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Title: Avalanche Hazard Mapping in Kazakhstan
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Blagovechshenskiy V., Gulyayeva T.
Description: Avalanche hazard maps in Kazakhstan are produced in small (< 1/500 000), medium (1/100 000 - 1/300 000), and large (> 1/100 000) scales. Avalanche ha...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-25.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard mapping
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Title: Planned Instrumentation of Snow-Supporting Structures in Jackson, Wyoming
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Scott M. Merry, Joshua T. Hewes, Rand Decker
Description: United States (US) has limited experience and lacks approved design guidelines for the design and implementation of snow supporting structures (SSS). ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-10.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard mitigation, snow supporting structures, design guidelines, instrumentation
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Title: Contribution of Dendrogeomorphology in the Field of Avalanche Hazard Assessment in the French Alps
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Romain Schläppy, Vincent Jomelli, Nicolas Eckert, Markus Stoffel, Delphine Grancher, Daniel Brunstein, Christophe Corona, Michaël Deschatres, Mohamed Naaim
Description: On forested paths, dendrogeomorphology has been demonstrated to represent a powerful tool to reconstruct past activity of avalanches with annual reso...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-37.pdf
Keywords: dendrogeomorphology, snow avalanche, hazard zoning, runout distance, return period, statistical-dynamical model
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Title: Back-Calculations of Observed Avalanches Against Natural Deflecting Dams
Date: 2012
Authors: Dieter Issler, Carl B. Harbitz, Ulrik Domaas, Kalle Kronholm, Marc Christen
Description: The objective of this study is to assess the reliability of presently available numerical avalanche models in predicting avalanche flow about deflect...
Object ID: issw-2012-038-045.pdf
Keywords: dynamic model, avalanche hazard, calculations, ramm-sonde,
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Title: The Avalx Public Avalanche Forecasting System
Date: 2012
Authors: Grant Statham, Scott Campbell, Karl Klassen
Description: In November 2011, Parks Canada, the Canadian Avalanche Centre and Alberta Parks Kananaskis Country launched a new avalanche bulletin system named Aval...
Object ID: issw-2012-165-171.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche hazard assessment, canadian avalanche centre
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Title: Incorporating Terrain into Public Avalanche Information Products
Date: 2012
Authors: Karl Klassen
Description: Public avalanche information has traditionally focussed on avalanche forecasts that provide avalanche danger ratings and contain information about wea...
Object ID: issw-2012-209-213.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecast, public safety, avalanche hazard, avalanche skills, snowpack conditions
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Title: Mitigating Your (Legal) Risk as a Forecaster – Where Are Your Own Liabilities/Risks/Tensions
Date: 2012
Authors: Tracey Knutson
Description: Avalanche forecasters, like most other professionals these days, can have legal liability or exposure to legal liability for actions (or inactions) ta...
Object ID: issw-2012-227-233.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche hazard assessment, liability
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Title: Influence of Forest on Snow Avalanche Hazard – Norwegian Challenges
Date: 2012
Authors: Hedda Breien, Øyvind A. Høydal
Description: Forested areas are less prone to snow avalanches, due to the trees' influence on snow accumulation, snow pack layering, energy balance and the armori...
Object ID: issw-2012-633-638.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard, forests, hazard zoning, runout zones
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Title: Spatio-Temporal Reconstruction of Snow Avalanche Activity Using Dendrogeomorphological Method in Bucegi Mountains-Romanian Carpathians
Date: 2012
Authors: Mircea Voiculescu, Alexandru Onaca, Patrick Chiroiu
Description: Bucegi Mountains are located on the eastern part of Southern Carpathians (Romanian Carpathians). Considering the high altitudes (over 2500 m) and mass...
Object ID: issw-2012-729-735.pdf
Keywords: dendrochronology, avalanche hazard, snow avalanche path
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Title: GIS Tools for Avalanche Assessment
Date: 2012
Authors: G. Burelli, F. Cucchi, V. Segor
Description: The use of Gis in avalanche assessment is widely adopted, it performs analysis which help to make decisions in land management. The aim of this work ...
Object ID: issw-2012-750-755.pdf
Keywords: geographic information systems (gis), land use planning, avalanche hazard
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Title: Could Fatal Avalanche Accidents in Norway from 2005 – 2012 Been Prevented Using the Reduction Method, The Basic Reduction Method and the Alptruth Method?
Date: 2012
Authors: Linda Hallandvik, Stian Langeland, Magnus Berger Skjøstad, Vetle Aase Øvrebotten, Roland van den Tillaar
Description: The number of people off-piste skiing in Norway is increasing (Odden, 2008). In the last few years the number of fatal avalanche accidents involving r...
Object ID: issw-2012-775-780.pdf
Keywords: decision support methods, avalanche hazard, avalanche accidents, avalanche risk
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Title: Partner Rescue Skills: An Organizational and Individual Assessment Over the 2010-11 and 2011-12 Winter Seasons at Big Sky Resort
Date: 2012
Authors: Jonathan Binger, Chelan Babineau-Z
Description: Avalanche hazard mitigation work is one of the more hazardous aspects of professional ski patrolling. Ski patrollers rely almost entirely on their par...
Object ID: issw-2012-783-785.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard, avalanche rescue and survival, ski patrolling
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Title: How Mountain Snowmobilers Adjust Their Riding Preferences in Response to Avalanche Hazard Information Available at Different Stages of Backcountry Trips
Date: 2012
Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Luke Strong-Cvetich, Wolfgang Haider
Description: Over the last five winters, mountain snowmobilers accounted for 53% (41 of 77) of all recreational avalanche fatalities in Canada, which is a signific...
Object ID: issw-2012-800-806.pdf
Keywords: mountain snowmobiling, avalanche hazard information, decision making, terrain choices, discrete choice experiment
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Title: Avalanche Education in the United States: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Date: 2012
Authors: David W. Lovejoy
Description: Avalanche education in the USA has a long and colorful history punctuated by many of the most notable and endearing personalities on our field. Howeve...
Object ID: issw-2012-814-819.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche history, ski patrolling, avalanche hazard
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Title: Social Data Sharing With Avalanche Lab: What If You Could Crowd Source Your Avalanche Forecast?
Date: 2012
Authors: Jesse Crocker
Description: Not Available
Object ID: issw-2012-855-858.pdf
Keywords: data management, avalanche hazard assessment, computer software
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