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Title: Producing Nature-Like Snow in a Supercooled Cloud for Laboratory Experiments
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Ursula Enzenhofer, Michael Bacher, Sergey Sokratov, Christian Mahr, Johannes Müller, Ulrich Worthmann, Ingrid Reiweger
Description: We here introduce our cloud chamber which enabled us to grow snow crystals from water vapour under conditions similar to those in natural clouds. The ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.35.pdf
Keywords: ice crystals, snow formation, technical snow, supercooled cloud
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Title: Analysis of the Hazard Caused by Ice Avalanches From the Hanging Glacier on the Eiger West Face
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Stefan Margreth, Martin Funk, Daniel Tobler, Pierre Dalban, Lorenz Meier, Juerg Lauper
Description: The Eiger hanging glacier is located in the west face of the Eiger in the Bernese Alps (Swit-zerland). Large ice avalanches, especially if they trigge...
Object ID: ISSW16_O7.04.pdf
Keywords: risk management, ice avalanche, avalanche simulation, hazard assessment
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Title: Utilisation of the SM4 Automatic Snowpack Sensor in Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Harpa Grimsdottir, Orn Ingolfsson, Magni H. Jonsson, Vidir Arnarson, Halfdan Ingolfsson, Sveinn Brynjolfsson, Gestur Hansson
Description: A small innovation company in Iceland, POLS Engineering, has developed the SM4 automatic snowpack sensor that is currently installed at over 30 locati...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.30.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow sensor, automatic warnings, snow crystals, snow depth, facets
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Title: Plume Formation in Powder Snow Avalanches
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Perry Bartelt, Yves Bühler, Othmar Buser, Christian Ginzler
Description: A long-standing problem in avalanche science is to model the formation and propagation of icedust clouds that accompany fast moving dry snow flowing a...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-18.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, powder snow avalanches, plume formation, ice-dust cloud, blowout height, suspension layer
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Title: Using a Thermal Imager to Quantify Buried Thermal Structure in Natural Snow
Date: 2012
Authors: Cora Shea, Bruce Jamieson, Karl Birkeland
Description: Avalanche researchers and practitioners have long measured snowpack temperatures in snow pits with thermometers about 10 cm apart. This led to the ass...
Object ID: issw-2012-267-276.pdf
Keywords: temperature gradient, thermal imaging, snow crystals, snow stability tests
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Title: Monitoring Snowpack Temperature Gradient Using Automatic Snow Depth Sensor
Date: 2012
Authors: Örn Ingólfsson, Harpa Grímsdóttir, Magni Hreinn Jónsson
Description: An instrument for measuring snow depth and snow temperature has been developed by POLS engineering in Iceland. The snow sensor (SM4) consists of a ser...
Object ID: issw-2012-956-960.pdf
Keywords: snow sensor, avalanche monitoring, snowpack temperature, faceted crystals, weak layers
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Title: Safety Concept for Hazards Caused by Ice Avalanches from the Whymper Hanging Glacier in the Mont Blanc Massif
Date: 2010
Authors: Stefan Margreth, Martin Funk, Marco Vagliasindi, Massimo Broccolato
Description: The Whymper glacier is a hanging glacier located on the south face of the Grandes Jorasses (Mont Blanc Massif, Italy). Combined snow and ice avalanche...
Object ID: ISSW_O-055.pdf
Keywords: ice avalanche, safety concept, hazard map
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Title: Near-Surface Faceted Crystals on a Slope Covered with Stone Pine Trees
Date: 2004
Authors: Peter Höller
Description: This paper presents snow surface temperature measurements as well as snow temperature investigations in the uppermost layer of the snowpack on a slop...
Object ID: issw-2004-107-111.pdf
Keywords: snow metamorphism, forest, avalanches
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Title: Faceting Above Crusts and Associated Slab Avalanching in the Columbia Mountains
Date: 2004
Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Paul Langevin
Description: Numerous slab avalanches including unexpected human triggered avalanches are reported on crusts. For 70 dry slab avalanches that slid on a crust in th...
Object ID: issw-2004-112-120.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snowpack stratigraphy, crusts, melt-freeze layers, faceted crystals
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Title: Morphology of Crystal Growth and Grain Bonding in Snow
Date: 2002
Authors: E. E. Adams, D. A. Miller
Description: Microstructure is of paramount importance to the structural stability of a snowpack. We have scrutinized microstructure at the grain and bond scale wi...
Object ID: issw-2002-323-327.pdf
Keywords: snow and ice, snow crystal, snow crystal growth, snow crystal structure, snow metamorphism
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Title: Preliminary Results from Controlled Experiments on the Growth of Faceted Crystals Above a Wet Snow Layer
Date: 2002
Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Alec van Herwi jnen
Description: Faceted crystals have been observed above melt-freeze crusts, and the layers of such crystals form the failure layer for some hard-to-predict dry slab...
Object ID: issw-2002-337-342.pdf
Keywords: snow heat flux, snow metamorphism, snow stability, slab avalanche, avalanche formation
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Title: Strength Changes of Layers of Faceted Snow Crystals in the Columbia and Rocky Mountain Snowpack Climates in Southwestern Canada
Date: 2000
Authors: Greg Johnson, Bruce Jamieson
Description: The strength of layers of faceted crystals is important for forecasting snow stability. During the winters of 1993-2000, in the intermountain snowpack...
Object ID: issw-2000-086-093.pdf
Keywords: snow crystals, faceted crystals, snow strength, snow climate, avalanche, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Near-Surface Faceted Crystals and Avalanche Dynamics in High-Elevation, Tropical Mountains of Bolivia
Date: 2000
Authors: Douglas Hardy, Mark W. Williams, Carlos Escobar
Description: The importance of near-surface faceted crystals in forming weak layers associated with snow avanches has recently received greater attention. However,...
Object ID: issw-2000-109-114.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, avalanche formation, snow, snow stratigraphy, mountains
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Title: Ice Engineering for Rock Glaciers
Date: 2000
Authors: David Hamre, Douglas K. McCarty, Erwin L. Long, Edward Yarmak, Jr.
Description: Construction of fixed facilities on rock glaciers is rarely undertaken. These masses of ice/rock aggregate move downhill under the influence of gravi...
Object ID: issw-2000-433-438.pdf
Keywords: rock glaciers, thermosyphon, thermopile, ice engineering
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Title: Experiments of Depth Hoar Formation Under Extremely Low Temperature
Date: 1998
Authors: Y.Kamata, A.Sato
Description: To investigate the growth of depth hoar crystals in a very cold region, an experiment was carried out for three days with temperature gradients of 200...
Object ID: issw-1998-254-259.pdf
Keywords: depth hoar, extremely low temperature, saturated water vapor concentration
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