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Title: Multi-Scale Spatial Variability of a Layer of Buried Surface Hoar
Date: 2004
Authors: Jurg Schweizer , Kalle Kronholm
Description: Spatial variability of the snowpack exists at different scales. Various studies have investigated and quantified snowpack spatial variability at eith...
Object ID: issw-2004-335-342.pdf
Keywords: spatial variability, snow stability, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Stability Problems Under a Chairlift Midway Station in Creeping Permafrost Terrain, Grachen, Swiss Alps
Date: 2004
Authors: Marcia Phillips, Florentin Ladner, Max Müller, Ulrich Sambeth, Jan Sorg, Philipp Teysseire
Description: The mid-way station of a chairlift located in the ski resort Grächen (Swiss Alps) was originally built in 1997 at 2453 m ASL in alpine permafrost ...
Object ID: issw-2004-682-687.pdf
Keywords: structure stability, permafrost, terrain deformation, chairlift midway station
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Title: Changes in Spatial Patterns of Snow Stability Through Time
Date: 2002
Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Chris C. Landry
Description: The spatial variability of snow stability presents a challenge to avalanche workers and scientists attempting to assess avalanche danger. Recent resea...
Object ID: issw-2002-482-490.pdf
Keywords: spatial variability, snow stability, avalanche, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Integrating Shear Quality into Stability Test Results
Date: 2002
Authors: Ron F. Johnson, Karl W. Birkeland
Description: This study investigates whether collecting shear quality data in conjunction with stability test results improves snowpack evaluations. Over the past ...
Object ID: issw-2002-508-513.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow stability, stability tests, stability evaluation
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Title: Snow Stability on Uniform Slopes: Implications for Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 2002
Authors: C. Landry, K. Birkeland, K. Hansen, J. Borkowski, R. Brown, R. Aspinall
Description: This research investigated whether single snowpits can reliably represent snowpack stability on uniform slopes. The study utilized seven carefully sel...
Object ID: issw-2002-532-539.pdf
Keywords: stability, spatial variation, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Russian-Norwegian Project on Seismicity-Induced Avalanches
Date: 2002
Authors: P. Chernouss, E. Mokrov, Y. Feorenko, E. Husebye, E. Beketova
Description: Sometime a direct damage of earthquake can be less than that occurs due to triggered phenomena such as landslides, avalanches, etc. It is very difficu...
Object ID: issw-2002-025-030.pdf
Keywords: seismisity, snow stability, avalanche, simulation
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Title: Snowpack Stability Variation at a Given Avalanche Danger Level
Date: 2002
Authors: Jurg Schweizer, Kalle Kronhohn, Thomas Wiesinger
Description: To get a more detailed picture of regional snowpack stability patterns at different danger levels a large scale field study has been performed. At fou...
Object ID: issw-2002-175-179.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow stability, stability test, snow stability evaluation
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Title: Using AvTools - A Database System for Avalanche Professionals at Castle Mountain Ski Area, Alberta, Canada
Date: 2002
Authors: Eve Ruttle
Description: Information in the Avalanche Atlas provides data and quick reference for the Avalanche Activity form. Pictures are optional but are useful for recordi...
Object ID: issw-2002-180-188.pdf
Keywords: avtools, avalanche, stability, snowpack
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Title: Modeling the Interface Between Two Layers of Snow
Date: 2002
Authors: H.P. Marshall
Description: Although dry slab avalanches in maritime climates can occur due to failure within a layer, avalanches in more continental climates are often caused by...
Object ID: issw-2002-314-322.pdf
Keywords: snow slope stability, finite element modeling, weak layers, interfaces
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Title: A Field Method for Identifying Structural Weaknesses in the Snowpack
Date: 2002
Authors: Ian McCammon, Jurg Schweizer
Description: Recent studies have confined what experienced avalanche workers have known for years: that human triggered avalanches often coincide with specific str...
Object ID: issw-2002-477-481.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow stratigraphy, snow stability evaluation, avalanche education
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Title: Characterization of a Deep Slab Instability
Date: 2002
Authors: Ethan Greene, Greg Johnson
Description: In early January 2002, a warm and moist storm formed an ice crust on the snow surface throughout the Wasatch Mountains of northern Utah. Faceted snow ...
Object ID: issw-2002-491-498.pdf
Keywords: snow, avalanche, avalanche accidents, avalanche release, snow stability, forecasting, skier triggering
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Title: Contrasting Stable and Unstable Snow Profiles with Respect to Skier Loading
Date: 2002
Authors: Jurg Schweizer, J. Bruce Jamieson
Description: A Swiss-Canadian data set of over 400 snow profiles from skier-triggered slopes and slopes that have been skied but not triggered was contrasted to de...
Object ID: issw-2002-499-501.pdf
Keywords: snow stratigraphy, avalanche formation, avalanche forecasting, snow cover stability, snow stability evaluation, skier triggering
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Title: Effects of an Early Season Rain Crust on Snow Pack Stability within the Continental Climate
Date: 2002
Authors: Dan Moroz
Description: On January 6th and 7th, 2002, the central and northern mountains of Colorado, and Copper Mountain ski resort, experienced a "freezing rain" weather e...
Object ID: issw-2002-502-507.pdf
Keywords: fracture, stability, snowpack, climate
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Title: Interpreting Fracture Character in Stability Tests
Date: 2002
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Bruce Jamieson
Description: For at least a decade or two, some avalanche safety programs have recorded and interpreted the character of fractures in stability tests. It has been ...
Object ID: issw-2002-514-520.pdf
Keywords: snow stability tests, snow fracture, snow layer, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Spatial Variability of Slab Stability in Avalanche Start Zones
Date: 2002
Authors: Kyle Stewart, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Spatial variability of slab stability in avalanche start zones has been observed by avalanche professionals but little research has been published tha...
Object ID: issw-2002-544-548.pdf
Keywords: snow stability, stability tests, avalanches, spatial variability
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