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Title: Discussion of the Directional Characteristics of Explosives Commonly Used in Avalanche Hazard Reduction
Date: 2000
Authors: G. L. Sherwood
Description: All explosives exhibit directional shock wave characteristics, the explosives commonly used for avalanche control also produce these same characterist...
Object ID: issw-2000-321-324.pdf
Keywords: characteristics, explosives, blasting, avalanche, hazard, mitigation
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Title: The Avalanche Winter 1999 in Switzerland - An Overview
Date: 2000
Authors: Christian Wilhelm, Thomas Wiesinger, Michael Brundl, Walter Ammann
Description: February 1999 will be known in Swiss natural disaster history for its record quantities of snow, for more than 1300 harmful avalanches, 17 deaths, cut...
Object ID: issw-2000-487-494.pdf
Keywords: avalanche disaster, avalanche catastrophy, avalanche damages, insurance, integral risk management, avalanche warning, hazard mapping, paravalanche constructions
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Title: Study of the 1999 Avalanches in the Obergoms Valley, Switzerland, With Respect to Avalanche Hazard Mapping
Date: 2000
Authors: Urs Gruber, Perry Bartelt
Description: The Obergoms valley is a highly visited tourist region in south-western Switzerland. It was dramatically struck by avalanches during the Winter of 199...
Object ID: issw-2000-495-500.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard mapping, avalanche dynamics, deflecting dams, deposition depths
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Title: Retrospective Feedback on the Avalanches of February 1999 in the European Alps
Date: 2000
Authors: Richard M.Lambert
Description: The winter of 1999 was particularly snowy and prone to avalanches on the western side of the alpine arc and several European countries were hit by dev...
Object ID: issw-2000-535-542.pdf
Keywords: catastrophe, major avalanche, catchmen area, risk cartography
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Title: Telluride Ski Area Expansion Snow Safety Plan Development and lmplementation 1993-2001
Date: 2000
Authors: Craig Sterbenz
Description: Proposed expansion of the Telluride Ski Area onto previously permitted, but undeveloped, National Forest lands required an Environmental Impact Statem...
Object ID: issw-2000-584-586.pdf
Keywords: ski area, planning, hazard mapping, hazard identification & mitigation, expert forecasting
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Title: Avalanche Control in the Brooks Range of Alaska an Environment of Extremes
Date: 1998
Authors: Reid Bahnson
Description: In 1974 the Dalton Highway was built north of Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay, AK. along the route of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline being constructed at the time...
Object ID: issw-1998-008-012.pdf
Keywords: avalanche triggering, slushflows, snow melt and run-off
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Title: Forest Industry Snow Avalanche Hazards in Southeastern B.C.
Date: 1998
Authors: Lawrence S. Redfern
Description: Snow avalanche hazards are an issue for the forest industry in southeastern British Columbia; this issue may be of increasing importance in the futur...
Object ID: issw-1998-014-021.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain, avalanche hazard, forest
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Title: The Buildup of the Avalanche Section of the Icelandic Meteorological Office
Date: 1998
Authors: Magnus Mar Magnusson
Description: In this paper I will give a general overview of what we are doing at the Avalanche Section at the IMO. An attempt is being made at evaluating the risk...
Object ID: issw-1998-132-139.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, avalanche countermeasures, avalanche defense structures, debris flow
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Title: A Method for the Forecasting of Wind in Mountainous Regions
Date: 1998
Authors: Gilbert Guyomarc'h, Laurent Merindol, Haraldur Olafsson
Description: To forecast blowing snow in mountainous regions one needs precise information on the velocity and direction of the wind. In order to reach this objec...
Object ID: issw-1998-171-177.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow drifting, blowing snow, wind forecasting
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Title: Zen in the Art of Avalanche Hazard Forecasting
Date: 1998
Authors: R.L. Sam Davis
Description: Avalanche hazard forecasters seek: to comprehend the true nature of the avalanche hazard by developing a feeling for the terrain, for the likelihood ...
Object ID: issw-1998-335-338.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanches, snow
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Title: Development and Liability in the Ophir Valley, Colorado
Date: 1998
Authors: Joseph Shults
Description: Ophir, Colorado, a small mining town located 8 miles from Telluride, Colorado, was heavily damaged by avalanches in the early 1900s. By the 1960s it w...
Object ID: issw-1998-428-430.pdf
Keywords: liability, avalanche, zoning, mitigation
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Title: Modification of the Avalanche Hazard Index for Operational Analysis of a Specific Highway and Improved Comparative Analysis of Multiple Highways
Date: 1998
Authors: Steve Conger, Ritchie Taylor
Description: This paper explores the notion that the Avalanche Hazard Index can be used for operational analysis of avalanche hazard over time of a specific road u...
Object ID: issw-1998-447-455.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard, avalanche forecasting, avalanche countermeasures
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Title: Sluff Management
Date: 1998
Authors: Jim Conway, Mark Newcomb
Description: Since the first World Extreme Skiing Championships in Valdez in 1991, the Chugach Range around the Thompson Pass area has drawn thousands of skiers se...
Object ID: issw-1998-502-505.pdf
Keywords: snow slides, avalanche tracks, avalanche triggering
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Title: Visualization and Analysis of the Swiss Avalanche Bulletin Using GPS
Date: 1996
Authors: Heiri Leuthold, Britta Allgower
Description: For the visualization of the (verbal) Swiss avalanche bulletin a GIS prototype was developed which aims at the prediction of the local avalanche hazar...
Object ID: issw-1996-035-040.pdf
Keywords: avalanche bulletin, geographic information systems (gis), hazard mapping, visualization
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Title: Evolution of Public Avalanche Information: The North American Experience with Avalanche Danger Rating Levels
Date: 1996
Authors: Alan Dennis, Mark Moore
Description: For many years after the introduction of regional avalanche forecast centres in North America, the United States and Canada employed a 4-level avalanc...
Object ID: issw-1996-060-066.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, danger, scale, north american, safety, public
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