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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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