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Title: Lessons Learned From Boulder Mountain
Date: 2012
Authors: Mary Clayton
Description: The largest recreational avalanche accident in Canadian history occurred on March 13, 2010, on Boulder Mountain, just outside of Revelstoke, BC. This ...
Object ID: issw-2012-513-515.pdf
Keywords: recreational avalanche data , avalanche danger degree, snomobiles
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Title: Reaching Snowmobile Riders With Effective Training Methods International Snow Science Workshop 2012, Identifying Unique, Captivating Educational Techniques Targeted to Reach Snowmobile Riders
Date: 2012
Authors: Debra McGhan, Dorothy Adler, Merletta Morris
Description: All across snow covered states, from bush villages in Alaska to the side streets of small towns, snowmachines have become an integral part of life. Al...
Object ID: issw-2012-516-522.pdf
Keywords: snowmobiles, public transportation, winter recreation
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Title: Exploring Opportunities for Snowmobile Avalanche Education
Date: 2012
Authors: Miranda L. Murphy
Description: Avalanches are a significant risk for those who choose to recreate in the mountains. Despite efforts to raise avalanche awareness and educate people, ...
Object ID: issw-2012-523-527.pdf
Keywords: avalanche awareness, avalanche fatality, backcountry
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Title: Prevention of Risk Along Minor Roads by Avalanche Danger Analysis on Small Scale Management Experience in Winters 2008 – 2009 – 2010 - 2011
Date: 2012
Authors: Raviglione Massimo, Barberis Michela
Description: This paper deals with the prevention activity and the assessment methods of the local avalanche risk linked to issues of civil protection aiming at as...
Object ID: issw-2012-528-534.pdf
Keywords: risk, avalanche danger, snowpack stability
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Title: Artificial Release and Detection of Avalanches: Managing Avalanche Risk on Traffic Infrastructures, A Case Study from Austria
Date: 2012
Authors: Arnold Kogelnig, Samuel Wyssen, Josef Pichler
Description: The Austrian state road Paznauntal road B188 is located in the avalanche-exposed Paznaun Valley. Several sections of the road have to be closed regula...
Object ID: issw-2012-535-540.pdf
Keywords: avalanche management, radar, artificial release
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Title: Local Management of Avalanche Hazard on the Aosta Valley’s Roads and Identification of Event Scenarios
Date: 2012
Authors: Segor V., Dellavedova P., Pitet L., Sovilla B.
Description: The Region of the Aosta Valley, situated in the far north-western part of Italy, borders to the north and west with Switzerland and France. 60% of its...
Object ID: issw-2012-541-546.pdf
Keywords: roads, avalanche hazard management, event scenarios
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Title: The Use of Classification Trees as a Tool for Forecasting Avalanche Activity on the Seward Highway, Alaska
Date: 2012
Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Matt Murphy, Terry Onslow
Description: The Seward highway is located in coastal Alaska and is subject to an extreme maritime climate, with strong winds, and large storms that can bring seve...
Object ID: issw-2012-553-560.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snowpack, maritime climate
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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: A High Resolution Approach to Defining Spatial Snow Height Distribution in Avalanche Release Zones for Dynamic Avalanche Modeling
Date: 2010
Authors: Alexander Prokop, Christina Delaney
Description: Over the last 80 years, avalanche-dynamics models have increasingly been used for landuse planning and to design protection measures. One of the impor...
Object ID: ISSW_P-103.pdf
Keywords: high resolution, model, mass
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Title: Application of a Numerical Snowpack Model to Estimate Full-Depth Avalanche Danger
Date: 2010
Authors: Hiroyuki Hirashima, Isao Kamiishi, Satoru Yamaguchi, Atsushi Sato, Michael Lehning
Description: Many full-depth avalanches occur in temperate, snowy regions such as the northern part of Honshu, Japan. Such avalanches threaten infrastructure and c...
Object ID: ISSW_O-008.pdf
Keywords: snowpack model, water transport, full depth avalanche
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Title: Simple and Reliable Methodology to Compare Various Avalanche Beacons Taking into Account the Useful Range, Multiple Burial, and the Strength of the Third Antenna
Date: 2010
Authors: Marcellus Schreilechner, Markus Eck, Michael Schober
Description: In the spring of 2010, all commercially available avalanche beacons were compared in terms of their useful range, the quality of the indication of dir...
Object ID: ISSW_O-001.pdf
Keywords: avalanche beacons, dgps
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Title: Continuous Monitoring of the Seasonal Snowpack Evolution Utilizing Upward-Looking GPR Technology
Date: 2010
Authors: Achim Heilig, Christoph Mitterer, Susanna Hoinkes, Jürg Schweizer, Olaf Eisen
Description: A temporally continuous observation of the seasonal evolution of the snow stratigraphy at a single site requires non-invasive monitoring technology. W...
Object ID: ISSW_O-003.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, snowpack, stratigraphy, switzerland
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Title: An Explicit Nonlinear Numerical Model of Explosive Air Blast on Snow and Implications for Avalanche Control
Date: 2010
Authors: D.A. Miller, R.G. Tichota, E.E. Adams
Description: Recent post explosive control avalanches and the lack of analytical methods for evaluating explosive control have motivated this study to better quant...
Object ID: ISSW_O-007.pdf
Keywords: numerical model, avalanche control
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Title: The Effect of Changing Slope Angle on Extended Column Test Results: Can We Dig Pits in Safer Locations?
Date: 2010
Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Ron Simenhois, Joachim Heierli
Description: Avalanche practitioners often assume that weak snowpack layers fracture more easily in steeper terrain. We are typically reluctant to conduct stabilit...
Object ID: ISSW_O-010.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, ect, alaska, montana
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Title: The Slab Test – The Missing Link in Stability Testing?
Date: 2010
Authors: Kjetil Brattlien, Jo Gunnar Ellevold
Description: An avalanche is released when both the weak layer and the slab fails, still standard stability tests (e.g. CT, ECT) focus on the weak layer only. The ...
Object ID: ISSW_O-011.pdf
Keywords: slope stability, stability tests, slab test
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