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Title: Avalanche Beacon Parks: Focus on Skill Development and Team Coordination
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Audrey Desjardins, Saul Greenberg, Ron Wakkary, Jeff Hambelton
Description: We observe and describe the ways backcountry recreationists use a wireless avalanche beacon training park located on a ski hill. From those observatio...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.23.pdf
Keywords: avalanche beacon training park, team coordination, avalanche companion rescue, beacon, transceiver
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Title: Nerf Ball: Avalanche Rescue Training Method
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Halsted Morris
Description: As advanced as modern digital transceivers are people still need to practice in how to use their transceiver. Having realistic practice in how to sear...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.48.pdf
Keywords: transceiver, training, nerf ball, bash ball
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Title: How Does a Remote Arctic Settlement Prepare for Handling Fatal Accidents when Outside Assistance is Far Away? - Focus on Organized Avalanche Rescue in Remote Areas
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Martin Indreiten, Christian Svarstad
Description: Longyearbyen, located at 78°N, is a small town on the west side of Spitsbergen, a part of the Svalbard archipelago in the high arctic. The rescue s...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.53.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, emergency preparedness, rescue organization
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Title: Characteristics of Avalanche Release and an Approach of Avalanche Forecasting System Using SNOWPACK Model in the Tianshan Mountains, China
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Osamu Abe, Lanhai Li, Lei Bai, Jiansheng Hao, Hiroyuki Hirashima, Junrong Xu
Description: We summarized the characteristics of avalanche releases in the Tianshan Mountains of western China based on observations of snow cover and avalanche o...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche release, forecasting system, snowpack model, tianshan mountains
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Title: Avalanche Rescue and Mission Risk in Norway 1996-2010
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Albert Lunde, Krister Kristensen
Description: Well documented data from Norwegian avalanche rescue missions are evaluated according to risk assessment. Data have been collected from police records...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-08.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, risk assessment, risk management
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Title: Survival Chance Optimized Procedures in Rescue and How to Minimize Injuries During Excavation
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Manuel Genswein
Description: In companion rescue as well as in the start-up phase of organized rescue, shortage of rescue resources are very likely if multiple buried subjects / p...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-09.pdf
Keywords: avalanche triage, excavation, injuries
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Title: Double Mesures de Hauteurs de Neige: Une Innovation Pour Mieux Gérer le Risque d’Avalanche en Temps Réel sur les Routes de Savoie (France)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Gaëlle Bourgeois, Alain Duclos, Stéphane Caffo
Description: Savoy's regional government manages more than 3000km of roads, including approximately 1000km over the elevation of 1000m. More than a hundred sectio...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-05.pdf
Keywords: blowing snow, remote weather station, snow height measurement
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Title: Integrating Gaming Technology to Map Avalanche Hazard
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Donna Delparte, Michael R. Peterson, John Perkins, Jahrain Jackson
Description: As gaming physics engines advance, snow scientists have the opportunity to utilize these engines to animate and model avalanche flow and runout. Nume...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-22.pdf
Keywords: hazard mapping, gis, avalanche terrain modelling, dem, genetic algorithms
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Title: Terrain Analysis of Skier-Triggered Avalanche Starting Zones
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Irene Vontobel, Stephan Harvey, Ross S. Purves
Description: Terrain is one of the main factors contributing to avalanche formation and important for the assessment of avalanche risk. Terrain characteristics of ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-05.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, avalanche starting zone, terrain, gis
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Title: European Avalanche Warning Services (EAWS) – Latest News
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Patrick Nairz, Karel Kriz
Description: 30 years ago the European Avalanche Warning Services (EAWS) started to collaborate in a structured and regular basis. Since then there had been lots o...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-18.pdf
Keywords: european avalanche warning services, avalanche information system, harmonization
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Title: Recreational Avalanche Accidents in Switzerland: Trends and Patterns With an Emphasis on Burial, Rescue Methods and Avalanche Danger
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Frank Techel, Benjamin Zweifel
Description: During the last 20 years (1992/93 to 2011/12) more than 90% of the avalanche fatalities in Switzerland occurred in uncontrolled avalanche terrain (rec...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-08.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche survival, mortality, rescue methods
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Title: Recommendation on How Avoid Interference Issues in Companion and Organized Avalanche Rescue
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Manuel Genswein, Dale Atkins, Joe Obad, Emily Grady, Marc Piché, Todd Guyn, Rob Whelan, Kjetil Brattlien
Description: Electronic avalanche rescue devices such as 457kHz transceivers and Recco are today the primary search tools in companion and organized rescue. The re...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-34.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, interference, transceiver, recco
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Title: An Extraordinary Avalanche Winter in Troms, Norway - Special Avalanche Conditions – and the Tromdalen Avalanche Disaster
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Ragnar Glomseth, Tor André Skjelbakken, Knut Fredriksen
Description: This winter (12/13) was one of the most challenging ever for the regional avalanche rescue team in Tromsø, Norway, with (per 26 April) a total of 1...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-47.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, rescue, accident
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Title: A Comparison of Terrain-Based Parameter, Wind-Field Modelling and TLS Snow Depth Data for Snow Drift Modelling
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Alexander Prokop, Peter Schön, Vincent Vionnet, Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Gilbert Guyomarc’h, Yves Durand, Hervet Bellot, Florain Singer, Kouichi Nishimura
Description: Wind and the associated snow drift are dominating factors determining the snow distribution and accumulation in alpine areas, resulting in a in high s...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-60.pdf
Keywords: snow, wind, redistribution, tls, terrain parameter, arps
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Title: Telemedicine Backpack: Helping Rescue Teams to Send Vital Sign Measurements to Healthcare Professionals in Inaccessible Areas
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Avellanas M., Mayo S., Rodrigálvarez V., Coll J., Sierra M., Anglés R., Hurtado R.
Description: Supported by the Interregional Cooperation Program Spain-France-Andorra POCTEFA INTERREG IV A 2007-2013 as part of STIPP Project and with the aim of i...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-55.pdf
Keywords: telemedicine, backpack, mountain, healthcare, rescue, accident, vital signs, ecg
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