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- Title: The V-Shaped Snow Conveyor-Belt
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Manuel Genswein, Ragnhild Eide
- Description: The excavation of buried subjects takes by far the greatest amount of time during rescue. The Vshaped snow conveyor-belt has been developed and field ...
- Object ID: P__8248.pdf
- Keywords: rescue, efficient rescue, companion rescue, excavation strategy, snow conveyor
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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: 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: Rationale and Models for Transition of Management of Avalanche Rescues from the Three Stage Model to the Incident Command System
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Drew Davis, Dale Atkins
- Description: In 2003, US Presidential Homeland Security Directive 5 created the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and required the use of the Incident Com...
- Object ID: P__8247.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, nims, incident command system (ics), three stage rescue plan
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- Title: Impact of Advanced (Electronic) Technologies Used in Avalanche Probes
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Markus Eck, Michael Schober, Gregor Krenn
- Description: While the necessary time for beacons search had been the major focus of beacons manufacturers and has been reduced to almost a minimum, the time neede...
- Object ID: P__8236.pdf
- Keywords: pinpointing, probing, shovelling, avalanche transceiver, companion rescue, art
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- Title: Numerical Simulation of the Survival Chance Optimzied Search Strip Width
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Manuel Genswein, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: When using transceivers (or avalanche beacons) to search for fully buried avalanche victims, the search strategy depends on the signal search strip wi...
- Object ID: P__8262.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche rescue, numerical simulation
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- Title: New Trends of Avalanche Accidents in Backcountry Terrain in Switzerland
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Stephan Harvey, Benjamin Zweifel
- Description: In the last 10 years equipment and knowledge of recreationists and organised rescue teams in avalanche terrain has developed. More and more people are...
- Object ID: P__8169.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche accident statistics, avalanche forecast, avalanche danger degree, avalanche rescue, backcountry
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- Title: Keeping the Tools Sharp: Case Study of Four Avalanche Fatalities During the Snow Season 05-06 in Alaska
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Eeva Latosuo, Paul Brusseau, Bill Romberg
- Description: Each human involved avalanche is unique and the outcomes of subject location and recovery are influenced by the availability of search tools and resou...
- Object ID: P__8075.pdf
- Keywords: alaska, organized avalanche rescue, avalanche training, avalanche incident case studies, avalanche fatalities
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- Title: Are We Ready? A Review of Western Canadian Hospital Resuscitation Capability in Response to Avalanche Victims
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Renata Lewis
- Description: Avalanches are a common risk thread that run throughout the backcountry in Canada, and can affect the safety of both recreational users and commercial...
- Object ID: P__8066.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, avalanche victim resuscitation, hypothermia, pre-hospital trauma, trauma resuscitation, cardiopulmonary bypass rewarming
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- Title: Improving K-9 Avalanche Team Performance in Backcountry Missions: A Collaborative Approach Between Ski Patrol and K-9 (SAR) Teams
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Susan Purvis, Patti Burnett
- Description: The goal of a K-9 avalanche search team is to find buried victims quickly and efficiently while reducing risk to all involved. Problems arise during b...
- Object ID: P__8089.pdf
- Keywords: k-9 search and rescue, search and rescue dogs, avalanche dogs, avalanche deployment, high altitude rescue dogs
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- Title: Sidecountry Rescue - Who is Responsible?
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Don Shockey, Chip Morrill, David Immeker
- Description: With more and more ski areas opening their boundaries and commercial and personal videos glamorizing steep descents in untracked powder, an increasing...
- Object ID: P__8035.pdf
- Keywords: sidecountry, off-piste, open boundaries, rescue
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- Title: Waiting Time Between Avalanches
- Date: 2006
- Authors: D.M. McClung
- Description: One of the requirements for a self-organized critical system is scale invariance in
the time or frequency domain. Sandpile avalanches and other types...
- Object ID: issw-2006-181.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanches, waiting time, critical system, self-organized criticality
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- Title: A History of Avalanche Hazard and Avalanche Research in the San Juan Mountains, Southwestern Colorado, USA
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Richard L. Armstrong, Betsy R. Armstrong
- Description: The San Juan Mountains’ recorded avalanche history began simultaneously with mineral exploration in the 1870s. Development of mines and transpo...
- Object ID: issw-2006-298-303.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche monitoring, forecasting, control, history, zoning, snow metamorphism
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- Title: San Juan Mountains Snow System Observatory & Research Venue
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Christopher C. Landry
- Description: Building on a legacy of San Juan Mountains snow research begun in the 1970's, the Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies is hosting and conducting inte...
- Object ID: issw-2006-407-410.pdf
- Keywords: san juan mountains, snow system science, snow hydrology, snow ecology, mountain climate monitoring
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- Title: Measuring Snow Depth With a Terrestrial Laser Ranging System
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Philipp Jörg, Reinhard Fromm, Rudolf Sailer, Andreas Schaffhauser
- Description: Knowledge on the spatial and temporal distribution of snow depth is one of the key
parameter in the assessment of avalanche hazards, for snow drift a...
- Object ID: issw-2006-452-460.pdf
- Keywords: tsl, terrestrial scanning laser, remote sensing, snow depth distribution
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