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- Title: Case Study: Natural Glide and Wet Slab Avalanche Cycle, Going-To-The-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana USA
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jake Hutchinson, Erich H. Peitzsch, Adam M. Clark
- Description: The Going-to-the-Sun Road (GTSR) is the premier tourist attraction in Glacier National Park, Montana. The GTSR also traverses through and under 40 ava...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O3.02.pdf
- Keywords: glide avalanche, wet slab avalanche, forecasting, glacier national park, montana
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- Title: Rescue at Cherry Bowl an Avalanche Canada Microsite Exploring the Many Learning Opportunities From a Successful Backcountry Avalanche Rescue
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Mary Clayton
- Description: Too often, educational opportunities in avalanche safety are based in tragedy. Rescue at Cherry Bowl is a lesson from success; three backcountry skie...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O4.01.pdf
- Keywords: rescue training, education, awareness, avalanche canada, rescue at cherry bowl
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- Title: Avalanche Awareness at the Jackson Hole High School
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Sarah Carpenter, Trevor Deighton
- Description: Each year, more young skiers, riders, and snowmobilers are accessing the backcountry. For the past 12 years, the American Avalanche Institute has been...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O4.03.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, youth education, wyoming
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- Title: Teenagers in the Backcountry: a Study of Use and Education from the Perspective of High School Students
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Emery L. Rheam
- Description: Teenagers are using the backcountry increasingly more and more during the winter for a wide range of activities. When growing up in mountain communiti...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O4.04.pdf
- Keywords: teenagers, avalanche education, youth education
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- Title: Risk-Based Avalanche Program Design
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Grant Statham, Brian Gould
- Description: Avalanche safety programs around the world are diverse and varied, challenged to forecast avalanche hazard and manage avalanche risk in a variety of e...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O5.01.pdf
- Keywords: risk, hazard, probability, consequence, exposure, vulnerability, education
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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: Snow Avalanche Activity Monitoring From Space: Creating a Complete Avalanche Activity Dataset for a Norwegian Forecasting Region
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Hannah Vickers, Eirik Malnes
- Description: Complete and consistent avalanche activity records, critical for avalanche forecasting, are with traditional monitoring methods not achievable in an e...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O9.01.pdf
- Keywords: radar remote sensing, avalanche detection, sentinel-1a, change detection
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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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