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Title: Recent Studies Using Infrasound Sensors to Remotely Monitor Avalanche Activity
Date: 2004
Authors: Robert H. Comey, Tim Mendenhall
Description: The ability to detect avalanches as they occur is essential for aggressive avalanche management in transportation corridors and is a fundamental ingr...
Object ID: issw-2004-640-646.pdf
Keywords: avalanche monitoring, avalanche detection, infrasound, sensor
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Title: Optimal Preparation of Alpine Ski Runs
Date: 2004
Authors: Mathieu Fauve, Hansueli Rhyner, Martin Schneebeli, Walter Ammann
Description: The demands on the quality of ski runs have grown with the development of sports equipment. A skiing run must nowadays provide perfect grip, have a c...
Object ID: issw-2004-656-660.pdf
Keywords: ski run, snow grooming, weather, snow properties, snow sintering, machine-made snow
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Title: The Relationship Between Introductory Snow Hydrology Field Methods and Level I Avalanche Courses
Date: 2004
Authors: S.R. Fassnacht, A.E. Sawyer, E. Foster
Description: The International Snow Science Workshop focuses primarily on avalanche and related issues. To be aware of safety concerns, those taking snowpack meas...
Object ID: issw-2004-721.pdf
Keywords: snow hydrology, avalanche safety, avalanche modeling
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Title: Changes in Spatial Patterns of Snow Stability Through Time
Date: 2002
Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Chris C. Landry
Description: The spatial variability of snow stability presents a challenge to avalanche workers and scientists attempting to assess avalanche danger. Recent resea...
Object ID: issw-2002-482-490.pdf
Keywords: spatial variability, snow stability, avalanche, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Integrating Shear Quality into Stability Test Results
Date: 2002
Authors: Ron F. Johnson, Karl W. Birkeland
Description: This study investigates whether collecting shear quality data in conjunction with stability test results improves snowpack evaluations. Over the past ...
Object ID: issw-2002-508-513.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow stability, stability tests, stability evaluation
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Title: Analysis of Weak Layer Avalanche Activity in the Columbia Mountains, British Columbia, Canada
Date: 2002
Authors: Pascal Hageli, David M. McClung
Description: This study uses avalanche observations to characterize the spatial characteristics and temporal avalanche activity patterns on persistent weak layers....
Object ID: issw-2002-001-007.pdf
Keywords: persistent weak layers, avalanche climate, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Snow Stability on Uniform Slopes: Implications for Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 2002
Authors: C. Landry, K. Birkeland, K. Hansen, J. Borkowski, R. Brown, R. Aspinall
Description: This research investigated whether single snowpits can reliably represent snowpack stability on uniform slopes. The study utilized seven carefully sel...
Object ID: issw-2002-532-539.pdf
Keywords: stability, spatial variation, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Storage and Visualisation of Relevant Avalanche Information at Different Scales
Date: 2002
Authors: Pascal Hageli, Roger Atkins
Description: It is the decision-makers' perception of snow stability and how it applies to terrain that determines their decisions about closing a highway, opening...
Object ID: issw-2002-032-038.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, perception, database system, data visualization, software
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Title: A French Local Tool for Avalanche Hazard Forecasting: Astral, Current State and New Developments
Date: 2002
Authors: Laurent Merindol, Gilbert Guyomarc'h, Gerald Giraud
Description: In several ski resorts, we have distributed a tool named Astral. Every days, this software calculates an Euclidean distance and correlation with past ...
Object ID: issw-2002-105-108.pdf
Keywords: statistical method, avalanche forecasting, weather and snow pack parameters
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Title: Cornice - Development of a Nearest Neighbours Model Applied in Backcountry Avalanche Forecasting in Scotland
Date: 2002
Authors: Ross Purves, Keith Morrison, Graham Moss, Blyth Wright
Description: This paper describes the development and refinement of a nearest neighbors avalanche forecasting model in Scotland. Avalanche forecasting in Scotland ...
Object ID: issw-2002-117-122.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanches, computer models
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Title: Estimating the Strength of Faceted Snow Layers for an Avalanche Forecasting Model
Date: 2002
Authors: Antonia Zeidler, Bruce Jamiesona
Description: Current multivariate forecasting models make limited use of stability indices partly because the required manual measurements of snowpack properties a...
Object ID: issw-2002-130-137.pdf
Keywords: snow stratigraphy, snow properties, snow strength, avalanche forecasting, slab avalanches, snow crystals
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Title: Forecasting Shear Strength and Skier-Triggered Avalanches for Buried Surface Hoar Layers
Date: 2002
Authors: Thomas S. Chalmers, J. Bruce Jamieson
Description: In the Columbia Mountains of western Canada, skier-triggered slab avalanches on weak layers of buried surface hoar occur mostly within the first 10 to...
Object ID: issw-2002-138-140.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snowpack stratigraphy, surface hoar, snow strength, snow stability
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Title: Formation and Forecasting of Large (Catastrophic) New Snow Avalanches
Date: 2002
Authors: P. Foehn, M. Stoffel, P. Bartelt
Description: The catastrophic avalanche winter 1998/99 in the Alps demonstrated that still larger deficiencies exist within the themes: "formation" and "forecastin...
Object ID: issw-2002-141-148.pdf
Keywords: snow mechanics, slab avalanche fonnation, avalanche forecasting, catastrophic avalanches
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Title: Operational Decision Tree Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 2002
Authors: Walter Rosenthal, Kelly Elder, Robert E. Davis
Description: Decision tree models ofmaximum avalanche size class run daily at Mammoth Mountain, California. A classification tree grown on an eight-year subset of ...
Object ID: issw-2002-152-158.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, decision trees, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Snow Information System with the Usage of GIS in Western Himalayas, India
Date: 2002
Authors: Rashpal Kor
Description: The avalanche occurrence in northern Indian Mountains draws significance because of strategic reasons and tourism and poses serious problems for the m...
Object ID: issw-2002-167-174.pdf
Keywords: geographic information systems (gis), sis, forecasting, zoning, hazard
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