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Title: Case Study: Natural Glide and Wet Slab Avalanche Cycle, Going-To-The-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana USA: Date: 2016-10-02; Authors: Jake Hutchinson, Erich H. Peitzsch, Adam M. Clark; Description: The Going-to-the-Sun Road (GTSR) is the premier tourist attraction in Glacier National Park, Montana. The GTSR also traverses through and under 40 ava...; Object ID: ISSW16_O3.02.pdf; Keywords: glide avalanche, wet slab avalanche, forecasting, glacier national park, montana; View additional details about Case Study: Natural Glide and Wet Slab Avalanche Cycle, Going-To-The-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana USA

Title: Using Structure From Motion Photogrammetry to Examine Glide Snow Avalanches: Date: 2016-10-02; Authors: Erich H. Peitzsch, Jordy Hendrikx, Daniel B. Fagre; Description: Structure from Motion (SfM), a photogrammetric technique, has been used extensively and successfully in many fields including geosciences over the pas...; Object ID: ISSW16_P1.02.pdf; Keywords: glide avalanche, structure from motion, photogrammetry, glacier national park, montana; View additional details about Using Structure From Motion Photogrammetry to Examine Glide Snow Avalanches

Title: Time-Lapse Photography as an Approach to Understanding Glide Avalanche Activity: Date: 2012; Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Erich H. Peitzsch, Daniel B. Fagre; Description: Avalanches resulting from glide cracks are notoriously difficult to forecast, but are a recurring problem for numerous avalanche forecasting programs...; Object ID: issw-2012-872-877.pdf; Keywords: glide crack activity, time lapse camera, going to the sun road, meteorology; View additional details about Time-Lapse Photography as an Approach to Understanding Glide Avalanche Activity

Title: Interactive Avalanche Information System (IAIS): Date: 2012; Authors: Richard W Steiner, Mark Dundas, Peter Petri; Description: In 2010 avalanche forecasters (forecasters) employed by Chugach Adventure Guides (CAG) began developing a web-based avalanche atlas (Atlas) as part of...; Object ID: issw-2012-375-380.pdf; Keywords: geographic information systems (gis), avalanche atlas, web based avalanche atlas, data, database, database management; View additional details about Interactive Avalanche Information System (IAIS)

Title: A Practitionerâ€™s Tool for Assessing Glide Crack Activity: Date: 2010; Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Erich H. Peitzsch, Daniel B. Fagre; Description: Glide cracks can result in full-depth glide avalanche release. Avalanches from glide cracks are notoriously difficult to forecast, but are a reoccurri...; Object ID: ISSW_P-009.pdf; Keywords: glide crack activity, snow climates, going to the sun road, forecasting; View additional details about A Practitionerâ€™s Tool for Assessing Glide Crack Activity

Title: Characterizing Wet Slab and Glide Slab Avalanche Occurrence Along the Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA: Date: 2010; Authors: Erich H. Peitzsch, Jordy Hendrikx, Daniel B. Fagre, Blase Reardon; Description: Wet slab and glide slab snow avalanches are dangerous and yet can be particularly difficult to predict. Both wet slab and glide slab avalanches are th...; Object ID: ISSW_P-066.pdf; Keywords: wet slab, going to-the-sun road, snotel site, free water, snowpack; View additional details about Characterizing Wet Slab and Glide Slab Avalanche Occurrence Along the Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA

Title: Avalanche Ecology and Large Magnitude Avalanche Events â€“ Glacier National Park, Montana, usa: Date: 2010; Authors: Daniel B. Fagre, Erich H. Peitzsch; Description: Large magnitude snow avalanches play an important role ecologically in terms of wildlife habitat, vegetation diversity, and sediment transport within ...; Object ID: ISSW_P-095.pdf; Keywords: ecology, wildlife habitat, vegetation diversity, sediment transport, post-avalanche vegetation; View additional details about Avalanche Ecology and Large Magnitude Avalanche Events â€“ Glacier National Park, Montana, usa

Title: Sliding into Spring: Understanding Glide Slab Avalanches in Glacier National Park, Montana: Date: 2008-09-22; Authors: Blase Reardon, Erich Peitzsch, Daniel Fagre; Description: Historically, wet snow avalanche phenomena, such as wet slab avalanches and glide avalanches, have not been operational forecasting concerns because s...; Object ID: P__8243.pdf; Keywords: glide avalanches, avalanche forecasting, glacier national park; View additional details about Sliding into Spring: Understanding Glide Slab Avalanches in Glacier National Park, Montana

Title: Natural Glide Slab Avalanches, Glacier National Park, USA: A Unique Hazard and Forecasting Challenge: Date: 2006; Authors: Blase A. Reardon, Daniel B. Fagre, Mark Dundas, Chris Lundy; Description: In a museum of avalanche phenomena, glide cracks and glide avalanches might be housed in the â€œstrange but trueâ€ section. These oddities ar...; Object ID: issw-2006-778-785.pdf; Keywords: avalanche forecasting, natural avalanches, glide avalanches, glacier national park; View additional details about Natural Glide Slab Avalanches, Glacier National Park, USA: A Unique Hazard and Forecasting Challenge

Title: Modeling and Measuring Snow for Assessing Climate Change Impacts in Glacier National Park, Montana: Date: 2002; Authors: Daniel B. Fagre, David Selkowitz, Blase Reardon, Karen Holzer, Lisa McKeon; Description: A 12-year program of global change research at Glacier National Park by the U.S. Geological Survey and numerous collaborators has made progress in qua...; Object ID: issw-2002-417-424.pdf; Keywords: snow depth, snow water equivalent, variability, pacific decadal oscillation, modeling; View additional details about Modeling and Measuring Snow for Assessing Climate Change Impacts in Glacier National Park, Montana

Title: Spatial and Temporal Aspects of the Snow Avalanche Hazard, Glacier National Park, Montana, U.S.A.: Date: 1986; Authors: David R. Butler; Description: Since 1910, snow avalanches in Glacier National Park have been geographically widespread and numerous. Avalanche incidences have a Park-wide distribut...; Object ID: issw-1986-223-230.pdf; Keywords: hazard, fatalities, injuries, property damage; View additional details about Spatial and Temporal Aspects of the Snow Avalanche Hazard, Glacier National Park, Montana, U.S.A.