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- Title: Unusual Dry Slab Avalanche Releases Involving Dust-on-Snow Layers in Colorado
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Zach M. Guy, Jeffrey S. Deems
- Description: In recent decades, dust-on-snow events are increasing in both frequency and geographic extent in the Western U.S. Although dust layers have gained a r...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O3.03.pdf
- Keywords: dust, slab avalanches, metamorphism, forecasting
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- Title: Rescue at Cherry Bowl an Avalanche Canada Microsite Exploring the Many Learning Opportunities From a Successful Backcountry Avalanche Rescue
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Mary Clayton
- Description: Too often, educational opportunities in avalanche safety are based in tragedy. Rescue at Cherry Bowl is a lesson from success; three backcountry skie...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O4.01.pdf
- Keywords: rescue training, education, awareness, avalanche canada, rescue at cherry bowl
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- Title: Avalanche Awareness at the Jackson Hole High School
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Sarah Carpenter, Trevor Deighton
- Description: Each year, more young skiers, riders, and snowmobilers are accessing the backcountry. For the past 12 years, the American Avalanche Institute has been...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O4.03.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, youth education, wyoming
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- Title: Teenagers in the Backcountry: a Study of Use and Education from the Perspective of High School Students
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Emery L. Rheam
- Description: Teenagers are using the backcountry increasingly more and more during the winter for a wide range of activities. When growing up in mountain communiti...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O4.04.pdf
- Keywords: teenagers, avalanche education, youth education
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- Title: Risk-Based Avalanche Program Design
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Grant Statham, Brian Gould
- Description: Avalanche safety programs around the world are diverse and varied, challenged to forecast avalanche hazard and manage avalanche risk in a variety of e...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O5.01.pdf
- Keywords: risk, hazard, probability, consequence, exposure, vulnerability, education
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- Title: Can We Derive an Avalanche Terrain Severity Rating from Observed Terrain Selection of Professional Guides? A Proof-Of-Concept Study
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Scott Thumlert, Pascal Haegeli
- Description: The physical risk from snow avalanches poses a serious threat to backcountry recreationalists and the winter backcountry recreation industry. Professi...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O5.03.pdf
- Keywords: terrain selection, helicopter ski guiding, avalanche risk management, avalanche hazard, gis avalanche terrain classification
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- Title: Operational Forecasting of Wet Snow Avalanche Activity: a Case Study for the Eastern European Alps
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Andreas Gobiet, Christoph Mitterer, Lisa Jöbstl, Walter Steinkogler, Hannes Rieder, Marc Olefs, Arnold Studeregger, Fabiano Monti, Sascha Bellaire
- Description: The prognostic operation of detailed snowpack models has recently been objective of extensive research, since many avalanche services start to move fr...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O6.02.pdf
- Keywords: forecast, wet-snow avalanches, lwcindex, snowpack
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- Title: Introduction and Influence of (Large) Existing Buildings on Avalanche Hazard Zoning: Case Study of Flaine
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Philippe Berthet-Rambaud, Fanny Bourjaillat
- Description: Flaine is a French ski resort developed ex-nihilo since the 60s. In spite of avalanche slopes just above, the different settlements were possible than...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O7.01.pdf
- Keywords: hazard assessment, obstacle influence, buildings resistance
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- Title: Analysis of the Hazard Caused by Ice Avalanches From the Hanging Glacier on the Eiger West Face
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Stefan Margreth, Martin Funk, Daniel Tobler, Pierre Dalban, Lorenz Meier, Juerg Lauper
- Description: The Eiger hanging glacier is located in the west face of the Eiger in the Bernese Alps (Swit-zerland). Large ice avalanches, especially if they trigge...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O7.04.pdf
- Keywords: risk management, ice avalanche, avalanche simulation, hazard assessment
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- Title: Polar Circus Avalanche Response, February 5-11, 2015
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Stephen Holeczi, Grant Statham
- Description: On the evening of February 5, 2015, two Canadian Military Search and Rescue Technicians (SAR Tech) on an official training exercise were descending af...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O8.01.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, mitigation, risk, exposure
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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: UAV Borne Laser Scanning of Snow Surfaces
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Alexander Prokop, Florian Singer
- Description: In snow and avalanche research, different methods are used increasingly to efficiently and accurately map snow surfaces and depths over an area of sev...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O9.03.pdf
- Keywords: snow depth mapping, laser scanning, uav, uas
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