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Title: Applied Judgement and Avalanche Information Technology
Date: 2010
Authors: Steven M. Conger
Description: This paper and poster present a component of the larger paper described in the submitted abstract. It describes an avalanche forecasting work process...
Object ID: ISSW_P-065.pdf
Keywords: electronic observation recording, data storage system, methodology, technology, hazard
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Title: Snow Avalanche Research and Forecasting With GIS and Geospatial Sciences
Date: 2010
Authors: Alex Marienthal, Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana
Description: Geographic information systems (GIS) and geospatial sciences have been used effectively in data collection and snow avalanche related research for ove...
Object ID: ISSW_P-073.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, geographic information systems (gis), geospatial sciences, snow pack, research
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Title: Testing and Developing Methods for Avalanche Forecasting in Norway
Date: 2010
Authors: Ragnar Ekker, Rune Engeset, Andrea Taurisano, Dagrun V. Schuler, Ivar Ambjørn Seierstad, Tore Humstad, Steinar Myrabø
Description: NVE1 was in 2009 appointed the national authority responsible for avalanches and landslides. A project was initiated, aiming to test and develop meth...
Object ID: ISSW_P-077.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, nve, snow observation data, landslide forecasting service
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Title: Could Retrieval of Snow Layer Formation by Optical Satellite Remote Sensing Help Avalanche Forecasting? Presentation of First Results.
Date: 2009
Authors: Rune Solberg, Regula Frauenfelder, Hans Koren, Kalle Kronholm
Description: Of special interest within the field of avalanche research and avalanche warning are properties related to snow grain type and snow grain size at the...
Object ID: issw-2009-0207-0210.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, remote sensing, snow grain size, snow temperature, snow wetness
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Title: Rainonsnow Avalanches: Forecasting the Return to Stability
Date: 2009
Authors: Howard Conway, Wayne Carran, Ann Carran
Description: Mid-winter rain-on-snow often results in avalanches that threaten the Milford Road between TeAnau and Milford Sound on the southwest coast of new Zea...
Object ID: issw-2009-0267-0270.pdf
Keywords: rainonsnow, avalanches, forecasting
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Title: The Effect of Daytime Warming on Snowpack Creep
Date: 2009
Authors: Thomas Exner, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Snowpack warming is, besides loading by precipitation and wind-transport, one of the major triggers contributing to natural avalanche release. Establi...
Object ID: issw-2009-0271-0275.pdf
Keywords: snowpack creep, daytime warming, stability, field measurements, avalanche forecasting
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Title: The 2008-2009 Exceptional Snowfalls in the Italian Alpa: Threshold Sum Approach and Analysis of the SNOWPACK Model Stability Indices
Date: 2009
Authors: Fabiano Monti, Anselmo Cagnati, Mauro Valt
Description: The 2008-2009 winter season has been characterized by exceptional snowfalls in the Italian Alps; it has been one of the 3-4 snowiest seasons since 193...
Object ID: issw-2009-0318-0322.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow stability evaluation, snowpack stratigraphy, snowpack model
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Title: Use of the Models Safran-Crocus-Mepra in Operational Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 2009
Authors: C. Coléou, G. Giraud, Y. Danielou, J.L. Dumas, C. Gendre, E. Pougatch
Description: Avalanche forecast is based on the observation of weather conditions and follow-up snow cover. The workstation “Poste_Nivologie”, operati...
Object ID: issw-2009-0341-0345.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecast, modelling, avalanche hazard
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Title: Integration of the Snowdrift Modeling into the French Operational Chain for Avalanche Hazard Forecasting
Date: 2009
Authors: Gilbert Guyomarc’h, Yves Durand, Gérald Giraud
Description: Over the last years, the Snow Study Centre of Météo-France (CEN) has developed several versions of a model called Sytron for the assessment of t...
Object ID: issw-2009-0356-0360.pdf
Keywords: blowing snow modeling, operational avalanche forecasting
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Title: A New Iconographic Avalanche Bulletin for the Catalan Pyrenees: A Beginning for a Future Avalanche Forecasting Database
Date: 2009
Authors: Glòria Martí, Jordi Pujol, Jorge Fleta, Carles García, Pere Olle, Olga Costa, Pere Martínez
Description: Since 1989 the Geological Survey of Catalonia, at present Institut Geològic de Catalunya has been issuing daily avalanche bulletins in winter seaso...
Object ID: issw-2009-0361-0365.pdf
Keywords: avalanche bulletin, icons, users, forecast database
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Title: Avalanche Patterns as Aid in Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 2009
Authors: Patrick Nairz
Description: Everyone who deals with avalanches over long periods of time automatically draws upon that experience when determining avalanche hazards. The principl...
Object ID: issw-2009-0389-0390.pdf
Keywords: avalanche pattern, avalanche forecasting, decision making
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Title: Handling of Avalanche Risk for the “Bonaigua” and “Beret” Roads, Aran Valley, Spain
Date: 2009
Authors: Jordi Gavaldà, Ivan Moner
Description: The Aran Valley, located on the northern side of the Central Pyrenees, is one of the areas with the highest rate of avalanche danger of the whole mou...
Object ID: issw-2009-0577-0581.pdf
Keywords: pyrenees, avalanche forecasting, mitigation
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Title: 2007 Winter Avalanches on the Kemano Kitimat Powerline
Date: 2008-09-25
Authors: Rod Gee, Chris Stethem, Alan Jones, Kevin Fogolin, Mike Gajda
Description: 2006-2007 was a 100-year winter on British Columbia's North Coast. Forty of seventy-two towers in Powerline Pass of the Rio Tinto Alcan Kemano-Kitimat...
Object ID: P__8027.pdf
Keywords: avalanche control, mitigation, return period
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Title: The Importance of Micro-Scale Avalanche Forecasting in Mount Washington's Tuckerman and Huntington Ravines
Date: 2008-09-25
Authors: Christopher Joosen
Description: For over fifty years U.S. Forest Service Snow Rangers have patrolled Mount Washington and issued avalanche advisories. The focus of these activities h...
Object ID: P__8176.pdf
Keywords: micro-scale, avalanche, forecasting, mount washington, tuckerman, huntington
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Title: Guidelines for Forecasting Snow Avalanches on the Milford Road, New Zealand
Date: 2008-09-25
Authors: H. Conway, W. Carran, F. Techel, A. Carran
Description: We explore the use of rule-based systems as an operational tool for helping evaluate the avalanche hazard on the Milford Road, New Zealand. Climate in...
Object ID: P__8053.pdf
Keywords: snow, avalanches, forecasting
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