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- Title: The Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale in Alaska
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Sean Mcmanamy, Eeva Latosuo, William Corwin, Sean Brennan
- Description: Avalanche terrain, inclement weather, and multiple snow climates create a dynamic winter environment within Alaska. Turnagain Pass, in south-central A...
- Object ID: P__8019.pdf
- Keywords: education, terrain
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- Title: Is it Safe? An Educational Poster Developed by Grade School Students for their Peers
- Date: 2008-09-26
- Authors: 2007/2008 Fifth Grade Class, Andrew E. Slaughter, David T. Neal
- Description: A poster developed by the students of Mr. Neal's 5th grade class was specifically designed to educate their fellow schoolmates regarding snow and aval...
- Object ID: P__8056.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, safety, education
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- Title: Virtual Reality in Mountain Survival
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Hanan Yaniv
- Description: Working and traveling in the mountains comes with a level of risk, but that risk can be diminished with knowledge. This knowledge takes two significan...
- Object ID: P__8268.pdf
- Keywords: education, survival
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- Title: Alaskasnow: A Practitioners
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Peter E. Carter, Sarah A. Carter
- Description: This poster presentation describes the enhancement of AlaskaSnow.org, the Valdez Chugach Region network of avalanche professionals, with a practitione...
- Object ID: P__8240.pdf
- Keywords: valdez chugach region network, avalanche safety, online data sharing
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- Title: Evaluating the Importance of Crystal-Type on New Snow Instability: A Strength vs. Stress Approach Using the SNOSS Model
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Jerry Casson, Mark Stoelinga, John Locatelli
- Description: Understanding new snow instability is the key factor in predicting the release of direct action avalanches during storm cycles. The compaction rates, ...
- Object ID: P__8046.pdf
- Keywords: crystal-type, shear strength, densification, direct action avalanche, stability
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- Title: The Relationship Between Wind Direction and Patterns of Natural Avalanche Activity at Gothic, Colorado
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Tara Chesley, Karl Birkeland, Kathy Hansen
- Description: Though most avalanche forecasting operations require recognizing and assessing patterns of avalanche activity at the scale of large valleys or drainag...
- Object ID: P__8074.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, avalanche forecasting, awareness
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- Title: Verification of Statistical Avalanche Forecasting Based on Numerical Weather Prediction Inputs
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: P. Cordy, D.M. McClung, C.J. Hawkins, J. Tweedy, T. Weick
- Description: Electronic meteorological stations are increasingly being used to supplement manual weather measurements in avalanche mitigation programs. The British...
- Object ID: P__8152.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, numerical weather forecasting, nearest neighbours
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- Title: Developments in Avalanche Forecasting and Other Prevention Measures and their Potential Effects on Avalanche Fatalities
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Hans-Juerg Etter, Thomas Stucki, Benjamin Zweifel, Christine Pielmeier
- Description: Despite the ever-increasing attractions of backcountry and off-piste winter sports as well as the ever more heavily frequented mountain routes in Swit...
- Object ID: P__8245.pdf
- Keywords: prevention, avalanche forecasting, avalanche fatalities
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- Title: Nine Avalanche Fatalities from 2 December 2007 to 4 January 2008 in the Washington Cascades
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Garth Ferber
- Description: An unprecedented nine persons were killed in avalanches in the Washington Cascades between 2 December 2007 and 4 January 2008. Five of the fatalities ...
- Object ID: P__8118.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, statistics, cascades
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- Title: Toward an Integration of a Snowdrift Modelling in the Operational Avalanche Forecast
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: G. Guyomarc'h, Y. Durand, G. Giraud
- Description: For several years the CEN has measured, studied and developed specific tools concerning drifting snow effects. The final objective of this work is to ...
- Object ID: P__8026.pdf
- Keywords: blowing snow, modeling, operational avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Generation Condition of the Full-Depth Avalanche Out of the Data of Occurrence for Five Consecutive Years at Shibahara, Niigata Prefecture of Japan
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Norio Hayakawa, Makota Machida, Takashi Machida
- Description: It is well known that a full-depth avalanche of wet snow occurs when, among others, air temperature rises. However, the exact condition of the generat...
- Object ID: P__8105.pdf
- Keywords: full-depth avalanche, wet snow, generation condition of avalanche
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- Title: GIS Aided Avalanche Warning in Norway
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Kalle Kronholm, Krister Kristensen, Steinar Bakkehøi
- Description: By 2008 detailed avalanche warning for the entire Norway is not available. The Norwegian Meteorological Institute only issues a general warning for la...
- Object ID: P__8128.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche warning, geographic information systems (gis), internet
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- Title: Avalanche Characterization for Regional Forecasting
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Krister Kristensen, Kalle Kronholm, Nils H. Bjørdal
- Description: In the Sunnmøre and Romsdal road districts in Western Norway, the local road authorities have compiled a register of more than 300 sites where aval...
- Object ID: P__8218.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, roads
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- Title: Geowax.net (Geographic Weather and Avalanche Explorer), An Extension to ArcGIS 9.2
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Christopher M. McCollister
- Description: GeoWAX (Geographic Weather and Avalanche eXplorer), which was presented at ISSW 2002, was developed as stand alone software written in Visual Basic 6....
- Object ID: P__8029.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, geographic information systems (gis), nearest neighbors, kml
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- Title: A New Approach to Data Visualization for Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Phoebe B. McNeally, Harvey J. Miller
- Description: A New Approach to Data Visualization for Avalanche Forecasting Phoebe B. Mcneally, Harvey J. Miller University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA Avalan...
- Object ID: P__8047.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, visualization, decision support
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