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- Title: Triggered Avalanche - a Case Study From the Italian Alps
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Igor Chiambretti, Bernardino Chiaia, Barbara Frigo
- Description: The 6th February 2014, two parties of 25 Heli-skiers (6 guides and 19 clients) and 3 snow observers were on activity on a large bowl at 2800 m elevati...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O8.02.pdf
- Keywords: heli ski; triggered avalanche; accident case study
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- Title: Using Time-Lapse Photography to Monitor Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Diana Saly, Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson, Doug Richmond
- Description: On January 14, 2016 an avalanche occurred on the Football Field of Saddle Peak in Southwest Montana. Saddle Peak is a backcountry slope, located immed...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O8.03.pdf
- Keywords: time-lapse photography, backcountry, case study, terrain use
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- Title: Snow Avalanche Activity Monitoring From Space: Creating a Complete Avalanche Activity Dataset for a Norwegian Forecasting Region
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Hannah Vickers, Eirik Malnes
- Description: Complete and consistent avalanche activity records, critical for avalanche forecasting, are with traditional monitoring methods not achievable in an e...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O9.01.pdf
- Keywords: radar remote sensing, avalanche detection, sentinel-1a, change detection
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- Title: Supporting, Evaluating, and Planning Avalanche Control Efforts with Lidar-Derived Snow Depth Maps
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jeffrey S. Deems, Ryan Evanczyk, Dominic Vellone, Ethan Greene, Tyler Weldon, David C. Finnegan, Peter J. Gadomski, Adam L. LeWinter
- Description: Recent studies have demonstrated the applicability and potential for ground-based lidar mapping to support avalanche control operations. High-resoluti...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O9.02.pdf
- Keywords: lidar, spatial variability, avalanche control, infrastructure planning
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- Title: Front and Internal Velocity Distribution in Powder Snow Avalanches
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jan-Thomas Fischer, Anselm Köehler, Andreas Kofler, Betty Sovilla, Jim McElwaine
- Description: Accurate velocity measurements of avalanches are essential for testing simulation tools and for performing risk mitigating studies. However, the flow ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O9.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche dynamics, radar measurement, velocity, avalanche head dynamics
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- Title: Social Media and Decision Making in Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jerry Isaak
- Description: The rapid advance of social media into remote environments, and the resulting "invisible pressure" of everywhereness on many individuals, app...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O10.02.pdf
- Keywords: technology, human factors, avalanche education, social networks
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- Title: 10 Common Missteps of Avalanche Practitioners
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Todd L. Guyn
- Description: Avalanche practitioners work in a hazardous environment, characterized by a large degree of uncertainty. While extensive operational efforts are under...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O10.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, awareness, patience
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- Title: Avalanche Risk in Winter Backcountry Touring: Status and Recent Trends in Switzerland
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Kurt Winkler, Adrian Fischer, Frank Techel
- Description: Avalanches are the major cause of accidental death while recreating in the mountains during winter. Up to now the calculation of the statistical risk ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O12.01.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk, backcountry touring, snowshoe hiking, mortality rate
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- Title: Know Before You Go Revision: an Introductory Tool for Influencing Backcountry Behavior
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Craig Gordon, Paul Diegel, Trent Meisenheimer, Brian Lazar, Ethan Greene, Mary Clayton, Aaron Carlson, Bruce Tremper, Mark Staples, Karl Birkland, Tim Bennett
- Description: The open-source Know Before You Go (KBYG) avalanche awareness program provides a 50 minute introduction to avalanche safety for motorized and non-moto...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O13.01.pdf
- Keywords: awareness, education, introductory, video, school, know before you go
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- Title: The Gear Heads – Motor Specific AVY Training
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Brian Lundstedt
- Description: In 2012 an avalanche accident left me shattered. After losing one brother, and nearly both, I quickly realized that we knew nothing. After 20+ yrs of ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O13.02.pdf
- Keywords: motorized, snowmobile, snowbike, avalanche education, american institute of avalanche research and education (aiare)
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- Title: Learn – E-learning Lessons About Avalanches
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Stephan Harvey, Armin Rempfler
- Description: "Learning by doing" is an obvious credo for every educator. In avalanche terrain, we do this most of the time. However, learning about avalanches also...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O13.03.pdf
- Keywords: white risk, avalanche education, e-learning, avalanche danger assessment, avalanche awareness
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- Title: Operational Radar and Infrasound Systems for Avalanche Detection
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Walter Steinkogler, Stian Langeland, Samuel Wyssen, Lorenz Meier
- Description: Due to the increased mobility demands of societies, long-lasting closures of roads and railway lines are less accepted. Along traffic routes or ski re...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O14.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche detection, racs, avalanche radar, infrasound, ida, lara, sara
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- Title: Microwave Radar Systems for Detecting Avalanches
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: David G. Long, Andre Brummer, Bill Nalli
- Description: Key roads in the Western U.S. are often closed by avalanches during the winter. Fortunately, they generally occur in well-defined paths. Knowing when ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O14.03.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche detection, radar, remote sensing
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- Title: Weather Forecast Model Grid Spacing – Is Smaller Better
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: John Snook
- Description: The Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) implemented an in-house numerical weather prediction model in 2011. Computer-generated forecast produ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O15.01.pdf
- Keywords: numerical weather prediction, operational forecasting, colorado avalanche information center (caic)
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- Title: Synopsis, an Innovative Platform Supporting Avalanche Hazard Forecasting in France
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Cécile Coléou, Hugo Merzisen, Chantal Gendre, Yannick Danielou, Jean-Marie Willemet, Fabien Marty, Antoine Lasserre-Bigorry, Samuel Morin
- Description: For more than 30 years, Météo-France has developed software which integrates a broad diversity of information for the daily operations of avalan...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O15.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecast, operational workstation
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