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Title: STATEWIDE APPLICATION OF THE AVALANCHE HAZARD INDEX: Date: 2023-10-08; Authors: David Hamre, Jordy Hendrikx, Chris Wilbur, Alan Jones; Description: The Avalanche Hazard Index (AHI) (Schaerer 1989, Hendrikx and Owens 2008) has been a useful tool for expressing avalanche risk to highways and railroa...; Object ID: ISSW2023_O13.01.pdf; Keywords: avalanche hazard index (ahi), consultants best estimate (cbe), highway avalanche risk, remote avalanche control systems (racs), advanced forecasting technology (aft); View additional details about STATEWIDE APPLICATION OF THE AVALANCHE HAZARD INDEX

Title: A MULTI-FACTOR APPROACH TO RANK AND MANAGE THE IMPACT OF AVALANCHES ON HIGHWAY OPERATIONS: Date: 2023-10-08; Authors: Mike Cooperstein, Rebecca Hodgetts, Spencer Logan, Brian Gorsage, Ethan Greene; Description: Either explicitly or implicitly, avalanche safety operations sort potential avalanche events into tolerable and intolerable bins based on the risk to ...; Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.57.pdf; Keywords: avalanche forecasting, transportation, avalanche hazard; View additional details about A MULTI-FACTOR APPROACH TO RANK AND MANAGE THE IMPACT OF AVALANCHES ON HIGHWAY OPERATIONS

Title: AVALANCHE MITIGATION AT LIZARD HEAD PASS: Date: 2023-10-08; Authors: Rosalind (Roz) Reynolds; Description: Lizard Head Pass, a section of State Highway 145 (SH 145) between the towns of Ophir and Rico, located in Southern Colorado, averages 2300 vehicles da...; Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.58.pdf; Keywords: remote avalanche control systems (racs), avalanche hazard index (ahi), mitigated ahi, annual frequency, return period; View additional details about AVALANCHE MITIGATION AT LIZARD HEAD PASS

Title: Risk-oriented vs hazard-oriented decision-making for opening and closing of traffic routes: Date: 2018-10-07; Authors: Michael BrÃ¼ndl, Lukas Stoffel, Walter Steinkogler; Description: People expect to be safe when driving on roads. During winter, local avalanche services in charge for infrastructure safety continuously assess the ha...; Object ID: ISSW2018_O03.4.pdf; Keywords: avalanche hazard and risk assessment, duty of care, individual risk, decision making, safety services.; View additional details about Risk-oriented vs hazard-oriented decision-making for opening and closing of traffic routes

Title: Blons in Vorarlberg, Austria - 60 Years Sustainable Avalanche Protection: Experience, Setbacks, and Lessons Learned: Date: 2018-10-07; Authors: Andreas Drexel, Gianna Alexandra Moser, Johann Kessler; Description: In 1954, the largest avalanche accident in the history of the second Austrian Republic occurred in the small Walser community of Blons in Vorarlberg. ...; Object ID: ISSW2018_P03.5.pdf; Keywords: sustainable avalanche protection, protection forest, avalanche hazard in blons/ vorarlberg.; View additional details about Blons in Vorarlberg, Austria - 60 Years Sustainable Avalanche Protection: Experience, Setbacks, and Lessons Learned

Title: Implementation of the large-scale avalanche hazard mapping into Russian practice: Date: 2018-10-07; Authors: Pelageya Rodionova, Alla Turchaninova, Yury Seliverstov, Tatiana Glazovskaya; Description: The snow avalanches endangered regions in Russia occupy 18% of the territory. But the large-scale avalanche hazard zoning is not yet used for the land...; Object ID: ISSW2018_P03.13.pdf; Keywords: avalanche hazard, risk, land use planning, numerical modeling, ramms.; View additional details about Implementation of the large-scale avalanche hazard mapping into Russian practice

Title: The northeastern continental snow climate: A new snow climate classification for the GaspÃ© Peninsula, QuÃ©bec, Canada: Date: 2018-10-07; Authors: Francis Meloche, Francis Gauthier, Alexandre Langlois, Dominic Boucher; Description: Snow climate classification has been a subject in avalanche research for the past decades. A good comprehension of the snow climate and snow avalanche...; Object ID: ISSW2018_P10.37.pdf; Keywords: snow climate, snowpack, avalanche hazard, gaspÃ© peninsula, avalanche problem; View additional details about The northeastern continental snow climate: A new snow climate classification for the GaspÃ© Peninsula, QuÃ©bec, Canada

Title: Forecasting for dry and wet avalanches during mixed rain and snow storm: Date: 2018-10-07; Authors: Scott Savage, Erich Peitzsch, Simon Trautman, Ben VandenBos; Description: Natural wet slab avalanches release when rain or melt water decreases snowpack strength, and natural dry slab avalanches release when an increased loa...; Object ID: ISSW2018_O11.3.pdf; Keywords: wet avalanche, rain-on-snow, conceptual model for avalanche hazard; View additional details about Forecasting for dry and wet avalanches during mixed rain and snow storm

Title: An Operational Specific Avalanche Risk Matrix (OSARM): Combining the Conceptual Model of Avalanche Hazard with risk analysis and operational mitigation strategies: Date: 2018-10-07; Authors: S. Langeland, P. Velsand, L. Solemsli Ã˜yvind, W. Steinkogler; Description: Object specific avalanche forecasting is common in many countries and typically assesses avalanche hazard on an mountain (> 10 km2) scale or single pa...; Object ID: ISSW2018_O12.3.pdf; Keywords: avalanche forecasting, local forecasting, operational forecasting, danger scales, danger levels, conceptual model of avalanche hazard, osarm, avalanche risk, risk mitigation, iso 31 000, tasarm; View additional details about An Operational Specific Avalanche Risk Matrix (OSARM): Combining the Conceptual Model of Avalanche Hazard with risk analysis and operational mitigation strategies

Title: Establishing the link between the Conceptual Model of Avalanche Hazard and the North American Public Avalanche Danger Scale: Initial Explorations from Canada: Date: 2018-10-07; Authors: Taylor Clark, Pascal Haegeli; Description: In 2010, Statham and colleagues introduced the conceptual model of avalanche hazard (CMAH; Statham et al., 2018) to make avalanche bulletin production...; Object ID: ISSW2018_O12.4.pdf; Keywords: danger rating, avalanche hazard, forecasting, decision trees; View additional details about Establishing the link between the Conceptual Model of Avalanche Hazard and the North American Public Avalanche Danger Scale: Initial Explorations from Canada

Title: AvalMap - a snowpack, weather, terrain and land cover based avalanche hazard model for the Low Tatras, Slovakia: Date: 2018-10-07; Authors: Taylor Clark; Description: AvalMap is a complex, multi-layer snowpack and avalanche hazard model with a basic idea of spatially and temporally modelling the evolution of snowpac...; Object ID: ISSW2018_O12.5.pdf; Keywords: avalmap, snowpack, multi-layer, model, avalanche hazard; View additional details about AvalMap - a snowpack, weather, terrain and land cover based avalanche hazard model for the Low Tatras, Slovakia

Title: Effects of large-scale atmosphere-ocean oscillations on the nature of avalanche hazard in western Canada: Date: 2018-10-07; Authors: Bret Shandro, Pascal Haegeli; Description: Numerous large-scale atmosphere-ocean oscillations including El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), the Pacific N...; Object ID: ISSW2018_O12.10.pdf; Keywords: el nino-southern oscillation, pacific decadal oscillation, pacific north america pattern, arctic oscillation, avalanche hazard, avalanche climate; View additional details about Effects of large-scale atmosphere-ocean oscillations on the nature of avalanche hazard in western Canada

Title: Are strategic methods sufficient for an adequate assessment of avalanche danger? - the state of facts in the case of a judicial procedure: Date: 2018-10-07; Authors: Peter HÃ¶ller; Description: The number of strategic methods to estimate a prevailing situation in the field is quite large and not well-structured. The majority of these methods ...; Object ID: ISSW2018_P14.1.pdf; Keywords: avalanche hazard assessment, strategies, decision making; View additional details about Are strategic methods sufficient for an adequate assessment of avalanche danger? - the state of facts in the case of a judicial procedure

Title: Avalanche terrain maps for backcountry skiing in Switzerland: Date: 2018-10-07; Authors: Stephan Harvey, GÃ¼nter Schmudlach, Yves BÃ¼hler, Lukas DÃ¼rr, Andreas Stoffel, Marc Christen; Description: Terrain characteristics are one of the main factors contributing to avalanche formation. Hence, terrain assessment is crucial for planning and decisio...; Object ID: ISSW2018_O19.1.pdf; Keywords: avalanche terrain, avalanche terrain map, avalanche hazard mapping, backcountry touring; View additional details about Avalanche terrain maps for backcountry skiing in Switzerland

Title: What type of ski runs are acceptable for skiing under different avalanche hazard conditions? Extracting knowledge from heli-ski guides: Date: 2018-10-07; Authors: Reto Sterchi, Pascal Haegeli; Description: While guides in mechanized skiing operations use a well-established terrain selection process to limit their exposure to avalanche hazard and keep the...; Object ID: ISSW2018_P19.5.pdf; Keywords: mixed effects model, avalanche risk management, terrain selection, decision making, helicopter skiing, conceptual model of avalanche hazard; View additional details about What type of ski runs are acceptable for skiing under different avalanche hazard conditions? Extracting knowledge from heli-ski guides

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