, Kathy Hansen
- Description: Avalanche forecasting involves the prediction of spatial and temporal variability of the snowpack. To predict avalanches with more accuracy it is impo...
- Object ID: issw-2004-315-334.pdf
- Keywords: spatial variability, avalanches, avalanche forecasting, temporal change
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