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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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