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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: Fiber Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing in Avalanche Research
- Date: 2010
- Authors: M. Woerndl, A. Prokop, S. W. Tyler, C. E. Hatch, J. Dozier
- Description: Knowledge about snow pack stability at a certain location and at a certain point in time is important for avalanche practitioners and backcountry trav...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-007.pdf
- Keywords: snow temperature, snow pack, driving forces
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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: When To Dig? Thoughts On Estimating Slope Stability
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Bruce Jamieson, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Information about the snow cover stability is crucial for avalanche forecasting and for winter backcountry recreation. For a reliable estimation of sn...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-020.pdf
- Keywords: slope stability, avalanche forecasting, winter backcountry recreation
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- Title: Free-Ride: Local Evaluation of Avalanche Danger in Valgrisenche - Aosta Valley (I)
- Date: 2010
- Authors: P. Dellavedova, D. Garin, V. Segor
- Description: During the months of February and March 2010, in the north-west part of Western Alps in Aosta Valley where the practice of free-ride heliski is regula...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-022.pdf
- Keywords: free-ride, stability test
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- Title: Snow Variability and Validity of Snow Stability Assessment
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Pavel Chernous, Yuri Fedorenko, Nikolay Barashev, Yuri Seliverstov
- Description: Results of the field studies of spatial snow variability on mountain slopes for such regions as: the Khibini Mountains, the Altai Mountains, the Baika...
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- Keywords: snow stability, mountain slopes, snow thickness, density, shear strength
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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: The Effect of Daytime Warming on Snowpack Creep
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Thomas Exner, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Snowpack warming is, besides loading by precipitation and wind-transport, one of the major triggers contributing to natural avalanche release. Establi...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0271-0275.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack creep, daytime warming, stability, field measurements, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: The 2008-2009 Exceptional Snowfalls in the Italian Alpa: Threshold Sum Approach and Analysis of the SNOWPACK Model Stability Indices
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Fabiano Monti, Anselmo Cagnati, Mauro Valt
- Description: The 2008-2009 winter season has been characterized by exceptional snowfalls in the Italian Alps; it has been one of the 3-4 snowiest seasons since 193...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0318-0322.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow stability evaluation, snowpack stratigraphy, snowpack model
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- Title: Snow and Avalanche: The Influence of Forest on Snowpack Stability
- Date: 2009
- Authors: D. Viglietti, S. Letey, R. Motta, M. Maggioni, M. Freppaz
- Description: Snow avalanches are among the most important disturbances that affect mountain ecosystems, influencing forest dynamics, establishment and mortality pr...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0323-0327.pdf
- Keywords: forest, snow, avalanches, protective function
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