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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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