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- Title: Software Tools Developed for the Swiss Avalanche Warning Service - A System Overview
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Andreas Stoffel, Ulrich Niederer
- Description: Today, highly specialized software is required to produce the public avalanche bulletin and complementary snow information. Numerous data sources cont...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-38.pdf
- Keywords: geoservices, gis, java, json
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- Title: New Technologies: What Roles in the Education and Training? Feedback and Examples
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Alain Duclos, Thierry Vallée
- Description: Educate, train, improve knowledge: new technologies offer attractive opportunities, but may also have adverse effects. What are these "New Technologie...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-39.pdf
- Keywords: social networks, mobile, open data, good practices, education, safety
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- Title: Using Google Map Application Programming to Communicate Avalanche Hazard from Multiple Avalanche Centers
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Robert H. Comey, Carol Peck
- Description: In the United States (US) there are over 15 separate avalanche centers which operate independently and issue avalanche hazard bulletins for 55 areas i...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-40.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, google map
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- Title: Establishing an Avalanche Community and Communication in Japan
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Degawa Azusa, Hirota Yusuke
- Description: In any country, the process of establishing a community aimed at avalanche safety and the characteristics of the community are influenced a great deal...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-41.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche bulletin, avalanche community, communication
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- Title: RegObs - Public Database for Submitting and Sharing Observations
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Ragnar Ekker, Kjetil Kværne, Aslak Os, Tore Humstad, Anders Wartiainen, Vidar Eide, Ravi Kjell Hansen
- Description: regObs is a tool for submitting and sharing observations needed by The Norwegian Avalanche Center. We have developed regObs as a public tool supportin...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-42.pdf
- Keywords: regobs, norwegian avalanche center, database, observations, open source, public licence policy
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- Title: Collecting Snow Measurements with Ushahidi: Arpa Piemonte Experience During Winter 2013
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: R. Cremonini, A. R. Gaeta, E. Solero, R. Pispico, M. Faletto, M.C, Prola, S. Barbero
- Description: Accurate and updated measurements are critical for snow stability conditions assessment and avalanche risk evaluation. Recently, Arpa Piemonte has cus...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-43.pdf
- Keywords: snow measurements, smartphone app, geo-referred information
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- Title: Visualizing Snow Profiles
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Matthias Gerber, Charles Fierz, Pascal Haegeli
- Description: The introduction of the CAAML 5.0 Profile for IACS Snow Profiles (Haegeli et al., 2010) created the necessary foundation for facilitating the exchange...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-44.pdf
- Keywords: information exchange, xml, caaml 5.0, iacs, snow profile, visualization
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- Title: On Indicator Path Avalanches for Local Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Claudia Alig, Christoph Mitterer
- Description: Avalanches are clear signs of instability and thus often considered as the best predictor for further events. In fact, avalanches that release at the...
- Object ID: issw-2012-051-054.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche path, snow depth,prediction methods, avalanche awareness
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- Title: The Underestimated Role of the Stauchwall in Full-Depth Avalanche Release
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Perry Bartelt, Christine Pielmeier, Stefan Margreth, Stephan Harvey, Thomas Stucki
- Description: During the winter 2011/12 the Swiss Alps experienced repeated cycles with high activity of snow gliding and full-depth avalanches. Up to 8 m deep glid...
- Object ID: issw-2012-127-133.pdf
- Keywords: snow gliding, full-depth avalanche, compacted zone,
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- Title: The MLK Event At Crystal Mountain
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Christopher C. Morin
- Description: The winter of 2010/2011 created a surprisingly widespread weak layer across the
northwestern United States. In Washington state it became to be known...
- Object ID: issw-2012-240-243.pdf
- Keywords: snowfall, crusts, avalanche cycles, helicopter bombing
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- Title: How Snow Cover Properties Influence Avalanche Dynamics
- Date: 2012
- Authors: W. Steinkogler, B. Sovilla, M. Lehning
- Description: The run-out distance depends, among other things, on the release mass and the snow conditions in the avalanche path. So far, our knowledge on the effe...
- Object ID: issw-2012-569-573.pdf
- Keywords: run-out distance, snow cover, snowpack conditions
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- Title: Vulnerability: Caught in an Avalanche – Then What are the Odds?
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Alan S.T. Jones
- Description: Vulnerability is an essential component in qualitative and quantitative avalanche risk
analyses. It is the probable consequences given that the eleme...
- Object ID: issw-2012-001-008.pdf
- Keywords: vulnerability, avalanche properties, destructive avalanches, avalanche risk management, hazard index,
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- Title: The Urban Avalanche Interface and Community Impacts a Case Study: Ketchum, Sun Valley & the Wood River Valley, Idaho
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Janet K. Kellam
- Description: The reality of dealing with urban development in avalanche terrain can look simple on paper but is challenging and complex in real life. Other factors...
- Object ID: issw-2012-009-015.pdf
- Keywords: hazard, zoning & planning, urban interface, risk management
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- Title: Vision Zero: Applying Road Safety to Avalanche Safety
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Dale Atkins, Magnus Granhed
- Description: In 1997 the Swedish Parliament mandated that road fatalities and serious accidents be reduced to zero by 2020. To achieve this extraordinary directive...
- Object ID: issw-2012-016-022.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, accidents, fatalities, road safety, vision zero, sweden, united states
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- Title: Back-Calculations of Observed Avalanches Against Natural Deflecting Dams
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Dieter Issler, Carl B. Harbitz, Ulrik Domaas, Kalle Kronholm, Marc Christen
- Description: The objective of this study is to assess the reliability of presently available numerical
avalanche models in predicting avalanche flow about deflect...
- Object ID: issw-2012-038-045.pdf
- Keywords: dynamic model, avalanche hazard, calculations, ramm-sonde,
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