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- Title: Anena - The French Association for Snow and Avalanche Study
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Francois Sivardiere
- Description: ANENA (French Association for Snow and AvalanchesStudy), founded in 1971 after catastrophic avalanches, aims at developing the safety of persons and p...
- Object ID: issw-1996-073-074.pdf
- Keywords: association, avalanche, coordination, information, safety, training
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- Title: Assessing the Accuracy of SIR-C Snow Cover Classification
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Thomas Albright, Jiancheng Shi, Jeff Dozier
- Description: Timely and accurate maps of snow covered area (SCA) are important to resource managers, planners, and scientists for applications ranging from avalanc...
- Object ID: issw-1996-140-143.pdf
- Keywords: snow covered area, classification, synthetic aperture radar, sir-c, accuracy
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- Title: Snow Science and Safety for the Mountain Guide Walter Bruns
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Canadian Mountain Holidays
- Description: The safety of people in a winter, backcountry mountain environment is presented in terms of margins of security and margins of survival. The elements ...
- Object ID: issw-1996-203-206.pdf
- Keywords: snow stability, hazard, risk, survival
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- Title: Heli-Ski Survival Guide
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Eric Burr
- Description: Procedures refined over 12 operating seasons in the North Cascades are reviewed, along with avalanche incidents, by the senior guide. This paper is an...
- Object ID: issw-1996-207-208.pdf
- Keywords: small operations, isolation, elitism, environmental vision
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- Title: Alpine Touring Access Management on Public Lands in Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Robert H.Comey
- Description: In Jackson Hole, Wyoming skiers and snowboarders access rugged avalanche terrain on publicly owned land from privately owned ski lifts. Backcountry av...
- Object ID: issw-1996-209-212.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, teton, backcountry, jackson, ski, corney
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- Title: Avalanche Hazard Evaluation at Ski Areas
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Jon Ueland
- Description: There is a lot of literature written about avalanche hazard evaluation and forecasting, but it's seldom from the perspective of a ski area avalanche w...
- Object ID: issw-1996-217-218.pdf
- Keywords: hazard assessment, stability evaluation, intuition
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- Title: Experiences on the Use and the Effectiveness of Permanent Supporting Structures in Switzerland
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Stefan Margreth
- Description: First the principles of supporting structures are explained. Two case studies of winter observations in areas controlled by supporting structures are ...
- Object ID: issw-1996-233-238.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche protection, supporting structures, hazard maps
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- Title: Powerline Pass - B.C. North Coast Mountain the History of Avalanche Damage, Mitigation and a Modern Epic
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Scott Flavelle, Hector MacKenzie
- Description: Scott Flavelle will trace the history of avalanche damage to the Alcan transmission towers and the various mitigation methods recommended by our avala...
- Object ID: issw-1996-268-270.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, history, mitigation, survival
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- Title: Secondary Alpine Hazards Induced by the 1995-1996 Eruption of Ruapehu Volcano, New Zealand
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Harry (J.R.) Keys
- Description: Hazards due to the 1995-1996 eruption included lahars, ballistic blocks and ashfall, and a wide variety of secondary hazards induced by them, includin...
- Object ID: issw-1996-279-284.pdf
- Keywords: secondary hazards, lahar, avalanche, volcanic ash, skifield management
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- Title: New Long Range Control Methods
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Marty Schmoker, Mike Stanford
- Description: With the depletion of 105, and 75 mm recoilless ammunition over the last few years, and the recent accident involving the 106 recoilless rifle ammunit...
- Object ID: issw-1996-288-294.pdf
- Keywords: howitzer, recoilless rifle, tank
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- Title: Hazard Mapping for Ice and Combined Snow/Ice Avalanches - Two Case Studies from the Swiss and Italian Alps
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Stefan Margreth, Martin Fun
- Description: In September 1996 210'000 m3 of glacier ice broke off from the Gutzgletscher which is situated in the north-west face of the Wetterhorn above Grindelw...
- Object ID: issw-1998-368-380.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche run-out, hanging glacier, ice avalanche, hazard mapping
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- Title: Weather and Snowpack Conditions Essential to Slushflow Release and Downslope Propagation
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Erik Hestnes, Steinar Bakkelwi, Frode Sandersen, Lars Andresen
- Description: Rapid mass movement of water-saturated snow, usually known as slushflow or slush avalanche, is a major natural hazard in Norway. Slushflows occur in w...
- Object ID: issw-1994-040-057.pdf
- Keywords: slushflow, depth hoar, grained snowpacks
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- Title: Country-Wide Avalanche Warning in Switzerland
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Roland Meister
- Description: The method of avalanche warning in Switzerland is described. It is the duty of the Swiss Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research not only to carry o...
- Object ID: issw-1994-058-071.pdf
- Keywords: protection, avalanche hazard, avalanche warning, avalanche risk
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- Title: Five Mountain Parks Highway Avalanche Study
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Chris Stethem, Peter Schaerer, Buce Jamieson, Jason Edworthy
- Description: The 5 Mountain Parks Highway Avalanche Study was completed for the Canadian Parks Service in 1993. The routes studied included Rogers Pass and Kicking...
- Object ID: issw-1994-072-079.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche path, avalanche hazard
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- Title: The Allen Residence, A Mountain Dream Home Destroyed by Avalanches - An Example of Poor Land-Use Planning, Sundance, Utah
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Richard Giraud
- Description: Investigation into a residence destroyed by avalanches provides an excellent example of poor avalanche hazard land-use planning. The Allen residence w...
- Object ID: issw-1994-080-090.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche terrain, damages, avalanche hazard, runout zones
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