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Record #136602:

Avalanche prediction for persistent snow slabs / James Bruce Jamieson.

Title: Avalanche prediction for persistent snow slabs / James Bruce Jamieson.
Author(s): Jamieson, James Bruce.
Date: 1995.
Abstract: Presents findings based on two field tests of snow slab stability, shear frame test and rutschblock test, carried out at avalanche forecasting areas in British Columbia and Alberta during winters of 1992-93 and 1994-95.
Notes:

Dissertation submitted to Faculty of Graduate Studies in partial fulfilment of requirements for degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University of Calgary.

Keywords: 551.578.4 -- Ice needles, sleet, falling snow and graupel.
551.578.48 -- Avalanches.
551.578.483 -- Avalanches, forecasting.
E10 -- Glaciology: snow and avalanches.
(*41) -- Canada.
(*428) -- Alberta.
(*429) -- British Columbia.
Location(s): SCO: SPRI-THE: 1995[Jam]
SPRI record no.: 136602

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