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Title: An Avalanche Forecasting Program Based on a Modified Nearest Neighbour Method
Date: 1994
Authors: Krister Kristensen, Christer Larsson
Description: As a part of an avalanche forecasting system, a modified nearest neighbor program is described. The system is intended to be used with forecast value...
Object ID: issw-1994-022-030.pdf
Keywords: avalanche release, forecasts, precipitation, wind
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Title: Using Vegetative Analysis to Determine the Extent and Frequency of Avalanches in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah
Date: 1994
Authors: Michael J. Jenkins, Ph.D, Elizabeth G. Hebertson
Description: The Little Cottonwood Canyon road, Highway U-210, connects Salt Lake City with the Alta and Snowbird ski resorts in the Wasatch Mountains of northern ...
Object ID: issw-1994-091-104.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, snowfall, hazard, dendrochronology, avalanche paths, run-out zones
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Title: Toward the Development of Areal Warning System of Blowing Snow
Date: 1994
Authors: Masao Higashiura, Takeshi Sato, Tadashi Kimura, Masayuki Maki, Koyuru Iwanami
Description: With rapid progress of motorization, automobile transportation has come into wide use in snowy regions in Japan. But such automobile transportation so...
Object ID: issw-1994-203-210.pdf
Keywords: blowing snow, transportation, forecasting, warning system
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Title: Blowing Snowand Avalanches
Date: 1994
Authors: G. Guyomarc'h, L. Merindol, T. Castelle, F. Sivardiere, L. Buisson
Description: Blowing snow is one of the most important factors for avalanche forecasting, but the effect of this phenomenon is difficult to quantify and most obser...
Object ID: issw-1994-211-221.pdf
Keywords: blowing snow, forecasting, slab, snow crystals
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Title: Two Expert Systems to Forecast the Avalanche Hazard for a Given Region
Date: 1994
Authors: Jurg Schweizer, Paul M.B. Fohn
Description: A commercially available software, CYBERTEK-COGENSYSâ„¢ Judgment Processor for inductive decision-making, was ;used to develop two different exper...
Object ID: issw-1994-295-309.pdf
Keywords: hazard, snow cover, decision making, snow profiles,
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Title: Computer Assistance in Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 1994
Authors: David M. McClung
Description: In this paper, I discuss two computerized modules for avalanche forecasting, including results of field testing and experiences with the products. Ava...
Object ID: issw-1994-310-313.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, snow profiles, snow stability
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Title: A Relational Database for Snow Avalanches
Date: 1994
Authors: Magnus Mar Magnusson, Halla Bjorg Baldursdottir
Description: In order to be able to have a better overview of the avalanche history and to try and analyze the prevailing meteorological conditions at the time of ...
Object ID: issw-1994-314-326.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, hazard analyses, zoning
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Title: Use of Neural Networks in Avalanche Hazard Forecasting
Date: 1994
Authors: J. Stephens, E. Adams, X. Huo, J. Dent, J. Hicks, D. MCCart
Description: Artificial neural networks were investigated as a tool to be used in avalanche hazard forecasting. Such forecasts are presently formulated by experts...
Object ID: issw-1994-327-340.pdf
Keywords: avalanche activity, avalanche forecasting, avalanche hazard, neural networks
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Title: Correlation of Fast Rates of Snow Glide with Full-Depth Avalanche Occurrence
Date: 1994
Authors: J.A. Clarke, D.M. McClung
Description: Snow glide is the translational slip of the entire snow pack over a sloping ground surface. Requirements for snow glide have been established from fie...
Object ID: issw-1994-405-407.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow gliding, avalanche release, snow pack
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Title: Snow Avalanches in Provo Canyon, Utah
Date: 1994
Authors: Kevin Griffith
Description: This paper discusses the Utah Department of Transportation's (UDOT) implementation of an avalanche forecasting and explosive control program for the a...
Object ID: issw-1994-439-448.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, explosives, avalanche path, starting zone
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Title: Local Avalanche Forecasting in Switzerland: Strategy and Tools: A New Approach...
Date: 1994
Authors: Robert Bolognesi, Othmar Buser, Walter Good
Description: Local avalanche forecasters have to take daily decisions like "I keep this road open", "No access to this valley today", or "The ski runs must be cl...
Object ID: issw-1994-463-472.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, nxlog 20, avalog, triggering
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Title: Building Community Support and Diversifying Funding for Backcountry Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 1994
Authors: Jim Frankenfield
Description: In this era of government fiscal austerity it is becoming necessary for some services which have been dependent on federal funding in the past to dive...
Object ID: issw-1994-488-493.pdf
Keywords: funding, community support, fundraising, forecasting
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Title: Avalanche Safety in a Micro Community
Date: 1994
Authors: Walter Walker
Description: Fort Lewis College is an undergraduate institution with 4,000 students located on the southern edge of the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado...
Object ID: issw-1994-494-499.pdf
Keywords: recreational counseling, safety, forecast
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Title: The Development of Avalanche Education and Hazard Forecasting in the British Isles
Date: 1994
Authors: Steve Blagbrough
Description: In a 15 year period, 172 people died in the Scottish hills in winter. Of these, 36 were killed in avalanches. In 1988 the government, under considerab...
Object ID: issw-1994-500-508.pdf
Keywords: fatalities, avalanche accidents, accident prevention, avalanche victims, windslab avalanche
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Title: Validations of Objective Models to Simulate Snow Cover Stratigraphy and Avalanche Risk for Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 1994
Authors: G. Giraud, E. Brun, Y. Durand, E. Martin
Description: This paper describes the current state of a complete automatic chain of three objective models to simulate snow cover stratigraphy and avalanche risk ...
Object ID: issw-1994-509-517.pdf
Keywords: stratigraphy, forecasting, avalanche risk, avalanche casualties
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