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- Title: Artificial Avalanche Release and the Probability of Triggering Secondary Avalanches
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Lukas Stoffel, Stefan Margreth, Jurg Schweizer
- Description: Today, avalanches are often artificially triggered to protect ski areas and to some extent, transportation routes and residential areas. During avalan...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-14.pdf
- Keywords: artificial release of avalanches, secondary avalanches, application of artificial avalanche release, safety concept
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- Title: Avalanche Safety in Ski Areas – The Legal Position in Austria
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Siegfried Sauermoser, Marianne Fritz, Gebhard Walter
- Description: The avalanche safety in the area of ropeways is regulated on the basis of the Austrian
Ropeway Act 2003 (version of 2012) in the so-called “Ava...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-16.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche safety, austrian ropeway act 2003, ski areas, avalanche commission, cableway, ropeway installation
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- Title: Modern Avalanche Education: About Rubber Gloves and a Card Game
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Rolf Westerhof, Maarten Huisman
- Description: Avalanche educators face a daunting task: they usually have very little time to convey
a very complicated matter to an ignorant audience. So what is ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-08.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, active learning, avalanche card game, card game
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- Title: The Role of Avalanche Character in Public Avalanche Safety Products
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Karl Klassen, Pascal Haegeli, Grant Statham
- Description: Avalanche character is a significant factor in professional decision-making (Atkins, 2004). Weak layer/interface, slab properties, persistence, weak l...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-13.pdf
- Keywords: wet slab, slab, cornice
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- Title: Toward Better Decision Tools for the Management of Frequent Avalanches
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Segor, V., Pitet, L., Bovet E., Dellavedova P., Sovilla B., Steinkogler W., Veitinger J., Maggioni M., Chiambretti I., Prola M.
- Description: Avalanche safety personnel often face with the problem of whether to close a road or a ski-resort exposed frequently to avalanches. Such decisions are...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-03.pdf
- Keywords: strada, frequent avalanches, management, routes, ski-resorts, strategies
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- Title: National Avalanche Warning Service for Norway – Established 2013
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Rune Verpe Engeset
- Description: Norway established a national public avalanche danger warning service on 14 January 2013 based on international standards - a milestone in the Governm...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-19.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, warning, forecasting, public safety
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- Title: Forecasting Forest Avalanches: A Review of Winter 2011/12
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Michaela Teich, Frank Techel, Peder Caviezel, Peter Bebi
- Description: Mountain forests play a crucial role in avalanche mitigation by hindering avalanche formation. Nevertheless, due to the complex interactions between e...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-24.pdf
- Keywords: forest avalanches, forecasting, road, railway, ski-run safety
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- Title: Evolution of Explosives and Safety Improvement in the Avalanche
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: COSTECALDE Vincent
- Description: The avalanche triggering has long done with explosives. The use of these products can
effectively produce a shock wave powerful enough to do from an ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-53.pdf
- Keywords: explosives, emulsion, non-electric detonators, safety
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- Title: Future Changes in Ski Resorts
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Stewart Sheppard
- Description: Ski resorts are on the front line when confronted with the consequences of changes in the business environment, changes in climate and sociological ch...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-38.pdf
- Keywords: weather patterns, energy markets, sociologial change, adaptation, future ski resorts
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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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- Title: Progression en Terrain Enneigé Progression in a Snowy Environment
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Paul Bonhomme and Copil
- Description: Whether it is in winter, in summer or still for a journey, the guide is very often brought
to evolve in snowy environment. Beyond this, he is the onl...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-04.pdf
- Keywords: management, constraints, tools, project
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- Title: Ski-Touring, Avalanche Risk and Human Factors
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Boris Valat, et Ludovic Ravanel
- Description: Every winter, mountain practitioners are directly confronted with the question of avalanches. During the 2011-2012 season, 32 avalanche accidents and ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-14.pdf
- Keywords: ski touring, avalanche risk, human factors, decision making
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- Title: Assessing the Impact of Avalanche Safety Training Courses in Andorra (2009 – 2012)
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Aina Margalef, Pere Esteban
- Description: Since 2009, the EDNA has been performing courses about safety on avalanche terrain in Andorra. After 4 years, we carried out a survey asking the atten...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-15.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche safety course, transceiver training, risk perception
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- Title: Ride Hard, Ride Safe! Val d'Isère
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Henry Schniewind, Renaud Lobry
- Description: This presentation shows how, in 2010, Val d'Isère with Henry's Avalanche Talk (HAT) put into place a safety and communication campaign aimed primar...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-22.pdf
- Keywords: skiing, off-piste, avalanche, awareness, safety
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- Title: The Canadian Approach to Professional Avalanche Training
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Emily L. Grady
- Description: Canada is in a unique position with: low-density populations scattered over large mountainous areas of differing snow conditions; limited access to go...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-31.pdf
- Keywords: professional avalanche training, canada, avalanche industry, avalanche education
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