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- Title: PROSNOW - Provision of a prediction system allowing for management and optimization of snow in alpine ski resorts
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Samuel Morin, Ghislain Dubois, The PROSNOW Consortium
- Description: The level of activity, employment, turnover and profit of hundreds of ski resorts in the European Alps primarily depends on meteorological conditions,...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P06.11.pdf
- Keywords: snow management, ski resorts, meteorological forecast, seasonal forecast, climate services, remote sensing
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- Title: Ski alp races. Avalanche hazard evaluation and risk analysis
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Raviglione Massimo, Luca Macchetto, Flavio Saltarelli, Michel Barberis
- Description: The organisers of sports events taking place outside managed areas, such as ski resorts, must understand the real local conditions of avalanche danger...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P11.11.pdf
- Keywords: ski alp races, ski mountaineering, danger, risk, responsibility
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- Title: Comparison of various forecast products of height of new snow in 24 hours of french ski resorts at different lead times
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Champavier Robin, Lafaysse Matthieu, Vernay Matthieu, Coléou Cécile
- Description: This work compares the skill of various forecasting products of Height of new Snow (HS) available in French mountainous areas. The solid precipitation...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O12.11.pdf
- Keywords: forecasting, height of new snow, french ski resorts, skill score, models
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- Title: Evaluation of 30 years of nivo-meteorological and avalanche data in Andorra
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Jon Apodaka, Marc Pons, Laura Trapero, Aina Margalef, Anna Albalat, Natalia Gallego, Juan Ignacio López-Moreno, Glòria Furdada
- Description: Andorra is located in the axial Pyrenees, in a climatic transition zone (Atlantic- Mediterranean). Hence, different atmospheric circulation types gene...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P13.1.pdf
- Keywords: risk management, snow climate, ski resort, artificial triggering, avalanche, andorra
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- Title: Learning from a fatal avalanche incident
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Cindy Berlack
- Description: The BRASS (Bryce & Ronnie Athlete Snow Safety) Foundation was established in the aftermath of losing our sons, Bryce Astle and Ronnie Berlack, US Ski ...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P13.8.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche danger scale, snow safety improvements, ski resorts, warnings, brass
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- Title: Perspectives on Ski Cutting
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: John Stimberis
- Description: Ski cuts are often used as a stability test to check for avalanche initiation by means of a skier’s weight. Avalanche control personnel employ ...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.11.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche control, ski cutting, hazard reduction, mitigation
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- Title: "Safer ski touring in Norway" - A guide book to 111 mountains where you can avoid avalanche terrain
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Erlend Sande, Espen Nordahl
- Description: You may have heard that Norwegians are born with skis on their feet. Well, in 2018 we are no longer sure that this old saying holds true. One thing is...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.14.pdf
- Keywords: safe ski touring, recognize avalanche terrain, ates, education, good day out
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- Title: Let's break tradition and save more lives: Using snowmobiles for avalanche rescue
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Mike Duffy, Bruce Edgerly
- Description: Traditionally, snowmobiles have been used for decades to access accident sites. Once on site, the search is traditionally conducted on foot. We have d...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P16.3.pdf
- Keywords: snowmobile, snowmachine, ski-doo, avalanche rescue, snowmobile rescue, avalanche search and rescue, avsar
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- Title: Ski Touring Bitacora - An innovative approach for trip planning, recording observations, and risk management while traveling in Avalanche terrain
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Santiago Rodriguez, Pedro Rodriguez, Bryan Biggs
- Description: The use of field books for recording weather, avalanche and snowpack observations is essential for recreationists, professionals, and snow scientists....
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P18.4.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, field book, field journal, ski touring planning
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- Title: A new, guide-focused approach for characterizing skiing terrain to facilitate risk management decisions and research
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Brendan F. Wakefield, Pascal Haegeli, Reto Sterchi, Roger Atkins, Clair Israelson
- Description: Perception of terrain characteristics is fundamental to risk and hazard management for professional guides in mechanized skiing operations. Existing t...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O19.5.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche terrain, terrain characterization, ski guiding, avalanche risk management
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- Title: Can We Derive an Avalanche Terrain Severity Rating from Observed Terrain Selection of Professional Guides? A Proof-Of-Concept Study
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Scott Thumlert, Pascal Haegeli
- Description: The physical risk from snow avalanches poses a serious threat to backcountry recreationalists and the winter backcountry recreation industry. Professi...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O5.03.pdf
- Keywords: terrain selection, helicopter ski guiding, avalanche risk management, avalanche hazard, gis avalanche terrain classification
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- Title: Triggered Avalanche - a Case Study From the Italian Alps
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Igor Chiambretti, Bernardino Chiaia, Barbara Frigo
- Description: The 6th February 2014, two parties of 25 Heli-skiers (6 guides and 19 clients) and 3 snow observers were on activity on a large bowl at 2800 m elevati...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O8.02.pdf
- Keywords: heli ski; triggered avalanche; accident case study
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- Title: The Effects of Different Methods of Compaction on Snowpack Stability
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Diana Saly, Jordy Hendrikx, Karl Birkeland, Stuart Challender, Tom Leonard
- Description: The interaction between snowpack layers determines the snowpack stability. It follows that disrupting layers may improve stability. Ski patrols and gu...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.02.pdf
- Keywords: compaction, snowpack stability, stability test, boot-packing, ski compaction
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- Title: Stress Cortisol in Professional Ski Patrol
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Alex Bergeron, Jerry Johnson, Scott Creel
- Description: Professional ski patrollers work in demanding and risky environments where stress is considered part of the job. Based on a previous study, the number...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.12.pdf
- Keywords: stress, cortisol, avalanche mitigation, ski patrol
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- Title: Observing Ski Touring and Decision making in the Alps. What Ordinary People Do or Not Do, and Why?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Bjørn Michaelsen, Carsten Rolland
- Description: Recreational avalanche accident prevention seems to be based on a universal understanding of snow and avalanche science. This has led to an impressive...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.13.pdf
- Keywords: ski touring, decision making, risk cultures, tradition, qualitative methods, avalanche education
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