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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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