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- Title: Size/Frequency Power-Law Relationships for Several Groups of Snow Avalanche Paths
- Date: 2002
- Authors: K.W. Birkeland, C.C. Landry
- Description: Our poster summarizes the results of Birkeland and Landry (2002), where we direct the interested reader for more details on this research. Our results...
- Object ID: issw-2002-031.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, power laws, size/frequency distributions, scale invariance, self-organized criticality
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- Title: France: How to Improve the Avalanche Knowledge of Mountain Guides? The Answer of the French Mountain Guides Association
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Alain Duclos, Claude Rey
- Description: The French Mountain Guides Association3 (Syndicat National des Guides de Montagne,) organises continuing training for its members. Since 1998, the foc...
- Object ID: issw-2002-252-255.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche course, mountain guides
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- Title: Avalanche Accident Case Study: Persistent Buried Weak Layer in the Central Idaho Mountains
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Doug Abromeit, Bozo Cardozo
- Description: A helicopter ski guide died in an avalanche at 3:00 pm on February 10, 1996 while guiding clients on a large west-facing slope in the Smoky Mountains ...
- Object ID: issw-2002-194-199.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accidents, snow creep, buried surface hoar
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- Title: Changes in Spatial Patterns of Snow Stability Through Time
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Chris C. Landry
- Description: The spatial variability of snow stability presents a challenge to avalanche workers and scientists attempting to assess avalanche danger. Recent resea...
- Object ID: issw-2002-482-490.pdf
- Keywords: spatial variability, snow stability, avalanche, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Topographic Influence on the Spatial Patterns of Snow Temperature Gradients in a Mountain Snowpack
- Date: 2002
- Authors: J. S. Deems, K. W. Birkeland, K. J. Hansen
- Description: The objective of this study was to investigate the importance of topography in controlling the geographic patterns of deep snow temperature gradients ...
- Object ID: issw-2002-384-392.pdf
- Keywords: spatial variation, temperature gradients, topography, regression, geographic information systems (gis)
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- Title: Integrating Shear Quality into Stability Test Results
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Ron F. Johnson, Karl W. Birkeland
- Description: This study investigates whether collecting shear quality data in conjunction with stability test results improves snowpack evaluations. Over the past ...
- Object ID: issw-2002-508-513.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow stability, stability tests, stability evaluation
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- Title: Snow Stability on Uniform Slopes: Implications for Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 2002
- Authors: C. Landry, K. Birkeland, K. Hansen, J. Borkowski, R. Brown, R. Aspinall
- Description: This research investigated whether single snowpits can reliably represent snowpack stability on uniform slopes. The study utilized seven carefully sel...
- Object ID: issw-2002-532-539.pdf
- Keywords: stability, spatial variation, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: A Probabilistic Technique for Exploring Multi-Scale Spatial Patterns in Historical Avalanche Data By Combining GIS and Meteorological Nearest Neighbors with an Example from the Jackson Hole Ski Area
- Date: 2002
- Authors: C. McCollister, K. Birkeland, K. Hansen, R. Aspinall, R. Comey
- Description: Many ski areas, backcountry avalanche centers, highway departments, and helicopter ski operations record and archive daily weather parameters and the ...
- Object ID: issw-2002-109-116.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, geographic information systems (gis), nearest neighbors, geographic visualization, knowledge discovery in databases
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- Title: Analysis of Weak Layer Avalanche Activity in the Columbia Mountains, British Columbia, Canada
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Pascal Hageli, David M. McClung
- Description: This study uses avalanche observations to characterize the spatial characteristics and temporal avalanche activity patterns on persistent weak layers....
- Object ID: issw-2002-001-007.pdf
- Keywords: persistent weak layers, avalanche climate, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Comparison of Velocities of the Dry and Wet Snow Avalanches at Makunosawa Valley in Myoko, Japan
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Y. Takeuchi, K Yamanoi, Y. Endo, S. Murakami, S. Niwano, S. Watanabe, K Izumi, T. Takeshi
- Description: Large-scale natural avalanches of dry and wet snow were occurred at Makunosawa valley in Myoko, Japan. The both avalanches started in the same zone an...
- Object ID: issw-2002-008-012.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche velocity, dry snow avalanche, wet snow avalanche, makunosawa valley
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- Title: Evidence of Chaos in Slab Avalanches
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Walter Rosenthal, Kelly Elder
- Description: We present evidence that slab avalanching is a chaotic process. A 20-year set of 8062 avalanches running on more than 140 paths at Mammoth Mountain wa...
- Object ID: issw-2002-013-018.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, chaos, fractals, attractors
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- Title: Infrasonic Monitoring of Avalanche Activity
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Ernest D. Scott, Craig Lance
- Description: Avalanches have been shown to produce sub-audible acoustic pressure fluctuations in the low frequency infrasonic spectrum, but limited information tha...
- Object ID: issw-2002-019-024.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche monitoring, avalanche detection, infrasound
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- Title: Russian-Norwegian Project on Seismicity-Induced Avalanches
- Date: 2002
- Authors: P. Chernouss, E. Mokrov, Y. Feorenko, E. Husebye, E. Beketova
- Description: Sometime a direct damage of earthquake can be less than that occurs due to triggered phenomena such as landslides, avalanches, etc. It is very difficu...
- Object ID: issw-2002-025-030.pdf
- Keywords: seismisity, snow stability, avalanche, simulation
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- Title: Storage and Visualisation of Relevant Avalanche Information at Different Scales
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Pascal Hageli, Roger Atkins
- Description: It is the decision-makers' perception of snow stability and how it applies to terrain that determines their decisions about closing a highway, opening...
- Object ID: issw-2002-032-038.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, perception, database system, data visualization, software
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- Title: AVALHEX: New Gas-Mix-Explosive System for Avalance Triggering - Statement After Two Seasons of Use in Savoie, France
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Alain Duclos, Pierre Senabre
- Description: AVALHEX system is based upon a gas-mix-explosive blast (hydrogen - oxygen) above snow. It is the result of development driven by CEMAGREF, CEAlCENG an...
- Object ID: issw-2002-039.pdf
- Keywords: triggering, explosive, avalhex
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