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- Title: Can We Derive an Avalanche Terrain Severity Rating from Observed Terrain Selection of Professional Guides? A Proof-Of-Concept Study
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Scott Thumlert, Pascal Haegeli
- Description: The physical risk from snow avalanches poses a serious threat to backcountry recreationalists and the winter backcountry recreation industry. Professi...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O5.03.pdf
- Keywords: terrain selection, helicopter ski guiding, avalanche risk management, avalanche hazard, gis avalanche terrain classification
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- Title: Comparison of Measured and Modelled Snow Cover Liquid Water Content to Improve Local Wet-Snow Avalanche Prediction
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Christoph Mitterer, Achim Heilig, Lino Schmid, Alec van Herwijnen, Olaf Eisen, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Wet-snow avalanches can be difficult to forecast. However, recent studies have suggested that an index (LWCindex) related to the mean liquid water con...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O6.01.pdf
- Keywords: wet-snow avalanches, avalanche forecasting, liquid water content
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- Title: Regional Forecasting of Wet Snow Avalanche Cycles: an Essential Tool for Avalanche Warning Services?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Alec van Herwijnen, Christoph Mitterer, Nora Helbig, Tobias Jonas, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Wet-snow avalanches are relatively poorly understood and difficult to forecast. By definition, liquid water is required in the snow cover, thus predic...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O6.03.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, wet-snow avalanche, snow cover modelling, numerical weather prediction
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- Title: Introduction and Influence of (Large) Existing Buildings on Avalanche Hazard Zoning: Case Study of Flaine
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Philippe Berthet-Rambaud, Fanny Bourjaillat
- Description: Flaine is a French ski resort developed ex-nihilo since the 60s. In spite of avalanche slopes just above, the different settlements were possible than...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O7.01.pdf
- Keywords: hazard assessment, obstacle influence, buildings resistance
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- Title: Coupling Operational Snowcover Simulations With Avalanche Dynamics Calculations to Assess Avalanche Danger in High Altitude Mining Operations
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Cesar Vera, Nander Wever, Perry Bartelt
- Description: The Codelco Andina copper mine is operating in high alpine terrain where avalanches pose a threat to the operations and the infrastructure. A dedicate...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O7.02.pdf
- Keywords: numeric modeling, avalanche dynamics, snowcover modeling, risk assessing
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- Title: Analysis of the Hazard Caused by Ice Avalanches From the Hanging Glacier on the Eiger West Face
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Stefan Margreth, Martin Funk, Daniel Tobler, Pierre Dalban, Lorenz Meier, Juerg Lauper
- Description: The Eiger hanging glacier is located in the west face of the Eiger in the Bernese Alps (Swit-zerland). Large ice avalanches, especially if they trigge...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O7.04.pdf
- Keywords: risk management, ice avalanche, avalanche simulation, hazard assessment
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- Title: Polar Circus Avalanche Response, February 5-11, 2015
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Stephen Holeczi, Grant Statham
- Description: On the evening of February 5, 2015, two Canadian Military Search and Rescue Technicians (SAR Tech) on an official training exercise were descending af...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O8.01.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, mitigation, risk, exposure
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- Title: Triggered Avalanche - a Case Study From the Italian Alps
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Igor Chiambretti, Bernardino Chiaia, Barbara Frigo
- Description: The 6th February 2014, two parties of 25 Heli-skiers (6 guides and 19 clients) and 3 snow observers were on activity on a large bowl at 2800 m elevati...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O8.02.pdf
- Keywords: heli ski; triggered avalanche; accident case study
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- Title: Using Time-Lapse Photography to Monitor Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Diana Saly, Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson, Doug Richmond
- Description: On January 14, 2016 an avalanche occurred on the Football Field of Saddle Peak in Southwest Montana. Saddle Peak is a backcountry slope, located immed...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O8.03.pdf
- Keywords: time-lapse photography, backcountry, case study, terrain use
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- Title: Supporting, Evaluating, and Planning Avalanche Control Efforts with Lidar-Derived Snow Depth Maps
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jeffrey S. Deems, Ryan Evanczyk, Dominic Vellone, Ethan Greene, Tyler Weldon, David C. Finnegan, Peter J. Gadomski, Adam L. LeWinter
- Description: Recent studies have demonstrated the applicability and potential for ground-based lidar mapping to support avalanche control operations. High-resoluti...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O9.02.pdf
- Keywords: lidar, spatial variability, avalanche control, infrastructure planning
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- Title: Front and Internal Velocity Distribution in Powder Snow Avalanches
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jan-Thomas Fischer, Anselm Köehler, Andreas Kofler, Betty Sovilla, Jim McElwaine
- Description: Accurate velocity measurements of avalanches are essential for testing simulation tools and for performing risk mitigating studies. However, the flow ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O9.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche dynamics, radar measurement, velocity, avalanche head dynamics
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- Title: Social Media and Decision Making in Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jerry Isaak
- Description: The rapid advance of social media into remote environments, and the resulting "invisible pressure" of everywhereness on many individuals, app...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O10.02.pdf
- Keywords: technology, human factors, avalanche education, social networks
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- Title: 10 Common Missteps of Avalanche Practitioners
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Todd L. Guyn
- Description: Avalanche practitioners work in a hazardous environment, characterized by a large degree of uncertainty. While extensive operational efforts are under...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O10.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, awareness, patience
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- Title: Avalanche Risk in Winter Backcountry Touring: Status and Recent Trends in Switzerland
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Kurt Winkler, Adrian Fischer, Frank Techel
- Description: Avalanches are the major cause of accidental death while recreating in the mountains during winter. Up to now the calculation of the statistical risk ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O12.01.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk, backcountry touring, snowshoe hiking, mortality rate
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- Title: Gas Diffusion in Wet Avalanche Debris Pertaining to Search and Rescue Dogs
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jocelyn M. Cramer, Eeva Latosuo, Patrick Sullivan
- Description: Avalanche search and rescue dogs are an effective way to recover subjects that have been buried in an avalanche and cannot be located with avalanche t...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O12.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche debris, search and rescue dogs, gas diffusion
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