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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: Gas Diffusion in Wet Avalanche Debris Pertaining to Search and Rescue Dogs
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Jocelyn M. Cramer, Eeva Latosuo, Patrick Sullivan
Description: Avalanche search and rescue dogs are an effective way to recover subjects that have been buried in an avalanche and cannot be located with avalanche t...
Object ID: ISSW16_O12.02.pdf
Keywords: avalanche debris, search and rescue dogs, gas diffusion
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Title: Triage Strategies for Multiple Avalanche Burials – a Monte Carlo Simulation
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Ingrid Reiweger, Manuel Genswein, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Settings with multiple avalanche burials and a limited number of rescuers require triage strategies, i.e. guidelines for rescuers as to where to devot...
Object ID: ISSW16_O12.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, monte carlo simulation, triage, cardiopulmonary resuscitation
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Title: Probability of Detection and Search Tactical Procedures in Avalanche Rescue
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Manuel Genswein
Description: The search for a missing person is a race against the clock as survival chances drop very rapidly. The challenge for rescue is to find the proper bala...
Object ID: ISSW16_O12.04.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, probability of detection, survival chances
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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: Real-Time Avalanche Detection with Long-Range, Wide-Angle Radars for Road Safety in Zermatt, Switzerland
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Lorenz Meier, Mylène F. Jacquemart, Bernhard Blattmann, Bernhard Arnold
Description: Two notorious avalanche gullies threaten the only access road to Zermatt, Switzerland. Avalanches are released artificially by helicopter blasting whe...
Object ID: ISSW16_O14.01.pdf
Keywords: avalanche alarm system, road safety, radar, avalanche detection
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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: The Reliability of Norwegian Rescue Missions Following Road Related Avalanche Incidents, Modelled with Bayesian Belief Network
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Albert Lunde, Ove Njå
Description: In Norway, snow avalanches hitting roads are a considerable safety challenge for the rescue services. Previous studies have given rise to wondering ab...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.11.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, risk management, reliability, risk indicators, bayesian belief networks
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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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