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Title: The Relationship Between Preferential Flow in Snow Cover and Weather Conditions
Date: 2012
Authors: Satoru Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki Hirashima, Atsushi Sato, Satoru Adachi
Description: The accurate description of water movement through snow cover is essential for improving the forecast of full depth avalanches; this forecast is close...
Object ID: issw-2012-1054-1058.pdf
Keywords: full depth avalanche, liquid water, snow cover
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Title: Changes in Stability Test Usage by Snowpilot Users
Date: 2012
Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Doug Chabot
Description: Professionals and recreationists utilize stability tests to assess snow stability. Our goal is to determine whether or not people are changing the typ...
Object ID: issw-2012-1065-1068.pdf
Keywords: snow pit, snow stability, avalanche fractures
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Title: Transceiver Performance When Searching for Multiple Burials
Date: 2012
Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Manuel Genswein, Fred Jarry, Dominique Létang
Description: Two large scale field tests at Davos (Switzerland) and on Col du Lautaret (France) focusing on the performance of avalanche rescue transceivers in mul...
Object ID: issw-2012-341-347.pdf
Keywords: avalanche transceivers, multiple burials, avalanche accident
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Title: The Effect of External Interference on Avalanche Transceiver Functionality
Date: 2012
Authors: John Barkhausen
Description: For over 40 years, avalanche transceivers have been helping searchers locate and rescue victims buried in avalanches. They rely on internal electronic...
Object ID: issw-2012-348-352.pdf
Keywords: avalanche transceiver, interference, functionality
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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: Avalanche Airbag Survey: A U.S. Perspective
Date: 2012
Authors: Steve Christie
Description: Several avalanche accidents in the winter of 2012 propelled avalanche airbag awareness into the mainstream of the United States. In our industry weÊÂ...
Object ID: issw-2012-361-362.pdf
Keywords: avalanche airbags, accidents, avalanche safety equipment
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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: Geoavalanche - Spatial Data Infrastructure for Avalanche Awareness Warning
Date: 2012
Authors: Bartoli F.
Description: Avalanches are a serious problem across the Alps even more in the latest years, considering the number of people playing outdoor activities on snow a...
Object ID: issw-2012-367-374.pdf
Keywords: backcountry recreationists, avalanche awareness, risk
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Title: Interactive Avalanche Information System (IAIS)
Date: 2012
Authors: Richard W Steiner, Mark Dundas, Peter Petri
Description: In 2010 avalanche forecasters (forecasters) employed by Chugach Adventure Guides (CAG) began developing a web-based avalanche atlas (Atlas) as part of...
Object ID: issw-2012-375-380.pdf
Keywords: geographic information systems (gis), avalanche atlas, web based avalanche atlas, data, database, database management
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Title: Internet and Social Networking: A Chance for Avalanche Education?
Date: 2012
Authors: Thierry Vallée
Description: Community websites about backcountry skiing are the places where avalanches are discussed. Beginners can learn, experienced people and professionals ...
Object ID: issw-2012-381-386.pdf
Keywords: backcountry recreationists, weather measurments, public safety
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Title: @Utahavalanche: Was Social Media Invented for Avalanche Forecasting?
Date: 2012
Authors: Diegel, P D , M.S., M.B.A, Tremper, B, M.S.
Description: Social Media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, etc) provide an effective way to broadcast avalanche information. Content can be created an...
Object ID: issw-2012-387-391.pdf
Keywords: back country, public safety, avalanche awareness
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Title: Automated Avalanche Deposit Mappping from VHR Optical Imagery
Date: 2012
Authors: Matthew J. Lato, Regula Frauenfelder, Yves Bühler
Description: Using eCognition we developed an algorithm to automatically detect and map avalanche deposits in Very High Resolution (VHR) optical remote sensing ima...
Object ID: issw-2012-392-394.pdf
Keywords: avalanche deposits, avalanche mapping, algorithm
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Title: A Phase-Tracking Snow Micro-Structure Model
Date: 2012
Authors: Andrew E. Slaughter, Nicholas Zabaras
Description: Depending on the thermal conditions, snow metamorphoses via two processes: kinetic or equilibrium metamorphism. Kinetic growth occurs due to temperatu...
Object ID: issw-2012-395-397.pdf
Keywords: snow metamorphism, kinetic growth, thermistors
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Title: Remote-Sensing Derived Avalanche Inventory Data
Date: 2012
Authors: Regula Frauenfelder, Rune Solberg, Siri Øyen Larsen, Arnt-Børre Salberg, Heidi Bjordal
Description: Every year snow avalanches pose a significant threat to transportation infrastructure. The societal demand to minimize closures of the main transport ...
Object ID: issw-2012-398-403.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, transportation, meteorology, avalanche forecasting
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Title: The Role of Information Technology in Public Avalanche Forecasting International Snow Science Workshop 2012
Date: 2012
Authors: Kristina Welch
Description: Technology has changed the face of many industries, prompting an evolution of business norms and processes. As industries mature their relationship wi...
Object ID: issw-2012-404-407.pdf
Keywords: technology, ski safety, avalanche forecasting, avalanche risk management
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