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Title: Total Safety in Mountain Passes
Date: 2009
Authors: Jürg Rocco
Description: We describe the procedure we follow to keep the Flüela Pass open in early winter and to re-open the road in the spring.
Object ID: issw-2009-0553.pdf
Keywords: avalanche protection, avalanche control
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Title: Intuition, Recognition and Patterns – Decision-Making by Mountain Guides in Avalanche Situations
Date: 2009
Authors: Jan Mersch, Anton Kühberger
Description: The community of professional mountain guides is an expert group in the field of avalanche danger. In a naturalistic decision making framework we stu...
Object ID: issw-2009-0606-0609.pdf
Keywords: naturalistic decision making, critical decision method, recognition primed decisions, intuition, avalanche risk management
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Title: Promotion of Secure Mountain Exploration by the Anna Pasek Foundation
Date: 2009
Authors: Pawel Chrustek
Description: The Anna Pasek Foundation (www.annapasek.org) was established at the beginning of 2008 in memory of Anna Pasek – a Polish student from the Jagi...
Object ID: issw-2009-0636-0639.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, alpine training base, anna pasek
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Title: San Juan Mountains Snow System Observatory & Research Venue
Date: 2006
Authors: Christopher C. Landry
Description: Building on a legacy of San Juan Mountains snow research begun in the 1970's, the Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies is hosting and conducting inte...
Object ID: issw-2006-407-410.pdf
Keywords: san juan mountains, snow system science, snow hydrology, snow ecology, mountain climate monitoring
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Title: An Interdisciplinary Snow Systems Course for Undergraduates
Date: 2006
Authors: Dr. Koren Nydick, Chris Landry
Description: Despite the growing need for environmental scientists and managers to think with an interdisciplinary perspective, many undergraduate courses are dis...
Object ID: issw-2006-435.pdf
Keywords: education, snow science, winter ecology, fort lewis college, mountain studies institute, energy budgets
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Title: Evidence of Chaos in Slab Avalanches
Date: 2002
Authors: Walter Rosenthal, Kelly Elder
Description: We present evidence that slab avalanching is a chaotic process. A 20-year set of 8062 avalanches running on more than 140 paths at Mammoth Mountain wa...
Object ID: issw-2002-013-018.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, chaos, fractals, attractors
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Title: France: How to Improve the Avalanche Knowledge of Mountain Guides? The Answer of the French Mountain Guides Association
Date: 2002
Authors: Alain Duclos, Claude Rey
Description: The French Mountain Guides Association3 (Syndicat National des Guides de Montagne,) organises continuing training for its members. Since 1998, the foc...
Object ID: issw-2002-252-255.pdf
Keywords: avalanche course, mountain guides
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Title: The Mammoth Mountain Cooperative Snow Study Site: Data Acquisition, Management, and Dissemination
Date: 2000
Authors: Thomas H. Painter, Deborah Donahue, Jeffrey C. Dozier, Weimin Li, Richard Kattelmann, Daniel Dawson, Robert E. Davis, John Fiori, Bryan Harrington, Paul Pugner
Description: The University of California, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Mammoth Mountain Ski Area collaborate in a snow study site located at 2960 m on Mam...
Object ID: issw-2000-447-451.pdf
Keywords: snow, energy balance, measurement, database
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Title: The Factors Leading to the Closing of Two Alaska Heli-Ski Operations in Spring 2000
Date: 2000
Authors: Jerry Hance
Description: The snow and avalanche cycle that took place in January and early February throughout many parts of Alaska, that closed highway, destroyed homes and t...
Object ID: issw-2000-472-474.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, heli operations, safety, avalanche cycle
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Title: Differential Heat Transfer--It's Effects on Avalanche Release the Mountain Snowpack
Date: 1990
Authors: Nick Logan
Description: Certain correlations are observed when examining recent avalanche accidents in Colorado. An examination into six backcountry incidents reveals the pre...
Object ID: issw-1990-095-096.pdf
Keywords: snowpack, heat, trasfer, dry slab avalanche, release, accidents
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Title: Snow and Avalanche Training for the Armed Services
Date: 1990
Authors: John Montagne, Ronald F. Johnson
Description: Military history bears out the seriousness of snow hazards in all campaigns in snowy mountain terrains. European armies of WW I and II benefitted grea...
Object ID: issw-1990-141-151.pdf
Keywords: military, snow hazards, terrains
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Title: The Use of Large Explosive Charges for Avalanche Hazard Reduction
Date: 1990
Authors: Larry Livingood, Jim Kanzler, Jake Elkins
Description: Mountain seismic exploration for oil-bearing strata involves the detonation of 3450kg of explosives every 200-300m in areas chosen for interesting su...
Object ID: issw-1990-192-197.pdf
Keywords: explosive charges, avalanche, hazard reduction, seismic exploration, oil-bearing strata
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Title: Blasting Glacial Ice and Snow
Date: 1988
Authors: Herb Bleuer
Description: This presentation, with the aid of slides, is about methods of blasting large quantities of glacial ice and snow. The project illustrated here involve...
Object ID: issw-1988-023-027.pdf
Keywords: molybdenum, blasting, snow, ice, ore, yokullhaup phenomena
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Title: Mountain Winds
Date: 1988
Authors: J.H. Emslie
Description: It has been known for many years that winds on mountain peaks are often stronger at night than they are during the daytime, but data on the frequency ...
Object ID: issw-1988-142-145.pdf
Keywords: wind, mountains peaks, forest fires
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Title: Whistler Mountain Avalanche Control Programme
Date: 1976
Authors: C. Stethem, J. Hetherington
Description: Whistler Mountain is located at about 50 0 North latitude by 123 0 longitude, in the Pacific Coast Range of British Columbia, about 115 km north of Va...
Object ID: issw-1976-024-029.pdf
Keywords: skiing terrain, ski slopes
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