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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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- 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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- Title: Combining Snowpack Models and Observations for Better Avalanche Danger Assessments
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Fabiano Monti, Christoph Mitterer, Walter Steinkogler, Mathias Bavay, Andrea Pozzi
- Description: Now-casting of avalanche danger is mainly based on direct snow stability observations (e.g. recent avalanches), snow stability tests combined with str...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O15.03.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, manual observations, snow cover modeling, snow and weather data
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- Title: The Avalanche Character Frequency of Reported Avalanche Events in Colorado, USA, 2011-2016
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Spencer Logan, Ethan Greene
- Description: North American avalanche practitioners developed nine Avalanche Characters, based on risk treatment strategies, weak layer, and slab characteristics o...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O15.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche character, avalanche events, accidents
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- Title: The Longyearbyen Fatal Avalanche Accident 19th December 2015, Svalbard - Lessons Learned From Avalanche Rescue Inside a Settlement
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Martin Indreiten, Christian Svarstad
- Description: A fatal avalanche hit houses in the city of Longyearbyen early Saturday morning the 19th of December 2015 after an extreme winter storm event. The ava...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O16.01.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, urban avalanche, rescue
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- Title: Longyearbyen, Svalbard - Vulnerability and Risk Management of an Arctic Settlement Under Changing Climate - a Challenge to Authorities and Experts
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Erik Hestnes, Steinar Bakkehøi, Christian Jaedicke
- Description: Longyearbyen, the administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago, is facing most types of natural hazards under a changing Arctic climate. The cata...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O16.02.pdf
- Keywords: arctic environment, climate change, natural hazards, mitigation, research, consulting
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- Title: Vulnerability of Houses and Persons Under Avalanche Impact – The Avalanche at Longyearbyen on 2015-12-19
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Dieter Issler, Jónsson Ãrni, Peter Gauer, Ulrik Domaas
- Description: This study uses data from the avalanche that killed two persons and destroyed eleven essentially identical wood-frame houses in Longyearbyen, Svalbard...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O16.03.pdf
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- Title: Forecasting the Fatal Longyearbyen Avalanche. Possibilities and Challenges
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Erik Hestnes, Steinar Bakkehøi, Torgeir Mørk, Kjetil Brattlien
- Description: One of the main questions after the fatal avalanche in Longyearbyen in December 2015, where two persons perished and eleven houses were destroyed, was...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O16.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, forecasting, storm weather, wind measurements
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