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- Title: Size Effects in Slab Avalanche Fractures
- Date: 2006
- Authors: D.M. McClung, C. Borstad
- Description: Size effects in snow failure are an important aspect of avalanche release. A
size effect implies that larger samples have smaller strength than small...
- Object ID: issw-2006-182.pdf
- Keywords: size effect, avalanche fractures, tensile, shear, snow mechanics
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- Title: Snowpack Basal Layer Facets in the Sierra Nevada
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Randall Osterhuber
- Description: Though California’s Sierra Nevada generally experiences deep snowpacks and modest midwinter air temperatures, faceted snow grains do form and p...
- Object ID: issw-2006-183-186.pdf
- Keywords: facets, depth hoar, wet slab avalanche
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- Title: Improvements in the Application of the Snowmicropen to Derive Stability Information for Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Christine Pielmeier, Jürg Schweizer, Hans Peter Marshall
- Description: Local snowpack measurements and local stability tests are currently the basis for the assessment of snowpack stability in most avalanche warning opera...
- Object ID: issw-2006-187-192.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack stability, avalanche forecasting, snow profile, mechanical properties, snow hardness
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- Title: Glacier Snow Bridge Mechanics
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Rick R. Rochelle, Rodger D. Rochelle, PE
- Description: The vocabulary of avalanche mechanics is useful in describing the mechanics of glacier snow bridges. We calculate the forces involved in isotropic sno...
- Object ID: issw-2006-193-202.pdf
- Keywords: snow bridge, glacier, shear, tension, flexure, toughness
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- Title: Snow Slope Stability Evaluation Using Concepts of Fracture Mechanics
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Ian McCammon, J. Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Dry snow slab avalanche release is generally believed to proceed in three stages:
1) initiation of a local failure, 2) widespread propagation of that...
- Object ID: issw-2006-211-218.pdf
- Keywords: snow stability evaluation, avalanche formation, avalanche release, skier triggering, stability test, fracture
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- Title: Energy Dissipation Studies on Model Control Structures Using an Avalanche Chute
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Ansar Hamid Sheikh, Satish Chandra Verma, Amod Kumar
- Description: Design of avalanche control structures in middle and runout zones of an avalanche
requires a careful study of the flow-structure and its interaction ...
- Object ID: issw-2006-219-227.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche-like flows, dynamic similarity, froude number, large, scale snow experiments, energy dissipation ratio
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- Title: Sawlem: Slab and Weak Layer Evolution Model
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Antonia Zeidler, Bruce Jamieson, Thomas Chalmers, Greg Johnson
- Description: Snowpack evolution models developed in Europe require meteorological and radiation
instrumentation rarely used in North America. In contrast, SAWLEM ...
- Object ID: issw-2006-228-233.pdf
- Keywords: slab avalanches, avalanche forecasting, snowpack stratigraphy, persistent weak layers
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- Title: Evaluation of a Rule-Based Decision Aid for Recreational Travelers in Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Ian McCammon, Pascal Haegeli
- Description: This paper evaluates a new decision aid for traveling in avalanche terrain.
The aid is intended primarily for winter recreationists in Canada and pro...
- Object ID: issw-2006-234-243.pdf
- Keywords: education, decision-making, risk management, safety
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- Title: Toward Better Decision-Making: Recognizing the Effect of Selection Bias in the Analysis of Recreational Avalanche Data
- Date: 2006
- Authors: N.J. DiGiacomo
- Description: A number of decision-related “urban myths†have taken hold in avalanche education as a result of statistical analyses of recreational aval...
- Object ID: issw-2006-244-253.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, decision-making, accident case studies, statistical analysis
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- Title: The Avaluator – A Canadian Rule-Based Avalanche Decision Support Tool for Amateur Recreationists
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Ian McCammon, Bruce Jamieson, Clair Israelson, Grant Statham
- Description: An exceptionally high number of avalanche fatalities during the winter of 2003
forced the Canadian avalanche community to question the effectiveness ...
- Object ID: issw-2006-254-263.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, risk management, decision-making, decision support tool
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- Title: Skill and Knowledge Mastery of Students in Level I Avalanche Courses
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Nancy Pfeiffer, Jeffrey M. Foley
- Description: Avalanche education began in the United States in early 1970’s. The current entry
level--often referred to as Level 1--avalanche curriculum fo...
- Object ID: issw-2006-264-273.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche curriculum, learning outcomes, outcomes assessment, information retention
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- Title: White Risk – Interactive Avalanche Learning CD
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Stephan Harvey
- Description: The best way to reduce avalanche accidents, is good avalanche forecasting, warning and education. Avalanches are influenced by a large variety of diff...
- Object ID: issw-2006-274-281.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, risk, interactive cd, didactics, training, e-learning
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- Title: €Know Before You Go - An Avalanche Awareness Program for Teens with Rad Genes
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Craig J. Gordon
- Description: Basic avalanche education for young adults in Utah on a mass scale was non-existent for years. However, the rising numbers of young avalanche victims ...
- Object ID: issw-2006-282-286.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, awareness, education
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- Title: A History of Colorado Avalanche Accidents, 1859–2006
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Dale Atkins
- Description: The combination of snow and mountains, and man’s pursuit of economic development have sometimes resulted in deadly consequences for those who l...
- Object ID: issw-2006-287-297.pdf
- Keywords: colorado, avalanche accidents, avalanche fatalities, mining, tourism
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- Title: A History of Avalanche Hazard and Avalanche Research in the San Juan Mountains, Southwestern Colorado, USA
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Richard L. Armstrong, Betsy R. Armstrong
- Description: The San Juan Mountains’ recorded avalanche history began simultaneously with mineral exploration in the 1870s. Development of mines and transpo...
- Object ID: issw-2006-298-303.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche monitoring, forecasting, control, history, zoning, snow metamorphism
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