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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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- Title: Avalanche Analysis and Management in the Ski Resort Rosa Khutor Regarding the 2014 Sochi Olympics Games
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Fanny Bourjaillat, Philippe Berthet-Rambaud, Stefan Margreth, Leonid Andreev, Alexander Boyko, Jean-Luc Vallier
- Description: The 2014 winter Olympics games will take place in Russia near Sochi in the Caucasus
Mountains. Several sites have been retained there: both close to ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-134-141.pdf
- Keywords: olympics games, avalanche study, avalanche management
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- Title: An Experimental Dynamic Response Study of Hard Slab Seasonal Snow to Explosive Avalanche Hazard Mitigation
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Josephine Bones, Daniel Miller, Scotty Savage
- Description: Avalanche hazard mitigation programs routinely use explosive charges to release avalanches and test slope stability, but fundamental understanding of ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-142-148.pdf
- Keywords: snowslope stability, avalanche control by explosives, blast bolt, hard slab,
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- Title: French Recommendations for Artificial Triggering of Avalanches Over Inhabited Sites
- Date: 2012
- Authors: François Rapin , Richard Lambert
- Description: In 2010, the scientific and technical council of the French snow and avalanche
association (ANENA), received a mission of focus on the artificial rel...
- Object ID: issw-2012-149.pdf
- Keywords: snow, avalanche, artificial release, inhabited sites, method
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- Title: Re-Evaluation of Avalanche Mitigation Measures for Juneau
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Stefan Margreth, Tom Mattice
- Description: Juneau, Alaska’s state capital, has a serious avalanche problem. The last major avalanche event in 1962 was the catalyst to propose for the fir...
- Object ID: issw-2012-150-156.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche mitigation, avalanche dynamics modeling, hazard map
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