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Title: Styrian Avalanche Service – Danger Scale 5 – More than 200 Avalanches
Date: 2009
Authors: Arnold Studeregger, Hannes Rieder
Description: In Styria there are 35 avalanche commissions for 47 parishes. They are divided into 11 different political areas. The local avalanche commission has ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0346-0349.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, avalanche warning service styria, danger scale
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Title: The Current State of Avalanche Risk Analysis and Hazard Mapping in Uzbekistan
Date: 2009
Authors: Eleonora Semakova, Sergey Myagkov, Richard L. Armstrong
Description: This paper includes new results of avalanche mapping in Uzbekistan. The avalanche caused damage distribution in Uzbekistan is presented. The descript...
Object ID: issw-2009-0509-0513.pdf
Keywords: potential danger territories, avalanche risk, avalanche hazard mapping
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Title: Web-Based Tool to Support Local Avalanche Services With Hazard Evaluation and Documentation
Date: 2009
Authors: Sibylle Moehle, Lukas Stoffel
Description: Local avalanche services have to gain a quick overview of avalanche danger and snow condition. For this purpose, they have access to data retrieved by...
Object ID: issw-2009-0554-0558.pdf
Keywords: local avalanche service, avalanche protection, avalanche danger evaluation, hazard estimation, documentation
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Title: 1985 – 2009 Twenty-Five Years of Avalanche Accidents in Italy
Date: 2009
Authors: M. Valt, I. Chiambretti, R. Zasso
Description: Italy’s avalanche accidents data bank was carried out by AINEVA and stores more than 800 events between 1985 and 2009 period. Data bank files ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0686-0690.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accidents, danger degree, mountain professional, rescue
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Title: Avalanche Hazard, Danger and Risk - A Practical Explanation
Date: 2008-09-23
Authors: Grant Statham
Description: A complete understanding of the fundamental concepts of avalanche hazard, danger and risk should become basic requirements for anyone undertaking aval...
Object ID: P__8153.pdf
Keywords: risk, hazard, danger, probability, consequence, exposure
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Title: Can Field Observations be Combined Systematically With the Regional Danger Rating to Estimate the Local Avalanche Danger?
Date: 2008-09-23
Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Pascal Haegeli
Description: Snow avalanche danger can vary considerably within the large forecast regions in western Canada. Experienced recreationists routinely use the regional...
Object ID: P__8171.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snowpack tests, field observations, classification trees, avalanche danger, scale issues
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Title: Avalanche Forecasting Matrix
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Richard W. Steiner, Jr.
Description: The Avalanche Forecasting Matrix (Matrix) is an avalanche forecasting classification model created to improve communication between avalanche forecast...
Object ID: P__8039.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, contributory factor analysis, avalanche danger
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Title: Values at Risk Due to Avalanche and Rock Fall Hazard in Norway
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Kalle Kronholm
Description: More than 6.7 % of the Norwegian land area features terrain steeper than 30 degrees. It is commonly assumed that these areas can be the source for bot...
Object ID: P__8130.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, hazard, risk, danger
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Title: New Trends of Avalanche Accidents in Backcountry Terrain in Switzerland
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Benjamin Zweifel
Description: In the last 10 years equipment and knowledge of recreationists and organised rescue teams in avalanche terrain has developed. More and more people are...
Object ID: P__8169.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche accident statistics, avalanche forecast, avalanche danger degree, avalanche rescue, backcountry
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Title: Fatal Avalanche Accidents and Forecasted Danger Levels: Patterns in the United States, Canada, Switzerland and France
Date: 2006
Authors: Ethan Greene, Thomas Wiesinger, Karl Birkeland, Cécile Coléou, Alan Jones, Grant Statham
Description: Throughout the winter, avalanche forecasters issue bulletins to help the public and the managers of public facilities make avalanche safety decisions....
Object ID: issw-2006-640-649.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche danger, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Spatial and Time Scale Effects in Canadian Avalanche Bulletins
Date: 2006
Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Cam Campbell, Alan Jones
Description: In the winters of 2004-05 and 2005-06, 235 local “nowcasts” of the avalanche danger at and below treeline in the Coast, Columbia and Rocky...
Object ID: issw-2006-394-402.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, scale issue, spatial scale, temporal scale, avalanche danger
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Title: Rough Correlations of Common Snowpack Stability Tests
Date: 2006
Authors: Mark Moore
Description: Because each different layer of snow can respond to applied stress in a variety of ways, and because the mechanical properties of snow layers often ch...
Object ID: issw-2006-428-434.pdf
Keywords: stability test, snowpack strength, avalanche danger, snowpack structure, snow profile, shear test
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Title: Can Stability Tests Help Recreationists Assess the Local Avalanche Danger?
Date: 2006
Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Jürg Schweizer, Pascal Haegeli, Cam Campbell
Description: In western Canada, various agencies issue public avalanche bulletins three to seven times per week for regions which range from less than 500 km2 to a...
Object ID: issw-2006-468-477.pdf
Keywords: snowpack stability tests, avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger, spatial scale
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Title: Fatal Avalanche Accidents and Forecasted Danger Levels: Patterns in the United States, Canada, Switzerland and France
Date: 2006
Authors: Ethan Greene, Thomas Wiesinger, Karl Birkeland, Cécile Coléou, Alan Jones, Grant Statham
Description: Throughout the winter, avalanche forecasters issue bulletins to help the public and the managers of public facilities make avalanche safety decisions....
Object ID: issw-2006-640-649.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche danger, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Measurements of Snow Straigraphy with FMCW Radar: Comparison with Other Snow Science Instruments
Date: 2004
Authors: H.P. Marshall, M. Schneebeli, G. Koh, M. Matzl, C. Pielmeier
Description: The stratigraphy of an alpine snowpack is very important for avalanche danger assessment, as well as interpretation of remote sensing measurements for...
Object ID: issw-2004-057-063.pdf
Keywords: snowpack, stratigraphy, snowmicropen, danger
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