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- Title: Avalanche Forecasting for Large Area Mechanized Ski Guiding
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Mike Wiegele
- Description: It is a given that practitioners need to provide a safe and enjoyable experience to their clients, they also have a legal responsibility to provide a ...
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- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, ski guiding, avalanche danger, five step method
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- Title: Regional Stability Evaluation With Modelled Snow Cover Data
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Michael Schirmer, Jürg Schweizer, Michael Lehning
- Description: Stability (or the probability of avalanche occurrence or release) is probably the key factor defining the avalanche danger level. Most snow stability ...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0306-0312.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow stability, avalanche danger, snow cover, numerical modelling
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- Title: Simple Calculations of Avalanche Risk for Backcountry Skiing
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Jürg Schweizer, Cora Shea
- Description: The avalanche risk from backcountry skiing and its dependence on the regional danger ratings have not been estimated—notably in North America. ...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0336-0340.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk, backcountry skiing, comparative risk, skier-triggering, regional avalanche danger
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- Title: Web-Based Tool to Support Local Avalanche Services With Hazard Evaluation and Documentation
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Sibylle Moehle, Lukas Stoffel
- Description: Local avalanche services have to gain a quick overview of avalanche danger and snow condition. For this purpose, they have access to data retrieved by...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0554-0558.pdf
- Keywords: local avalanche service, avalanche protection, avalanche danger evaluation, hazard estimation, documentation
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- Title: Can Field Observations be Combined Systematically With the Regional Danger Rating to Estimate the Local Avalanche Danger?
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Pascal Haegeli
- Description: Snow avalanche danger can vary considerably within the large forecast regions in western Canada. Experienced recreationists routinely use the regional...
- Object ID: P__8171.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snowpack tests, field observations, classification trees, avalanche danger, scale issues
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- Title: Avalanche Forecasting Matrix
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Richard W. Steiner, Jr.
- Description: The Avalanche Forecasting Matrix (Matrix) is an avalanche forecasting classification model created to improve communication between avalanche forecast...
- Object ID: P__8039.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, contributory factor analysis, avalanche danger
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- Title: New Trends of Avalanche Accidents in Backcountry Terrain in Switzerland
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Stephan Harvey, Benjamin Zweifel
- Description: In the last 10 years equipment and knowledge of recreationists and organised rescue teams in avalanche terrain has developed. More and more people are...
- Object ID: P__8169.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche accident statistics, avalanche forecast, avalanche danger degree, avalanche rescue, backcountry
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- Title: Fatal Avalanche Accidents and Forecasted Danger Levels: Patterns in the United States, Canada, Switzerland and France
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Ethan Greene, Thomas Wiesinger, Karl Birkeland, Cécile Coléou, Alan Jones, Grant Statham
- Description: Throughout the winter, avalanche forecasters issue bulletins to help the public and the managers of public facilities make avalanche safety decisions....
- Object ID: issw-2006-640-649.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche danger, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Spatial and Time Scale Effects in Canadian Avalanche Bulletins
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Cam Campbell, Alan Jones
- Description: In the winters of 2004-05 and 2005-06, 235 local “nowcasts†of the avalanche danger at and below treeline in the Coast, Columbia and Rocky...
- Object ID: issw-2006-394-402.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, scale issue, spatial scale, temporal scale, avalanche danger
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- Title: Rough Correlations of Common Snowpack Stability Tests
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Mark Moore
- Description: Because each different layer of snow can respond to applied stress in a variety of ways, and because the mechanical properties of snow layers often ch...
- Object ID: issw-2006-428-434.pdf
- Keywords: stability test, snowpack strength, avalanche danger, snowpack structure, snow profile, shear test
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- Title: Can Stability Tests Help Recreationists Assess the Local Avalanche Danger?
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Jürg Schweizer, Pascal Haegeli, Cam Campbell
- Description: In western Canada, various agencies issue public avalanche bulletins three to seven times per week for regions which range from less than 500 km2 to a...
- Object ID: issw-2006-468-477.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack stability tests, avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger, spatial scale
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- Title: Fatal Avalanche Accidents and Forecasted Danger Levels: Patterns in the United States, Canada, Switzerland and France
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Ethan Greene, Thomas Wiesinger, Karl Birkeland, Cécile Coléou, Alan Jones, Grant Statham
- Description: Throughout the winter, avalanche forecasters issue bulletins to help the public and the managers of public facilities make avalanche safety decisions....
- Object ID: issw-2006-640-649.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche danger, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Considering Considerable and Other Considerations
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Steve Blake
- Description: Avalanches do not discriminate between backcountry user groups or an individual’s
experience level. For the purposes of this discussion the po...
- Object ID: issw-2004-470-475.pdf
- Keywords: risk, avalanche danger, accidents
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- Title: A Review of Colour and Cartography in Avalanche Danger Visualization
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Steven Conger
- Description: Attention is being given to the visualization of avalanche danger through the use of
geographic information systems (GIS), much of it focusing on the...
- Object ID: issw-2004-477-482.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche danger scale, risk communication, visualization, avalanche mapping
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- Title: Ten Years Experience with the Five Level Avalanche Danger Scale and the GIS Database in Switzerland
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Andreas Stoffel, Roland Meister
- Description: In 1993 the European avalanche warning services agreed on a standardized, five level avalanche danger scale. Since then, this danger scale has been in...
- Object ID: issw-2004-545-554.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger scale, swiss alps, mountain climate
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