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The mechanics of snow friction as revealed by micro-scale interface observations
Journal of Glaciology, 2018 The mechanics of snow friction are central to competitive skiing, safe winter driving and efficient polar sleds. For nearly 80 years, prevailing theory has postulated that self-lubrication accounts for low kinetic friction on snow: dry-contact sliding ...
JAMES H. LEVER +5 more
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Antarctic Snow Failure Mechanics: Analysis, Simulations, and Applications. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Snow failure is the process by which the stability of snow or snow-covered slopes is destroyed, resulting in the collapse or release of snow. Heavy snowfall, low temperatures, and volatile weather typically cause consequences in Antarctica, which can ...
Xiao E +4 more
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Journal of Glaciology, 2019 From field observations, dry snow slab avalanche initiation is associated with fracture within relatively thin weak layers under stronger, cohesive slabs.
D. M. McCLUNG, C. P. BORSTAD
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Angle of repose experiments with snow: role of grain shape and cohesion
Journal of Glaciology, 2020 Snow appears as a granular material in most engineering applications. We examined the role of grain shape and cohesion in angle of repose experiments, which are a common means for the characterization of granular materials. The role of shape was examined
Carolin Willibald +4 more
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Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 1974 The International Symposium on Snow Mechanics was held April 1–5, 1974, in Grindelwald, Switzerland, under the sponsorship of the International Association of Hydrological Science.The conference, organized by the International Commission on Snow and Ice, attracted participants from a number of countries to discuss the physical and mechanical ...
Samuel C. Colbeck, R. I. Perla
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Detrainment and braking of snow avalanches interacting with forests [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2022 Mountain forests provide natural protection against avalanches. They can both prevent avalanche formation in release zones and reduce avalanche mobility in runout areas.
L. Védrine +4 more
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Heterogeneous grain growth and vertical mass transfer within a snow layer under a temperature gradient [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2023 Inside a snow cover, metamorphism plays a key role in snow evolution at different scales. This study focuses on the impact of temperature gradient metamorphism on a snow layer in its vertical extent.
L. Bouvet +4 more
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Intercomparison of snow density measurements: bias, precision, and vertical resolution [PDF]
, 2016 Density is a fundamental property of porous media such as snow. A wide range of snow properties and physical processes are linked to density, but few studies have addressed the uncertainty in snow density measurements.
C. Fierz +7 more
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Snow-Collection Mechanisms and the Capacities of Snow Fences [PDF]
Annals of Glaciology, 1989 The shapes of equilibrium lee drifts formed by snow fences are scaled in proportion to height of snow fences independent of the snow and weather conditions, even in small-scale models, but those of up-wind drifts are not.Field studies have been made of the snow-collection mechanisms of a snow fence.
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Journal of Glaciology, 2018 The critique by Issler and other (2017) of our avalanche dynamics model maintains that we disregard well-established results of particulate gravity flows.
PERRY BARTELT, OTHMAR BUSER
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