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Title: Avalanche Forecasting for Large Area Mechanized Ski Guiding
Date: 2010
Authors: Mike Wiegele
Description: It is a given that practitioners need to provide a safe and enjoyable experience to their clients, they also have a legal responsibility to provide a ...
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Keywords: forecasting, ski guiding, snowpack profiles, shear tests
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Title: Chugach State Park Avalanche Information Center Feasibility Study
Date: 2010
Authors: Jon Gellings, Eeva Latosuo, Blaine Smith, Ian Thomas
Description: This feasibility study aimed at determining what it would take to provide avalanche information advisories with the state agency of Alaska State Park...
Object ID: ISSW_P-063.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, information center, surveys, public safety
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Title: Anatomy of a Post Control Release: The Liberty Bowl Event at Big Sky Resort
Date: 2010
Authors: Scott Savage
Description: An impressive early season avalanche cycle occurred during the 2007/2008 winter season at Big Sky Resort in southwestern Montana, culminating in a sig...
Object ID: ISSW_O-065.pdf
Keywords: post control release, deep slab instability, explosives, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Taking Artificial Release to Norway (Again)
Date: 2010
Authors: Njål Farestveit, Sara Skutlaberg
Description: Norway is troubled with many roads in bad condition. When these roads were constructed they represented a new and modern time. The roads gave people l...
Object ID: ISSW_O-067.pdf
Keywords: road administration, pilot project, wyssen avalanche tower, artificial release
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Title: Climate Change in Lower Austria – A Snow Cover Analysis of the Last 100 Years With a Special Emphasis on the Last Century and the Impact of the Avalanche Situation in Lower Austria
Date: 2010
Authors: Friedrich Salzer, Arnold Studeregger
Description: In the winters 2005/06 and 2008/09 the snow height in Lower Austria was eminently high. In the last 10 years there were six winters with an eminently ...
Object ID: ISSW_P-002.pdf
Keywords: climate change, snow cover, one hundred year record
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Title: Listening to Snow – Avalanche Detection Using a Seismic Sensor Array
Date: 2010
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Jake Turner, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Data on avalanche activity are of vital importance for avalanche forecasting. Avalanche activity is usually estimated based on visual observations, wh...
Object ID: ISSW_P-004.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, seismic sensor array, forecasting, visual observations
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Title: Fiber Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing in Avalanche Research
Date: 2010
Authors: M. Woerndl, A. Prokop, S. W. Tyler, C. E. Hatch, J. Dozier
Description: Knowledge about snow pack stability at a certain location and at a certain point in time is important for avalanche practitioners and backcountry trav...
Object ID: ISSW_P-007.pdf
Keywords: snow temperature, snow pack, driving forces
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Title: A Practitioner’s Tool for Assessing Glide Crack Activity
Date: 2010
Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Erich H. Peitzsch, Daniel B. Fagre
Description: Glide cracks can result in full-depth glide avalanche release. Avalanches from glide cracks are notoriously difficult to forecast, but are a reoccurri...
Object ID: ISSW_P-009.pdf
Keywords: glide crack activity, snow climates, going to the sun road, forecasting
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Title: Using Raw Lidar (Light Distancing and Ranging) Data to Identify Trimlines in Large Avalanche Paths
Date: 2010
Authors: Christopher M. McCollister, Robert H. Comey
Description: Raw LiDAR data was used to remotely sense trimline locations in large avalanche paths by determining the height of the young trees within the slidepat...
Object ID: ISSW_P-011.pdf
Keywords: trimlines, lidar, fusion, avalanche cycles
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Title: French Avalanche Research : Experimental Test Sites
Date: 2010
Authors: X. Ravanat, F. Ousset
Description: A variety of small-scale and full scale measurement instruments have been developed by Cemagref (ETNA research unit, Grenoble France) to study avalanc...
Object ID: ISSW_P-012.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, experimental test site, full-scale, small-scale
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Title: An International Standard for the Exchange of Snow Profile Information An Example For A Domain Specific Application of Caaml 5.0
Date: 2010
Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Roger Atkins, Matthias Gerber, Johannes Hörtnagl, Charles Fierz, John Kelly, Samuel Morin, Patrick Nairz, Ian Tomm
Description: With the growing use of the Internet for the exchange of information among avalanche professionals and its dissemination to the public, standard file ...
Object ID: ISSW_P-014.pdf
Keywords: information exchange, xml, caaml, iacs, snow profile
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Title: 3s Sonic Snow Sensor - A Prototype Acoustic Snow Penetrometer
Date: 2010
Authors: Michael Schober, Achim Heilig, Martin Schneebeli, Nora Staack
Description: High-resolution snow penetrometry has resulted in an improved understanding of the mechanical and stratigraphic properties in a snowpack. However, the...
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Keywords: snow penetrometer, mechanical properties, stratigraphic properties, avalanche warning
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Title: Portable Road Weatr Information System: Fabrication and Uses of Autonomous Weather Stations Deployed For Atmospheric Date Collection
Date: 2010
Authors: Brett Hansen, Matt McKee, Craig Patterson, Ralph Patterson
Description: The collection of accurate real-time atmospheric data is of paramount importance when working in an operational setting. Both the current and historic...
Object ID: ISSW_P-019.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, weather forecasting, decision making, portable weather station
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Title: When To Dig? Thoughts On Estimating Slope Stability
Date: 2010
Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Bruce Jamieson, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Information about the snow cover stability is crucial for avalanche forecasting and for winter backcountry recreation. For a reliable estimation of sn...
Object ID: ISSW_P-020.pdf
Keywords: slope stability, avalanche forecasting, winter backcountry recreation
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Title: The Relationship Between Measured Snow Hardness and Shear Strength
Date: 2010
Authors: Peter Höller, Reinhard Fromm
Description: Snow hardness is an important parameter in avalanche forecasting; however, hardness has not that relevance as the shear strength of snow. On the other...
Object ID: ISSW_P-021.pdf
Keywords: snow hardness, shear strength, push-pull gauge
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