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- Title: Melt-Induced Deformation in an Isothermal Snowpack
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Simon A. Trautman, Stephan G. Custer, Karl W. Birkeland
- Description: Bridger Bowl Ski Area outside of Bozeman, MT, USA, has encountered annual problems forecasting large, wet loose avalanches that occur during warming e...
- Object ID: ISSW-2004-011.pdf
- Keywords: loose avalanche, hazard, deformation
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- Title: Optimal Preparation of Alpine Ski Runs
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Mathieu Fauve, Hansueli Rhyner, Martin Schneebeli, Walter Ammann
- Description: The demands on the quality of ski runs have grown with the development of sports
equipment. A skiing run must nowadays provide perfect grip, have a c...
- Object ID: issw-2004-656-660.pdf
- Keywords: ski run, snow grooming, weather, snow properties, snow sintering, machine-made snow
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- Title: The Affect of Snow Density on the Temperature Gradient
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Robert S. Rosso
- Description: Temperature data loggers were positioned on three marked layers during the early season in the Collins Snow Study Plot, Alta, Utah. A series of pits w...
- Object ID: issw-2002-376-379.pdf
- Keywords: snow compaction, snow density, snow settlement, snow temperature
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- Title: Snow Stability on Uniform Slopes: Implications for Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 2002
- Authors: C. Landry, K. Birkeland, K. Hansen, J. Borkowski, R. Brown, R. Aspinall
- Description: This research investigated whether single snowpits can reliably represent snowpack stability on uniform slopes. The study utilized seven carefully sel...
- Object ID: issw-2002-532-539.pdf
- Keywords: stability, spatial variation, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: A Probabilistic Technique for Exploring Multi-Scale Spatial Patterns in Historical Avalanche Data By Combining GIS and Meteorological Nearest Neighbors with an Example from the Jackson Hole Ski Area
- Date: 2002
- Authors: C. McCollister, K. Birkeland, K. Hansen, R. Aspinall, R. Comey
- Description: Many ski areas, backcountry avalanche centers, highway departments, and helicopter ski operations record and archive daily weather parameters and the ...
- Object ID: issw-2002-109-116.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, geographic information systems (gis), nearest neighbors, geographic visualization, knowledge discovery in databases
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- Title: Characteristics of Avalanche Accidents in Western Himalayan Region, India
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Ashwagosha Ganju, Naresh K Thakur, Vijay Rana
- Description: Avalanches caused considerable damage initially to the inhabitants of Himalayan belt but lately only a small proportion of the original inhabitants of...
- Object ID: issw-2002-200-207.pdf
- Keywords: accidents, slopes, forecasting, weather
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- Title: Characteristics of Artificial Snow and its Effect on Vegetation
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Veronika Stockli, Christian Rixen
- Description: The winter and early spring environment of plants under ski slopes is physically and
chemically changed due to grooming and the addition of artificia...
- Object ID: issw-2000-468-471.pdf
- Keywords: artificial snow, snow density, snow depth, ski slopes, temperature, vegetation
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- Title: Avalanche Forecasting at Stevens Pass Part II Ski Area Rating for Avalanche Potential
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Jon Andrews
- Description: In 1994 we started a new program for avalanche control purposes at the Stevens Pass ski area. We have given the U.S. avalanche danger scale nine weath...
- Object ID: issw-2000-153-157.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, ski area, control, danger scale
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- Title: A Measuring Instrument for the Hardness and the Roughness of the Ski Slope - Correlatlon to the Gliding Properties of Skis - Penetrometer and Profilometer
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Daniel Buhl, Mathieu Fauve, Martin Schneebeli, Hansueli Rhyner, Walter Ammann
- Description: The analysis of the ski slope is crucial for understanding the gliding of skis. Especially in ski racing a detailed knowledge of the parameters of the...
- Object ID: issw-2000-409-411.pdf
- Keywords: ski slope, hardness, roughness, gliding, skiing
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- Title: The Factors Leading to the Closing of Two Alaska Heli-Ski Operations in Spring 2000
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Jerry Hance
- Description: The snow and avalanche cycle that took place in January and early February throughout many parts of Alaska, that closed highway, destroyed homes and t...
- Object ID: issw-2000-472-474.pdf
- Keywords: forecasting, heli operations, safety, avalanche cycle
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- Title: Telluride Ski Area Expansion Snow Safety Plan Development and lmplementation 1993-2001
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Craig Sterbenz
- Description: Proposed expansion of the Telluride Ski Area onto previously permitted, but undeveloped, National Forest lands required an Environmental Impact Statem...
- Object ID: issw-2000-584-586.pdf
- Keywords: ski area, planning, hazard mapping, hazard identification & mitigation, expert forecasting
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- Title: Preferred Knots for Joining Hollow Braid Poly Rope
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Dick Chisholm
- Description: Ski patrollers disagree about which is the most secure knot for joining two pieces of hollow braid polypropylene rope. This shiny, diamond-patterned r...
- Object ID: issw-1998-325-334.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk management, knot security, knots for polypropylene rope, ski area management, hollow braid polypropylene rope
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- Title: The New Avalanche Control Programme at the Lake Louise Ski Area
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Mark Klassen
- Description: Avalanche control operations at the Lake Louise Ski Area have a history spanning nearly thirty years. Originally a small resort which did not extend a...
- Object ID: issw-1996-213-216.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, ski area, management
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- Title: Snow Avalanche Experiments at Ski Jump
- Date: 1996
- Authors: K. Nishimura, Y. Nohguch, Y. Ito, K. Kosugi, K. Izumi
- Description: In 1995, we have started the experiments at a ski jump to investigate the avalanche dynamics and internal structures in detail. In winter, natural sno...
- Object ID: issw-1996-244-251.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche experiment, ski jump, ping-pong balls
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- Title: History of Professional Ski Patrolling in the Western United States
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Scott Toepfer
- Description: As ski areas became more and more popular during the 1940's and 1950's, ski area management became increasingly aware of the need for full-time, well-...
- Object ID: issw-1994-423-430.pdf
- Keywords: ski trails, ski areas, ski patrolling, ski management
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