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- Title: Features Ranking for Avalanche Forecasting: Method and Results for Northwestern Himalaya
- Date: 2010
- Authors: B. Chandra, Amreek Singh, Dan Singh, A. Ganju
- Description: The complex interaction of snow and meteorological features leads to formation of
avalanches. Thus, the identification of significant governing featu...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-038.pdf
- Keywords: feature selection, sequential forward generation, relief-f, nearest-neighbours method
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- Title: New Insights Into Skier-Triggering of Slab Avalanches
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Joachim Heierli, Karl W. Birkeland, Ron Simenhois, Peter Gumbsch
- Description: Most skiers trigger the slab avalanche in which they are caught. Preventing those accidents necessitates a better understanding of the factors contrib...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-040.pdf
- Keywords: skier-triggering, slab avalanches, anticrack model, risk
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- Title: Numerical Modeling of Fracture Propagation in Slabs
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Chris Borstad, David McClung
- Description: We present the results of numerical simulations of tensile failure of snow samples. Several material models for quasibrittle tensile failure were impl...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-042.pdf
- Keywords: fracture propagation, slab avalanche, elastic modulus, fracture energy
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- Title: A Field Method for Measuring Slab Stiffness and Weak Layer Fracture Energy
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Joachim Heierli
- Description: Traditional field measurements, such as snow profiles and stability tests, are widely used to provide information on snow cover stability for avalanch...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-044.pdf
- Keywords: fracture energy, slab, avalanche forecasting,
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- Title: Post-Control Avalanches: Definition, History, Causes and the Future
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Michael Ferrari
- Description: At developed ski areas the term post-control avalanches generally has been used to
describe avalanches that occur after mitigation measures have been...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-047.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche control, ski areas, explosives, investigate
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- Title: I-90 Snoqualmie Pass: Evolution of an Interstate Highway Avalanche Program
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Craig Wilbour, John Stimberis
- Description: Interstate 90 over Snoqualmie Pass, WA (921 m) is the major highway through the
Cascade Mountains of Washington State. Snoqualmie Pass receives an av...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-048.pdf
- Keywords: snow sheds, avalanche fences, explosives tramways, highways
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- Title: The Big Loss: JHSP’s Avalanche Mitigation Fatality and the Resulting Program Changes
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Mike Rheam, Bob Comey
- Description: On January 5th, 2010, veteran patrolman Mark Wolling, known throughout the world as BIG WALLY triggered an avalanche that killed him during avalanche ...
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- Keywords: fatality, program changes, avalanche reduction, rescue efforts
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- Title: Estimating Extreme Avalanche Runout for the Lizard Range, Fernie, British Columbia, Canada
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Katherine S. Johnston, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Identifying the extreme avalanche runout is an important part of public safety for
development in mountainous areas. Extreme avalanche runout is typi...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-050.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche runout, statistical models, residential development
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- Title: A Light-Weight Splitting Wedge to Protect Tower 4/6 Snettisham Transmission Line, Southeast Alaska
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Chris Wilbur, Arthur I. Mears, PE, Del LaRue, PE., Bill Glude
- Description: The 138KV Snettisham electrical transmission line is the main power source for Juneau, the capital city of Alaska. Avalanche potential affecting the l...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-051.pdf
- Keywords: splitting wedge, transmission line, juneau
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- Title: A New Environment-Friendly Device for Avalanche Preventive Release
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Dr. Philippe Berthet-Rambaud, Bruno Farizy, Anthony Juge, Xavier Gallot-Lavallée,, Ernesto Bassetti
- Description: This new concept called O’Bellx® combines the recent improvements from the DaisyBell® project with the advantages of a static gas system....
- Object ID: ISSW_O-053.pdf
- Keywords: preventive avalanche release, gas device, seasonal removability
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- Title: A Quick Winter Solution for Hazard Mitigation in the Deposition Area – Application in the Aosta Valley – NW Italian Alps
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Segor V., Dellavedova P., Borney E., Debernardi A., Roveyaz S.
- Description: The numerous avalanche events that hit the Aosta Valley, in the north-west of the Italian Alps, in the last two winter seasons have highlighted the ha...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-054.pdf
- Keywords: hazard mitigation, avalanche deposition area, snow modelling
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- Title: Fighting the Worst Case – Avoiding Loss of Transmitting Range and Directional Irritations for Perpendicular Buried Transmitting Beacons
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Franz J. Kroell, Rolf Matzner
- Description: Digital distance indication, direction indication, signal splitting including marking function and precise pinpointing are the most significant improv...
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- Keywords: transmitting range, avalanche transceiver, directional irritations
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- Title: Avalanche Rescue: The United States Experience, 1999/00 to 2008/09
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Dale Atkins
- Description: Avalanche accidents and fatalities have been increasing over the years, and experience continues to show time as the enemy of the buried avalanche vic...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-057.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, incident, rescue, self rescue, companion rescue, organized rescue, injuries, deaths
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- Title: A Comparison of Avalanche Survival Patterns in Canada and Switzerland
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Markus Falk, Hermann Brugger, Hans-Jürg Etter, Jeff Boyd
- Description: The survival pattern of completely buried individuals in open terrain has been depicted in the avalanche survival curve, which displays probability of...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-059.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche survival, asphyxia, trauma, snow climate, rescue regime
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- Title: Under the Radar: Exploiting “New School†Media to Capture Unreported Avalanche Incidents
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Bruce Edgerly
- Description: Unless you’re a sheriff or coroner, it’s not easy getting details on avalanche incidents. Many success stories go unreported, skewing pu...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-060.pdf
- Keywords: unreported, media capture, fatalities, shoveling
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