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Title: Critical Length for the Onset of Crack Propagation in Snow: Reconciling Shear and Collapse: Date: 2016-10-02; Authors: Johan Gaume, Alec van Herwijnen, Guillaume Chambon, Nander Wever, JÃ¼rg Schweizer; Description: The failure of a weak snow layer buried below cohesive slab layers is a necessary, but insufficient condition for the release of a dry-snow slab avala...; Object ID: ISSW16_O1.02.pdf; Keywords: snow avalanche, crack propagation, critical length, slope angle, pst, slab, weak layer; View additional details about Critical Length for the Onset of Crack Propagation in Snow: Reconciling Shear and Collapse

Title: A New Crack Propagation Criterion for Skier-Triggered Snow Slab Avalanches: Date: 2016-10-02; Authors: Johan Gaume, Benjamin Reuter, Alec van Herwijnen, JÃ¼rg Schweizer; Description: Dry-snow slab avalanches begin with a local failure in a weak snowpack layer buried below cohesive slab layers. If the size of the failed zone exceeds...; Object ID: ISSW16_P1.01.pdf; Keywords: snow avalanche, skier-triggering, failure initiation, crack propagation, pst, slab, weak layer; View additional details about A New Crack Propagation Criterion for Skier-Triggered Snow Slab Avalanches

Title: Wind and Snow Particle Distribution in Powder Snow Cloud: Date: 2013-10-07; Authors: Yoichi Ito, Kouichi Nishimura, Florence Naaim-Bouvet, HervÃ© Bellot, Xavier Ravanat; Description: An ultrasonic anemometer and a snow particle counter were newly installed in the avalanche test site locating at the Col du Lautaret pass, France. Sim...; Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-20.pdf; Keywords: avalanche, powder snow cloud, wind speed, particle size; View additional details about Wind and Snow Particle Distribution in Powder Snow Cloud

Title: Wind Tunnel Blowing Snow Study: Steady and Unsteady Properties of Wind Velocity, Mass Fluxes and Mass Exchanges: Date: 2013-10-07; Authors: Mohamed Naaim, Florence NAAIM-BOUVET, Kouichi NISHIMURA, Osamu ABE, Yoichi ITO, Masaki NEMOTO, Kenji KOSUGI; Description: Several CFD snow drift models were proposed in the literature. These models include various assumptions and scaling laws representing the mass exchan...; Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-62.pdf; Keywords: wind, boundary layer, snow, drifting snow, experimental investigations, saltation, roughness, erosion rate; View additional details about Wind Tunnel Blowing Snow Study: Steady and Unsteady Properties of Wind Velocity, Mass Fluxes and Mass Exchanges

Title: Snow Particle Speeds in the Blowing Snow: Date: 2013-10-07; Authors: Kouichi Nishimura, Chika Yokoyama, Yoichi Ito, Masaki Nemoto, Florence Naaim-Bouvet, HervÃ© Bellot, Koji Fujita; Description: Snow particle speeds are one of the key issues in order to deepen our understanding for the internal structures of blowing snow. In this study, we uti...; Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-68.pdf; Keywords: blowing snow, snow particle speed, wind speed, snow particle counter (spc); View additional details about Snow Particle Speeds in the Blowing Snow

Title: Towards a Better Understanding of Glide-Snow Avalanche Formation: Date: 2012; Authors: Christoph Mitterer, JÃ¼rg Schweizer; Description: Full-depth avalanches (i.e. glide-snow avalanches) often release due to either a failure in the basal layer (e.g. depth hoar) or a failure at the snow...; Object ID: issw-2012-610-616.pdf; Keywords: glide avalanche, full depth avalanche, avalanche simulation, temperature gradients, rain on snow; View additional details about Towards a Better Understanding of Glide-Snow Avalanche Formation

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: Interfacial Crack Velocities in a Snow Slab â€“ Numerical Simulation: Date: 2006; Authors: P. Mahajan, S.K. Joshi; Description: A snow pack consists of weak layers embedded in strong layers. The interface bond between a weak layer and layers in between which it is sandwiched m...; Object ID: issw-2006-092-100.pdf; Keywords: cohesive zone, dynamic crack growth, weak layer, snow, finite element; View additional details about Interfacial Crack Velocities in a Snow Slab â€“ Numerical Simulation

Title: Slab Avalanche Triggering: A Combination of Four Basic Phenomena in Series: Date: 2006; Authors: Alain Duclos, FranÃ§ois Louchet; Description: There is still a significant gap between models describing slab avalanche triggering mechanisms and practical field applications in terms of risk pre...; Object ID: issw-2006-101-106.pdf; Keywords: avalanche triggering, crack propagation, avalanche program; View additional details about Slab Avalanche Triggering: A Combination of Four Basic Phenomena in Series

Title: Formation Rate of Surface Hoar Crystals Under Various Wind Velocities: Date: 1994; Authors: Akihiro Hachikubo, Takuya Fukuzawa, Eizi Akitaya; Description: Field observation of surface hoar crystals formation was carried out with measuring vapor condensation and meteorological elements: snow surface temp...; Object ID: issw-1994-132-137.pdf; Keywords: snow surface temperature, humidity, wind velocity, water vapor; View additional details about Formation Rate of Surface Hoar Crystals Under Various Wind Velocities

Title: Behavior of a Snow Cover After Crack Formation on Mountain Slope: Date: 1988; Authors: Eizi Akitaya, Hiromu Shimizu; Description: Observations were made of the movement of a snow cover along a ground surface on a mountain slope after formation of a crack were observed. By these o...; Object ID: issw-1988-179-186.pdf; Keywords: snow cover, ground surface, moutain slope, crack, gliding, avalanche; View additional details about Behavior of a Snow Cover After Crack Formation on Mountain Slope