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Title: CHARACTERISTICS OF INBOUNDS AVALANCHE FATALITIES AT UNITED STATES SKI AREAS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Paul Baugher, Scott Savage, Karl W. Birkeland
Description: Inbounds avalanche fatalities are both tragic and rare. Largely due to the diligent mitigation efforts of avalanche programs, the risk of a skier or s...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O14.05.pdf
Keywords: inbounds avalanches, post mitigation release, ski area risk management, avalanche mitigation, ski area avalanche fatalities, ski area litigation
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Title: ACCEPTANCE OF RISK AND CONFIDENCE ASSESSING AVALANCHE TERRAIN AND CONDITIONS – A LARGE CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: David C. Fiore, Cameron C. Shonnard, Rondo J. Bauer, Lingchen Wang
Description: The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the ski industry worldwide by closing or limiting access to ski resorts. We previously reported the results of our stu...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.06.pdf
Keywords: backcountry skiing, avalanche, risk
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Title: Wind transport scenarios based on the slope aspect for avalanche risk management purposes
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Eloïse Bovet, Luca Pitet, Igor Torlai, Valerio Segor, Paola Dellavedova, Umberto Pellegrini
Description: Avalanche risk management assumes an in-depth knowledge of the nivometeorological situation to which tools for the definition of avalanche potential r...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O02.1.pdf
Keywords: snow-drift, forecast, avalanche risk management, avalanche scenario.
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Title: Rezoning after installing avalanche mitigation measures: case study of the Vallascia avalanche in Airolo, Switzerland
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Stefan Margreth
Description: The catastrophic Vallascia avalanche struck the village of Airolo in the southern Swiss Alps on 12 February 1951. The accident was one of the most sev...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O02.2.pdf
Keywords: avalanche disaster, mitigation measures, hazard map, risk management.
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Title: Design and Construction of an Avalanche Deflection Berm, Mount Kitchener Avalanche Path, Aoraki Mount Cook National Park, NewZealand
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Alan Jones, Donald Bogie
Description: The Mount Kitchener avalanche path produces large avalanches that have potential to affect parts of Aoraki Mount Cook Village, New Zealand. Numerous b...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P02.18.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk, hazard mapping, runout, dynamic model.
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Title: Glacier hazards in the canton of Valais, Switzerland: observation and categorization of 80 dangerous glaciers
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Martin Proksch, Evelyn Zenklusen Mutter, André Burkard, Pascal Stoebener, Martin Funk, Damian Steffen
Description: Glacier hazards can threaten settlements, roads, railways or other infrastructure (e.g. cable ways, ski areas etc.). In the canton Valais in Switzerla...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P02.20.pdf
Keywords: glacier hazards, risk index, valais.
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Title: Multi-level avalanche risk reduction on the Trans-Canada Highway - Three Valley Gap Remote Avalanche Control System (RACS)
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Alan Jones, Walter Steinkogler, Val Visotzky
Description: Three Valley Gap, located 20 km west of Revelstoke, is one of the highest priority avalanche areas on the Trans-Canada Highway (TCH). During 2007-2016...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O03.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche control, highway, avalanche risk, explosives, remote avalanche control system.
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Title: Prioritizing avalanche mitigation measures for the Trans-Canada Highway through Glacier National Park
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Chris Argue, Ryan Buhler, Jeff Goodrich, Bruce Jamieson, Alan Jones, Jaime Sanderson
Description: The Trans-Canada Highway (TCH) through Rogers Pass in Glacier National Park (GNP) is a critical transportation corridor within British Columbia, and a...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O03.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche protection, avalanche risk, highway, risk analysis, project management.
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Title: Risk-oriented vs hazard-oriented decision-making for opening and closing of traffic routes
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Michael Bründl, Lukas Stoffel, Walter Steinkogler
Description: People expect to be safe when driving on roads. During winter, local avalanche services in charge for infrastructure safety continuously assess the ha...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O03.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard and risk assessment, duty of care, individual risk, decision making, safety services.
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Title: A new approach to avalanche risk assessment in Russia
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Anton Komarov, Yuri Seliverstov, Alla Turchaninova, Sergey Sokratov
Description: Snow avalanches pose a challenging problem in many mountain regions of Russia. The expansion of infrastructure and therefore the increased avalanche r...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O03.8.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, risk assessment, risk zoning, ramms, ski resort.
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Title: How Little Cottonwood Canyon got this way and what can be done to fix it
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Bill Nalli, Matt Mckee
Description: To understand the distinct avalanche issues faced in Little Cottonwood Canyon today, it helps to look back at its history starting as a booming mining...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O03.9.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, transportation, alta, racs, artillery, risk management, infrastructure.
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Title: A manual for assessing, mapping and mitigating snow avalanche risk
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Ryan Buhler, Cam Campbell, Michael Conlan, Brian Gould, Greg Johnson, Alan Jones, Grant Statham, Scott Thumlert
Description: In summer 2018, the Canadian Avalanche Association will publish a book entitled Planning Methods for Assessing and Mitigating Snow Avalanche Risk. Thi...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O03.12.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, planning, assessment, mapping, mitigation, hazard, risk.
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Title: Implementation of the large-scale avalanche hazard mapping into Russian practice
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Pelageya Rodionova, Alla Turchaninova, Yury Seliverstov, Tatiana Glazovskaya
Description: The snow avalanches endangered regions in Russia occupy 18% of the territory. But the large-scale avalanche hazard zoning is not yet used for the land...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P03.13.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard, risk, land use planning, numerical modeling, ramms.
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Title: Near real-time mapping of snow conditions in remote high-mountain Himalaya
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Tuomo Saloranta, Amrit Thapa, James D. Kirkham, Inka Koch, Kjetil Melvold, Maxime Litt, Knut Møen
Description: In the Nepal Himalayas snow and avalanches can cause major disasters. Snow melt water is also an important water resource, especially during the dry s...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P04.3.pdf
Keywords: snow modelling, himalaya, disaster risk reduction.
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Title: Automatic Dynamic Avalanche Modeling - An example of its application in an operational setting in Norway
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Cesar Vera, Nander Wever, Stian Langeland, Leif Øyvind
Description: The county road Fv. 53 at Tyin (Norway) is an important road for the inner parts of the Sogn region and especially the local community in Ã…rdal. I...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P08.7.pdf
Keywords: numeric modeling, avalanche dynamics, snowcover modeling, risk assessment.
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