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- Title: Snow Pressures on a Rigid Snow Supporting Structure at the Milepost 151 Avalanche, Jackson, Wyoming
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Joshua T. Hewes, Rand Decker, Sean Strain, Megan Stevens
- Description: Mitigation of avalanche hazard to roadways within the Western United States has historically been conducted by means of artificial release of explosiv...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.23.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, snow supporting structures, mitigation
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- Title: Infrasound Detection of Avalanches in Grasdalen and Indreeidsdalen, Norway
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Tore Humstad, Ørjan Søderblom, Giacomo Ulivieri, Stian Langeland, Halgeir Dahle
- Description: Infrasound technology for detection of snow avalanches has been tested in mountainous terrain in Norway over the two last winter seasons. Two valleys,...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.25.pdf
- Keywords: infrasound, avalanche detection, forecasting, ida
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- Title: Utilisation of the SM4 Automatic Snowpack Sensor in Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Harpa Grimsdottir, Orn Ingolfsson, Magni H. Jonsson, Vidir Arnarson, Halfdan Ingolfsson, Sveinn Brynjolfsson, Gestur Hansson
- Description: A small innovation company in Iceland, POLS Engineering, has developed the SM4 automatic snowpack sensor that is currently installed at over 30 locati...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.30.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow sensor, automatic warnings, snow crystals, snow depth, facets
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- Title: Matching of Vertical Snow Profiles
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Pascal Hagenmuller
- Description: Stratigraphic vertical profiles of snow properties measured a few meters from each other are usually different. In particular, slope-parallel variatio...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.42.pdf
- Keywords: snow profile, matching, registration, clustering
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- Title: The Effect of Slope-Scale Spatial Variability of Slab Characteristics on Propagation Saw Tests
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Chris Bilbrey, Jordy Hendrikx, Karl Birkeland, Stuart Challender, J. Andrew Gleason
- Description: Understanding propagation in complex, non-uniform terrain is critically important for avalanche forecasting and mitigation. Currently we do not know h...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.45.pdf
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- Title: Deriving Mean Snow Depth in Complex Terrain From Flat Field Measurements
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Nora Helbig, Alec van Herwijnen, Tobias Jonas
- Description: Snow depth is an important parameter for various applications, including hydrological and avalanche forecasting. Various measurement networks were the...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.46.pdf
- Keywords: mean snow depth, avalanche forecasting, meteorological models, subgrid parameterization
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- Title: Terrain Classification of Norwegian Slab Avalanche Accidents
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Linda Hallandvik, Eivind Aadland, Odd L. Vikene
- Description: It is difficult to rely on snow conditions, weather and human factors when making judgements about avalanche risk because these variables are dynamic ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.03.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche terrain exposure scale (ates), fatal avalanche accidents, outdoor recreation, practical implications, from novice to expert
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- Title: Method for an Automatized Avalanche Terrain Classification
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Günter Schmudlach, Jochen Köhler
- Description: Avalanche terrain classification according to ATES (Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale) has become a popular method to represent and disseminate avalanc...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.04.pdf
- Keywords: ates, avalanche terrain exposure scale, avaluator
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- Title: Understanding Global Crowd Sourcing Data to Examine Travel Behavior in Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson
- Description: This paper will present a subset of our results from our last three seasons (2013/14 to 2015/16) of global crowd sourced data collection to examine tr...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.06.pdf
- Keywords: backcountry skiing, gps tracking, decision making, avalanche terrain, crowd-sourcing
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- Title: A Proposed Paradigm for Advancing Human Factors Research: Linking Behavioral and Avalanche Scientific Disciplines
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Keith Gale, Dale Atkins, Iain Stewart-Patterson, Benjamin Zweifel, Bruce Tremper, Baruch Fischoff, Michael Jenkins, Rashaad Jones, Joseph Keebler, Moin Rahman, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Mark Borsuk, Magda Osman, Alan Sanfey, Brenda Dervin, Karlene Roberts, Ed Carlson, Mike Laney, Tim Bennett, Kenneth Perez, Taylor Barr
- Description: The avalanche industry understands that to save lives, we need to understand human behavior. The scientific discipline most directly affiliated with h...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.07.pdf
- Keywords: research roadmap
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- Title: Human Factor and Avalanche Decision Making in a Commercial Context
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Sigmund Andersen, Arild Rokenes
- Description: Professional ski and nature guides, as well as outdoor educators, have a considerable amount of time in exposed avalanche terrain. This paper focuses ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.08.pdf
- Keywords: human factor, guiding, friluftsliv, avalanche, commercial demands
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- Title: Direct and Indirect Avalanche Experiences Among Backcountry Skiers: Relationships with Risk Perception and Use of Safety Gear
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Davide Marengo, Paola Dellavedova, Maria G. Monaci, Renato Miceli
- Description: A relevant factor that may affect risk perception and behaviors related to natural hazard is personal experience. Findings on recreational sports (e.g...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.10.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche experience, backcountry skiing, risk perception
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- Title: What is the Risk Threshold that Backcountry Enthusiasts are Willing to Accept and How Does Their Perception Align with the Actual Risk Involved?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Terry Eyland, William Thibeault
- Description: An empirical investigation looked at backcountry enthusiasts? avalanche danger threshold and what the main factors are that alter that threshold. The ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.11.pdf
- Keywords: decision-making, human factors, risk homeostasis, cost-benefit analysis, education
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- Title: Stress Cortisol in Professional Ski Patrol
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Alex Bergeron, Jerry Johnson, Scott Creel
- Description: Professional ski patrollers work in demanding and risky environments where stress is considered part of the job. Based on a previous study, the number...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.12.pdf
- Keywords: stress, cortisol, avalanche mitigation, ski patrol
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- Title: Observing Ski Touring and Decision making in the Alps. What Ordinary People Do or Not Do, and Why?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Bjørn Michaelsen, Carsten Rolland
- Description: Recreational avalanche accident prevention seems to be based on a universal understanding of snow and avalanche science. This has led to an impressive...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.13.pdf
- Keywords: ski touring, decision making, risk cultures, tradition, qualitative methods, avalanche education
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