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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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- Title: The Software Behind the Interactive Display of the Swiss Avalanche Bulletin
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Marc Ruesch, Andreas Egloff, Matthias Gerber, Gerd Weiss, Kurt Winkler
- Description: The step towards interactively displaying the avalanche bulletins twice a day in four
languages raised the need for specifically designed software to...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-17.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, software tools, avalanche bulletin, mobile applications
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- Title: European Avalanche Warning Services (EAWS) – Latest News
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Patrick Nairz, Karel Kriz
- Description: 30 years ago the European Avalanche Warning Services (EAWS) started to collaborate in a structured and regular basis. Since then there had been lots o...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-18.pdf
- Keywords: european avalanche warning services, avalanche information system, harmonization
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- Title: Shifting Audience and the Visual Language of Avalanche Risk Communication
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Jernej Burkeljca
- Description: As more people venture out into avalanche terrain we must also deal with a shift in
avalanche bulletin audience. They are the core product of avalanc...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-19.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche bulletins, risk communication, visual language, avalanche awareness
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- Title: Modern Forms of Communicating Avalanche Danger – A Norwegian Case
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Erik Rose Johnsen
- Description: Norway established a national public service for avalanche danger warning on 14
January 2013, based on international standards. This is an important ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-20.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche bulletin distribution, public licence policy, crowd sourcing, user involvement, communication, social media, education
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- Title: Could the Mediatization of the Biggest Avalanches Help for the Advancement of the Accidents Prevention?
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Philippe Descamps
- Description: Avalanches causing casualties are very often at the front page of the press and strongly contribute to forge the representation of mountain activities...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-21.pdf
- Keywords: accidents, information, news, training, awareness
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- Title: Adaptation of Current Modeled Snow Covers and Avalanche Hazards to Future Climate According Several RCM Scenarii: Application to French Alps
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: G. Giraud, Y. Durand, M. Rousselot, L. Mérindol, I. Dombrowski-Etchevers, M. Déqué, H. Castebrunet, et N.Eckert
- Description: This paper presents parts of the results of the SCAMPEI ANR project. In this project,
snowpack scenarios are modelled across the French Alps using dy...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-22.pdf
- Keywords: climate change, modelling, snowpack, avalanche risk
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- Title: Trend Analysis of Snow Density and Water Equivalent in the Alpine Region
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Christoph Marty, Anna-Maria Tilg, Tobias Jonas
- Description: Snow density is an important property for the characterisation of a snow cover. It is also a key factor for retrieving the snow water equivalent (SWE)...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-24.pdf
- Keywords: snow density, snow water equivalent, alpine region, variability
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- Title: Recent Changes in Avalanche Activity in the French Alps and Their Links With Climatic Drivers: An Overview
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Nicolas Eckert, Aurore Lavigne, Hélène Castebrunet, Gérald Giraud, Mohamed Naaim
- Description: This paper synthetizes our ongoing work on relations between natural avalanche activity and climate change in the French Alps and subregions. Firm res...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-25.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche activity, climate change, time trends, french alps
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- Title: Weather Preceding Persistent Deep Slab Avalanches
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Michael Conlan, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Deep slab avalanches release on persistent weak layers of facets, surface hoar, depth hoar, or poorly bonded crusts and are generally hard to forecast...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-01.pdf
- Keywords: deep slab avalanche, persistent weak layer, weather, natural, localized dynamic load
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- Title: Peut-On Identifier des Conditions Favorables au Départ d’Avalanches de Plaques de Fond en Neige Sèche Grâce à la Modélisation de la Neige?
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Gilles Brunot
- Description: The conditions of natural triggering of full-depth slab avalanches are not well known. The mechanism is complex , due to creep phenomena which are ver...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-02.pdf
- Keywords: full depth avalanche, favourable conditions, triggering, modelling
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