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- Title: Mitigating Your (Legal) Risk as a Forecaster – Where Are Your Own Liabilities/Risks/Tensions
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Tracey Knutson
- Description: Avalanche forecasters, like most other professionals these days, can have legal liability or exposure to legal liability for actions (or inactions) ta...
- Object ID: issw-2012-227-233.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche hazard assessment, liability
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- Title: Who Is Involved In Avalanche Accidents?
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Benjamin Zweifel, Frank Techel, Christian Björk
- Description: Off-piste and backcountry skiers, snow-shoers, climbers, heli-skiers, hikers, ski patrollers and many more: The range of people who are involved in av...
- Object ID: issw-2012-234-239.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche accident statistics, human factors
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- Title: Different Surveys Techniques to Assess the Snow Erosion and Deposition at the Punta Seehore Avalanche Test Site
- Date: 2012
- Authors: E. Bovet, B. Chiaia, M. Maggioni, D. Godone, M. Freppaz
- Description: The aim of this paper is to describe the surveys techniques, used at the Seehore avalanche test site located in Aosta Valley (NW Italy), concerning th...
- Object ID: issw-2012-277-284.pdf
- Keywords: snow erosion, terrestrial laser scanning, deposited layer, probe pole
- View additional details about Different Surveys Techniques to Assess the Snow Erosion and Deposition at the Punta Seehore Avalanche Test Site
- Title: Close Encounters With Avalanches During Rain-On-Snow: Lessons Learned
- Date: 2012
- Authors: W. Carran, H. Conway, A. Carran, Milford Team
- Description: Two close encounters with avalanches during rain-on-snow in the spring of 1996
were aha-moments for the Milford Road avalanche program; these definin...
- Object ID: issw-2012-285-289.pdf
- Keywords: instability assessment, snow stability evaluation, explosives, start zones
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- Title: Avalanche Impact Performance of a Light-Weight Diversion Structure Snettisham Transmission Line, Southeast Alaska
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Chris Wilbur, Mike Janes, Art Mears
- Description: The 138kV Snettisham electrical transmission line is the main power source for
Juneau, Alaska. The line was constructed in 1973 and traverses steep r...
- Object ID: issw-2012-294-299.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche impact pressure, hydroelectric, weather forecasting
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- Title: Resuscitation of the Avalanche Victim: An Evidence-Based Guideline
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Jeff Boyd, Hermann Brugger, Fidel Elsensohn, Peter Paal, Giacomo Strapazzon, Eveline Winterberger, Ken Zafren
- Description: Background. Earlier avalanche resuscitation recommendations, published in 1996 and 2001, were principally extrapolated from biostatistical survival an...
- Object ID: issw-2012-307-313.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche victim resuscitation, victim, asphyxia, ventilation
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- Title: Analysis of State-of-the-Art Approaches for “Marking†During Multiburial Beacon Search Versus the Aspects of Fully Maintaining the EN300718 Standard
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Michael Schober, Markus Eck, Michael Rust
- Description: Over the recent years most of the state-of-the-art beacons now support the search for multiple burials using signal analysis strategies. Due to this, ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-214-223.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche beacon, transmitting range, avalanche safety
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- Title: On the Effectiveness of Avalanche Balloon Packs
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Benjamin Zweifel, Frédéric Jarry, Spencer Logan, Hanno Bilek, Marek BiskupiÄ, Hermann Brugger, Markus Falk
- Description: Even though avalanche balloon packs have been promoted in Europe since the early
1990s, they have only truly established themselves as an accepted av...
- Object ID: issw-2012-324-328.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche safety equipment, avalanche balloon packs, avalanche airbags, avalanche survival
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- Title: The Cumulation of Avalanche Accidents in Certain Periods– An Analysis of Backcountry Events in Austria
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Peter Höller
- Description: This paper deals with an analysis of backcountry avalanche events in Austria. In particular the cumulation of accidents in certain periods will be inv...
- Object ID: issw-2012-329-332.pdf
- Keywords: backcountry avalanches, avalanche accidents, avalanche statistics
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- Title: Historical Analysis of Avalanche Fatalities in Denali National Park
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Kevin Wright, Tucker Chenoweth
- Description: Since the first mountaineering avalanche fatality in Denali National Park (DNP) in 1976, at least 45 climbers have been killed by avalanches in the mo...
- Object ID: issw-2012-333-340.pdf
- Keywords: fatalitites, runout zones ,public safety
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- Title: Objective Comparison of Two to Three Dimensional Avalanche Model Output and Field Data Using the Aimec Approach
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Jan-Thomas Fische, Reinhard Fromma, Peter Gauerb, Betty Sovillac
- Description: In recent years two to three dimensional avalanche simulation tools have gained importance to esti- mate the hazard. The models are optimized to deter...
- Object ID: issw-2012-574-579.pdf
- Keywords: snow, avalanche, dynamics, modeling, doppler radar, velocity
- View additional details about Objective Comparison of Two to Three Dimensional Avalanche Model Output and Field Data Using the Aimec Approach
- Title: Cooling and Avalanches
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Penelope H. Goddard
- Description: Avalanches which occur during periods of cooling are important because they can surprise people, even very experienced practitioners. However, the inf...
- Object ID: issw-2012-580-585.pdf
- Keywords: freezing levels, slab failure, snow surface temperature, snowpack conditions
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- Title: Properties of Weak Layers Composed of Precipitation Particles In and Near Avalanche Starting Zones in Japan
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Shinji Ikeda, Tomoyuki Noro
- Description: To gain further insight into the properties of weak layers composed of precipitation
particles(PP weak layer), we analyzed 18 measurement datasets. A...
- Object ID: issw-2012-586-590.pdf
- Keywords: weak layer, fracture lines, snow crystals, avalanche forecast
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- Title: Back-Calculation of Small Avalanches with the 2D Avalanche Dynamics Model Ramms: Four Events Artificially Triggered at the Seehore Test Site in Aosta Valley (NW Italy)
- Date: 2012
- Authors: M. Maggioni, M. Freppaz, M. Christen, P. Bartelt, E. Zanini
- Description: Avalanche dynamics models are widely used to simulate extreme avalanches for hazard mapping purposes; they are well developed and calibrated on numero...
- Object ID: issw-2012-591-598.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche dynamics, hazard mapping, photogrammetry,
- View additional details about Back-Calculation of Small Avalanches with the 2D Avalanche Dynamics Model Ramms: Four Events Artificially Triggered at the Seehore Test Site in Aosta Valley (NW Italy)
- Title: Tracking Wetting Front Adavance With Upward-Looking Ground-Penetrating Radar
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Lino Schmid, Christoph Mitterer, Achim Heilig, Jürg Schweizer, Olaf Eisen
- Description: Percolating melt water combined with snow stratigraphy are thought to be the dominating drivers for the formation of wet-snow avalanches. It is, howev...
- Object ID: issw-2012-599-602.pdf
- Keywords: wet snow avalanches, snow stratigraphy, meltwater, avalanche activity
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