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- Title: The Effect of Increasing Load on Weak Layer Fracture
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: Avalanches failing on buried weak layers tend to be easier to trigger during or immediately following snowfall, suggesting that loading favorably chan...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O1.03.pdf
- Keywords: fracture, loading, slab, particle tracking velocimetry, propagation saw test
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- Title: Cooling and Avalanches
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Penelope H. Goddard
- Description: Avalanches which occur during periods of cooling are important because they can surprise people, even very experienced practitioners. However, the inf...
- Object ID: issw-2012-580-585.pdf
- Keywords: freezing levels, slab failure, snow surface temperature, snowpack conditions
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- Title: Faceted Snow and Deep Slab Instabilities in the Maritime Climate of the Cascades
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Jon Andrews
- Description: Forecasting for deep slab instabilities in dense, deep snow can be tricky, especially when the slabs are too dense for most, common stability tests to...
- Object ID: issw-2004-239-243.pdf
- Keywords: forecasting, faceted snow, maritime climates, deep slab instabilities
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- Title: Elastic Energy in Snow
- Date: 1988
- Authors: Robbie Fuller
- Description: After many years of avalanche work, observation and study I began to question some of the standard explanations of snow mechanics. Very often the phys...
- Object ID: issw-1988-193-202.pdf
- Keywords: polystyrene foam, elasticity, snow, avalanche, energy, slope, slab failure
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