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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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