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Title: Preliminary Results at the Hijiori Avalanche Test Site
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Osamu Abe, Masaki Nemoto, Kenji Kosugi, Isao Kamiishi
Description: Hijiori is one of the heaviest snow areas in Japan. Recently to observe blowing snow and avalanches, an almost perfect place was found in this area. T...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-32.pdf
Keywords: avalanche test site, avalanche dynamics, snow cornice
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Title: The Full-Scale Avalanche Dynamics Test Site Vallée de la Sionne Betty
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Betty Sovilla, Jim McElwaine, Walter Steinkogler, Martin Hiller, François Dufour, Emma Suriñach, Cristina Perez Guillen, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Emmanuel Thibert, Djebar Baroudi
Description: The full-scale avalanche dynamics test site Vallée de la Sionne (VdlS) is providing scientists and engineers with essential data to understand and...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-33.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, vallée de la sionne, full-scale test site
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Title: The Full-Scale Avalanche Test Site, Lautaret, France
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Emmanuel THIBERT, Hervé BELLOT, Xavier RAVANAT, Frédéric OUSSET, Gaëtan PULFER, Mohamed NAAIM, Florence NAAIM-BOUVET, Koichi NISHIMURA, Yoichi ITO, Djebar Baroudi, Alexander PROKOP, Peter SCHÖN, P. Alvaro SORUCO, Christian VINCENT, Ali LIMAM, Damianao PESARESI
Description: The Lautaret full-scale avalanche test site in the southern French Alps has been used by IRSTEA (Cemagref) Research Institute since 1973. Over the rec...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-34.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, test-site, full-scale experiments
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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: The Experimental Snow Avalanche Test Site at Seehore Peak in Aosta Valley (IT) MAP3 ALCOTRA Project
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: V. Segor, L. Pitet, M. Maggioni, B. Frigo, M. Freppaz, B. Chiaia, E. Bovet, E. Ceaglio, A. Welf, P. Dellavedova
Description: Since 2009 the Seehore test site is operative within the MonterosaSki resort in Aosta Valley (NW Italy). This real scale test site was intended to stu...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-36.pdf
Keywords: small/medium avalanches, real scale test site, dynamics, impact forces, snowdrift
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Title: Taconnaz Avalanche Path: Pressure and Velocity Measurements on Breaking Mounds
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Bellot H., Naaim-Bouvet F., Naaim M., Caccamo P., Faug T., Ousset F.
Description: This paper describes the instrumentation related to velocity and pressure measurements recently set up in the avalanche protection system of Taconnaz....
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-37.pdf
Keywords: snow, avalanche, protection, taconnaz, force, metrology
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Title: Stability Tests and Their Association With the Local Avalanche Danger
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Shane Haladuick, Michael Schirmer, Bruce Jamieson
Description: The avalanche forecast regions in Canada range from 100 to 30,000 km2, far larger than the 10 km2 covered in a typical backcountry day. This differenc...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-01.pdf
Keywords: local avalanche danger, compression test, rutschblock test, avalanche problem, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Comparison of Structural Instability Indices (Lemons), ECT and RB Results
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Chiambretti Igor, Fabiano Monti, Mauro Valt
Description: Almost all avalanche forecasting services have a network of traditional stations where an array of daily or weekly snowpack measurement or observation...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-03.pdf
Keywords: rb, ect, structural instability indices
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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: Terrain Analysis of Skier-Triggered Avalanche Starting Zones
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Irene Vontobel, Stephan Harvey, Ross S. Purves
Description: Terrain is one of the main factors contributing to avalanche formation and important for the assessment of avalanche risk. Terrain characteristics of ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-05.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, avalanche starting zone, terrain, gis
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Title: Modern Avalanche Education: About Rubber Gloves and a Card Game
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Rolf Westerhof, Maarten Huisman
Description: Avalanche educators face a daunting task: they usually have very little time to convey a very complicated matter to an ignorant audience. So what is ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-08.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, active learning, avalanche card game, card game
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Title: L'enseignement de la Gestion du Risque Dans la Formation des Guides de Haute - Montagne
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Mallon A. et Knoertzer J.S.
Description: Unavailable
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-09.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, snow avalanche
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Title: Swedish Skiers Knowledge, Experience and Attitudes Towards Off-Piste Skiing and Avalanches
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Stefan Maartensson, Per-Olov Wikberg, Petter Palmgren
Description: The winter of 2012/2013 was the most accident-prone season in the Swedish avalanche history with a total of seven dead Swedes. In April 2013 the Swedi...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-11.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, human factors, avalanche accidents
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Title: The Role of Avalanche Character in Public Avalanche Safety Products
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Karl Klassen, Pascal Haegeli, Grant Statham
Description: Avalanche character is a significant factor in professional decision-making (Atkins, 2004). Weak layer/interface, slab properties, persistence, weak l...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-13.pdf
Keywords: wet slab, slab, cornice
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Title: Risk Perception and Precaution Adoption: A Study in the Field of Out-of-Bounds Skiing
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Mathilde Gletty, Dongo Rémi Kouabenan, Aurélie Landry
Description: The avalanche phenomenon in out-of-bounds is particularly deadly for young people aged between 15 and 30 years. The French National Association for th...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-14.pdf
Keywords: out-of-bounds, youth, risk perception, protective behavior, prevention
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