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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
- View additional details about BRITISH COLUMBIA MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE PROVINCIAL AVALANCHE HAZARD INDEX
- 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
- View additional details about DATA-DRIVEN METHODS FOR THE AVALANCHE HAZARD INDEX
- 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
- View additional details about CHALLENGES IN USING THE AVALANCHE HAZARD INDEX – A CASE STUDY FROM THE BNSF RAILWAY AVALANCHE PROGRAM, ESSEX, MONTANA, USA
- 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
- View additional details about UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT AND COMMUNICATION IN SITE-SPECIFIC AVALANCHE WARNING - A MODEL AND A CHECKLIST
- 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
- View additional details about SYNTHESIS: THE ONLINE TOOL PROVIDING EASY ACCESS AND SYSTEMATIC CROSS-CHECKING OF ALL USEFUL INFORMATION FOR AVALANCHE DANGER ASSESSMENT
- 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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