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Title: The Avalanche Climate of Glacier National Park, B.C., Canada During 1965-2011
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Bruce Jamieson, Grant Statham
Description: Climate change is evident and long-term changes of the climate system have been observed. It has been shown that changing atmospheric conditions infl...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-50.pdf
Keywords: climate change, avalanche formation, avalanche activity, solid precipitation rate, crust formation
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Title: Basic Findings of the Project RIMES - Avalanches
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Antonia Zeidler, Paul Dobesberger
Description: Within the research project RIMES (Climate Change and Natural Hazard Risk Management in Energy Systems) the primary focus was put on the development o...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-52.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, climate change
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Title: Exploration of Water Management Adaptation Strategies in the Context of Climatic Changes in the Alps Using a Modelling Tool
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Eve Leroy, Georges-Marie Saulnier
Description: In the Alps, various studies conclude to a significant temperatures increase and a less clear signal for precipitation. Nevertheless, more solid preci...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-54.pdf
Keywords: water management, climate change adaptation, development strategies, alpine space
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Title: Effects of El Niño and La Niña on Snow Avalanche Patterns
Date: 2012
Authors: D.M. McClung
Description: El Niño and La Niña affect global climate and atmospheric circulation to determine winter temperature and precipitation patterns. Both the winte...
Object ID: issw-2012-256-258.pdf
Keywords: climate change impact, maritime climates, dry slab avalanche
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Title: Time-Lapse Photography as an Approach to Understanding Glide Avalanche Activity
Date: 2012
Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Erich H. Peitzsch, Daniel B. Fagre
Description: Avalanches resulting from glide cracks are notoriously difficult to forecast, but are a recurring problem for numerous avalanche forecasting programs...
Object ID: issw-2012-872-877.pdf
Keywords: glide crack activity, time lapse camera, going to the sun road, meteorology
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Title: Investigating the Snow Climate of Turnagain Pass, Alaska
Date: 2012
Authors: Wendy Wagner
Description: Turnagain Pass, Alaska, which is a popular destination for backcountry enthusiasts located 40 miles southeast of Anchorage, does not fit neatly into ...
Object ID: issw-2012-913-917.pdf
Keywords: backcountry, snow climate, avalanche terrain
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Title: Interactive Avalanche Information System (IAIS)
Date: 2012
Authors: Richard W Steiner, Mark Dundas, Peter Petri
Description: In 2010 avalanche forecasters (forecasters) employed by Chugach Adventure Guides (CAG) began developing a web-based avalanche atlas (Atlas) as part of...
Object ID: issw-2012-375-380.pdf
Keywords: geographic information systems (gis), avalanche atlas, web based avalanche atlas, data, database, database management
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Title: Avalanche Risk Reduction in the Continental Climate: How to Implement an Effective Boot Packing Program
Date: 2010
Authors: Karen R. Sahn
Description: Ski resorts in the continental climate are challenged with safely opening steep terrain early season. Providing a skiable product with timeliness corr...
Object ID: ISSW_O-058.pdf
Keywords: boot packer, shear plane disruption, avalanche risk reduction
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Title: A Comparison of Avalanche Survival Patterns in Canada and Switzerland
Date: 2010
Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Markus Falk, Hermann Brugger, Hans-Jürg Etter, Jeff Boyd
Description: The survival pattern of completely buried individuals in open terrain has been depicted in the avalanche survival curve, which displays probability of...
Object ID: ISSW_O-059.pdf
Keywords: avalanche survival, asphyxia, trauma, snow climate, rescue regime
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Title: Playing CSI: A Case Study of the November 12, 2009 Bozeman, Montana Snow Event
Date: 2010
Authors: Benjamin J. Hatchett, Michael L. Kaplan, Darko K. Koracin, John F. Mejia
Description: On Wednesday November 11, 2009 the National Weather Service called for the passage of a front across southwestern Montana ahead of a weak low pressur...
Object ID: ISSW_O-064.pdf
Keywords: convective snowfall, spatial variability, unbalanced flow
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Title: Climate Change in Lower Austria – A Snow Cover Analysis of the Last 100 Years With a Special Emphasis on the Last Century and the Impact of the Avalanche Situation in Lower Austria
Date: 2010
Authors: Friedrich Salzer, Arnold Studeregger
Description: In the winters 2005/06 and 2008/09 the snow height in Lower Austria was eminently high. In the last 10 years there were six winters with an eminently ...
Object ID: ISSW_P-002.pdf
Keywords: climate change, snow cover, one hundred year record
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Title: A Practitioner’s Tool for Assessing Glide Crack Activity
Date: 2010
Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Erich H. Peitzsch, Daniel B. Fagre
Description: Glide cracks can result in full-depth glide avalanche release. Avalanches from glide cracks are notoriously difficult to forecast, but are a reoccurri...
Object ID: ISSW_P-009.pdf
Keywords: glide crack activity, snow climates, going to the sun road, forecasting
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Title: Potential Impacts of Climate Change or U.S. Wastach Range Ski Areas: Projections for Park City Mountain Resort in 2030, 2050, and 2075
Date: 2010
Authors: Brian Lazar, Mark W. Williams
Description: We evaluate the potential impacts to snow coverage and depth from anthropogenic climate change at Park City Mountain Resort in 2030, 2050, and 2075. S...
Object ID: ISSW_P-023.pdf
Keywords: climate change, snow, park city, ski areas, general circulation models, wasatch
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Title: Potential Changes in the Frequency of Rain-On-Snow Events for U.S. Cascades Ski Areas As A Result of Climate Change: Projections for Mt Bachelor, Oregon in the 21rst Century
Date: 2010
Authors: Brian Lazar, Mark W. Williams
Description: We evaluate how climate change resulting from increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions may affect the frequency of rain-on-snow events at Mt. Bachelo...
Object ID: ISSW_P-024.pdf
Keywords: climate change, rain-on-snow, avalanches, mt bachelor, ski areas, cascades
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Title: Characterizing Wet Slab and Glide Slab Avalanche Occurrence Along the Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
Date: 2010
Authors: Erich H. Peitzsch, Jordy Hendrikx, Daniel B. Fagre, Blase Reardon
Description: Wet slab and glide slab snow avalanches are dangerous and yet can be particularly difficult to predict. Both wet slab and glide slab avalanches are th...
Object ID: ISSW_P-066.pdf
Keywords: wet slab, going to-the-sun road, snotel site, free water, snowpack
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