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- Title: Human Factor and Avalanche Decision Making in a Commercial Context
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Sigmund Andersen, Arild Rokenes
- Description: Professional ski and nature guides, as well as outdoor educators, have a considerable amount of time in exposed avalanche terrain. This paper focuses ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.08.pdf
- Keywords: human factor, guiding, friluftsliv, avalanche, commercial demands
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- Title: Using Crowd-Sourced Data to Understand Usage Patterns of Backcountry Recreational Users
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Ryan Buhler, James Floyer
- Description: Avalanche Canada's Mountain Information Network (MIN) is an online platform that allows users to share real-time information with the backcountry comm...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.21.pdf
- Keywords: public forecasting, crowdsourcing, travel behavior, terrain use, avalanche danger index
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- Title: Method of Selection and Input Data to Create Event Scenarios
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Valerio Segor, Paola Dellavedova, Nathalie Durand, Luca Pitet, Andrea Debernardi, Eloise Bovet
- Description: The web-platform for the Avalanche Local Commissions (CLV) was developed as a operational tool to facilitate the avalanche hazard management. This too...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.30.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche local commissions (clv), dataset, avalanche scenarios, road management
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- Title: Modernizing North America's Oldest Avalanche Program in Little Cotttonwood Canyon, Utah
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Bill Nalli
- Description: The combination of abundant snowfall, narrow roadway with many avalanche paths, dozens of threatened buildings, and large backcountry touring communit...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.33.pdf
- Keywords: highway avalanche program, avalanche forecasting, decision matrix, risk management
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- Title: Forest Service Avalanche Center Safety: Examining Current Practice
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Simon Trautman, Scott Savage, Karl Birkeland
- Description: In 2013 the Forest Service National Avalanche Center created guidelines designed to reduce worker risk at Forest Service (FS) backcountry avalanche fo...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.36.pdf
- Keywords: safety, risk, avalanche center
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- Title: The Norwegian Avalanche Observer Corps: Safety, Quality, Training, Procedures and Culture
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Markus Landrø, Rune Engeset, Andreas Haslestad, Jostein Aasen, Knut I. Orset
- Description: Field observers are crucial to secure a steady flow of high quality observations from the field, which is necessary to provide a reliable avalanche fo...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.50.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, observer training, safety
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- Title: Comparison of ECT, RB, Threshold Sum and Relative Threshold Sum Approach to To Snowpack Instability Evaluation - New Results
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Igor Chiambretti, Fabiano Monti, Mauro Valt
- Description: The Italian regional avalanche forecasting services (AINEVA) collect snowpack observations such as snowpack profiles or stability tests on a daily or ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.05.pdf
- Keywords: rutschblock (rb), extended column test (ect), structural instability indices, threshold sum (tsa), relative threshold sum (rta)
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- Title: Five Seasons of Detailed Surface Hoar Observations: What Have We Learned?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Tom Leonard
- Description: Since the start of the 2011-12 season the Yellowstone Club Ski Patrol have diligently been collecting detailed observations of surface hoar (SH) prese...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.07.pdf
- Keywords: spatial variability, surface hoar, synoptic approach, forecasting
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- Title: Reviewing the Prescott College Avalanche Forecasting Course: Past, Present, and Future
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Alyssa Young, Philip Straub
- Description: Prescott College's Avalanche Forecasting course is a three-week, 4 credit-hour field course focusing on snow science and avalanche forecasting for bac...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.37.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche education, aaa level 2, prescott college
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- Title: Weather Modeling for Remote Operators in Southeast Alaska
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Nick Barlow
- Description: Unpredictable mountain weather presents a unique challenge for mechanized backcountry skiing in Southeast Alaska. Due to the rugged terrain profile of...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.02.pdf
- Keywords: meteorology, forecasting, numerical weather prediction
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- Title: Statistical Nowcast of Avalanche Activity at the Regional Scale
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Stephan Harvey, Alec van Herwijnen, Bettina Richter
- Description: Forecasting natural avalanche activity is challenging. Events are relatively rare and several contributory factors affecting the formation of dry- or ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche activity, statistical model, random forest, snowpack
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- Title: Estimation of New Snow Density Using 42 Years of Meteorological Data from Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Wyoming
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Patrick J. Wright, Bob Comey, Chris McCollister, Mike Rheam
- Description: New snow density is a key parameter for daily forecasting of avalanche hazard. However, there is currently not a reliable automated measurement of new...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.05.pdf
- Keywords: snow density, snow water equivalent, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Synoptic Meteorological Conditions Associated With Snow Drift And Avalanche Activity in a High Arctic Maritime Snow Climate
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Holt J. Hancock, Jordy Hendrikx, Karl Birkeland, Markus Eckerstorfer, Hanne H. Christiansen
- Description: Avalanche activity in snow climates dominated by direct-action avalanches is primarily controlled by the local and synoptic scale meteorological condi...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.06.pdf
- Keywords: snow drift, synoptic avalanche forecasting, svalbard
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- Title: I-90 Snoqualmie Pass: Review of Highway Operations During a Major Construction Project in an Active Avalanche Area
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: John Stimberis
- Description: Interstate 90 over Snoqualmie Pass, WA is affected by numerous avalanche paths that disrupt travel and threaten the safety of travelers. The most acti...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.09.pdf
- Keywords: snow shed, avalanche fences, avalanche forecasting, avalanche control, highways
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- Title: A Model for Avalanche Forecasting on the Bonaigua Pass, Spain, Using Classification Trees
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Pablo Gorospe, Ivan Moner, Montse Bacardit, Jordi GavaldÃ
- Description: The highway C-28 is located in the Central Pyrenees and links the Aran valley with Cata-lonia along 20 km over the Bonaigua Pass. It constitutes a key...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.10.pdf
- Keywords: pyrenees, avalanche forecasting, modeling, classification trees
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