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Title: CHARACTERIZING AN INCREASINGLY DIVERSE AND GROWING BACKCOUNTRY COMMUNITY: A HOLISTIC AND INFORMATIVE APPROACH USING AUDIENCE SEGMENTATION: Date: 2023-10-08; Authors: Anneliese Neweduk, Pascal Haegeli; Description: Over the past two decades, there has been tremendous growth in winter backcountry recreation, challenging the traditional ways in which recreationists...; Object ID: ISSW2023_O8.07.pdf; Keywords: forecast users, user characterization, risk communication; View additional details about CHARACTERIZING AN INCREASINGLY DIVERSE AND GROWING BACKCOUNTRY COMMUNITY: A HOLISTIC AND INFORMATIVE APPROACH USING AUDIENCE SEGMENTATION

Title: CHARACTERIZING DEPTH HOAR AND SURFACE HOAR CRYSTALS WITH SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AND ELECTRON BACKSCATTER DIFFRACTION: Date: 2023-10-08; Authors: Evan N. Schehrer, Kevin D. Hammonds; Description: Temperature gradients in a snowpack are recognized as the drivers for sublimation and vapor deposition of fallen snow that results in depth hoar: wea...; Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.28.pdf; Keywords: snow characterization, crystal structure; View additional details about CHARACTERIZING DEPTH HOAR AND SURFACE HOAR CRYSTALS WITH SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AND ELECTRON BACKSCATTER DIFFRACTION

Title: A new, guide-focused approach for characterizing skiing terrain to facilitate risk management decisions and research: Date: 2018-10-07; Authors: Brendan F. Wakefield, Pascal Haegeli, Reto Sterchi, Roger Atkins, Clair Israelson; Description: Perception of terrain characteristics is fundamental to risk and hazard management for professional guides in mechanized skiing operations. Existing t...; Object ID: ISSW2018_O19.5.pdf; Keywords: avalanche terrain, terrain characterization, ski guiding, avalanche risk management; View additional details about A new, guide-focused approach for characterizing skiing terrain to facilitate risk management decisions and research

Title: An Avalanche Characterization Checklist for Backcountry Travel Decisions: Date: 2004; Authors: Roger Atkins; Description: This paper presents a checklist to assess the character of likely avalanche activity for the purpose of backcountry travel decisions. The purpose of t...; Object ID: issw-2004-462-468.pdf; Keywords: avalanche, characterization, checklist; View additional details about An Avalanche Characterization Checklist for Backcountry Travel Decisions

Title: High Frequency Avalanches: Release Area Characteristics and Run Out Distances: Date: 2002; Authors: Urs Gruber Schmid, Stefanie Sardemann; Description: The motivation of this study was a hypothesis of permafrost researchers, that the occurrence of permafrost is more likely in areas that are usually co...; Object ID: issw-2002-084-089.pdf; Keywords: release area characterization, frequent avalanches, numerical modeling, permafrost; View additional details about High Frequency Avalanches: Release Area Characteristics and Run Out Distances