Your search for Subject "dry slab avalanches"resulted in 5 records.
- Title: Potential Dry Slab Avalanche Trigger Zones on Wind-Affected Slopes
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Wesley R. Farnsworth, Karl W. Birkeland
- Description: Experience suggests that shallow, steep zones on slopes are likely spots for artificially triggering slab avalanches. However, a scientific understand...
- Object ID: issw-2012-462-466.pdf
- Keywords: slope, release zones, weak layer
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- Title: The Effect of Additional Snow Load on Extended Column Test and Propagation Saw Test Results
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Ron Simenhois, Karl Birkeland
- Description: The number of skier triggered dry slab avalanches typically increases during or shortly after snow loading events. However, field observations and res...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-041.pdf
- Keywords: extended column test, propagation saw test, snow, dry slab
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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: Snow Cornice Development and Failure Monitoring
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Robert A. Burrows, David M. McClung
- Description: Snow cornices are significant winter alpine and snow avalanche hazards. A cornice is a leeward growing mass of snow overhanging from a ridge or sharp ...
- Object ID: issw-2006-129.pdf
- Keywords: cornice failure, monitoring, slab fractures, solar radiation
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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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