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- Title: The North American Public Avalanche Danger Scale
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Grant Statham, Pascal Haegeli, Karl W. Birkeland, Ethan Greene, Clair Israelson, Bruce Tremper, Chris Stethem, Bruce McMahon, Brad White, John Kelly
- Description: The Avalanche Danger Scale is an ordinal, five-level warning system that is a cornerstone of public avalanche information. The system was developed in...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-020.pdf
- Keywords: danger scale, avalanche, warning system design, risk communication
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- Title: Which OBS for Which Avalanche Type?
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Jürg Schweizer, Grant Statham, Pascal Haegeli
- Description: At the 2004 ISSW, Roger Atkins proposed that—early in the terrain selection process— backcountry travellers could identify which types o...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-029.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches types, atkins’ approach
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- Title: Mapping Exposure to Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Cam Campbell, Peter Marshall
- Description: During the winter of 2009-10, several signs were created in collaboration with British
Columbia government agencies for winter trailheads. The center...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-046.pdf
- Keywords: winter trailheads, avalanche terrain exposure scale (ates), slope- to basin-scale terrain
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- Title: The Upgraded Full-Scale Avalanche Test-Site Ryggfonn, Norway
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Peter Gauer, Hedda Breien, Dieter Issler, Krister Kristensen, Kalle Kronholm, Erik Lied, Karstein Lied
- Description: Measurements of full-scale avalanches are expensive and time consuming, but are indispensable to gain in-depth understanding of the flow behavior of a...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-084.pdf
- Keywords: test site, catching dam, runout zone, slf full-scale tests
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- Title: The Significance of the Official Avalanche Report As Reflected in the Snow Conditions in the Area of the Planneralm (Styria - Austria)
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Arnold Studeregger, Alexander Podesse
- Description: In the season 2002/2003 the idea was seized to review the official avalanche report. At this that the official avalanche report is published in the mo...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-091.pdf
- Keywords: forecast, meteorological data, snow profiles, snow cover test
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- Title: Controlling Crystal Habit in a Small Scale Snowmaker
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Josephine Bones, E.E. Adams
- Description: The crystal habit, plates or columns, in snow crystals is dependent on atmospheric
temperature. The secondary feature of the crystal, plates versus d...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0067-0071.pdf
- Keywords: controlling crystal habit, growing snow crystals
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- Title: Validating the Propagation Saw Test on the Slope Scale
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Cameron Ross, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Over the past few seasons, the Propagation Saw Test (PST) has gained increasing
acceptance in some guiding and highway operations in western North Am...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0282-0286.pdf
- Keywords: fracture propagation, snowpack stability, propagation saw test, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Styrian Avalanche Service – Danger Scale 5 – More than 200 Avalanches
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Arnold Studeregger, Hannes Rieder
- Description: In Styria there are 35 avalanche commissions for 47 parishes. They are divided into
11 different political areas. The local avalanche commission has ...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0346-0349.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, avalanche warning service styria, danger scale
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- Title: Experiences on a Storm Causing Avalanche Cycles in South-West Norway
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Njål Farestveit, Sara Skutlaberg
- Description: Southern Norway has the 2nd and 3rd longest fjords in the world, respectively the Sognefjorden and the Hardangerfjorden, cutting deep into the old Cal...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0567-0571.pdf
- Keywords: orographic precipitation, road administration, storm cycle, case study
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- Title: The Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Grant Statham, Bruce McMahon, Ian Tomm
- Description: Exposure to avalanche terrain is a fundamental concept and an important parameter for winter routefinding decisions in the backcountry. However, educa...
- Object ID: issw-2006-491-497.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche terrain, terrain classification, exposure scale, education
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- Title: Synoptic Scale Storm Tracks with Specific Density Trends, Leading to Natural Avalanches on HW 210, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Glen Merrill
- Description: A review of historical avalanche and meteorological data for Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah allowed a relationship to be found between synoptic scale ...
- Object ID: issw-2002-425-432.pdf
- Keywords: natural avalanches, density trends, synoptic scale storm tracks, historical weather data, historical avalanche data
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- Title: New Perspective on Computer-Aided Avalanche Forecasting: Scale and Scale Issues
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Pascal Hageli, David M. McClung
- Description: This paper discusses the problems related to scale in avalanche forecasting models.
The term 'scale' refers to a characteristic length or time of a p...
- Object ID: issw-2000-066-073.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, scale, computer models
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- Title: A Between-Storm Indicator of Avalanche Activity
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Robert E. Davis, Kelly Elder
- Description: Earlier studies examining relationships between weather factors and avalanche activity showed that the important between-storm factors include an inde...
- Object ID: issw-2000-135-139.pdf
- Keywords: snow, metamorphism, avalanche activity
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- Title: The Spatial and Temporal Variability of Rain-On-Snow
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Sue A. Ferguson
- Description: Snow melt during rainfall causes large-scale flooding and avalanching. These rain-on-snow events are most well-documented in the coastal mountain rang...
- Object ID: issw-2000-178-183.pdf
- Keywords: snow, avalanches, rain-on-snow, floods
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- Title: Dry-Slab Density and Thickness During Major Storms
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Art Mears
- Description: Observations of forest destruction throughout various snow climates suggest that design avalanches (=100-year return periods) usually result from frac...
- Object ID: issw-1996-091-093.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, design-avalanche, slab, densities, thickness
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