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- Title: Unusual Dry Slab Avalanche Releases Involving Dust-on-Snow Layers in Colorado
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Zach M. Guy, Jeffrey S. Deems
- Description: In recent decades, dust-on-snow events are increasing in both frequency and geographic extent in the Western U.S. Although dust layers have gained a r...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O3.03.pdf
- Keywords: dust, slab avalanches, metamorphism, forecasting
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- Title: Investigating the Thermophysical Properties of the Ice-Snow Interface, Part II: Thermal Contact Resistance
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Kevin Hammonds, Ian Baker
- Description: As it turns out, spending many an extra cold and blustery minute trying to get those last few temperature readings to complete a textbook perfect "eve...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O11.01.pdf
- Keywords: ice lens, temperature gradient, effective thermal conductivity, thermal contact resistance, kinetic snow metamorphism
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- Title: Description of the Snow Microstructure as a 3D Assembly of Grains
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Pascal Hagenmuller, Guillaume Chambon, Frédéric Flin, Xi Wang, Bernard Lesaffre, Mohamed Naaim
- Description: The concept of snow grain is commonly used in the snow community, either in situ to identify the snow type or in numerical models to reproduce the phy...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-22.pdf
- Keywords: snow, microstructure, grains, segmentation, bonds, mechanics
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- Title: Formation of Depth Hoar Resulting from Thermal Optimization of Snow Microstructure
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Patrick J. Staron, Edward E. Adams, Daniel A. Miller
- Description: Snow metamorphism can be described by the flows of heat and mass that result
from gradients of temperature and water vapor concentration. The size of...
- Object ID: issw-2012-186-193.pdf
- Keywords: entropy, metamorphism, microstructure, optimization, snow, thermodynamics
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- Title: Infrared Imagery Visual Aids for Snow Science Education
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Paul Brusseau, Eeva Latosuo
- Description: Thermography or infrared imaging, has emerged as a method by which to study snow. Two independent articles were presented at ISSW 2010 as to its suita...
- Object ID: issw-2012-786-787.pdf
- Keywords: infrared imaging, thermography, visual aid, snow
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- Title: Validation of the Snowpack Model in the Dolomites
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Fabiano Monti, Anselmo Cagnati, Charles Fierz, Michael Lehning, Mauro Valt, Andrea Pozzi
- Description: Starting from the 2004 winter season, the SNOWPACK snow cover model has been operational at the Avalanche Forecasting Centre in Arabbe (Dolomites, Ita...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0313-0317.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack model, snow metamorphism, model validation, wind effects
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- Title: The Microstructual Effects of Kinetic Growth Metamorphism in a Layered Snow Structure
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Ethan M. Greene, Martin Schneebeli, Kelly Elder
- Description: Faceted snow near a hard crust often poses a dangerous problem for avalanche forecasters. producing a persistent weakness where the avalanches are dif...
- Object ID: issw-2006-022-026.pdf
- Keywords: snow microstructure, kinetic growth metamorphism, facets near crusts
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- Title: Soil Erosion Caused by Snow Avalanches: Preliminary Results of Two Case Studies in the Aosta Valley (NW-Italy)
- Date: 2006
- Authors: M. Freppaz, S. Lunardi , M. Maggioni, F. Valfrè, T. Bizzocchi, E. Zanini
- Description: Snow avalanches exert considerable erosive forces on soils, which may be torn
open and scraped away, especially in the transition zone, as a result o...
- Object ID: issw-2006-880-886.pdf
- Keywords: soil properties, avalanche deposits, alps, organic carbon, total nitrogen
- View additional details about Soil Erosion Caused by Snow Avalanches: Preliminary Results of Two Case Studies in the Aosta Valley (NW-Italy)
- Title: A Microstructural Dry Snow Metamorphism Model Applicable to Equitemperature and Temperature Gradient Environments
- Date: 2002
- Authors: D.A. Miller, E.E. Adams, R.L. Brown
- Description: Dry snow metamorphism has traditionally been classified by the thermal gradient encountered in the snowpack. Snow experiencing a predominantly equi-te...
- Object ID: issw-2002-284-292.pdf
- Keywords: snow and ice, temperature gradient, kinetic growth, snow crystal growth, snow crystal structure, snow metamorphism
- View additional details about A Microstructural Dry Snow Metamorphism Model Applicable to Equitemperature and Temperature Gradient Environments
- Title: New Snow in the Snow-Cover Model Snowpack
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Charles Fierz, Jordy Hendrikx, Michael Lehning, Fabienne Perret, Annouck Vrouwe
- Description: A correct representation of new snow and its properties is crucial in order to
initialize the simulation of snow-cover evolution. On the one hand, ad...
- Object ID: issw-2002-328.pdf
- Keywords: modeling, snow metamorphism, snow pack
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- Title: A Statistical Validation of the Snowpack Model in a Montana Climate
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Christopher C. Lundy, Robert L. Brown, Edward E. Adams, Karl W. Birkeland, Michael Lehning
- Description: Recently, a computer model has been developed by the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research that- simulates the evolution of a natura...
- Object ID: issw-2000-259-265.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack modeling, snow metamorphism, model validation, snowpack evolution
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- Title: Storm and Weather Factors Related to Dry Slab Avalanche Activity
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Robert E. Davis, Kelly Elder, Daniel Howlett, Eddy Bouzaglou
- Description: Storm cycle factors affect slab avalanche response primarily in terms of loading in starting zones. Wind velocity and supply of transportable snow, re...
- Object ID: issw-1998-025-034.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, avalanche forecasting, snow accumulation, snow cover stability
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- Title: A Model to Determine Snow Surface Properties from Remote Measurements
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Hansueli Gubler
- Description: The formation of weak layers before they are buried by new snow is crucial for the
determination of the actual danger level from measurements by auto...
- Object ID: issw-1998-035-048.pdf
- Keywords: snow cover stability, snow surface, snow metamorphism
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- Title: Observations on Buried Surface Hoar in British Colombia, Canada: Section Analyses of Layer Evolution
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Robert E. Davis, Bruce Jamieson, Colin Johnston
- Description: Observations on sections cut through buried surface hoar layers over time offer the opportunity to measure microstructural changes associated with str...
- Object ID: issw-1998-086-092.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, snow metamorphism, snow strength, snow crystal, snow cover structure
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- Title: Depth Hoar Growth Rates Near A Rocky Outcrop
- Date: 1998
- Authors: E.M. Arons, S.C. Colbeck, J.M.N.T. Gray
- Description: Observations of slab avalanche releases in alpine terrain have led to the hypothesis that rocky outcrops can influence the spatial distributions of te...
- Object ID: issw-1998-093.pdf
- Keywords: snow crystal growth, snow metamorphism, snow crystal
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