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Title: Quantifying the obvious: the avalanche danger level: Date: 2018-10-07; Authors: JÃ¼rg Schweizer, Christoph Mitterer, Frank Techel, Andreas Stoffel, Benjamin Reuter; Description: The avalanche danger level is the key communication vehicle when it comes to describing the avalanche situation and issuing public warnings. Yet the f...; Object ID: ISSW2018_O11.6.pdf; Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow instability, avalanche triggering, avalanche size; View additional details about Quantifying the obvious: the avalanche danger level

Title: Observation of Blowing Snow Events and Associated Avalanche Occurrences: Date: 2014-09-29; Authors: Gilbert Guyomarch, Daniel Goetz, Vincent Vionnet, Florence Naaim-Bouvet, MichaÃ«l Deschatres; Description: Blowing snow events are often associated with an increase in avalanche hazard. Strong wind activity at the mountain environment results indeed in unev...; Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P1.11.pdf; Keywords: blowing snow events, avalanche observations, avalanche triggering.; View additional details about Observation of Blowing Snow Events and Associated Avalanche Occurrences

Title: The Avalanche Airbag System and Modern Avalanche Transceivers. Useful Rescue Devices With Gadget Functions?: Date: 2012; Authors: Franz Kroell; Description: This document reviews the effectiveness of the Avalanche Airbag System and Avalanche Transceivers. Essential design concepts of the Avalanche Airbag S...; Object ID: issw-2012-353-360.pdf; Keywords: avalanche airbags, avalanche triggering, transceiver; View additional details about The Avalanche Airbag System and Modern Avalanche Transceivers. Useful Rescue Devices With Gadget Functions?

Title: Slab Avalanche Triggering: A Combination of Four Basic Phenomena in Series: Date: 2006; Authors: Alain Duclos, FranÃ§ois Louchet; Description: There is still a significant gap between models describing slab avalanche triggering mechanisms and practical field applications in terms of risk pre...; Object ID: issw-2006-101-106.pdf; Keywords: avalanche triggering, crack propagation, avalanche program; View additional details about Slab Avalanche Triggering: A Combination of Four Basic Phenomena in Series

Title: Scale Invariance of Snow Avalanche Triggering Mechanisms: Date: 2002; Authors: J. Faillettaz, F. Louchet, J.R. Grasso, D. Daudon, R. Dendievel; Description: Field data on more than 5000 avalanches confirm that avalanche size distributions are scale invariant, in a same way as a number of other geophysical ...; Object ID: issw-2002-528-531.pdf; Keywords: avalanche triggering, scale invariance, critical phenomena, cellular automata; View additional details about Scale Invariance of Snow Avalanche Triggering Mechanisms

Title: Forecasting Factors for Skier-Triggered Avalanches at a Helicopter Skiing Operation: Date: 2000; Authors: Alan S.T. Jones, Bruce Jamieson, Mike Wiegele; Description: To forecast skier-triggered avalanches, stability, snowpack and meteorological variables, and records of previous avalanche activity are typically use...; Object ID: issw-2000-184-191.pdf; Keywords: avalanches, avalanche forecasting, avalanche triggering, skier triggering; View additional details about Forecasting Factors for Skier-Triggered Avalanches at a Helicopter Skiing Operation

Title: Avalanche Control in the Brooks Range of Alaska an Environment of Extremes: Date: 1998; Authors: Reid Bahnson; Description: In 1974 the Dalton Highway was built north of Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay, AK. along the route of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline being constructed at the time...; Object ID: issw-1998-008-012.pdf; Keywords: avalanche triggering, slushflows, snow melt and run-off; View additional details about Avalanche Control in the Brooks Range of Alaska an Environment of Extremes

Title: Sluff Management: Date: 1998; Authors: Jim Conway, Mark Newcomb; Description: Since the first World Extreme Skiing Championships in Valdez in 1991, the Chugach Range around the Thompson Pass area has drawn thousands of skiers se...; Object ID: issw-1998-502-505.pdf; Keywords: snow slides, avalanche tracks, avalanche triggering; View additional details about Sluff Management

Title: Surface Warming of a Dry Snowpack Increases Skier-Induced Stress and Strain Magnitudes in Deeper Weak Layers: Date: 1998; Authors: A. Wilson, J. Schweizer, C.D. Johnston, J.B. Jamieson; Description: Changes in air temperature, and hence snow temperature, influence snow stability for skiers. This paper studies how warming in the top 20 cm of a hard...; Object ID: issw-1998-514-519.pdf; Keywords: snow stability, avalanche triggering, snow thermal effects; View additional details about Surface Warming of a Dry Snowpack Increases Skier-Induced Stress and Strain Magnitudes in Deeper Weak Layers