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- Title: Snowpack Stability Variation at a Given Avalanche Danger Level
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Jurg Schweizer, Kalle Kronhohn, Thomas Wiesinger
- Description: To get a more detailed picture of regional snowpack stability patterns at different danger levels a large scale field study has been performed. At fou...
- Object ID: issw-2002-175-179.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow stability, stability test, snow stability evaluation
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- Title: Characteristics of Avalanche Accidents in Western Himalayan Region, India
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Ashwagosha Ganju, Naresh K Thakur, Vijay Rana
- Description: Avalanches caused considerable damage initially to the inhabitants of Himalayan belt but lately only a small proportion of the original inhabitants of...
- Object ID: issw-2002-200-207.pdf
- Keywords: accidents, slopes, forecasting, weather
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- Title: Development of Avalanche Safety and Control Programs in the Canadian Rocky Mountain National Parks - A Historical Perspective
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Brad White
- Description: The Parks Canada Warden Service has the responsibility for avalanche safety and control programs within the Canadian Rocky Mountains National Parks. T...
- Object ID: issw-2002-208-220.pdf
- Keywords: aces, safety, control, forecasting
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- Title: The Use of Traditional Aboriginal Knowledge in Avalanche Forecasting (Canada and Alaska)
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Kirstie E.M Simpson
- Description: Traditional Knowledge is based on, and acquired through, observation and experience within a local or utilised regional environment, as well as instru...
- Object ID: issw-2002-228-236.pdf
- Keywords: traditional knowledge, aboriginal, elders, avalanche, chilkoot pass
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- Title: In-Situ Measurements to Test CrocusMepra PC Tool
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Cecile CoIeou, Gerald Giraud, Yves Lejeune
- Description: Since the 1999/2000 winter season, the Snow Research Centre ofMeteo-France (CEN) has carried out various snow measurements in a new observation site. ...
- Object ID: issw-2002-277-283.pdf
- Keywords: snow stability, avalanche forecasting, computer tool, snow stratigraphy
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- Title: A Portable, Variable-Speed, Penetrometer for Snow Pit Evaluation
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Roderick Mackenzie, Warwick Payten
- Description: A new, portable, variable-speed, penetronmeter for snow-pit stability evaluation has been developed (named "SABRE"). Despite the heavy reliance on sno...
- Object ID: issw-2002-294-300.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, avalanche forecasting, avalanche protection
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- Title: A Probabilistic Model to Evaluate Optimal Density of Snow Stations
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Martin Latemser, Martin Schneebeli
- Description: Daily new snow measurements are important for avalanche forecasting and tourism. In Switzerland new snow is measured at many stations, which belong to...
- Object ID: issw-2002-301-303.pdf
- Keywords: snow station, snow climatology, optimal selection, snowfall intensity, spatial variability
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- Title: A Technical Overview of Ministry of Transport Automatic Weather Stations and their Data Elements
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Cameron G. Rawlinson
- Description: At 24 times the physical size of Switzerland, British Columbia contains a wide variety of
Avalanche prone terrain in a number of different and often ...
- Object ID: issw-2002-393-400.pdf
- Keywords: snow sensing, methods of sampling, weather sensing, road weather, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Application of Multivariate Statistical Techniques for the Characterization of the Surface Circulation Patterns Related to Heavy Snowfalls in Andorra, Pyrenees
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Pere Esteban, Phillip D. Jones, Javier Martin-Vide, Montse Mases
- Description: Heavy precipitation in the form of snow over mountain regions can be a direct cause of avalanches. The characterization of the atmospheric situations ...
- Object ID: issw-2002-401-406.pdf
- Keywords: heavy snowfall events, principal component analysis and clustering, sea level pressure, circulation patterns, pyrenees, andorra, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Wind Sensing Techniques and Methods for Wide Geographic Area Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Cameron G. Rawlinson
- Description: The paper reviews past and present methods for wind sensing used in British Columbia with a focus on the avalanche forecasting and control industries....
- Object ID: issw-2002-436-442.pdf
- Keywords: wind sensing, snow drifting, snow transport, snow loads, field measurements
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- Title: Avalanche Incidents in Switzerland in Relation to the Predicted Danger Degree
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Stephan Harvey
- Description: All known avalanche incidents from 1987/88 to 1998/99 (12 years) have been analyzed with respect to the scale of avalanche danger of the Swiss avalanc...
- Object ID: issw-2002-443-448.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche incident, avalanche accident statistics, avalanche forecast, avalanche bulletin, avalanche danger degree
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- Title: Avalanche Accidents in Back Country Terrain of the Swiss Alps: New Investigations of a 30 Year Database
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Stephan Harvey, Chatrigna Signorell, Manuel Genswein
- Description: More than 1000 avalanche incidents involving skiers, snowboarders and mountaineers in the back country terrain of the Swiss Alps have been filed in an...
- Object ID: issw-2002-449-455.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche incident, avalanche accident statistics, avalanche forecast, avalanche bulletin, avalanche danger degree
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- Title: A Field Method for Identifying Structural Weaknesses in the Snowpack
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Ian McCammon, Jurg Schweizer
- Description: Recent studies have confined what experienced avalanche workers have known for years: that human triggered avalanches often coincide with specific str...
- Object ID: issw-2002-477-481.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow stratigraphy, snow stability evaluation, avalanche education
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- Title: Characterization of a Deep Slab Instability
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Ethan Greene, Greg Johnson
- Description: In early January 2002, a warm and moist storm formed an ice crust on the snow surface throughout the Wasatch Mountains of northern Utah. Faceted snow ...
- Object ID: issw-2002-491-498.pdf
- Keywords: snow, avalanche, avalanche accidents, avalanche release, snow stability, forecasting, skier triggering
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- Title: Contrasting Stable and Unstable Snow Profiles with Respect to Skier Loading
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Jurg Schweizer, J. Bruce Jamieson
- Description: A Swiss-Canadian data set of over 400 snow profiles from skier-triggered slopes and slopes that have been skied but not triggered was contrasted to de...
- Object ID: issw-2002-499-501.pdf
- Keywords: snow stratigraphy, avalanche formation, avalanche forecasting, snow cover stability, snow stability evaluation, skier triggering
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