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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: 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: 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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- Title: Patroller Down: Rescue, Documentation and Resulting Operational Changes
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Michael Ferrari
- Description: By the start of February 2007, the snowpack at Mt. Rose in the Sierras was
atypically shallow and weak. After the first significant storm cycle of th...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-099.pdf
- Keywords: rescue, the chutes, atypical snow conditions, incident form
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- Title: Non-Destructive Quantification of Snowpack Properties
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Achim Heilig, Hans Peter Marshall, Olaf Eisen, Martin Schneebeli
- Description: A temporal observation of the stratigraphy of seasonal snowpacks is only possible with non-invasive methods. Electromagnetic waves, specifically radar...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0082-0086.pdf
- Keywords: snowpacks, fmcw, electromagnetic wave systems
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- Title: The Challenges for Scottish Avalanche Forecasters Observing a Maritime Snowpack
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Mark Diggins
- Description: Avalanche Forecasting in the Highlands of Scotland presents many challenges for the Sportscotland Avalanche Information Service forecast team, the mar...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0024-0026.pdf
- Keywords: scotland, forecasting, challenges
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- Title: Snow Characterization by Optical Properties
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Mathias Gergely, Martin Schneebeli, Kurt Roth
- Description: Snow optics offers an opportunity to measure physical properties of a vertical snow
profile or a snow surface by unbiased, high-resolution and time-s...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0087-0091.pdf
- Keywords: optical properties, reflectance, transmittance, grain size, density
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- Title: Tracking Changes in Buried Melt Freeze Crusts
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Michael Smith, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Melt freeze crusts are a frequent occurrence in the mid-latitudes, often forming in the snowcover due to rain or wet snow in the fall and insolation i...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0107-0111.pdf
- Keywords: specific surface area, crust evolution, near-infrared photography, snowpack stratigraphy
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- Title: Measurements of Weak Snowpack Layer Friction
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Joachim Heierli
- Description: An essential stage in the release of an avalanche is the propagation of a fracture through a weak snowpack layer. As the fracture propagates, the slab...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0112-0114.pdf
- Keywords: particle image velocimetry, friction, weak layers, avalanche formation
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- Title: Observations of Two Seasons of Sintering in a Mountain Snowpack
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Edward H. Bair, Jeff Dozier, Robert E. Davis, Thomas U. Kaempfer, Michael T. Colee, Randall Mielke, Jane R. Blackford
- Description: We present results from an ongoing two-year study at Mammoth Mountain, California. We track multiple layers, starting at a variety of initial conditio...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0115-0119.pdf
- Keywords: sintering, avalanche, microscopy
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