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- Title: Public Avalanche Forecast Challenges: Canada’s Large Data-Sparse Regions
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Ilya Storm
- Description: The Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) provides regional avalanche forecasts to
recreational backcountry users for large areas in western Canada. This p...
- Object ID: issw-2012-908-912.pdf
- Keywords: canadian avalanche centre, network systems, public safety
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- Title: Investigating the Snow Climate of Turnagain Pass, Alaska
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Wendy Wagner
- Description: Turnagain Pass, Alaska, which is a popular destination for backcountry enthusiasts
located 40 miles southeast of Anchorage, does not fit neatly into ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-913-917.pdf
- Keywords: backcountry, snow climate, avalanche terrain
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- Title: Can We Estimate Precipitation Rate During Snowfall Using a Scanning Terrestrial Lidar?
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Edward H. Bair, Robert E. Davis, David C. Finnegan, Adam L. LeWinter, Ethan Guttmann, Jeff Dozier
- Description: Accurate snowfall measurements in windy areas have proven difficult. To examine a new approach, we have installed an automatic scanning terrestrial Li...
- Object ID: issw-2012-923-929.pdf
- Keywords: precipitation, lidar, mass flux
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- Title: Snow Cover Dynamics and Ecology: An Analysis of Modis Time Series in the Italian Alps
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Godone D., Terzago S., Filippa G., Fratianni S., Garnero G., Barbero S., Rivella E., Freppaz M.
- Description: snow cover is a critical factor among environmental variables in mountainous ecosystems. It influences several processes such as water supply, avalanc...
- Object ID: issw-2012-948-955.pdf
- Keywords: snow cover, topography, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Monitoring Snowpack Temperature Gradient Using Automatic Snow Depth Sensor
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Örn Ingólfsson, Harpa GrÃmsdóttir, Magni Hreinn Jónsson
- Description: An instrument for measuring snow depth and snow temperature has been developed by POLS engineering in Iceland. The snow sensor (SM4) consists of a ser...
- Object ID: issw-2012-956-960.pdf
- Keywords: snow sensor, avalanche monitoring, snowpack temperature, faceted crystals, weak layers
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- Title: Automatically Finding Avalanches in Geophone Data: A Pattern Recognition Workflow
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Marc J. Rubin, Tracy Camp, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: In this article we summarize a pattern recognition workflow to automatically detect
avalanche events from passive seismic data collected from geophon...
- Object ID: issw-2012-989-992.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche detection, danger level, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Modeled Snow Cover in Pyrenees Mountains and Cross-Comparisons Between Remote-Sensed and Land-Based Observation Data
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Yves Durand, Gérald Giraud, Daniel Goetz, Malou Maris, Valentin Payen
- Description: Only few studies have already attempted to assess the distribution and magnitude of seasonal snowpack under the varying climate of the Pyrenees. In us...
- Object ID: issw-2012-998-1004.pdf
- Keywords: snow depth comparisons, modis remote-sensed data, climatology, scm chain
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- Title: Analysis of Continuous Snow Temperature Profiles From Automatic Weather Stations in Aosta Valley (NW Italy)
- Date: 2012
- Authors: M. Maggioni, G. Filippa, E. Zanini, M. Freppaz
- Description: Snow temperatures are strictly related to the heat balance of the snowpack and are
commonly used to calculate the temperature gradient, which is one ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-1017-1022.pdf
- Keywords: snow temperature, weather stations, avalanche warnings
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- Title: Surface Hoar Distribution at the Scale of a Helicopter Skiing Operation
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Matthew Borish, Karl W. Birkeland, Stephan Custer, Stuart Challender, Jordy Hendrikx
- Description: Understanding what controls coarse scale snowpack properties, such as surface hoar distribution, is imperative for predicting snow avalanches. Due in ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-1040-1046.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack, surface hoar, spatial variability, weak layers
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- Title: The Propagation Saw Test (PST): A Review of its Development, Applications, and Recent Research
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Dave Gauthier, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: The Propagation Saw Test (PST) method was developed independently in Switzerland and in Canada in 2005 and 2006. It was inspired partly by observation...
- Object ID: issw-2012-1047-1053.pdf
- Keywords: fracture propagation, snow stability tests, avalanche safety
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- Title: The Effect of External Interference on Avalanche Transceiver Functionality
- Date: 2012
- Authors: John Barkhausen
- Description: For over 40 years, avalanche transceivers have been helping searchers locate and rescue victims buried in avalanches. They rely on internal electronic...
- Object ID: issw-2012-348-352.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche transceiver, interference, functionality
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- Title: Internet and Social Networking: A Chance for Avalanche Education?
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Thierry Vallée
- Description: Community websites about backcountry skiing are the places where avalanches are
discussed. Beginners can learn, experienced people and professionals ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-381-386.pdf
- Keywords: backcountry recreationists, weather measurments, public safety
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- Title: On Avalanche (Front) Velocity Measurements at the Ryggfonn Avalanche Test Site and Comparison With Observations From Other Locations
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Peter Gauer
- Description: Besides the runout distance of an avalanche, information on avalanche
intensity along the path are often required for hazard zoning or planning of mi...
- Object ID: issw-2012-427-432.pdf
- Keywords: hazard zoning, runout, avalanche velocities
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- Title: Spatial, Temporal, and Space-Time Analysis of Fatal Avalanche Accidents in Colorado and the United States, 1991 to 2011
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Spencer Logan, Frank Witmer
- Description: An analysis of fatal avalanche accidents in the state of Colorado (CO) and the United States (US) for 20 winters from 1990-91 to 2010-11, compared tem...
- Object ID: issw-2012-479-486.pdf
- Keywords: accident fatality, cluster analysis, statistics
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- Title: Artificial Release and Detection of Avalanches: Managing Avalanche Risk on Traffic Infrastructures, A Case Study from Austria
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Arnold Kogelnig, Samuel Wyssen, Josef Pichler
- Description: The Austrian state road Paznauntal road B188 is located in the avalanche-exposed Paznaun Valley. Several sections of the road have to be closed regula...
- Object ID: issw-2012-535-540.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche management, radar, artificial release
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