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- Title: Hazard Levels Warning for Avalanche Danger on Dwellings Proposal
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: François Rapin
- Description: Avalanches effecting or destroying dwellings are fortunately relatively rare. As such, when these events occur they are surprising and often devastati...
- Object ID: P__8185.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, hazard, level, warning, dwelling
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- Title: Passive Avalanche Defense for a Domestic Transportation Application: The Milepost 151 Avalanche, Jackson, Wyoming
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Josh Hewes, Rand Decker, Rick Dustin, Scott Merry, James Montuoro, Perry Wood, Jamie Yount
- Description: Despite increasing traffic volumes and all-weather travel demands on the mountain roads of the Western United States, surprisingly few examples of con...
- Object ID: P__8146.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, hazard, mitigation, passive, snow bridge
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- Title: Avalanche Hazard Mapping - 30 Years Experience in Austria
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Siegfried Sauermoser
- Description: Natural hazards are increasingly a limiting factor in mountainous countries in connection with the growing population and economical development. Peop...
- Object ID: issw-2006-314-321.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche hazard mapping, austrian service in torrent and avalanche control, natural hazard
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- Title: Using GIS and Remote Sensing to Assess Avalanche Hazards for New Road Corridors in Alaska
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Douglas D. Scott
- Description: As part of HDR’s Chignik Connectors Project (a road system connecting the three communities of Chignik), assessment and mapping of potential av...
- Object ID: issw-2006-465-467.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche hazard assessment, alaska, transportation, geographic information systems (gis), terrain modeling, and remote sensing
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- Title: Graphic Avalanche Information for the New Media
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Bruce Tremper, Jim Conway
- Description: As recently as ten years ago, the only way to deliver avalanche information to the public was through the recorded telephone advisory. Most avalanche ...
- Object ID: issw-2006-505-509.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche advisory, graphics, media, communication, avalanche hazard, public
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- Title: Potential Release Areas and Return Period of Avalanches: Is There a Relation?
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Margherita Maggioni, Urs Gruber, Ross S. Purves, Michele Freppaz
- Description: Avalanche hazard zones are usually defined in terms of impact pressures and run-out
distances for avalanches with a specific return period (T). Calcu...
- Object ID: issw-2006-566-571.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche hazard maps, release area, return period, extreme-values statistics
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- Title: Enviromental Implications for Explosives Based Risk Mitigation: A Case Study from the BNSF Railway Avalanche Safety Program Essex, Montana, USA
- Date: 2006
- Authors: David Hamre, Richard W. Steiner
- Description: On January 28th, 2004, numerous avalanches released above the BNSF Railway tracks located in John F. Stevens Canyon, Montana. In particular, three ava...
- Object ID: issw-2006-747-756.pdf
- Keywords: bnsf, railroad, snowsheds, avalanche forecasting, avalanche hazard, explosives, artillery
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- Title: Melt-Induced Deformation in an Isothermal Snowpack
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Simon A. Trautman, Stephan G. Custer, Karl W. Birkeland
- Description: Bridger Bowl Ski Area outside of Bozeman, MT, USA, has encountered annual problems forecasting large, wet loose avalanches that occur during warming e...
- Object ID: ISSW-2004-011.pdf
- Keywords: loose avalanche, hazard, deformation
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- Title: Avalanche Hazard Reduction Using the Avalanche Guard: A Cache and Mortar Technology
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Robert Rice Jr., Steve Putnam, Ralph Patterson, Rand Decker, Jamie Yount, Oswald Garber, David Sly, Galen Richards, Ted Wells
- Description: The Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) in Jackson, Wyoming installed and successfully operated the Avalanche Guard, an automated, remotely o...
- Object ID: issw-2004-688-695.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche control, avalanche hazard reduction, artificial avalanche release, transportation
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- Title: The Blaster Boxes: Installing, Testing and Operating North America's First Stationary Avalanche Blasters
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Craig Sterbenz
- Description: Several years ago, an avalanche technician in Lech, Austria envisioned a remotely
operated, fixed mortar capable oflaunching multiple explosive proje...
- Object ID: issw-2002-055-058.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche protection, avalanche hazard reduction
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- Title: Discussion of the Directional Characteristics of Explosives Commonly Used in Avalanche Hazard Reduction
- Date: 2000
- Authors: G. L. Sherwood
- Description: All explosives exhibit directional shock wave characteristics, the explosives commonly used for avalanche control also produce these same characterist...
- Object ID: issw-2000-321-324.pdf
- Keywords: characteristics, explosives, blasting, avalanche, hazard, mitigation
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- Title: Study of the 1999 Avalanches in the Obergoms Valley, Switzerland, With Respect to Avalanche Hazard Mapping
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Urs Gruber, Perry Bartelt
- Description: The Obergoms valley is a highly visited tourist region in south-western Switzerland. It was dramatically struck by avalanches during the Winter of 199...
- Object ID: issw-2000-495-500.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche hazard mapping, avalanche dynamics, deflecting dams, deposition depths
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- Title: Forest Industry Snow Avalanche Hazards in Southeastern B.C.
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Lawrence S. Redfern
- Description: Snow avalanche hazards are an issue for the forest industry in southeastern British
Columbia; this issue may be of increasing importance in the futur...
- Object ID: issw-1998-014-021.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche terrain, avalanche hazard, forest
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- Title: Modification of the Avalanche Hazard Index for Operational Analysis of a Specific Highway and Improved Comparative Analysis of Multiple Highways
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Steve Conger, Ritchie Taylor
- Description: This paper explores the notion that the Avalanche Hazard Index can be used for operational analysis of avalanche hazard over time of a specific road u...
- Object ID: issw-1998-447-455.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche hazard, avalanche forecasting, avalanche countermeasures
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- Title: Hazard Mapping for Ice and Combined Snow/Ice Avalanches - Two Case Studies from the Swiss and Italian Alps
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Stefan Margreth, Martin Fun
- Description: In September 1996 210'000 m3 of glacier ice broke off from the Gutzgletscher which is situated in the north-west face of the Wetterhorn above Grindelw...
- Object ID: issw-1998-368-380.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche run-out, hanging glacier, ice avalanche, hazard mapping
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