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Title: Using Vegetative Analysis to Determine the Extent and Frequency of Avalanches in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah
Date: 1994
Authors: Michael J. Jenkins, Ph.D, Elizabeth G. Hebertson
Description: The Little Cottonwood Canyon road, Highway U-210, connects Salt Lake City with the Alta and Snowbird ski resorts in the Wasatch Mountains of northern ...
Object ID: issw-1994-091-104.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, snowfall, hazard, dendrochronology, avalanche paths, run-out zones
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Title: Remote Identification of Precipitation Type
Date: 1994
Authors: Sue A. Ferguson, Steve Breyfogle
Description: The results of a 2-year project to investigate the feasibility of automatically detecting precipitation type for highway hazard reduction programs in ...
Object ID: issw-1994-222-259.pdf
Keywords: precipitation, avalanche control, snow strength, avalanche hazard
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Title: Application of Classification and Regression Trees: Selection of Avalanche Activity Indices at Mammoth Mountain
Date: 1994
Authors: Robert E. Davis, Kelly Elder
Description: We focus on the the importance of the parameters describing the degree of avalanche activity. Classification and regression trees were trained on weat...
Object ID: issw-1994-285-294.pdf
Keywords: regression trees, snow plot, hazard
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Title: Two Expert Systems to Forecast the Avalanche Hazard for a Given Region
Date: 1994
Authors: Jurg Schweizer, Paul M.B. Fohn
Description: A commercially available software, CYBERTEK-COGENSYSâ„¢ Judgment Processor for inductive decision-making, was ;used to develop two different exper...
Object ID: issw-1994-295-309.pdf
Keywords: hazard, snow cover, decision making, snow profiles,
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Title: A Relational Database for Snow Avalanches
Date: 1994
Authors: Magnus Mar Magnusson, Halla Bjorg Baldursdottir
Description: In order to be able to have a better overview of the avalanche history and to try and analyze the prevailing meteorological conditions at the time of ...
Object ID: issw-1994-314-326.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, hazard analyses, zoning
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Title: Use of Neural Networks in Avalanche Hazard Forecasting
Date: 1994
Authors: J. Stephens, E. Adams, X. Huo, J. Dent, J. Hicks, D. MCCart
Description: Artificial neural networks were investigated as a tool to be used in avalanche hazard forecasting. Such forecasts are presently formulated by experts...
Object ID: issw-1994-327-340.pdf
Keywords: avalanche activity, avalanche forecasting, avalanche hazard, neural networks
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Title: Avalanche Warning and Hazard Zoning in Austria Some New Aspects
Date: 1994
Authors: Peter Holler
Description: Extended Abstract: NEW REGULATIONS CONCERNING AVALANCHE WARNING 1. The new European Risk Scale. Instead of different hazard classes in each European c...
Object ID: issw-1994-459-462.pdf
Keywords: risk scale, safety, hazard zoning
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Title: Local Avalanche Forecasting in Switzerland: Strategy and Tools: A New Approach...
Date: 1994
Authors: Robert Bolognesi, Othmar Buser, Walter Good
Description: Local avalanche forecasters have to take daily decisions like "I keep this road open", "No access to this valley today", or "The ski runs must be cl...
Object ID: issw-1994-463-472.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, nxlog 20, avalog, triggering
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Title: The Human Factor - Lessons for Avalanche Education
Date: 1994
Authors: Jill Fredston, Doug Fesler, Bruce Tremper
Description: Avalanche accident statistics have long shown that the majority of avalanches catching people are triggered by people. While some accidents are the re...
Object ID: issw-1994-473-487.pdf
Keywords: fatalities, avalanche accidents, accident prevention, avalanche victim, avalanche education
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Title: The Development of Avalanche Education and Hazard Forecasting in the British Isles
Date: 1994
Authors: Steve Blagbrough
Description: In a 15 year period, 172 people died in the Scottish hills in winter. Of these, 36 were killed in avalanches. In 1988 the government, under considerab...
Object ID: issw-1994-500-508.pdf
Keywords: fatalities, avalanche accidents, accident prevention, avalanche victims, windslab avalanche
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Title: Avalanche Forecasting for a Helicopter Skiing Operation in the United States
Date: 1994
Authors: Jim Woodrnencey, Jon Shick
Description: Helicopter skiing is not a new sport in the United States, with a history spanning over 20 years, it has developed into a viable business in several l...
Object ID: issw-1994-527-531.pdf
Keywords: backcountry skiing, forecasting, helicopter skiing
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Title: Avalanche Hazard Risk Management for the Yule Marble Quarry
Date: 1994
Authors: Christopher C. Landry
Description: Snow avalanches may have been the least anticipated and most tragically underestimated natural hazard faced by the rapidly-spreading Colorado mining b...
Object ID: issw-1994-548-563.pdf
Keywords: snow removal, snowfall, hazard, risk management
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Title: A Study of Wind Drift Snow Phenomena on an Alpine Site
Date: 1992
Authors: Gilbert Guyomarc'h, Thierry Castelle
Description: Over the last three winter seasons four laboratories specialized on snow research have joined their know how to better understand the mechanism of win...
Object ID: issw-1992-057-067.pdf
Keywords: snow drifting, hazard, erosion, snow deposits, snow cover
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Title: Probability Analysis of Avalanche Forecasting Variables
Date: 1992
Authors: D.M. McClung, John Tweedy, Peter Weir
Description: Perla (1970) provided a simple probability analysis of individual factors thought to be important in avalanche hazard evaluations using 20 years of s...
Object ID: issw-1992-093-095.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, kootenay pass, wind direction
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Title: Computer Applications for Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 1992
Authors: Bruce Tremper
Description: Avalanche hazard forecasters must evaluate a number of different important parameters which often vary markedly over time and distance. A number of co...
Object ID: issw-1992-105-115.pdf
Keywords: software, forecasters
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