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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: Avalanche Education As Public Service
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Klaus Kranebitter
- Description: Unavailable
- Object ID: issw-2009-0599.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche gear, judgment, risk management, avalanche strategies
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- Title: Avaluator's Obvious Clues Prevention Values are Inflated: Evidence from Canadian Avalanche Accidents
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Bob Uttl, Kelly Kisinger, Mekale Kibreab, Jan Uttl
- Description: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card (Haegeli & McCammon, 2006) was designed to help recreationists to avoid avalanche accidents, and ther...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0619-0622.pdf
- Keywords: avaluator, obvious clues, risk reduction, missing values
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- Title: Apprehension of Avalanche Risk and Decision Making Process in a Mediumhigh Mountain Range. The Case of the Vosges (France)
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Florie Giacona, Brice Martin
- Description: Mentioning avalanche risk in the Vosges generally causes a certain incredulity for this
range of modest height and its irregular snowfalls. However, ...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0633-0635.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, sluff, vulnerability, decision-making, medium-high mountain, representation
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- Title: Practical Risk Assessment and Decision Making in Avalanche Terrain. An Overview of Concepts and Tools in Switzerland
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Stephan Harvey, Paul Nigg
- Description: Risk assessment and decision making tools for backcountry and off-piste skiing have
changed time and again. Basic avalanche knowledge about the main ...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0654-0658.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, risk assessment, decision making
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- Title: Rules, Knowledge, Distance and Intuition - The Development of Risk Management Skills for Decision-Making in Avalanche Situations
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Jan Mersch, Wolfgang Behr
- Description: Avalanches represent a major threat to people in high Alpine regions during the winter.
However, a discrepancy exists between actual expert decisions...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0659-0663.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, naturalistic decision making, recognition and patterns, intuition, risk management
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- Title: A Case Study in Avalanche Risk Tolerance in Two Transmission Lines: 1) Colorado, USA and 2) Eastern Iceland
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: Art Mears, P.E., Chris Wilbur P.E.
- Description: Avalanche risk tolerance in two transmission lines is compared in this paper. A 115kV line in southwestern Colorado supplies electrical power to the T...
- Object ID: P__8034.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, transmission lines, risk tolerance
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- Title: Avalanche Hazard Investigations, Zoning, and Ordinances, Utah, Part 2
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: David A. Scroggin, Jack Johnson Company
- Description: The Wasatch Mountains of Utah are known as home to the 2002 Winter Olympics as well as having an abundance of avalanche history and avalanche hazard t...
- Object ID: P__8232.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche zoning, ordinance, governmental approvals, utah
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- Title: Avalanche Hazard, Danger and Risk - A Practical Explanation
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: Grant Statham
- Description: A complete understanding of the fundamental concepts of avalanche hazard, danger and risk should become basic requirements for anyone undertaking aval...
- Object ID: P__8153.pdf
- Keywords: risk, hazard, danger, probability, consequence, exposure
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- Title: Can Field Observations be Combined Systematically With the Regional Danger Rating to Estimate the Local Avalanche Danger?
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Pascal Haegeli
- Description: Snow avalanche danger can vary considerably within the large forecast regions in western Canada. Experienced recreationists routinely use the regional...
- Object ID: P__8171.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snowpack tests, field observations, classification trees, avalanche danger, scale issues
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- Title: Trauma as a Cause of Death in Western Canadian Avalanches: A 21 Year Review
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: Jeff Boyd, Pascal Haegeli , Riyad B. Abu-laban, Michael Shuster, John Butt
- Description: Purpose: To determine if trauma is a significant cause and contributor to death in Western Canadian avalanches and whether this varie...
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- Title: Terrain and Traumatic Injury in US Avalanche Accidents
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: Ian McCammon, MIchael Ditolla, Scott McIntosh
- Description: Previous studies have investigated the incidence of traumatic injury in avalanche victims. But the relationship between these injuries and the terrain...
- Object ID: P__8120.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche terrain, trauma, rescue, education, risk management
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- Title: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card: Facts, Fictions, and Controversies
- Date: 2008-09-26
- Authors: Bob Uttl, Jan Uttl, Meaghen Henry
- Description: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card, consisting of the Trip Planner and Obvious Clues (Haegeli and McCammon, 2006), is marketed as a deci...
- Object ID: P__8161.pdf
- Keywords: risk, avalanche education, decision making
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- Title: On the Predictability of Snow Avalanches
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Snow avalanches are generally rare and occasionally extreme events. In the general context of prediction and predictably of extreme events, we will ex...
- Object ID: P__8205.pdf
- Keywords: snow stability evaluation, avalanche forecasting, risk management
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- Title: Does Size Matter? A Comparison of Avalanche Dimensions for Recreationalists Injured/Killed or Not Injured/Killed
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Dale Atkins
- Description: Conventional wisdom prescribes that larger avalanches pose a more serious danger to recreationists than smaller avalanches. However, this supposition ...
- Object ID: P__8229.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, size, recreationalists, killed, injured
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