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Title: Probability of Detection and Search Tactical Procedures in Avalanche Rescue
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Manuel Genswein
Description: The search for a missing person is a race against the clock as survival chances drop very rapidly. The challenge for rescue is to find the proper bala...
Object ID: ISSW16_O12.04.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, probability of detection, survival chances
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Title: Know Before You Go Revision: an Introductory Tool for Influencing Backcountry Behavior
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Craig Gordon, Paul Diegel, Trent Meisenheimer, Brian Lazar, Ethan Greene, Mary Clayton, Aaron Carlson, Bruce Tremper, Mark Staples, Karl Birkland, Tim Bennett
Description: The open-source Know Before You Go (KBYG) avalanche awareness program provides a 50 minute introduction to avalanche safety for motorized and non-moto...
Object ID: ISSW16_O13.01.pdf
Keywords: awareness, education, introductory, video, school, know before you go
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Title: The Gear Heads – Motor Specific AVY Training
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Brian Lundstedt
Description: In 2012 an avalanche accident left me shattered. After losing one brother, and nearly both, I quickly realized that we knew nothing. After 20+ yrs of ...
Object ID: ISSW16_O13.02.pdf
Keywords: motorized, snowmobile, snowbike, avalanche education, american institute of avalanche research and education (aiare)
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Title: Real-Time Avalanche Detection with Long-Range, Wide-Angle Radars for Road Safety in Zermatt, Switzerland
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Lorenz Meier, Mylène F. Jacquemart, Bernhard Blattmann, Bernhard Arnold
Description: Two notorious avalanche gullies threaten the only access road to Zermatt, Switzerland. Avalanches are released artificially by helicopter blasting whe...
Object ID: ISSW16_O14.01.pdf
Keywords: avalanche alarm system, road safety, radar, avalanche detection
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Title: Operational Radar and Infrasound Systems for Avalanche Detection
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Walter Steinkogler, Stian Langeland, Samuel Wyssen, Lorenz Meier
Description: Due to the increased mobility demands of societies, long-lasting closures of roads and railway lines are less accepted. Along traffic routes or ski re...
Object ID: ISSW16_O14.02.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, racs, avalanche radar, infrasound, ida, lara, sara
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Title: Microwave Radar Systems for Detecting Avalanches
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: David G. Long, Andre Brummer, Bill Nalli
Description: Key roads in the Western U.S. are often closed by avalanches during the winter. Fortunately, they generally occur in well-defined paths. Knowing when ...
Object ID: ISSW16_O14.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, radar, remote sensing
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Title: Weather Forecast Model Grid Spacing – Is Smaller Better
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: John Snook
Description: The Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) implemented an in-house numerical weather prediction model in 2011. Computer-generated forecast produ...
Object ID: ISSW16_O15.01.pdf
Keywords: numerical weather prediction, operational forecasting, colorado avalanche information center (caic)
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Title: Synopsis, an Innovative Platform Supporting Avalanche Hazard Forecasting in France
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Cécile Coléou, Hugo Merzisen, Chantal Gendre, Yannick Danielou, Jean-Marie Willemet, Fabien Marty, Antoine Lasserre-Bigorry, Samuel Morin
Description: For more than 30 years, Météo-France has developed software which integrates a broad diversity of information for the daily operations of avalan...
Object ID: ISSW16_O15.02.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecast, operational workstation
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Title: Combining Snowpack Models and Observations for Better Avalanche Danger Assessments
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Fabiano Monti, Christoph Mitterer, Walter Steinkogler, Mathias Bavay, Andrea Pozzi
Description: Now-casting of avalanche danger is mainly based on direct snow stability observations (e.g. recent avalanches), snow stability tests combined with str...
Object ID: ISSW16_O15.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, manual observations, snow cover modeling, snow and weather data
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Title: The Avalanche Character Frequency of Reported Avalanche Events in Colorado, USA, 2011-2016
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Spencer Logan, Ethan Greene
Description: North American avalanche practitioners developed nine Avalanche Characters, based on risk treatment strategies, weak layer, and slab characteristics o...
Object ID: ISSW16_O15.04.pdf
Keywords: avalanche character, avalanche events, accidents
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Title: The Longyearbyen Fatal Avalanche Accident 19th December 2015, Svalbard - Lessons Learned From Avalanche Rescue Inside a Settlement
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Martin Indreiten, Christian Svarstad
Description: A fatal avalanche hit houses in the city of Longyearbyen early Saturday morning the 19th of December 2015 after an extreme winter storm event. The ava...
Object ID: ISSW16_O16.01.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, urban avalanche, rescue
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Title: Longyearbyen, Svalbard - Vulnerability and Risk Management of an Arctic Settlement Under Changing Climate - a Challenge to Authorities and Experts
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Erik Hestnes, Steinar Bakkehøi, Christian Jaedicke
Description: Longyearbyen, the administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago, is facing most types of natural hazards under a changing Arctic climate. The cata...
Object ID: ISSW16_O16.02.pdf
Keywords: arctic environment, climate change, natural hazards, mitigation, research, consulting
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Title: Forecasting the Fatal Longyearbyen Avalanche. Possibilities and Challenges
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Erik Hestnes, Steinar Bakkehøi, Torgeir Mørk, Kjetil Brattlien
Description: One of the main questions after the fatal avalanche in Longyearbyen in December 2015, where two persons perished and eleven houses were destroyed, was...
Object ID: ISSW16_O16.04.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, forecasting, storm weather, wind measurements
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Title: A Smartphone Application for Estimating the Critical Slope Angle for Avalanche Release
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Ron Simenhois, Karl W. Birkeland, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Once a weak layer has fractured, slope steepness largely dictates whether or not an avalanche will release. Exceeding the critical slope angle, i.e. a...
Object ID: ISSW16_O17.01.pdf
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Title: Observer Independent Measures of Snow Instability
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Benjamin Reuter, Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Observer independent measures of snow instability are a prerequisite for modeling, verifying and improving avalanche forecasts. However, presently no ...
Object ID: ISSW16_O17.02.pdf
Keywords: snow instability, avalanche forecasting, snow micro-penetrometer, avalanche initiation, crack propagation, tensile strength, finite element modeling
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