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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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