Snow and Avalanche Dynamics
ATMOS/GEOG 5260

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Selected Papers - some, but not all, of these will be assigned for class

Adams et al, 2008
A Bonding Process Between Grains in Mechanically Disaggregated Snow

Armstrong
Some Properties and Characteristics of Wet Snow

Armstrong
The Mountain Snowpack

Atwater
Alta Avalanche Studies

Atwater
Avalanche Hunters, Chp. 2

Bellaire, 2010
When to Dig? Thoughts on Estimating Slope Stability

Birkeland, 1998
Near Surface Faceted Crystals in the Mountain Snowpack

Colbeck, 1982
Growth of Faceted Crystals in a Snow Cover

Colbeck et al
The International Classification for Seasonal Snow on the Ground

Colbeck, 1997
A Review of Sintering in Seasonal Snow

Fraser, 1966
The Avalanche Enigma, chp 1-2

Hammonds, 2011
Avalanche Forecasting for an Untouchable Snowpack

Harrison, 1994
Snow Pit Measurements and Avalanche Forecasting Models

Harrison and Russo, 1994
Quantitative Methods of Snow Strength Measurements

Heywood, 1989
Wet Snow Avalanches: Stability Evaluation and Control

Libbrecht, 2004
Snowflake Science

LCC Avalanche Hazard Index
Little Cottonwood Canyon SR-210 Transportation Study

Moore
Rough Correlations of Common Snowpack Stability Tests

Painter et al. 2007
Impact of disturbed desert soils on duration of mountain snow cover

Painter et al. 2012
Dust radiative forcing in snow of the Upper Colorado River Basin: A 6 year record of energy balance, radiation, and dust concentrations

Pomeroy and Brun
Physical Properties of Snow

Shapiro, 1997
Snow Mechanics

Schweizer et al, 2008
Review of Spatial Variability of Snowpack Properties and its Importance for Avalanche Formation

Skiles et al. 2012
Dust radiative forcing in snow of the Upper Colorado Basin: Interannual variability in radiative forcing and snowmelt rates