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Title: Considering Considerable and Other Considerations
Date: 2004
Authors: Steve Blake
Description: Avalanches do not discriminate between backcountry user groups or an individual’s experience level. For the purposes of this discussion the po...
Object ID: issw-2004-470-475.pdf
Keywords: risk, avalanche danger, accidents
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Title: A Review of Colour and Cartography in Avalanche Danger Visualization
Date: 2004
Authors: Steven Conger
Description: Attention is being given to the visualization of avalanche danger through the use of geographic information systems (GIS), much of it focusing on the...
Object ID: issw-2004-477-482.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger scale, risk communication, visualization, avalanche mapping
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Title: Ten Years Experience with the Five Level Avalanche Danger Scale and the GIS Database in Switzerland
Date: 2004
Authors: Andreas Stoffel, Roland Meister
Description: In 1993 the European avalanche warning services agreed on a standardized, five level avalanche danger scale. Since then, this danger scale has been in...
Object ID: issw-2004-545-554.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger scale, swiss alps, mountain climate
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Title: Avalanche Education Video of the Five European Avalanche Danger Levels
Date: 2002
Authors: Stephan Harvey
Description: To introduce basic knowledge of avalanche danger for off piste areas, the Swiss accident insurance company SlNA produced in close collaboration with t...
Object ID: issw-2002-242-243.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche incident, avalanche prevention, avalanche forecast, avalanche bulletin, avalanche danger degree, avalanche video, avalanche education
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Title: Avalanche Incidents in Switzerland in Relation to the Predicted Danger Degree
Date: 2002
Authors: Stephan Harvey
Description: All known avalanche incidents from 1987/88 to 1998/99 (12 years) have been analyzed with respect to the scale of avalanche danger of the Swiss avalanc...
Object ID: issw-2002-443-448.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche incident, avalanche accident statistics, avalanche forecast, avalanche bulletin, avalanche danger degree
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Title: Avalanche Accidents in Back Country Terrain of the Swiss Alps: New Investigations of a 30 Year Database
Date: 2002
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Chatrigna Signorell, Manuel Genswein
Description: More than 1000 avalanche incidents involving skiers, snowboarders and mountaineers in the back country terrain of the Swiss Alps have been filed in an...
Object ID: issw-2002-449-455.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche incident, avalanche accident statistics, avalanche forecast, avalanche bulletin, avalanche danger degree
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Title: Incorporating a Human Risk Factor in Avalanche Danger Rating Systems
Date: 2000
Authors: Michael J. Jenkins, Elizabeth G. Hebertson
Description: Stability ratings describe the probability that natural avalanches may occur and the nature of the trigger reqUired for avalanche release. Hazard rati...
Object ID: issw-2000-028-036.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger rating, human risk
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Title: Avalanche Forecasting at Stevens Pass Part II Ski Area Rating for Avalanche Potential
Date: 2000
Authors: Jon Andrews
Description: In 1994 we started a new program for avalanche control purposes at the Stevens Pass ski area. We have given the U.S. avalanche danger scale nine weath...
Object ID: issw-2000-153-157.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, ski area, control, danger scale
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Title: Avalanche Transceivers: Uses, Limitations and Standards
Date: 2000
Authors: Franz Kroll
Description: A first and quick glance on a snow surface will, simultaneously, show reality and illusion. It depends on the prior knowledge of the observer. What th...
Object ID: issw-2000-342-344.pdf
Keywords: skiing, triggered avalanche, transceiver, avalanche danger
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Title: Evolution of Public Avalanche Information: The North American Experience with Avalanche Danger Rating Levels
Date: 1996
Authors: Alan Dennis, Mark Moore
Description: For many years after the introduction of regional avalanche forecast centres in North America, the United States and Canada employed a 4-level avalanc...
Object ID: issw-1996-060-066.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, danger, scale, north american, safety, public
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Title: The Road Closure Decision in Little Cottonwood Canyon
Date: 1994
Authors: Gail Blattenberger, Richard Fowles
Description: Statistical models of different types have been used in avalanche forecasting. This paper provides a comparison of several types of models in applicat...
Object ID: issw-1994-537-547.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, statistical models, danger
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Title: Ski Area Rating for Avalanche Potential; A Forecasting Tool & Training Aid Using the United States Avalanche Danger Rating Scale for Ski Area Application
Date: 1998
Authors: Jon Andrews
Description: In avalanche forecasting there are so many weather variables that effect the snow, it is often hard to decide whether to do avalanche control or not. ...
Object ID: issw-1998-387-389.pdf
Keywords: avalanche control, avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger, density, snowfall
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Title: Avalanche Forecasting and Communication Experiences in Avalanche Hazard Scales
Date: 1988
Authors: Jerome Lafeuille, Edmond Pahaut
Description: Avalanche hazard scales can express a gradation in the severity of situations but, avalanche danger being multidimensional, it implies a partly subjec...
Object ID: issw-1988-251-258.pdf
Keywords: hazard scale, forecast, avalanche, communication, danger, multidimensional
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Title: Backcountry Skier Attitudes and the Utau Avalanche Forecast Center
Date: 1982
Authors: Duain Bowles, Barry Mathias
Description: Surveys of backcountry users in the LAFC forecast area show changes in attitudes towards avalanche danger and personnel user responsibility. Surveys ...
Object ID: issw-1982-005-006.pdf
Keywords: backcountry, forecast, danger, responsibility
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