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- Title: Microwave Radar Systems for Detecting Avalanches
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: David G. Long, Andre Brummer, Bill Nalli
- Description: Key roads in the Western U.S. are often closed by avalanches during the winter. Fortunately, they generally occur in well-defined paths. Knowing when ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O14.03.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche detection, radar, remote sensing
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- Title: The Reliability of Norwegian Rescue Missions Following Road Related Avalanche Incidents, Modelled with Bayesian Belief Network
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Albert Lunde, Ove Njå
- Description: In Norway, snow avalanches hitting roads are a considerable safety challenge for the rescue services. Previous studies have given rise to wondering ab...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.11.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, risk management, reliability, risk indicators, bayesian belief networks
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- Title: Weather Forecast Model Grid Spacing – Is Smaller Better
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: John Snook
- Description: The Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) implemented an in-house numerical weather prediction model in 2011. Computer-generated forecast produ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O15.01.pdf
- Keywords: numerical weather prediction, operational forecasting, colorado avalanche information center (caic)
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- Title: Synopsis, an Innovative Platform Supporting Avalanche Hazard Forecasting in France
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Cécile Coléou, Hugo Merzisen, Chantal Gendre, Yannick Danielou, Jean-Marie Willemet, Fabien Marty, Antoine Lasserre-Bigorry, Samuel Morin
- Description: For more than 30 years, Météo-France has developed software which integrates a broad diversity of information for the daily operations of avalan...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O15.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecast, operational workstation
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- Title: The Avalanche Character Frequency of Reported Avalanche Events in Colorado, USA, 2011-2016
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Spencer Logan, Ethan Greene
- Description: North American avalanche practitioners developed nine Avalanche Characters, based on risk treatment strategies, weak layer, and slab characteristics o...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O15.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche character, avalanche events, accidents
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- Title: The Longyearbyen Fatal Avalanche Accident 19th December 2015, Svalbard - Lessons Learned From Avalanche Rescue Inside a Settlement
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Martin Indreiten, Christian Svarstad
- Description: A fatal avalanche hit houses in the city of Longyearbyen early Saturday morning the 19th of December 2015 after an extreme winter storm event. The ava...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O16.01.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, urban avalanche, rescue
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- Title: Longyearbyen, Svalbard - Vulnerability and Risk Management of an Arctic Settlement Under Changing Climate - a Challenge to Authorities and Experts
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Erik Hestnes, Steinar Bakkehøi, Christian Jaedicke
- Description: Longyearbyen, the administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago, is facing most types of natural hazards under a changing Arctic climate. The cata...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O16.02.pdf
- Keywords: arctic environment, climate change, natural hazards, mitigation, research, consulting
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- Title: Vulnerability of Houses and Persons Under Avalanche Impact – The Avalanche at Longyearbyen on 2015-12-19
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Dieter Issler, Jónsson Ãrni, Peter Gauer, Ulrik Domaas
- Description: This study uses data from the avalanche that killed two persons and destroyed eleven essentially identical wood-frame houses in Longyearbyen, Svalbard...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O16.03.pdf
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- Title: Forecasting the Fatal Longyearbyen Avalanche. Possibilities and Challenges
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Erik Hestnes, Steinar Bakkehøi, Torgeir Mørk, Kjetil Brattlien
- Description: One of the main questions after the fatal avalanche in Longyearbyen in December 2015, where two persons perished and eleven houses were destroyed, was...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O16.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, forecasting, storm weather, wind measurements
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- Title: A Smartphone Application for Estimating the Critical Slope Angle for Avalanche Release
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Ron Simenhois, Karl W. Birkeland, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: Once a weak layer has fractured, slope steepness largely dictates whether or not an avalanche will release. Exceeding the critical slope angle, i.e. a...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O17.01.pdf
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- Title: Artificial Avalanche Release: Flat Field Experiments Using a Gas Exploder
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Stephan Simioni, Jürg Dual, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Fixed avalanche control installations are frequently used today due to their various advantages to artificially trigger avalanches. Gas mixtures or ex...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O17.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche control, gas exploder, avalanche formation, experiments
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- Title: The Most Disastrous Avalanche Events in Austria Since 1946/47
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Peter Höller
- Description: Avalanches are one of the principal natural hazards in alpine regions, resulting frequently in disastrous accidents. In this paper accidents with 5 or...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O18.01.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche fatalities, avalanche history
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- Title: The Establishment of the First Public Avalanche Forecasting Service in Sweden
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Per-Olov Wikberg, Petter Palmgren
- Description: Sweden started in 2015 the establishment of its first public avalanche forecasting service. The establishment of the service was initiated by the Swed...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O18.03.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, swedish environmental protection agency (sepa)
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- Title: Selection Criteria for Snow Avalanche Mitigation Measures Considering Other Potential Geohazards: Examples From Colorado and Canadian Highways
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Dave Gauthier, Alex Strouth, Mark Vessely
- Description: While unique in many ways, snow avalanches are one of many potential geohazards which threaten transportation and energy corridors, mine sites, etc., ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O19.01.pdf
- Keywords: mitigation, geohazard, risk
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- Title: Quantifying the Effectiveness of Active Mitigation on Transportation Corridors
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: David Hamre, Ethan Greene, Stefan Margreth
- Description: Numerous efforts have been made to quantify avalanche risk in transportation corridors (Schaerer 1981, Hendrikx 2006, Margreth 2003, 2016), but little...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O19.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, mitigation, risk reduction
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