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Title: A COMMON APPROACH TO MULTI-HAZARD RISK ASSESSMENT FOR AVALANCHE AND OTHER SLOPE HAZARDS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Chris Argue, Alan Jones, Dave Gauthier, Alex Strouth
Description: Snow avalanches are one of many geohazards that threaten people and infrastructure in the mountainous regions of the world. While all geohazards have ...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.23.pdf
Keywords: risk, risk assessment, geohazard, avalanche, mitigation
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Title: URBAN AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT IN NORTH AMERICA - A REVIEW OF SELECT JURISDICTIONS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Chris Argue, Dan Rohn, Alan Jones
Description: Many urban areas in North America are affected by snow avalanche hazards that threaten residential structures, urban roads, civic infrastructure, and ...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.24.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, risk, hazard, land-use, zoning, occupied structure
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Title: AVALANCHE RISK OF HIGH MOUNTAIN HUTS IN SWITZERLAND AND ITS EVOLUTION DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Stefan Margreth, Mark Schaer
Description: The Swiss Alpine Club SAC operates 153 mountain huts in the Swiss Alps. Some of these huts are located at locations exposed to avalanches. In the past...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.31.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard mapping, climate change, avalanche mitigation, avalanche risk
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Title: BRITISH COLUMBIA MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE PROVINCIAL AVALANCHE HAZARD INDEX
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Brian Gould, Scott Thumlert, Eirik Sharp, Cam Campbell, Dorian Schjelderup, Lea Green
Description: This paper presents work completed to quantify and visualize snow avalanche hazard for the entire provincial highway network as managed by the British...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.37.pdf
Keywords: british columbia, ministry of transportation and infrastructure, avalanche hazard index, transportation corridor risk, risk planning tool, ahi
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Title: DATA-DRIVEN METHODS FOR THE AVALANCHE HAZARD INDEX
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Scott Thumlert, Brian Gould, Cam Campbell, Dorian Schjelderup, Eirik Sharp, Lea Green
Description: Describing snow avalanche hazard for transportation corridors with the Avalanche Hazard Index (AHI) provides valuable planning insights. The AHI allow...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.38.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard index, transportation corridor risk, risk planning tool, ahi
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Title: CHALLENGES IN USING THE AVALANCHE HAZARD INDEX – A CASE STUDY FROM THE BNSF RAILWAY AVALANCHE PROGRAM, ESSEX, MONTANA, USA
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Adam M. Clark, Richard W. Steiner, David Hamre
Description: The Avalanche Hazard Index (AHI) was originally developed by Canadian Peter Schaerer in the 1970s and 1980s to assess the avalanche risk to highways m...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.43.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard index (ahi), bnsf railway, risk analysis, risk communication
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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: IMPROVING LIKELIHOOD COMMUNICATION IN PUBLIC AVALANCHE FORECASTING: ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Andrew Schauer, Simon Trautman, Aleph Johnston-Bloom, Eeva Latosuo, Alex Marienthal, Ben VandenBos
Description: Public avalanche forecasts in the United States and Canada use the North American Public Avalanche Danger Scale (NAPADS) as a system for communicating...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.50.pdf
Keywords: likelihood, probability, risk communication
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Title: TOWARD IMPROVED EFFECTIVENESS OF PUBLIC AVALANCHE SAFETY SERVICES: A FRAMEWORK FOR ASKING CONSTRUCTIVE QUESTIONS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Anne St. Clair, Pascal Haegeli
Description: Making decisions about how to design, revise, or discontinue public avalanche safety products and programs is not a simple or straightforward task. Ho...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.51.pdf
Keywords: risk governance, program development, program evaluation, systems thinking
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Title: THE ICE CLIMBING AVALANCHE ATLAS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Grant Statham, Sarah Hueniken
Description: Waterfall ice climbing is popular in the Canadian Rockies, where hundreds of high-quality routes form reliably every year from November to April. Banf...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.52.pdf
Keywords: ice climbing, avalanche atlas, risk, terrain
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Title: BEST PRACTICES FOR MOTORIZED TRAVEL IN AVALANCHE TERRAIN
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Jeremy Hanke, Iain Stewart-Patterson
Description: The speed of travel while moving through avalanche terrain on a snowmobile provides both advantages and drawbacks. As exposure is a key element of ris...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.53.pdf
Keywords: snowmobile, travel techniques, risk mitigation
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Title: REFRAMING "SKI CUT": ADDING CONTEXT TO IMPROVE RISK COMMUNICATION
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Jimmy Tart
Description: According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "set" is the most versatile in the English language. With 463 variations listed in the most recen...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.54.pdf
Keywords: ski cut, communication, safety, risk management
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Title: DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF DYNAMIC AVALANCHE RISK MAPS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Håvard Boutera Toft, Solveig Øvstedal Kosberg, Jørgen Loe Kvalberg, Markus Landrø, Karsten Müller
Description: The Norwegian Avalanche Warning Service (Varsom) is developing and validating risk maps for three forecasting regions in Norway. The risk maps are dyn...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.55.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, risk-map, risk-communication
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Title: RETENTION AND USE OF AVALANCHE FORECAST INFORMATION: FINDINGS FROM FIELD AND ONLINE SURVEYS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Jürg Trachsel, Mirjam Eberli, Simon Grüter, Kurt Winkler, Célia Lucas, Bettina Richter, Frank Techel
Description: When riding out of bounds or touring in the backcountry, many recreationists and professionals plan their trip with the aim of finding a tour at a per...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.56.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecast, field survey, risk communication, information retention, user guidance, impact-oriented warning
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