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Title: IS IT A PROBLEM? TAKEAWAYS FROM RESEARCH INTO THE USE AND EFFECTIVENESS OF AVALANCHE PROBLEMS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Simon Horton, Pascal Haegeli, Grant Statham, Bret Shandro, Taylor Clark, Stan Nowak, Moses Towell, Heather Hordowick, Florian Herla
Description: Over the past 20 years, avalanche safety operations in North America adopted common standards for assessing avalanche hazard, including the North Amer...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O1.04.pdf
Keywords: hazard assessment, avalanche problems, danger ratings, conceptual model
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Title: The Dangerator: a method for estimating avalanche danger in areas with no public avalanche forecast
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: James A. Floyer, Mark A. Bender
Description: Avalanche Canada has developed a simple methodology for estimating avalanche danger to support Avalanche Skills Training (AST) students and instructor...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O15.2.pdf
Keywords: dangerator, avalanche, danger ratings, avalanche skills training, forecast, data sparse
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Title: North American Avalanche Danger Scale: Are Public Backcountry Forecasters Applying it Consistently?
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Brian Lazar, Simon Trautman, Mike Cooperstein, Ethan Greene, Karl Birkeland
Description: The North American Avalanche Danger Scale is a tool used by backcountry avalanche forecasters to communicate the potential for avalanches to cause har...
Object ID: ISSW16_O20.01.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger scale, avalanche danger ratings, avalanche forecasting
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Title: A Conceptual Model of Avalanche Hazard
Date: 2010
Authors: Grant Statham, Pascal Haegeli, Karl W. Birkeland, Ethan Greene, Clair Israelson, Bruce Tremper, Chris Stethem, Bruce McMahon, Brad White, John Kelly
Description: Conventional avalanche forecasting is practiced as a mix of deterministic treatment for snow and weather parameters and inductive logic to reach actua...
Object ID: ISSW_P-072.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, weather parameters, terrain, danger ratings
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