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- Title: Avalanche Danger Variability in Level 2 – Moderate and 3 – Considerable of the European Danger Scale Following the EAWS Bavarian Matrix: Experimental Use of Icons Representing Different Weight Within
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Mauro Valt, Flavio Berbenni
- Description: The avalanche forecaster should describe and represent, unambiguously and clearly
to users, the avalanche danger through the bulletin. The EAWS bavar...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-12.pdf
- Keywords: bavarian matrix, avalanche forecast, avalanche danger scale
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- Title: Avalanche Terrain Exposure Classification for Avalanche Accidents in Catalan Pyrenees
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Glòria MartÃ, Laura Trabal, Joan Manel Vilaplana, Carles GarcÃa-Sellés
- Description: Avalanche terrain exposure consists of identifying and classifying areas prone to avalanches taking into account terrain features. From a data set of ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-20.pdf
- Keywords: accidents, avalanche terrain exposure scale, danger
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- Title: 40 Years of NGI’s Full-Scale Avalanche Test-Site Ryggfonn
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Peter Gauer, Krister Kristensen
- Description: The Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) has been running full-scale avalanche experiments at the Ryggfonn test-site in western Norway for close to ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-35.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, test-site, full-scale experiments
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- Title: Bayes’ Beacon: Avalanche Prediction, Competence, and Evidence for Competence, Modelling the Effect of Competent and Incompetent Predictions of Highly Improbable Events
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Philip A. Ebert, Theoni Photopoulou
- Description: In this paper, we will discuss how competence can affect a person’s ability to avoid avalanches and present a way of modelling such competence....
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-04.pdf
- Keywords: decision-making in avalanche-terrain, modelling competence, bayes’ theorem
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- Title: Winter Terrain Roughness as a New Parameter to Define Size and Location of Avalanche Release Areas
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Jochen Veitinger, B. Sovilla, R. S. Purves
- Description: Location and size of avalanche release areas are crucial inputs in modelling of avalanche dynamics as, together with fracture depth, they determine th...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-47.pdf
- Keywords: roughness, slab avalanche, snow distribution
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- Title: Integrating the ATES into the Avalanche Information in Aran Valley (Central Pyrenees)
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Jordi Gavaldà , Ivan Moner, Montse Bacardit
- Description: During the 2011-12 winter season, the Aran Avalanche Center established an Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) pilot area in Aran Valley. The ATES...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-01.pdf
- Keywords: ates, avalanche terrain, trip planner, aran valley, pyrenees
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- Title: Risk Management With Mandatory Upper Risk Threshold in the World’s Largest Mountaineering School
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Manuel Genswein, Krister Kristensen
- Description: At the beginning of the new millennium, the DAV Summit Club, the commercial mountaineering school of the German Alpine Club and world’s largest...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-03.pdf
- Keywords: risk management, residual risk threshold, mountain guiding
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- Title: Understanding Travel Behaviour in Avalanche Terrain: A New Approach
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson, Ellie Southworth
- Description: To date, most studies of the human dimensions of decision-making in avalanche terrain has focused on two areas - post-accident analysis using accident...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-09.pdf
- Keywords: decision making, human factors, heuristics, gps, gis, terrain analysis
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- Title: Formation Des Moniteurs de Ski au Hors-Piste
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Horspiste
- Description: Nos montagnes offrent un formidable terrain de jeux aux mille facettes. Elles sont créatrices d’une sensation de liberté inégalable. C...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-12.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, skiing
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- Title: Human Factors in Decision Making in Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: François-Xavier Cierco, Frank Debouck
- Description: Human factors are identified as a key factor in decision making for group leader in avalanche terrain. They affect both every steps of the decision pr...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-19.pdf
- Keywords: human factors, group management, leadership, 3*3 method, winter recreational activities
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- Title: On Estimating Avalanche Danger From Simulated Snow Profiles
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Estimating avalanche danger is the primary goal of avalanche warning services. Typically avalanche danger is estimated based on a variety of informati...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-01.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche warning, avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger, snowpack, snow cover simulations, numerical weather prediction, data sparse areas
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- Title: Towards a New Chain of Models for Avalanche Hazard Forecasting in French Mountain Ranges, Including Low Altitude Mountains
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Matthieu Lafaysse, Samuel Morin, Cecile Coleou, Matthieu Vernay, Damien Serca, Francois Besson, Jean-Marie Willemet, Gerald Giraud, Yves Durand
- Description: Operational avalanche hazard warning carried out by Météo-France for the three main mountain ranges (Alps, Pyrenees, Corsica) have used snow sim...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-02.pdf
- Keywords: snow modelling, operational, ground, mid-altitude
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- Title: SNOWPACK: Where Do We Stand Today?
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Charles Fierz, Mathias Bavay, Nander Wever, Michael Lehning
- Description: We present both snow depth and precipitation driven simulations of the snow cover at Weissfluhjoch, 2540 m a.s.l., near Davos, Switzerland. We perform...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-03.pdf
- Keywords: snow, snow settlement, snow-cover modelling
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- Title: Verification of SNOWPACK Model in the Western Caucasus, Russia, for Spatial Assessment of Snow Cover Stability
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Elena S. Klimenko
- Description: We applied physical model Snowpack, developed in Switzerland, to simulate the
evolution of snow cover in the Western Caucasus, Russia during three wi...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-04.pdf
- Keywords: snow cover evolution, physical modeling, snow properties, meteorological data
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- Title: Identification of Slushflow Situations from Regional Weather Models
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Oyvind Armand Hoydal, Knut Helge Midtbo
- Description: Slushflows are known phenomena that cause significant problems for settlements and infrastructure in Norway. Even though single events in the same loc...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-05.pdf
- Keywords: slushflow, avalanche warning, weather models, forecasting
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