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Title: Ski Area Rating for Avalanche Potential; A Forecasting Tool & Training Aid Using the United States Avalanche Danger Rating Scale for Ski Area Application: Date: 1998; Authors: Jon Andrews; Description: In avalanche forecasting there are so many weather variables that effect the snow, it is often hard to decide whether to do avalanche control or not. ...; Object ID: issw-1998-387-389.pdf; Keywords: avalanche control, avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger, density, snowfall; View additional details about Ski Area Rating for Avalanche Potential; A Forecasting Tool & Training Aid Using the United States Avalanche Danger Rating Scale for Ski Area Application

Title: Management of Avalanche Risk Faced by Backcountry Skiers: Date: 1986; Authors: Lyle A. Sutherland, Harold J. McPherson; Description: A survey of backcountry skiers in Banff National Park revealed that the skiers, although aware of the avalanche danger and generally well informed as ...; Object ID: issw-1986-001-005.pdf; Keywords: hazard, skiing, management program; View additional details about Management of Avalanche Risk Faced by Backcountry Skiers

Title: Avalanche Hazard and Climate in Baxter State Park, Maine: Date: 1986; Authors: Rhoda Charlene HcFarlane; Description: On February 8, 1984, two mountaineers were killed in an avalanche on Mount Katahdin. An analysis of terrain and climatic variables associated with the...; Object ID: issw-1986-006-012.pdf; Keywords: terrain, hazard, fatalities, mount katahdin; View additional details about Avalanche Hazard and Climate in Baxter State Park, Maine

Title: Avalanche Hazard in Kaghan Valley, Himalaya Range, Pakistan: Date: 1986; Authors: Fes de Scally, Jim Gardner; Description: Avalanche hazard in Kaghan Valley, Himalaya Range, Pakistan is being investigated. Long, steep slopes and heavy winter snowfall combine to produce fre...; Object ID: issw-1986-021-028.pdf; Keywords: snowfall, hazard, risk; View additional details about Avalanche Hazard in Kaghan Valley, Himalaya Range, Pakistan

Title: The Canadian Avalanche Association: Date: 1986; Authors: Peter A. Schaerer; Description: The Association represents professionals engaged with the evaluation of avalanche hazards and the implementation of avalanche safety measures. It assi...; Object ID: issw-1986-161-163.pdf; Keywords: professionals, avalanche, hazard, safety, government; View additional details about The Canadian Avalanche Association

Title: Spatial and Temporal Aspects of the Snow Avalanche Hazard, Glacier National Park, Montana, U.S.A.: Date: 1986; Authors: David R. Butler; Description: Since 1910, snow avalanches in Glacier National Park have been geographically widespread and numerous. Avalanche incidences have a Park-wide distribut...; Object ID: issw-1986-223-230.pdf; Keywords: hazard, fatalities, injuries, property damage; View additional details about Spatial and Temporal Aspects of the Snow Avalanche Hazard, Glacier National Park, Montana, U.S.A.

Title: Avalanche Information Systems in Kananaskis Country, Alberta, Canada: Date: 1984; Authors: Gavin More, Olaf Niemann, Glen Langford; Description: A computer oriented approach to collate avalanche and geographic information was developed to provide hazard evaluations for a variety of purposes. Th...; Object ID: ISSW-1984-008-011.pdf; Keywords: computer, avalanche, harzard, modeling, mapping; View additional details about Avalanche Information Systems in Kananaskis Country, Alberta, Canada

Title: Factors Comprising County/Hunicipal Land - Use Controls Addressing Snow Avalanches: Date: 1984; Authors: Kenneth Leon Niemczyk; Description: In the early 1970's, the Institute of Behavioral Science, at the University of Colorado (Boulder), issued a number of reports about natural hazards in...; Object ID: ISSW-1984-090-094.pdf; Keywords: hazard, risk, snow avalanche; View additional details about Factors Comprising County/Hunicipal Land - Use Controls Addressing Snow Avalanches

Title: Statistical Avalanche Zoning: Date: 1984; Authors: D.M. McClung, K. Lied; Description: Run-out for the extreme event on an avalanche path is calculated from confidence limits on a regression analysis of path topographic parameters. This ...; Object ID: ISSW-1984-095-098.pdf; Keywords: run-out zone, analysis, paths; View additional details about Statistical Avalanche Zoning

Title: Engineer and Practitioner: A Combined Effort in Avalanche Hazard Forecasting: Date: 1984; Authors: William L. Harrison, Mike Wiegele; Description: Scientists, engineers, and practioners use methods which appear to differ radically, when dertermining the hazard level of an avalanche prone slope. W...; Object ID: ISSW-1984-116-123.pdf; Keywords: hazard, computer software, slope; View additional details about Engineer and Practitioner: A Combined Effort in Avalanche Hazard Forecasting

Title: Avalanche Hazard and the Solunar Cycle: Date: 1984; Authors: R. A. Sommerfeld, R. M. King, J. R. Bowles; Description: A statistical analysis of avalanche accidents in North America indicated that there is a strong relationship between accidents and time of day because...; Object ID: ISSW-1984-133-136.pdf; Keywords: accidents, hazard, snow slope stability, lunar phase, solunar time; View additional details about Avalanche Hazard and the Solunar Cycle

Title: Avalanche Zoning: The State of the Art and the State of the Law: Date: 1982; Authors: James L. Kennedy, Jr; Description: Advances in applying avalanche hazard analysis and defense techniques and in resolving constitutional due process and compensation issues permit avala...; Object ID: issw-1982-026.pdf; Keywords: natural hazard area, zoning processes, protection; View additional details about Avalanche Zoning: The State of the Art and the State of the Law

Title: Backcountry Skier Attitudes and the Utau Avalanche Forecast Center: Date: 1982; Authors: Duain Bowles, Barry Mathias; Description: Surveys of backcountry users in the LAFC forecast area show changes in attitudes towards avalanche danger and personnel user responsibility. Surveys ...; Object ID: issw-1982-005-006.pdf; Keywords: backcountry, forecast, danger, responsibility; View additional details about Backcountry Skier Attitudes and the Utau Avalanche Forecast Center

Title: Cornice Control Through Establishment of a False Summit: Date: 1982; Authors: John Montagne; Description: Among several methods for controlling ridge top snow cornices, the use of a snow fence to build a "false summit" of snow windward of the true summit a...; Object ID: issw-1982-022-023.pdf; Keywords: summit, hazard, snowfence, cornice; View additional details about Cornice Control Through Establishment of a False Summit

Title: Canadian Guidelines for Observations in Avalanche Forecasting: Date: 1980; Authors: G.L. Freer; Description: Internationally, observations for snow stability evaluation and avalanche hazard forecasting have been developed over many years through research and ...; Object ID: issw-1980-009-011.pdf; Keywords: hazard, avalanche safety, avalanche management, skiing; View additional details about Canadian Guidelines for Observations in Avalanche Forecasting