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Title: UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT AND COMMUNICATION IN SITE-SPECIFIC AVALANCHE WARNING - A MODEL AND A CHECKLIST
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Knut Øien, Eirik Albrechtsen, Kalle Kronholm, Hallvard Nordbrøden, Holt Hancock, Martin Indreiten
Description: A fatal avalanche disaster hit Longyearbyen, the world's northernmost settlement and the administrative center of Svalbard, Norway, in 2015. A site-sp...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.47.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, avalanche forecasting, avalanche warning, risk, uncertainty
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Title: SYNTHESIS: THE ONLINE TOOL PROVIDING EASY ACCESS AND SYSTEMATIC CROSS-CHECKING OF ALL USEFUL INFORMATION FOR AVALANCHE DANGER ASSESSMENT
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Frédéric Pourraz, Thierry Vallée, Céline Lorentz, Alain Duclos
Description: Having a clear vision of current and future snow and avalanche situation depends on a limited number of criteria widely accepted in our community. Acc...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.49.pdf
Keywords: risk-communication, avalanche forecasting, cross-checking information, data retrieving
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Title: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WHUMPF OBSERVATIONS AND AVALANCHE ACTIVITY IN COLORADO, USA
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Jason Konigsberg, Ron Simenhois, Karl Birkeland, Erich Peitzsch, Doug Chabot, Ethan Greene
Description: Triggering whumpfs is a primary indicator of unstable snowpack conditions. Although backcountry travelers and avalanche forecasters rely on whumpfs as...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O9.03.pdf
Keywords: whumpf, avalanche forecasting
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Title: UNDER-FORECASTING WET AVALANCHE CYCLES: CASE STUDIES AND LESSONS LEARNED FROM TWO WET AVALANCHE CYCLES IN NORTHWEST MONTANA AND CENTRAL COLORADO
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Zachary M. Guy, Erich Peitzsch
Description: Predicting the timing and location of natural wet avalanche events is challenging, especially the release of wet slabs. In this study, we describe the...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O11.01.pdf
Keywords: wet slabs, forecasting, wet avalanches
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Title: STATEWIDE APPLICATION OF THE AVALANCHE HAZARD INDEX
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: David Hamre, Jordy Hendrikx, Chris Wilbur, Alan Jones
Description: The Avalanche Hazard Index (AHI) (Schaerer 1989, Hendrikx and Owens 2008) has been a useful tool for expressing avalanche risk to highways and railroa...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O13.01.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard index (ahi), consultants best estimate (cbe), highway avalanche risk, remote avalanche control systems (racs), advanced forecasting technology (aft)
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Title: I-90 SNOQUALMIE PASS: IMPROVED HIGHWAY AVALANCHE SAFETY AND SUSTAINABILITY
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: John Stimberis
Description: Interstate 90 (I-90) in Washington State, USA, provides a critical east-west transportation route connecting the ports and people of Western WA with t...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O14.02.pdf
Keywords: avalanche control, highways, avalanche forecasting, avalanche defense, sustainability
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Title: INTEGRATING HISTORICAL INFORMATION AND WORKER KNOWLEDGE FOR LATE SEASON AVALANCHE MITIGATION PROGRAM ALONG THE D&SNG RAIL LINE THE ANIMAS RIVER CANYON, COLORADO
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Jim Donovan
Description: The line from Durango to Silverton Colorado has run continuously since 1881, although it is now a tourist and heritage line hauling passengers, and is...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.53.pdf
Keywords: industrial avalanche forecasting, avalanche mapping, training
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Title: ADOPTING SNOWPACK MODELS INTO AN OPERATIONAL FORECASTING PROGRAM: SUCCESSES, CHALLENGES, AND FUTURE OUTLOOK
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Simon Horton, Pascal Haegeli, Karl Klassen, James Floyer, Grant Helgeson
Description: Physical snowpack modelling has become an operational forecasting tool used by Avalanche Canada over the last decade. This paper reflects on the proce...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.55.pdf
Keywords: snowpack modelling, avalanche forecasting, dashboard, workflow
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Title: A MULTI-FACTOR APPROACH TO RANK AND MANAGE THE IMPACT OF AVALANCHES ON HIGHWAY OPERATIONS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Mike Cooperstein, Rebecca Hodgetts, Spencer Logan, Brian Gorsage, Ethan Greene
Description: Either explicitly or implicitly, avalanche safety operations sort potential avalanche events into tolerable and intolerable bins based on the risk to ...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.57.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, transportation, avalanche hazard
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Title: THE AVID PROJECT: COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS TO AVALANCHE FORECASTING CHALLENGES
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Grant Helgeson, Stan Nowak, Mike Cooperstein, Simon Horton, Jacob Barney, Brian Lazar, Ethan Greene, Karl Klassen
Description: This article presents a case study examining an internal software development project that started at Avalanche Canada (AvCan) and evolved into an in...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O1.02.pdf
Keywords: avid, avalanche forecasting, forecasting software
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Title: COMPARING STABILITY TESTS AND UNDERSTANDING THEIR LIMITATIONS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Alec van Herwijnen, Frank Techel, Edward H. Bair, Benjamin Reuter, Ron Simenhois, Bruce Jamieson, Alex Marienthal, Doug Chabot, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Our paper focuses on four popular snowpack tests, the Rutschblock Test (RB), Compression Test (CT), Extended Column Test (ECT), and Propagation Saw T...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O2.05.pdf
Keywords: dry slab avalanche, snow stability test, snow stability, avalanche forecasting
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Title: COMPARISON OF THE GLIDE ACTIVITY AT TWO DISTINCT REGIONS USING SWISS AND U.S. DATASETS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Franz-Josef Resch, Edward Bair, Erich Peitzsch, Zachary Miller, Amelie Fees, Alec van Herwijnen, Ingrid Reiweger
Description: Forecasting the timing of glide-snow avalanches still presents a challenge. Studies aiming for forecasting glide-snow avalanches usually employ statis...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.01.pdf
Keywords: glide-snow avalanche, forecasting, full-depth avalanches
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Title: A LOCAL AVALANCHE RISK MATRIX BASED ON MODELING TO FORECAST AVALANCHE ACTIVITY ON ROADS.
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Carles Garcia-Selles, Sergi Riba, Alberto Mediavilla, Fernando Calvo
Description: A new avalanche warning service to forecast local avalanche risk on mountain roads in Asturias (NW of Spain) is beginning to operate. The main problem...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.09.pdf
Keywords: risk matrix, local forecasting, mountain roads, modeling
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Title: INTERLINKING DAILY ASSESSMENTS: IDEAS TOWARDS A MORE COMPREHENSIVE WORKFLOW IN PUBLIC AVALANCHE FORECASTING
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Matthias Walcher, Norbert Lanzanasto
Description: Public avalanche warning services (AWS') play a crucial role in assessing and communicating the hazard of snow avalanches. The core product of AWS' is...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.34.pdf
Keywords: public avalanche forecasting, workflow, hazard source, hazard assessment, standardization
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Title: DEVELOPING A UNIFIED APPROACH FOR APPLYING AVALANCHE PROBLEMS: A DECISION TREE- BASED SOLUTION FOR CONSISTENT HAZARD COMMUNICATION
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Matthias Walcher, Norbert Lanzanasto
Description: Avalanche problems are used in public avalanche forecasts to communicate complex information in a simplified manner, allowing users to understand pote...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O5.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche problems, avalanche forecasting, decision tree, communication, risk management, standardization
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