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Title: The Avalanche Airbag System and Modern Avalanche Transceivers. Useful Rescue Devices With Gadget Functions?
Date: 2012
Authors: Franz Kroell
Description: This document reviews the effectiveness of the Avalanche Airbag System and Avalanche Transceivers. Essential design concepts of the Avalanche Airbag S...
Object ID: issw-2012-353-360.pdf
Keywords: avalanche airbags, avalanche triggering, transceiver
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Title: Handler Perceptions of Optimal Scenting Conditions for Avalanche Rescue Dogs
Date: 2012
Authors: Ryan R. Gould, Eeva Latosuo
Description: Little research has been done to directly link environmental factors such as wind speed, humidity and air temperature to scenting conditions for avala...
Object ID: issw-2012-363-366.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue dogs, dog handlers, scenting conditions, environmental factors, practical experience
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Title: Spatial, Temporal, and Space-Time Analysis of Fatal Avalanche Accidents in Colorado and the United States, 1991 to 2011
Date: 2012
Authors: Spencer Logan, Frank Witmer
Description: An analysis of fatal avalanche accidents in the state of Colorado (CO) and the United States (US) for 20 winters from 1990-91 to 2010-11, compared tem...
Object ID: issw-2012-479-486.pdf
Keywords: accident fatality, cluster analysis, statistics
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Title: Talking the Talk: Human Factors, Group Communication, and the Next Frontier in Snow Safety
Date: 2012
Authors: Bruce Edgerly, Paul Baugher
Description: Over the past several decades, a major evolution has taken hold in snow safety: a paradigm shift from organized rescue to companion and, most recently...
Object ID: issw-2012-494-496.pdf
Keywords: snow safety, rescue, backcountry recreationists, self rescue
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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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Title: Dense Avalanche Friction Coefficients Influence of Nivological Parameters
Date: 2012
Authors: Mohamed Naaim, Yves Drand
Description: High altitudes, heavy snow, and sharp mountainous relief of Mont Blanc massif make the upper part of the Arve valley (Chamonix, France) one of the mos...
Object ID: issw-2012-046-050.pdf
Keywords: dense snow avalanche, avalanche history,avalanche path, friction coefficients
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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: Measurements at Recent Deep Slab Avalanches
Date: 2012
Authors: Michael J.W. Conlan, David Tracz, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Hard-to-forecast deep slab avalanches can release unpredictably under diverse conditions ranging from storms to clear days to locally induced stress t...
Object ID: issw-2012-055-061.pdf
Keywords: persistent weak layer, cohesive slab, avalanche forecasting, snow stability, snow strength
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Title: Comparing Local Stream Flow Peaks to the Onset of Wet Avalanche Cycles
Date: 2012
Authors: Mark Saurer
Description: When the snow has melted from the valley floors, peak flow levels in our local streams may help predict the onset of annual wet avalanche events. Park...
Object ID: issw-2012-069-076.pdf
Keywords: wet slab avalanches, avalanche forecasting, stream discharge
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Title: Analyzing the Atmosphere-Snow Energy Balance for Wet-Snow Avalanche Prediction
Date: 2012
Authors: Christoph Mitterer, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Melt water is the major driver of wet-snow instability. Its percolation and interaction with snow is complex, poorly understood and hence not well dep...
Object ID: issw-2012-077-083.pdf
Keywords: snow pack, wet snow avalanches, avalanche danger scale,
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Title: Stability Index Considering Slab Strength
Date: 2012
Authors: Shinji Ikeda, Takafumi Katsushima, Yasuhiko Ito, Yukari Takeuchi, Tomoyuki Noro
Description: When a slab avalanche is triggered, the weak layer and all sides of the slab (crown, flank, and stauchwall) are fractured. Wet slab avalanches frequen...
Object ID: issw-2012-121-126.pdf
Keywords: slab avalanche, slab strength, shear strength, stability index
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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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