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Title: Special Avalanche Warnings at the Canadian Avalanche Centre
Date: 2006
Authors: John Kelly, Ilya Storm, Jim McAllister
Description: This poster describes the Special Public Avalanche Warning Program. The Canadian Avalanche Centre with the support of the British Columbia Provincial ...
Object ID: issw-2006-672-681.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, avalanche warning, avalanche accident, avalanche forecasting
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Title: The Backcountry Avalanche Advisory: Design and Implementation of a New Public Avalanche Warning System in Canada
Date: 2006
Authors: Grant Statham, Alan Jones
Description: Public avalanche forecasters continually search for ways of communicating sophisticated information in a comprehensible format. To accommodate this ne...
Object ID: issw-2006-724-731.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, risk communication, media, avalanche education
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Title: Avalanche Risk for Recreationists in Backcountry and in Off-Piste Area: Surveying Methods and Pilot Study at Davos, Switzerland
Date: 2006
Authors: Benjamin Zweifel, Adrian Raez, Thomas Stucki
Description: In the field of avalanche warning and avalanche protection, the usage of free area (nonavalanche- secured terrain) is of high importance and was hardl...
Object ID: issw-2006-733-741.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk, avalanche warning, avalanche accident, backcountry area, off-piste area, individual risk
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Title: Avalanche Risk Evalution with Practical Suggestions for Risk Minimisation: A Case Study of the Milford Road, New Zealand
Date: 2006
Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Ian Owens, Wayne Carran, Ann Carran
Description: This paper examines two methods for risk evaluation in a case study for the Milford Road, New Zealand. These results are then used to quantify the eff...
Object ID: issw-2006-757-767.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk, hazard index, traffic, milford road, new zealand
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Title: Avalanche Risk Along a 420 KV Transmission Line in Iceland
Date: 2006
Authors: Árni Jonsson, Steinar Bakkehol, Sigurjon Hauksson
Description: Two transmission lines between Fljótsdalur and Reyðarfjörður in northeast Iceland have been investigated concerning snow avalanche hazard....
Object ID: issw-2006-892-897.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, avalanche risk, fljótsdalslinur, landsvirkjun (national power company), landsnet (icegrid), transmission lines, design load
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Title: Little Cottonwood Canyon Transportation Study
Date: 2006
Authors: Jon Nepstad, Ritchie Taylor, Chris Stethem, Andrea Clayton
Description: This project was commissioned by the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) in conjunction with Alta Ski Lifts, Snowbird, the Town of Alta, and the...
Object ID: issw-2006-907-909.pdf
Keywords: risk reduction, transportation, planning, traffic
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Title: Managing Snow Avalanche Risk in Forested Terrain: Strategies, Case Histories, and Emerging Issues for the Professional Engineer and Geoscientist
Date: 2004
Authors: Frank Baumann
Description: Snow avalanche hazard is sometimes thought to be only of concern to mountaineers, skiers, and those who travel along mountain highways. In recent year...
Object ID: issw-2004-415.pdf
Keywords: mitigation, risk, snow avalanche
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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: Considering Considerable and Other Considerations
Date: 2004
Authors: Steve Blake
Description: Avalanches do not discriminate between backcountry user groups or an individual’s experience level. For the purposes of this discussion the po...
Object ID: issw-2004-470-475.pdf
Keywords: risk, avalanche danger, accidents
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Title: A Review of Colour and Cartography in Avalanche Danger Visualization
Date: 2004
Authors: Steven Conger
Description: Attention is being given to the visualization of avalanche danger through the use of geographic information systems (GIS), much of it focusing on the...
Object ID: issw-2004-477-482.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger scale, risk communication, visualization, avalanche mapping
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Title: Avalanche Risk Management in Backcountry Skiing Operations
Date: 2004
Authors: Harpa Grímsdóttir, David McClung
Description: Over the last 34 years Canada has had an average of 11 avalanche fatalities per year and during the past five years this average has increased to 16 ...
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Keywords: risk, skiing, fatalities, terrain
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Title: Sex, Drugs and the White Death: Lessons for Avalanche Educators from Health and Safety Campaigns
Date: 2004
Authors: Ian McCammon
Description: A common expectation of avalanche education is that it should reduce the frequency of avalanche deaths. But is this expectation realistic? After all, ...
Object ID: issw-2004-492-501.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, risk, decision making, training
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Title: Comparing Avalanche Decision Frameworks Using Accident Data from the United States
Date: 2004
Authors: Ian McCammon, Pascal Hägeli
Description: In recent years, a number of decision-making frameworks have been developed to help European recreationists make better decisions in avalanche terrain...
Object ID: issw-2004-502-512.pdf
Keywords: decision making, avalanche education, avalanche accidents, avalanche risk
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Title: Online Decision Support Tool for Avalanche Risk Management
Date: 2004
Authors: Patrick Nairz, Karel Kriz, Michaela Kinberger
Description: The Avalanche Warning Center Tyrol (Innsbruck, Austria) together with the Department of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna ha...
Object ID: issw-2004-514-519.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk management, online information system, decision support system
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Title: The SME Avalanche Tragedy of January 20, 2003: A Summary of the Data
Date: 2004
Authors: Dick Penniman, Frank Baumann
Description: On January 20, 2003 guided skiers and snowboarders with the Selkirk Mountain Experience (SME) Company climbed a 310 meter long, 36°-37° avalanch...
Object ID: issw-2004-520-530.pdf
Keywords: couloir, wind-loading, weak layer, terrain risk
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