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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: Ãrni 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 GrÃmsdóttir, 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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