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- Title: The North Rockies Mountain Snowmobilers in the Absence of a Daily Public Avalanche Bulletin
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Andrew J. Duncan, Iain Stewart-Patterson
- Description: British Columbia's mountainous topography and weather makes it a rewarding region for winter backcountry travel. Studies acknowledge that less is know...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.50.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche bulletins, north rockies, snowmobilers, avalanche risk culture, public safety
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- Title: Skiers Perception and Knowledge About Avalanche Terrain Practical Implications for Avalanche Education
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Marit S. Andresen, Linda Hallandvik
- Description: In Norway, the number of people off-piste skiing in the backcountry is continuously increasing. This is also the case in Sogndal, a small village in W...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.51.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche terrain, snowpack, familiar terrain, avalanche education
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- Title: Possible Relationship of Media and Land Management to Three Separate Avalanche Accidents in Haines, Alaska 2012-2014
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Mark Kelly
- Description: During the first 23 years+ of guided, helicopter accessed, skiing in Alaska, there were zero avalanche fatalities with guided groups. It should be not...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.52.pdf
- Keywords: accidents, avalanche, guiding, heli-skiing, fatalities, land management
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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: Weather Modeling for Remote Operators in Southeast Alaska
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Nick Barlow
- Description: Unpredictable mountain weather presents a unique challenge for mechanized backcountry skiing in Southeast Alaska. Due to the rugged terrain profile of...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.02.pdf
- Keywords: meteorology, forecasting, numerical weather prediction
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- Title: Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Avalanche Problems in Western Canada: An Analysis of the Winters 2010-2016
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Bret Shandro, Pascal Haegeli, Grant Statham, James Floyer
- Description: Not all avalanches are the same. Different combinations of snowpack structures and meteorological conditions create different types of avalanche probl...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.34.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche danger, aval anche forecasting, avalanche hazard, avalanche problems
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- Title: Back Calculation of Avalanche Dimensions From Laser Scanning and sfm Photogrammetry
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Alexander Prokop, J.-M. Friedt, Ursula Enzenhofer, Florian Tolle
- Description: After avalanche events happen it is always difficult to collect useful data from the avalanche dimensions such as snow volume that was released in the...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.35.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche documentation, snow depth, laser scanning, sfm-photogrammetry, svalbard
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- Title: Decrease of Snow Avalanches Activity and Proliferation of Wet Snow Avalanches in French Alps Under Climate Warming
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Mohamed Naaim, Nicolas Eckert
- Description: The processing of the data, including cross analysis, of two well documented databases of snow and avalanches in France Alps (namely EPA avalanches ch...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.36.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, climate change, natural hazard, risk
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- Title: Multivariate Parameter Optimization for Operational Application of Extended Kinetic Theory in Simulation Software
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Andreas Kofler, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Andreas Huber, Wolfgang Fellin, Matthias Rauter, Matthias Granig, Elisabeth Hainzer, Christian Tollinger, Karl Kleemayr
- Description: State of the art avalanche simulation software is used for avalanche prediction and hazard mapping. Amongst other factors, the choice of an appropriat...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.37.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, computational avalanche dynamics, simulation optimization, design event
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- Title: Using Spatially Distributed Statistical Models for Avalanche Runout Estimation
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Andreas Huber, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Andreas Kofler, Karl Kleemayr
- Description: State of the art physical-dynamical avalanche models are a commonly used tool in avalanche research and practice. Research and practical experience ha...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.38.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, avalanche modeling, raster-based modeling, regional-scale, hazard-indicator maps
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- Title: Selected Observations From Avalanche Measurements at the Ryggfonn Test Site and Comparisons with Observations From Other Locations
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Peter Gauer
- Description: Selected observations from the full-scale avalanche test site Ryggfonn, Norway, like front velocity, runout distance, or pressure distributions, are p...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.40.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche observations, comparison, hazard mapping
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- Title: Avalanche Management in a Large Chilean Copper Mine
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Patricio Cerda, Luis Gallardo, Marcel Didier, Marcel Oyarzun Joaquin, Mujica Rodrigo, Cesar Vera
- Description: The Andina copper mine is located at an elevation of 4200 m. in the Rio Blanco Valley north of Santiago de Chile. It is one of the world?s most produc...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.42.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, management, risk, operation, mining
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- Title: Concept to optimize road closures due to avalanche hazard on low traffic roads in Norway
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Dag Theodor R. Andreassen, Ole-Andre Helgaas
- Description: The Norwegian road network connects remote communities to central parts of the country. These communities are often vulnerable to isolation due to ava...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.46.pdf
- Keywords: monitoring, warning, observation, avalanche control, hazard evaluation
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- Title: The White Pass and Yukon Route Avalanche Program, Forecasting and Risk Management for a Historical Railroad
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Bill Glude
- Description: The White Pass and Yukon Route (WPYR) is a narrow gauge railroad built in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush. Considered impossible to build by many w...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.48.pdf
- Keywords: railroad, avalanche program, alaska, yukon
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- Title: Stochastic Methods in Operational Avalanche Simulation - From Back Calculation to Prediction
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Valentin Hellweger, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Andreas Kofler, Andreas Huber, Wolfgang Fellin, Michael Oberguggenberger
- Description: Avalanche simulations are an integral part of hazard assessment. Determining the potential hazard requires a multidisciplinary approach, including dif...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.50.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche dynamics, parameter estimation, stochastic simulation, bayes’ theorem, metropolis-hastings algorithm, posterior distribution, back calculation, prediction
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