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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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