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Title: The Cyberspace Snow and Avalanche Center an Avalanche Information Center for the Future
Date: 1996
Authors: Jim Frankenfield
Description: The Cyberspace Snow and Avalanche Center, or CSAC, is an internet based avalanche center which provides reports on current weather and snowpack condit...
Object ID: issw-1996-027-028.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, snowpack conditions, weather, media
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Title: Visualization and Analysis of the Swiss Avalanche Bulletin Using GPS
Date: 1996
Authors: Heiri Leuthold, Britta Allgower
Description: For the visualization of the (verbal) Swiss avalanche bulletin a GIS prototype was developed which aims at the prediction of the local avalanche hazar...
Object ID: issw-1996-035-040.pdf
Keywords: avalanche bulletin, geographic information systems (gis), hazard mapping, visualization
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Title: The New Westwide Avalanche Network
Date: 1996
Authors: Bruce Tremper, Dan Judd, Daniel Howlett, Randy Trover, Mark Moore, Dale Atkins, Kevin Heineken
Description: The Westwide Avalanche Network is an Internet computer site expressly designed for the professional avalanche community. It allows avalanche professio...
Object ID: issw-1996-041-043.pdf
Keywords: westwide, avalanche, internet, computer
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Title: Avalanche Forecasting in Iceland and Norway: Proposed Guidelines for Implementation and Operation of Local Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 1996
Authors: Krister Kristensen, Magnus Mar Magnusson
Description: A proposed procedure for the implementation and operation of local avalanche forecasting programs in Iceland and Norway has been worked out in co-oper...
Object ID: issw-1996-047-052.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, forecasting, iceland, norway
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Title: Preparedness of the Icelandic Meteorological Office in Response to Potential Avalanche Danger
Date: 1996
Authors: Magnus Mar Magnusson
Description: In the wake of avalanche disasters in the last year that left 36 people dead, the law in Iceland concerning avalanche safety was changed. In addition ...
Object ID: issw-1996-053-059.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, evacuation, monitoring, defenses, risk
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Title: A Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting Method for Mountain Snowfall
Date: 1996
Authors: Jim Woodmencey
Description: In the winter months, December through March, 1995-96 a methodtllogy was adapted and used for forecasting snowfall amounts at the 9000 to 9500 foot el...
Object ID: issw-1996-090b.pdf
Keywords: weather, snowfall, forecasting
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Title: Experience with Stability Evaluation for a Surface Hoar Layer During Winter 1995-96 at Rogers Pass, British Columbia, Canada
Date: 1996
Authors: Jurg Schweizer, David Skjonsberg, Bruce McMahon
Description: The avalanche control section at Rogers Pass, British Columbia, Canada, is responsible for the avalanche safety within Glacier National Park. This inv...
Object ID: issw-1996-126-128.pdf
Keywords: snow crystals, snow strength, snow cover stability, avalanche forecasting, avalanche control
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Title: The Driftometer
Date: 1996
Authors: Robert Bolognesi
Description: Wind can create even greater unstable accumulations of snow in mountainous areas than heavy snowfalls. But knowing wind conditions is not sufficient t...
Object ID: issw-1996-144-148.pdf
Keywords: snowdrift, local avalanche forecasting, instrumentation
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Title: Acoustic Detection System for Operational Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 1996
Authors: V. Chritin, M. Rossi, R. Bolognesi
Description: Applied acoustics has recently come to the fore as a useful tool for improving avalanche forecasting by supplying the means of automatically detecting...
Object ID: issw-1996-149-153.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecast, avalanche warning, sensor, acoustics
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Title: Reliable Estimation of Avalanche Activity Using Seismic Methods
Date: 1996
Authors: B. Leprettre, J.P. Navarre, A. Taillefer, Y. Danielou, J.M. Panel, F. Touvier
Description: In order to improve natural avalanches forecast, MeteoFrance has developed an operational system for automatic, quasi real-time estimation of the aval...
Object ID: issw-1996-184-188.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, seismology, signal processing, data fusion
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Title: Preliminary Investigations of Glide/Creep Motion Sensors in Alta, Utah
Date: 1996
Authors: Bob Rice, Dan Howlett, Rand Decker
Description: Creep and glide in an alpine snowpack can lead to snowpack failure including snow avalanching. With a snoid rate of change in creep or glide with resp...
Object ID: issw-1996-189-194.pdf
Keywords: creep, glide, slab avalanche, forecasting
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Title: Glide Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 1996
Authors: A. Wilson, G. Statham, R. Bilak, B. Allen
Description: The forecasting of glide avalanches is particularly important when human life or structures are threatened. The best way to reduce the impact of such ...
Object ID: issw-1996-200-202.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow gliding, avalanche release, snow pack
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Title: Forecasting for a Widespread Heliski Operation
Date: 1996
Authors: Bob Sayer
Description: This will be a 15 minute oral presentation, with slides, describing the procedures employed at Mike Wiegele Helicopter Skiing. MWHS is located in the ...
Object ID: issw-1996-216b.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, helicopter skiing
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Title: Avalanche Hazard Evaluation at Ski Areas
Date: 1996
Authors: Jon Ueland
Description: There is a lot of literature written about avalanche hazard evaluation and forecasting, but it's seldom from the perspective of a ski area avalanche w...
Object ID: issw-1996-217-218.pdf
Keywords: hazard assessment, stability evaluation, intuition
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Title: Loveland Basin Avalanche, February 1996
Date: 1996
Authors: Dale Atkins
Description: On February 2, 1996, routine avalanche reduction work by ski area workers released an avalanche that ran significantly beyond the path's maximum known...
Object ID: issw-1996-257-263.pdf
Keywords: colorado, avalanche, damage, runout distance
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