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Title: Avalanche Forecaster Exchange Program U.S. – Switzerland
Date: 2004
Authors: Matt Hill, Thomas Wiesinger, Doug Abromeit
Description: The exchange program for avalanche forecasters between the U.S. and Switzerland was developed in 2003. Since 2004 the three authors have been on exch...
Object ID: issw-2004-172-176.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting
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Title: Warm Storms Associated with Avalanches Hazard and Floods in the Andes Mountains
Date: 2004
Authors: José Vergara
Description: Rain-on-snow events produce avalanches of different magnitude depending on the snowpack properties, air temperatures and rain intensities. Winter sto...
Object ID: issw-2004-280.pdf
Keywords: warm storms, wet-snow avalanche, flood, winter
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Title: Projects for Past Avalanche Observation and Zoning in France, After 1999 Catastrophic Avalanches
Date: 2004
Authors: Laurent Bélanger, Yves Cassayre
Description: In 1999, several huge avalanches caused catastrophes in the Alps, particularly in Chamonix (France). Following these events, several programs were imp...
Object ID: issw-2004-416-421.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, observation, survey, investigation, mapping, hazard
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Title: Recent Evolution of Avalanches Maps in France
Date: 2004
Authors: Sébastien Escande
Description: Since 1971, we use CLPA maps (geomorphic and registration plans of avalanche), as the main registration maps concerning the major threatened areas, e...
Object ID: issw-2004-422.pdf
Keywords: hazard, mapping, risk, prp
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Title: Avalanche Hazard Investigations, Ordinances, and Zoning, Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 2004
Authors: David A. Scroggin, L. Darlene Batatian
Description: This presentation will discuss the development of an Avalanche Hazard Ordinance for Salt Lake County, Utah. The ordinance was enacted after recognitio...
Object ID: issw-2004-435-440.pdf
Keywords: zoning, ordinance, slope analysis, hillside development, hazards, government approvals
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Title: Supporting Sound Decisions: A Professional Perspective on Recreational Avalanche Accident Prevention in Canada
Date: 2004
Authors: Laura Adams
Description: Relative to recreationists, avalanche professionals in Canada have a high success rate for managing avalanche hazard and making sound decisions in ava...
Object ID: issw-2004-441-451.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, decision making, human factors, hazard communication
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Title: Operating System for the Defense of the Access to the Somport's International Tunnel, Barranco De Secras Avalanche Path, Central Pyrenees, Spain
Date: 2004
Authors: Antonio Sarasa Brosed, Glòria Furdada Bellavista, Rafael Lopez Guarga
Description: The operating system for the defense of the access to the Somport’s international tunnel (Spain-France) in the Huesca Central Pyrenees is pres...
Object ID: issw-2004-639.pdf
Keywords: paths, starting zones, seismic detection sensors, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Highland Bowl – A Ski Area Expansion
Date: 2004
Authors: Kevin Heinecken
Description: The Highland Bowl is a large area which rises above the current lift structures south of the Aspen Highlands Ski Area and has recently been opened to ...
Object ID: issw-2004-661-665.pdf
Keywords: skiing, starting zones, runout, triggered
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Title: Avalanche Hazard Reduction Using the Avalanche Guard: A Cache and Mortar Technology
Date: 2004
Authors: Robert Rice Jr., Steve Putnam, Ralph Patterson, Rand Decker, Jamie Yount, Oswald Garber, David Sly, Galen Richards, Ted Wells
Description: The Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) in Jackson, Wyoming installed and successfully operated the Avalanche Guard, an automated, remotely o...
Object ID: issw-2004-688-695.pdf
Keywords: avalanche control, avalanche hazard reduction, artificial avalanche release, transportation
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Title: Reducing Avalanche Hazard to US Route 89/91 in Jackson Wyoming Using Snow Sails
Date: 2004
Authors: Jamie Yount, Rand Decker, Robert Rice, Leroy (Ted) Wells
Description: Snow sails are a form of passive avalanche starting zone defense. A deployment of snow sails work to disrupt the formation of continuous, coherent wi...
Object ID: issw-2004-705-710.pdf
Keywords: passive avalanche mitigation, avalanche engineering, transportation
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Title: Snow Information System with the Usage of GIS in Western Himalayas, India
Date: 2002
Authors: Rashpal Kor
Description: The avalanche occurrence in northern Indian Mountains draws significance because of strategic reasons and tourism and poses serious problems for the m...
Object ID: issw-2002-167-174.pdf
Keywords: geographic information systems (gis), sis, forecasting, zoning, hazard
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Title: A French Local Tool for Avalanche Hazard Forecasting: Astral, Current State and New Developments
Date: 2002
Authors: Laurent Merindol, Gilbert Guyomarc'h, Gerald Giraud
Description: In several ski resorts, we have distributed a tool named Astral. Every days, this software calculates an Euclidean distance and correlation with past ...
Object ID: issw-2002-105-108.pdf
Keywords: statistical method, avalanche forecasting, weather and snow pack parameters
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Title: Integration of Remote Weather Stations with Advanced Telemetry Options and Remote Image Acquisition
Date: 2002
Authors: Benjamin Crane Johnson, Ken Irving, Larry Hinzman, Douglas L. Kane
Description: Currently the University of Alaska Fairbanks Water and Environmental Research Center (WERe) maintains over fifty remote meteorological stations in Ala...
Object ID: issw-2002-412-416.pdf
Keywords: telemetry, climate, meteorological hazards and remote sensing
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Title: Canadian Avalanche Hazard Mapping Project
Date: 2002
Authors: Chris Stethem, David McClung, Bruce Jamieson, Peter Schaerer
Description: The objectives of the Canadian Avalanche Hazard Mapping project were to prepare uniform national guidelines for risk analysis and avalanche mapping, t...
Object ID: issw-2002-555-560.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, risk, mapping
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Title: Significance of Historical Records for Avalanche Hazard Zoning in Norway
Date: 2000
Authors: Krister Kristensen, Carl Harbitz, Alf Harbitz
Description: In avalanche hazard zoning, it is common practice to investigate the previous avalanche history for the area considered. Historical observations of av...
Object ID: issw-2000-475-480.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, run-out distance, probability, extreme value statistics, western norway
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