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Title: Parks Canada’s Evolution of Public Avalanche Safety
Date: 2004
Authors: Grant Statham
Description: The winter of 2002/03 presented western Canada with one of the most complex and challenging snowpacks in recent memory. On February 1, 2003 in Glacie...
Object ID: issw-2004-534.pdf
Keywords: safety, terrain, risk, backcountry, decision making
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Title: Avalanche Warning Switzerland Consequences of the Avalanche Winter 1999
Date: 2002
Authors: Jakob Rhyner, Michael Brundl, Hans-Jurg Etter, Manfred Steiniger, Urs Stockli, Thomas Stucki, Martin Zimmerli, Walter Ammann
Description: During the last few years the Swiss avalanche warning service has undergone a major development in terms of utilization of communication and informati...
Object ID: issw-2002-561-568.pdf
Keywords: avalanche bulletin, avalanche countermeasures, avalanche forecasting, avalanche warning, communication
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Title: Winter Opening of High Alpine Pass Roads - Analysis and Case Studies from the Swiss Alps
Date: 2002
Authors: Stefan Margreth, Lukas Stoffel, Christian Wilhelrn
Description: The pass roads across the Swiss Alps are of high importance for the transportation of persons and goods. Due to the alpine topography most of the pass...
Object ID: issw-2002-059-066.pdf
Keywords: avalanche protection, snow avalanche, traffic risk, risk management
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Title: Crocusmeprapc Software: A Tool for Local Simulations of Snow Cover Stratigraphy and Avalanche Risks
Date: 2002
Authors: Gerald Giraud, Eric Martin, Eric Brun, Jean-Pierre Navarre
Description: To help the regional avalanche forecaster and to describe the great variability of the snow pack and the avalanche risk, the CEN (Centre d'Etudes de l...
Object ID: issw-2002-123-129.pdf
Keywords: snow model, avalanche forecasting, computer tool
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Title: Snowsmart: Communicating Snow Risk Management to Canada's Youth
Date: 2002
Authors: Sandra Mills, Gordon Ritchie, Peter Spear, Clair Israelson, Per Nilsen, Michel Villeneuve
Description: Youth are frequent participants in the winter sports of skiing, snowboarding and snowmobiling. They often lack experience and take more risks, resulti...
Object ID: issw-2002-266-268.pdf
Keywords: education, risk behaviour, social marketing, and avalanche
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Title: Canadian Avalanche Hazard Mapping Project
Date: 2002
Authors: Chris Stethem, David McClung, Bruce Jamieson, Peter Schaerer
Description: The objectives of the Canadian Avalanche Hazard Mapping project were to prepare uniform national guidelines for risk analysis and avalanche mapping, t...
Object ID: issw-2002-555-560.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, risk, mapping
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Title: New Method for Classification of Avalanche Paths with Risks
Date: 2002
Authors: Francois Rapin, Maurice Meunier, Robert Bolognesi
Description: After the Chamonix-Montroc avalanche event in February 1999, the French Ministry of the environment wanted to engage a new examination of the "sensit...
Object ID: issw-2002-577-578.pdf
Keywords: risk, zoning, avalanche, paths
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Title: Incorporating a Human Risk Factor in Avalanche Danger Rating Systems
Date: 2000
Authors: Michael J. Jenkins, Elizabeth G. Hebertson
Description: Stability ratings describe the probability that natural avalanches may occur and the nature of the trigger reqUired for avalanche release. Hazard rati...
Object ID: issw-2000-028-036.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger rating, human risk
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Title: Use of ECMWF - EPS Forecasts for Risk Management at the Avalanche Services in Austria
Date: 2000
Authors: Michael Staudinger
Description: Weather services provide Austrian avalanche services with observational data, meteorological forecasts and probabilities for the different parameters ...
Object ID: issw-2000-078-080.pdf
Keywords: forecasts, eps, ecmwf, risk, scale
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Title: Avalanche Activity and Interaction with Harvested Terrain: Terrain Analysis and Decision Support Systems for Risk Management.
Date: 2000
Authors: Kevin R. Stitzinger, Peter F. Weisinger, David McClung
Description: The destruction of valuable timber due to snow avalanches that interact with regenerating and mature forest stands has become an issue of great concer...
Object ID: issw-2000-458-461.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, forestry, decision support, resource management, geographic information systems (gis)
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Title: The Avalanche Winter 1999 in Switzerland - An Overview
Date: 2000
Authors: Christian Wilhelm, Thomas Wiesinger, Michael Brundl, Walter Ammann
Description: February 1999 will be known in Swiss natural disaster history for its record quantities of snow, for more than 1300 harmful avalanches, 17 deaths, cut...
Object ID: issw-2000-487-494.pdf
Keywords: avalanche disaster, avalanche catastrophy, avalanche damages, insurance, integral risk management, avalanche warning, hazard mapping, paravalanche constructions
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Title: Retrospective Feedback on the Avalanches of February 1999 in the European Alps
Date: 2000
Authors: Richard M.Lambert
Description: The winter of 1999 was particularly snowy and prone to avalanches on the western side of the alpine arc and several European countries were hit by dev...
Object ID: issw-2000-535-542.pdf
Keywords: catastrophe, major avalanche, catchmen area, risk cartography
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Title: Nivotest: A Pocket Tool for Avalanche Risk Assessing
Date: 2000
Authors: Dr. R. Bolognesi
Description: NivoTest is dedicated to free riders (using skis, snowboards, snowmobiles, etc.) who feel concerned by avalanches. It is designed to help to assess a...
Object ID: issw-2000-554-557.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk, avalanche education, decision support tool
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Title: Preferred Knots for Joining Hollow Braid Poly Rope
Date: 1998
Authors: Dick Chisholm
Description: Ski patrollers disagree about which is the most secure knot for joining two pieces of hollow braid polypropylene rope. This shiny, diamond-patterned r...
Object ID: issw-1998-325-334.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk management, knot security, knots for polypropylene rope, ski area management, hollow braid polypropylene rope
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Title: Alternative Risk Management; Fat Man, Utile Boy and the Winch Roller
Date: 1998
Authors: Craig Sterbenz
Description: "Slope compaction and deep slab instability; alternative avalanche risk management: In recent years, ski area expansion into 'extreme' avalanche terr...
Object ID: issw-1998-348-351.pdf
Keywords: snow compaction, snow cover stability, avalanche counter measures, snow vehicles
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