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- Title: Snow Immersion Suffocation- The Silent Killer at Ski Areas
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Paul Baugher
- Description: From 1990/91 to 2011/12, there have been sixty-four Snow Immersion Suffocation (SIS) cases reported at U.S. ski areas. Comparing inherent risks at ski...
- Object ID: issw-2012-220-226.pdf
- Keywords: snow immersion, suffocation, sis, narsid, ski area, risk management, ski safety, skier education
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- Title: Using a Thermal Imager to Quantify Buried Thermal Structure in Natural Snow
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Cora Shea, Bruce Jamieson, Karl Birkeland
- Description: Avalanche researchers and practitioners have long measured snowpack temperatures in snow pits with thermometers about 10 cm apart. This led to the ass...
- Object ID: issw-2012-267-276.pdf
- Keywords: temperature gradient, thermal imaging, snow crystals, snow stability tests
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- Title: Close Encounters With Avalanches During Rain-On-Snow: Lessons Learned
- Date: 2012
- Authors: W. Carran, H. Conway, A. Carran, Milford Team
- Description: Two close encounters with avalanches during rain-on-snow in the spring of 1996
were aha-moments for the Milford Road avalanche program; these definin...
- Object ID: issw-2012-285-289.pdf
- Keywords: instability assessment, snow stability evaluation, explosives, start zones
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- Title: Properties of Weak Layers Composed of Precipitation Particles In and Near Avalanche Starting Zones in Japan
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Shinji Ikeda, Tomoyuki Noro
- Description: To gain further insight into the properties of weak layers composed of precipitation
particles(PP weak layer), we analyzed 18 measurement datasets. A...
- Object ID: issw-2012-586-590.pdf
- Keywords: weak layer, fracture lines, snow crystals, avalanche forecast
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- Title: Econome Develop – A Software Tool for Assessing Natural Hazard Risk and Economic Optimisation of Mitigation Measures
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Michael Bründl
- Description: In most countries, public money is used to finance the protection of human life, material assets and infrastructure against natural hazards. Limited f...
- Object ID: issw-2012-639-643.pdf
- Keywords: risk analysis, economic efficiency, risk-calculation tool, risk management
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- Title: Infrasonic Monitoring of Snow Avalanches in the Alps
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Ulivieri G., E. Marchetti, M. Ripepe, I. Chiambretti, V. Segor
- Description: Validation of risk assessment of snow avalanches requires to identify the occurrence of avalanches. For this purpose, after a pilot experiment in Gres...
- Object ID: issw-2012-723-728.pdf
- Keywords: infrasound array network, snow avalanche monitoring, risk assessment
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- Title: Changes in Stability Test Usage by Snowpilot Users
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Doug Chabot
- Description: Professionals and recreationists utilize stability tests to assess snow stability. Our goal is to determine whether or not people are changing the typ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-1065-1068.pdf
- Keywords: snow pit, snow stability, avalanche fractures
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- Title: The New Challenge is No More to Improve Prediction, But to Better Manage the Unexpected
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Alain Duclos
- Description: While researchers are devoting their efforts for decades to improve avalanche forecasting, it still appears that the victims are almost always surpris...
- Object ID: issw-2012-473-478.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche risk reduction, hazard
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- Title: Fiber Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing in Avalanche Research
- Date: 2010
- Authors: M. Woerndl, A. Prokop, S. W. Tyler, C. E. Hatch, J. Dozier
- Description: Knowledge about snow pack stability at a certain location and at a certain point in time is important for avalanche practitioners and backcountry trav...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-007.pdf
- Keywords: snow temperature, snow pack, driving forces
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- Title: When To Dig? Thoughts On Estimating Slope Stability
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Bruce Jamieson, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Information about the snow cover stability is crucial for avalanche forecasting and for winter backcountry recreation. For a reliable estimation of sn...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-020.pdf
- Keywords: slope stability, avalanche forecasting, winter backcountry recreation
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- Title: Free-Ride: Local Evaluation of Avalanche Danger in Valgrisenche - Aosta Valley (I)
- Date: 2010
- Authors: P. Dellavedova, D. Garin, V. Segor
- Description: During the months of February and March 2010, in the north-west part of Western Alps in Aosta Valley where the practice of free-ride heliski is regula...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-022.pdf
- Keywords: free-ride, stability test
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- Title: Snow Variability and Validity of Snow Stability Assessment
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Pavel Chernous, Yuri Fedorenko, Nikolay Barashev, Yuri Seliverstov
- Description: Results of the field studies of spatial snow variability on mountain slopes for such regions as: the Khibini Mountains, the Altai Mountains, the Baika...
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- Keywords: snow stability, mountain slopes, snow thickness, density, shear strength
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- Title: Wet Snow Diurnal Evolution and Stability Assessment
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Frank Techel, Christine Pielmeier
- Description: Wet snow avalanches pose a threat to snow recreationists and to infrastructure such as mountain roads. The timing of wet snow avalanche formation is d...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0256-0261.pdf
- Keywords: wet snow, snow stability, water content, rutschblock test, extended column test, shovel shear test, persistent weak layer
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- Title: Systematic Assessment of New Snow Settlement in Snowpack
- Date: 2009
- Authors: W. Steinkogler, C. Fierz, M. Lehning, F. Obleitner
- Description: New snow settlement in the very first hours and days after a snowfall has not yet been fully understood. Modelling errors at this initial stage propag...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0132-0135.pdf
- Keywords: new snow, settlement, snowpack, snow harps
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- Title: Rainonsnow Avalanches: Forecasting the Return to Stability
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Howard Conway, Wayne Carran, Ann Carran
- Description: Mid-winter rain-on-snow often results in avalanches that threaten the Milford Road
between TeAnau and Milford Sound on the southwest coast of new Zea...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0267-0270.pdf
- Keywords: rainonsnow, avalanches, forecasting
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