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- Title: Variability of Snowiness and Avalanche Activity in Zailiyskiy Alatau, Kazakhstan
- Date: 2004
- Authors: V. Blagovechshensky, O. Berman, I. Kondrashov , N. Pimankina
- Description: The Zailiyskiy Alatau range is located in the Central Asia. It is the most northern
range of the Tien Shan Mountains. Interannual variability of a sn...
- Object ID: issw-2004-244.pdf
- Keywords: weather, avalanche, snow cover, precipitation
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- Title: Initial Description of Avalanche Winter Regimes for Western Canada
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Pascal Hageli, David M. McClung
- Description: Existing snow climate classifications rely heavily on meteorological parameters that describe the average weather during the main winter months. Field...
- Object ID: issw-2004-247-254.pdf
- Keywords: snow climate, avalanche climate, avalanche winter regime, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Climate Database for Avalanche Warning in Norway
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Steinar Bakkehøi
- Description: Climate data is an essential tool for the study of weather induced geotechnical processes like avalanches. Climate data provides on overview of normal...
- Object ID: issw-2004-255-260.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche warning, climate, mountain weather
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- Title: Probabilistic Analysis of Recent Snow Avalanche Activity and Climate in the French Alps
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Vincent Jomelli, Cécile Delval, Delphine Grancher, Sebastien Escande, Daniel Brunstein, Bernard Hetu, Louise Filion, Pierre Pech
- Description: The characterization of statistical relationships between snow avalanche occurrence
and climate can be useful for avalanche prediction. We investigat...
- Object ID: issw-2004-261-269.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, climate, statistic modelling, occurrence probability, french alps
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- Title: Spatial Variability of Rutschblock Results in Avalanche Start Zones
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Cam Campbell, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: During the winters of 2003 and 2004, 29 spatial arrays consisting of a total of 705
rutschblock tests were performed in avalanche start zones in the ...
- Object ID: issw-2004-288-297.pdf
- Keywords: rutschblock test, fracture character, variability, start zones, avalanche forecasting, snow stability
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- Title: Temporal Changes in the Spatial Variability of Shear Strength and Stability
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Spencer Logan, Karl Birkeland, Kalle Kronholm, Kathy Hansen
- Description: Avalanche forecasting involves the prediction of spatial and temporal variability of the snowpack. To predict avalanches with more accuracy it is impo...
- Object ID: issw-2004-315-334.pdf
- Keywords: spatial variability, avalanches, avalanche forecasting, temporal change
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- Title: Multi-Scale Spatial Variability of a Layer of Buried Surface Hoar
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Jurg Schweizer , Kalle Kronholm
- Description: Spatial variability of the snowpack exists at different scales. Various studies have
investigated and quantified snowpack spatial variability at eith...
- Object ID: issw-2004-335-342.pdf
- Keywords: spatial variability, snow stability, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Hypothermia During Avalanche Burial
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Colin K. Grissom, Chris H. Harmston, Martin I. Radwin, Mary Beth Scholand, John C. McAlpine, J. Scott Morgan, Tim J. Bywater, Abigail W. Grissom
- Description: Core body temperature cooling during avalanche burial results in hypothermia, and
further core temperature cooling during extrication and evacuation ...
- Object ID: issw-2004-372-381.pdf
- Keywords: hypothermia, snow burial, victims, avalanche, medical care
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- Title: Avalanche Victim Search by Ground Penetrating Radar
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Christian Jaedicke
- Description: Ground penetrating radar (GPR) systems are used in many applications of snow and ice research. The information from the GPR is used to identify and in...
- Object ID: issw-2004-383-388.pdf
- Keywords: ground penetrating radar (gpr), snow avalanches, search and rescue
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- Title: Analysis of the Effectiveness of Geophysical Methods in the Locating of Snow Avalanche Victims
- Date: 2004
- Authors: D. Klepacki, N.J. Dimick, M. Wennogle
- Description: Hundreds of people worldwide are killed in snow avalanches each year. (Adkins, CAIC) A small percentage of victims remain missing after the use of tra...
- Object ID: issw-2004-389-398.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, victim recovery, ground penetrating radar (gpr), electromagnetic
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- Title: Snow Avalanche Penetration into Mature Forest in Timber Harvested Terrain
- Date: 2004
- Authors: G. Anderson, D. McClung
- Description: Clear cut logging in British Columbia, Canada is creating new avalanche start zones that can produce snow avalanches sufficient in size to penetrate a...
- Object ID: issw-2004-409-414.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, timber harvest, forest damage, clear-cut
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- Title: Managing Snow Avalanche Risk in Forested Terrain: Strategies, Case Histories, and Emerging Issues for the Professional Engineer and Geoscientist
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Frank Baumann
- Description: Snow avalanche hazard is sometimes thought to be only of concern to mountaineers, skiers, and those who travel along mountain highways. In recent year...
- Object ID: issw-2004-415.pdf
- Keywords: mitigation, risk, snow avalanche
- View additional details about Managing Snow Avalanche Risk in Forested Terrain: Strategies, Case Histories, and Emerging Issues for the Professional Engineer and Geoscientist
- Title: Projects for Past Avalanche Observation and Zoning in France, After 1999 Catastrophic Avalanches
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Laurent Bélanger, Yves Cassayre
- Description: In 1999, several huge avalanches caused catastrophes in the Alps, particularly in Chamonix (France). Following these events, several programs were imp...
- Object ID: issw-2004-416-421.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, observation, survey, investigation, mapping, hazard
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- Title: A Practitioner’s Guide for Using Dendroecological Techniques to Determine the Extent and Frequency of Avalanches
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Michael J. Jenkins, Elizabeth G. Hebertson
- Description: Mountain resorts, highway departments, real estate offices and others often require
information on the extent and frequency of avalanches in paths th...
- Object ID: issw-2004-423-434.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanches, tree-ring analyses, disturbance ecology
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- Title: An Avalanche Characterization Checklist for Backcountry Travel Decisions
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Roger Atkins
- Description: This paper presents a checklist to assess the character of likely avalanche activity for the purpose of backcountry travel decisions. The purpose of t...
- Object ID: issw-2004-462-468.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, characterization, checklist
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