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- Title: Axisymmetric Measurements of Extended Deformation Around the Snow Micropenetrometer Tip
- Date: 2012
- Authors: A.M. LeBaron, D.A. Miller, A. Van Herwijnen
- Description: Current physical models for the snow micropenetrometer (SMP) make the assumption that the tip of the SMP probe only stresses or fractures the ice grai...
- Object ID: issw-2012-408-413.pdf
- Keywords: snow micropenetrometer, strain, compaction
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- Title: Slushflow Formation, Flow Regimes and Consequences (Short Version)
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Erik Hestnes, Steinar Bakkehøi, Krister Kristensen
- Description: The term ‘slushflow’ was introduced by Washburn and Goldthwait (1958). Eight people
perished in slushflows during the winters 2010 and 2...
- Object ID: issw-2012-414-419.pdf
- Keywords: slushflow, snowpack, water level, formation, flow regimes, runout, hazard assessment
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- Title: Stopping Behavior of Snow Avalanches in Forests
- Date: 2012
- Authors: T. Feistl, P. Bebi, Y. B ̈uhler, M. Christen, M. Teich, P. Bartelt
- Description: A longstanding problem in avalanche science is to understand how forests stop small and medium sized avalanches. Avalanche dynamics models have tradit...
- Object ID: issw-2012-420-426.pdf
- Keywords: forests, avalanche science, runout, dynamics
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- Title: On Avalanche (Front) Velocity Measurements at the Ryggfonn Avalanche Test Site and Comparison With Observations From Other Locations
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Peter Gauer
- Description: Besides the runout distance of an avalanche, information on avalanche
intensity along the path are often required for hazard zoning or planning of mi...
- Object ID: issw-2012-427-432.pdf
- Keywords: hazard zoning, runout, avalanche velocities
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- Title: Back-Analysis of an Avalanche Destructive Impact on Buildings
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Valerio De Biagi
- Description: This paper aims to perform a back-analysis of a snow avalanche event occurred in the Italian Alps on December 2008, in order to estimate impact pressu...
- Object ID: issw-2012-433-438.pdf
- Keywords: back analysis, dense snow avalanche, snow accumulation
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- Title: Modeling and Visualizing Avalanche Flow Using Genetic Algorithms and OpenGL
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Donna Delparte, Michael Peterson, Jahrain Jackson, John Perkins
- Description: Simulating snow avalanche flow with numerical models and digital elevation model
(DEM) data has allowed snow scientists to better understand flow mov...
- Object ID: issw-2012-439-443.pdf
- Keywords: snow simulation, terrain, genetic algorithm, runout
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- Title: Objective Comparison of Two Numerical Avalanche Dynamics Models
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Jan-Thomas Fischer, Walter Steinkogler, Matthias Granig, Marc Christen
- Description: Numerical avalanche dynamics models are nowadays used by engineers all around the world as an integral part in risk assessment studies. Especially in ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-444-449.pdf
- Keywords: dynamics, risk, avalanche models, hazard zoning,
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- Title: Zoning With the Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Cam Campbell, Brian Gould, James Newby
- Description: During the past three winters over 4000 km2 of avalanche terrain in five mountain ranges in western Canada was zoned with the Avalanche Terrain Exposu...
- Object ID: issw-2012-450-457.pdf
- Keywords: zoning, terrain, geographic information systems (gis)
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- Title: The New Challenge is No More to Improve Prediction, But to Better Manage the Unexpected
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Alain Duclos
- Description: While researchers are devoting their efforts for decades to improve avalanche forecasting, it still appears that the victims are almost always surpris...
- Object ID: issw-2012-473-478.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche risk reduction, hazard
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- Title: Spatial, Temporal, and Space-Time Analysis of Fatal Avalanche Accidents in Colorado and the United States, 1991 to 2011
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Spencer Logan, Frank Witmer
- Description: An analysis of fatal avalanche accidents in the state of Colorado (CO) and the United States (US) for 20 winters from 1990-91 to 2010-11, compared tem...
- Object ID: issw-2012-479-486.pdf
- Keywords: accident fatality, cluster analysis, statistics
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- Title: Monitoring Lift-Served Backcountry Access Gates in Real Time: Skintrack’s First Season at Ski Loveland, Colorado
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Marc J. Rubin, Tracy Camp
- Description: In this article, we present details from the inaugural deployment of a wireless sensor
system called SkinTrack. SkinTrack is a wireless embedded syst...
- Object ID: issw-2012-487-493.pdf
- Keywords: wireless sensors, backcountry, ski resorts, avalanche transceiver
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- Title: Talking the Talk: Human Factors, Group Communication, and the Next Frontier in Snow Safety
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Bruce Edgerly, Paul Baugher
- Description: Over the past several decades, a major evolution has taken hold in snow safety: a paradigm shift from organized rescue to companion and, most recently...
- Object ID: issw-2012-494-496.pdf
- Keywords: snow safety, rescue, backcountry recreationists, self rescue
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- Title: Human Error Revisited
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Ida Kristensen, Krister Kristensen
- Description: It is often reported that a majority of avalanche accidents, as well as accidents in other fields, are caused by human error. In these accident analys...
- Object ID: issw-2012-497-500.pdf
- Keywords: human error, avalanche risk, education, human reliability
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- Title: Perception of Risk in Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Krister Kristensen, Manuel Genswein, Werner Munter
- Description: Although avalanche training and the risk minimization strategies have greatly evolved and are being widely taught to recreational and professional use...
- Object ID: issw-2012-501-505.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, risk perception, education
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- Title: How Do You Stress the Snowpack?
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Scott Thumlert, Bruce Jamieson, Thomas Exner
- Description: In the majority of fatal avalanches, skiers and snowmobilers apply load to the
snowpack which triggers the initial failure in a weak layer. Understan...
- Object ID: issw-2012-506-512.pdf
- Keywords: dynamic stress, localized dynamic loading, snowmobile, snow stability, avalanche forecasting, snowpack stratigraphy
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