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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: 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: Safety Concept for Hazards Caused by Ice Avalanches from the Whymper Hanging Glacier in the Mont Blanc Massif
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Stefan Margreth, Martin Funk, Marco Vagliasindi, Massimo Broccolato
- Description: The Whymper glacier is a hanging glacier located on the south face of the Grandes Jorasses (Mont Blanc Massif, Italy). Combined snow and ice avalanche...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-055.pdf
- Keywords: ice avalanche, safety concept, hazard map
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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: An Experimental Investigation of Explosives and Snowpack Dynamic Response
- Date: 2010
- Authors: R.G. Tichota, D.A. Miller, R. Larson, D. Richmond
- Description: Explosives are frequently used for avalanche control in public transportation corridors and within ski area boundaries, yet there has been little rese...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-016.pdf
- Keywords: explosives, snowpack, public transportation
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- Title: Potential Impacts of Climate Change or U.S. Wastach Range Ski Areas: Projections for Park City Mountain Resort in 2030, 2050, and 2075
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Brian Lazar, Mark W. Williams
- Description: We evaluate the potential impacts to snow coverage and depth from anthropogenic climate change at Park City Mountain Resort in 2030, 2050, and 2075. S...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-023.pdf
- Keywords: climate change, snow, park city, ski areas, general circulation models, wasatch
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- Title: Potential Changes in the Frequency of Rain-On-Snow Events for U.S. Cascades Ski Areas As A Result of Climate Change: Projections for Mt Bachelor, Oregon in the 21rst Century
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Brian Lazar, Mark W. Williams
- Description: We evaluate how climate change resulting from increased greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions may affect the frequency of rain-on-snow events at Mt. Bachelo...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-024.pdf
- Keywords: climate change, rain-on-snow, avalanches, mt bachelor, ski areas, cascades
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- Title: Implications of Recent Research in the Fields of Evolutionary Psychology and Cognitive Biology for Avalanche Safety Education
- Date: 2010
- Authors: David M. Sweet
- Description: Since its inception the goal of avalanche safety education has been to reduce or eliminate avalanche fatalities and injuries. Education about avalanch...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-033.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche safety, decision making, cognitive biology, evolutionary psychology
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- Title: Compiling and Studying Professional Avalanche Worker Incident Data to Improve Worker Safety
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Ron Simenhois, Scotty Savage
- Description: Avalanche professionals work in a hazardous alpine environment, often under physical and emotional stress. Working in an uncertain, stressful, and ris...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-044.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, avalanche safety, risk managment, decision-making errors, snowpack, weather
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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: avalanche forecasting, ski guiding, avalanche danger, five step method
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- Title: Skisim - A Tool to Assess the Impact of Climate Change on Ski Season Length and Snowmaking
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Robert Steiger
- Description: A semi-distributed ski season simulation model (“SkiSimâ€) was developed to analyze potential impacts of climate change on ski season lengt...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0239-0243.pdf
- Keywords: climate change, snowmaking, ski tourism, austria
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- Title: First Experiences in Applying the Swiss ‘Guideline to Account for Avalanche Hazard of Ropeways in Ski Areas’
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Mark Schaer, Stefan Margreth
- Description: Ropeways in ski areas are often exposed to avalanches. The new ropeway guideline fixes principles and procedures how to account for avalanche and snow...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0413-0417.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche protection, avalanche defence, snow pressure, ropeway
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- Title: Total Safety in Mountain Passes
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Jürg Rocco
- Description: We describe the procedure we follow to keep the Flüela Pass open in early winter and to re-open the road in the spring.
- Object ID: issw-2009-0553.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche protection, avalanche control
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- Title: Information Value of the Avalanche Bulletin for Snowsports
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Florian Hellberg, Chris Semmel, Paul Mair
- Description: Unavailable
- Object ID: issw-2009-0605.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche bulletin, pictograms, ski touring study
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- Title: A Practical Use of Historical Data to Mitigate Worker Exposure to Avalanche Hazard
- Date: 2008-09-25
- Authors: Jake Elkins, Bob Comey, Chris McCollister, Mike Rheam
- Description: In the forty-one seasons of avalanche mitigation at the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, avalanche hazard reduction routes have been run from the top dow...
- Object ID: P__8139.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche hazard mitigation, historical database, geographic information systems (gis)
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