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Title: Can We Derive an Avalanche Terrain Severity Rating from Observed Terrain Selection of Professional Guides? A Proof-Of-Concept Study
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Scott Thumlert, Pascal Haegeli
Description: The physical risk from snow avalanches poses a serious threat to backcountry recreationalists and the winter backcountry recreation industry. Professi...
Object ID: ISSW16_O5.03.pdf
Keywords: terrain selection, helicopter ski guiding, avalanche risk management, avalanche hazard, gis avalanche terrain classification
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Title: In the Pursuit of Standards - the Next Step in Canada's Avalanche Risk Management Guidelines
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Cam Campbell, Steve Conger, Brian Gould, Pascal Haegeli, Bruce Jamieson, Grant Statham
Description: Recognizing the need to standardize new and innovative Canadian avalanche risk management practices and respond to increasing demand from regulatory b...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.27.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, risk, management, guidelines, planning, operations
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Title: Exploring Large-Scale Terrain Preferences for Managing Avalanche Risk in a Commercial Backcountry Skiing Operation
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Reto Sterchi, Pascal Haegeli, Clair Israelson
Description: Guides of commercial backcountry skiing operations manage the physical risk from avalanches by assessing the local avalanche hazard and carefully choo...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.31.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk management, terrain selection, decision making, helicopter skiing, conceptual model of avalanche hazard
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Title: Gravity Storm: A Case Study of the March 6, 2012 Avalanche Events at Sunshine Village, Banff
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Brendan Martland
Description: This paper introduces the avalanche control program at Sunshine Village Ski Resort and touches on a section of the Banff National Park Road Control pr...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O4.04.pdf
Keywords: public forecasting; human factors; avalanche risk management; post-control release; deep persistent weak layer.
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Title: Uncertainty and Risk, Merging Theory with Practical Adaptation in Avalanche Hazard Management
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Steve Conger
Description: Risk management has increasingly become the umbrella theme for avalanche hazard forecasting, control, and safety. Much has been written and introduced...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P3.32.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk management process, uncertainty analysis, iso31000, vulnerability, haz-ard analysis, hazard evaluation, integral avalanche protection
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Title: About Probabilistic Graphical Models in Probabilistic Avalanche Science: The Case of Stop or Go
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Mario Pichler, Sebastian Eder, Michael Larcher
Description: In order to provide practically applicable tools for winter mountaineers to manage uncertainties and to reduce associated risks underneath an acceptab...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P3.50.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, risk management, decision frameworks, bayesian networks, mobile decision support app.
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Title: Avalanche Risk Management in Winter 2012/13 in Monterosa Ski Resort – Aosta Valley (IT)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Prola A., Welf A., Durand N., Frigo B., Dellavedova P., Segor V.
Description: Monterosa Ski is one of the most important resorts in the North/West Italian Alps. Extending through three valleys in two regions (Aosta Valley and Pi...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-15.pdf
Keywords: ski resort, avalanche, risk management
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Title: Vulnerability: Caught in an Avalanche – Then What are the Odds?
Date: 2012
Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Alan S.T. Jones
Description: Vulnerability is an essential component in qualitative and quantitative avalanche risk analyses. It is the probable consequences given that the eleme...
Object ID: issw-2012-001-008.pdf
Keywords: vulnerability, avalanche properties, destructive avalanches, avalanche risk management, hazard index,
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Title: A Rule Based Risk Management System Based on Maps and Danger Level
Date: 2012
Authors: Kalle Kronholm, Jo Gunnar Ellevold
Description: After a tragic accident where 16 soldiers were killed in an avalanche during a military exercise in 1986, the Norwegian Armed Forces took several ste...
Object ID: issw-2012-693-695.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk management, release zones, geographic information systems (gis)
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Title: Educating Ski Patrollers at Chimbulak (Shymbulak) Ski Resort, Kazakhstan
Date: 2012
Authors: Alexander Prokop, Peter Dirninger
Description: Chimbulak ski resort, located close to the former capital city of Kazakhstan, Almaty, has challenging preconditions to make their resort avalanche saf...
Object ID: issw-2012-831-833.pdf
Keywords: ski patrolling, avalanche risk management, artificially triggered, snow control
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Title: The Role of Information Technology in Public Avalanche Forecasting International Snow Science Workshop 2012
Date: 2012
Authors: Kristina Welch
Description: Technology has changed the face of many industries, prompting an evolution of business norms and processes. As industries mature their relationship wi...
Object ID: issw-2012-404-407.pdf
Keywords: technology, ski safety, avalanche forecasting, avalanche risk management
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Title: Intuition, Recognition and Patterns – Decision-Making by Mountain Guides in Avalanche Situations
Date: 2009
Authors: Jan Mersch, Anton Kühberger
Description: The community of professional mountain guides is an expert group in the field of avalanche danger. In a naturalistic decision making framework we stu...
Object ID: issw-2009-0606-0609.pdf
Keywords: naturalistic decision making, critical decision method, recognition primed decisions, intuition, avalanche risk management
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Title: Online Decision Support Tool for Avalanche Risk Management
Date: 2004
Authors: Patrick Nairz, Karel Kriz, Michaela Kinberger
Description: The Avalanche Warning Center Tyrol (Innsbruck, Austria) together with the Department of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna ha...
Object ID: issw-2004-514-519.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk management, online information system, decision support system
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Title: Preferred Knots for Joining Hollow Braid Poly Rope
Date: 1998
Authors: Dick Chisholm
Description: Ski patrollers disagree about which is the most secure knot for joining two pieces of hollow braid polypropylene rope. This shiny, diamond-patterned r...
Object ID: issw-1998-325-334.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk management, knot security, knots for polypropylene rope, ski area management, hollow braid polypropylene rope
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