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Title: Shear Strength of Natural and Artificial Depth Hoar Layers
Date: 2006
Authors: Osamu Abe, Junrong Xu, Jian Liu, Hiroyuki Hirashima, Shigeto Mochizuki, Satoru Yamaguchi, Takeshi Sato, Atsushi Sato
Description: Many data on shear strength and density of natural depth hoar layers were collected from Japan, west China and Alaska. Snow metamorphism experiments u...
Object ID: issw-2006-007-014.pdf
Keywords: shear strength, depth hoar, avalanche occurrence
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Title: Uncertainties in Assessing the Stability of Fractured Slopes
Date: 2006
Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Scott Savage, Simon Trautman, Kalle Kronholm, Spencer Logan, Jürg Schweizer
Description: While doing avalanche mitigation work or traveling in the backcountry, occasionally a sizable part of a slope fractures without triggering an avalanc...
Object ID: issw-2006-029-037.pdf
Keywords: snow stability, fracture, whumpf, avalanche release, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Predicting Snow Cover Stability with the Snow Cover Model Snowpack
Date: 2006
Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Jürg Schweizer, Charles Fierz, Michael Lehning, Christine Pielmeier
Description: The snow cover model SNOWPACK simulates snow stratigraphy for the locations of automatic snow and weather stations. Based on the stratigraphy, snow s...
Object ID: issw-2006-038-043.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow cover modelling, snow stability evaluation, numerical simulation
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Title: Spatial Clusters of Slab Stability and Snowpack Properties Within Avalanche Start Zones
Date: 2006
Authors: Cam Campbell, Bruce Jamieson
Description: During the winters of 2000-01 and 2001-02, 36 spatial arrays of closely spaced smallcolumn-type stability tests were performed, each in a day. Each ar...
Object ID: issw-2006-044-053.pdf
Keywords: spatial variability, snow stability, avalanche start zones, clustering, snowpack stratigraphy, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Measurements and Analysis of Full-Scale Avalanche Impact Pressure at the Vallee De La Sionne Test Site
Date: 2006
Authors: Betty Sovilla, Mark Schaer, Lambert Rammer
Description: Impact pressures of eight snow avalanches measured at the Swiss avalanche test site Vallée de la Sionne are reported. Avalanche typologies varied b...
Object ID: issw-2006-063-070.pdf
Keywords: avalanche impact pressure, load distribution, velocity, avalanche structure
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Title: Relating Wet Loose Snow Avalanching to Surficial Shear Strength
Date: 2006
Authors: Simon Trautman, Eric Lutz, Karl W. Birkeland, Stephan G. Custer
Description: Wet loose snow avalanches are a significant hazard within many ski areas. Wet snow stability changes dramatically over short time periods which typic...
Object ID: issw-2006-071-078.pdf
Keywords: wet snow, shear strength, wet avalanche
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Title: The Extended Column Test: A Field Test for Fracture Initiation and Propagation
Date: 2006
Authors: Ron Simenhois, Karl Birkeland
Description: For dry slab avalanches, fractures initiate and propagate in a weak layer or along an interface. Current field tests like compression or stuffblock t...
Object ID: issw-2006-079-085.pdf
Keywords: stability test, avalanche forecasting, stability assessment, fracture propagation
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Title: On Avalanche Measurements at the Norwegian Full-Scale Test-Site Ryggfonn
Date: 2006
Authors: Peter Gauer, Karstein Lied, Krister Kristensen
Description: Avalanche measurements and observations that were carried out at the Ryggfonn test site, Norway, on 16 April 2005 are analyzed. The data include pulse...
Object ID: issw-2006-086-091.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, full-scale measurements, velocity, acceleration, impact pressure, shear stress
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Title: Slab Avalanche Triggering: A Combination of Four Basic Phenomena in Series
Date: 2006
Authors: Alain Duclos, François Louchet
Description: There is still a significant gap between models describing slab avalanche triggering mechanisms and practical field applications in terms of risk pre...
Object ID: issw-2006-101-106.pdf
Keywords: avalanche triggering, crack propagation, avalanche program
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Title: Evaluating a Prototype Field Test for Weak Layer Fracture and Failure Propagation
Date: 2006
Authors: Dave Gauthier, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Researchers and practitioners currently lack a quantitative field test that indicates the propensity of a given slab and weak layer combination to pro...
Object ID: issw-2006-107-116.pdf
Keywords: fracture propagation, field test, extended column, snowpack stability, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Dissipation and Most Probable Flow States: The Role of Mechanical Work and Granular Fluctuations in Snow Avalanches
Date: 2006
Authors: Perry Bartelt, Martin Kern, Othmar Buser
Description: There are many simple questions in snow avalanche dynamics that remain unanswered: why do snow avalanches travel so far and appear to have so little f...
Object ID: issw-2006-127.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics
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Title: Fuzzy Modeling of the Snowpack Evolution
Date: 2006
Authors: P. Carrara, M. Freppaz, M. Maggioni, P. Piccini, E. Zanini
Description: The assessment of snow conditions and transformations is an important task; it is included in the more general field of environmental monitoring in m...
Object ID: issw-2006-130.pdf
Keywords: snow metamorphism, fuzzy sets, temperature environment, soft thresholds
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Title: Integrated Database for Rapid Mass Movements in Norway
Date: 2006
Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Karstein Lied, Halvor Juvet, Kalle Kronholm
Description: Rapid mass movements include all kinds of slides in geological material, snow or ice. Traditionally, information about such events is collected separ...
Object ID: issw-2006-148-156.pdf
Keywords: database, avalanche, mass movements, slide
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Title: Cellular Automaton Modelling of Slab Avalanche Triggering Mechanisms: From the Universal Statistical Behaviour to Particular Cases
Date: 2006
Authors: J. Faillettaz, F. Louchet, J-R. Grasso
Description: Modelling avalanche release is a long lasting challenge. Despite a general agreement on the basic mechanisms responsible for avalanche release, determ...
Object ID: issw-2006-174-180.pdf
Keywords: snow, avalanches, cellular automata, statistical physics, variability, criticality
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Title: Waiting Time Between Avalanches
Date: 2006
Authors: D.M. McClung
Description: One of the requirements for a self-organized critical system is scale invariance in the time or frequency domain. Sandpile avalanches and other types...
Object ID: issw-2006-181.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, waiting time, critical system, self-organized criticality
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