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- Title: The Spatial Distribution of Two Surface Hoar Events in the Chilkat and Takhinsha Mountains of Southeast Alaska
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Matthew Borish, Karl W. Birkeland, Stuart Challender, Stephan Custer
- Description: Understanding the spatial distribution of weak layers is a significant challenge for avalanche forecasters. Thus, improving our understanding of the p...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-014.pdf
- Keywords: chilkat and takhinsha mountains, avalanche, near-surface facets
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- Title: Spatial Variability in Steep Couloirs: Weak Layer Variation With Respect to Wind Direction
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Zach M. Guy, Karl W. Birkeland
- Description: Understanding the spatial variability of the snowpack is critical for avalanche prediction and mitigation. Previous spatial variability research focus...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-016.pdf
- Keywords: steep couloirs, wind direction, geographic information systems (gis)
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- Title: The North American Public Avalanche Danger Scale
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Grant Statham, Pascal Haegeli, Karl W. Birkeland, Ethan Greene, Clair Israelson, Bruce Tremper, Chris Stethem, Bruce McMahon, Brad White, John Kelly
- Description: The Avalanche Danger Scale is an ordinal, five-level warning system that is a cornerstone of public avalanche information. The system was developed in...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-020.pdf
- Keywords: danger scale, avalanche, warning system design, risk communication
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- Title: Insights into the It Depends Quantitative Explorations of the Assessment Expertise of Mountain Guides
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Roger Atkins
- Description: Unavailable
- Object ID: ISSW_O-022.pdf
- Keywords: decision-making, expertise, field observations, terrain, avalanche character
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- Title: Snow Shear Strength Under Different Stress Rates and Avalanche Release
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Pavel Chernous, Nikolay Barashev, Yuri Fedorenko, Evgeniy Podolsky, Osamu Abe, Kouichi Nishimura
- Description: The results of an influence of additional high rate shear and normal stresses on shear strength of snow samples in stressed conditions (subjected cons...
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- Keywords: avalanche release, stress rates, shinjo cryospheric environment simulator, khibini mountains
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- Title: Pitfalls in Development of Avalanche Accident Risk Reduction Tools
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Bob Uttl, James Taylor, Jan Uttl
- Description: We present a new avalanche accident prevention tool for recreational backcountry users: the 7CF. We evaluated the new tool's effectiveness on hundreds...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-023.pdf
- Keywords: avaluator avalanche accident prevention card, obvious clues, risk reduction, avalanche accidents
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- Title: What Does Your Gut Say and Should You Listen? The Intuitive-Analytical Decision Making Continuum in Mechanized Ski Guiding
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Iain Stewart-Patterson
- Description: Decision-making in avalanche terrain is a complex process. Professional guides have well developed strategies to help them navigate through the challe...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-024.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche terrain, snowpack, mechanized skiing, decision-making
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- Title: Should We Stay or Should We Go Now: Assessing the Effectiveness of an Interactive Avalanche Terrain Hazard and Route-Identification Learning Tool
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Ranae Kowalczuk, Nick Hedley, John J. Clague
- Description: Avalanche educators are increasingly turning to Internet and computer-based interactive exercises to inform the public about avalanche hazards. Howeve...
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- Keywords: avalanche terrain, avaluator, hazards
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- Title: Legal Issues in Avalanche Hazard Forecasting and Mitigation
- Date: 2010
- Authors: John Fagan
- Description: Ski resorts commonly perform avalanche hazard mitigation measures and test the stability of the snow pack by using hand charges, avalauncher rounds, a...
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- Keywords: hazard forecasting
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- Title: Predicting the Avalanche Danger Level From Field Observations
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Jürg Schweizer
- Description: As public avalanche forecasts are done for large regions, backcountry travelers cannot simply rely on the bulletin as local conditions may be differen...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-030.pdf
- Keywords: field observations, danger level, avalanche, switzerland, whumpf
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- Title: Experience is Not Enough: Persistent Weak Layers in Western Canada 2007 – 2010
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Karl Klassen
- Description: The winters of 2007/08, 2008/09, and 2009/10 in British Columbia were characterized by numerous persistent weak layers (PWLs). Professional avalanche ...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-032.pdf
- Keywords: weak layers, human factors, avalanche practitioners
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- Title: State of the Explosives Industry
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Everett Clausen
- Description: This presentation will be a review of how the perception of the avalanche industry by the explosives industry has changed and how that transformation ...
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- Keywords: explosives industry, avalanche control
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- Title: The Canadian Avalanche Centre’s Long-Range Forecasting Programme
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Ilya Storm
- Description: The Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) provides non-commercial backcountry users with regional avalanche forecasts and Special Public Avalanche Warnings ...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-034.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, forecasting program, cac, avalanche warnings
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- Title: Web Based Display of Avalanche Events Using Google Map Application Programming
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Robert H. Comey, Christopher McCollister
- Description: Recent avalanche activity is a prime indicator of the current avalanche hazard.
Knowledge of recent avalanche events and the attributes of the terrai...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-035.pdf
- Keywords: google map application programming, avalanche hazard, bridger-teton
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- Title: Avalanche Hazard Management Without Mitigation Action
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Jay Bright
- Description: My presentation is about my experiences at a mechanized guide service where I was hired to develop a hazard forecasting and guiding program. And how w...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-037.pdf
- Keywords: mitigation, avalanche hazard, stevens pass, washington
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