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Title: Lautaret Avalanche Test Site: Outcomes from the 11th April 2012 Event
Date: 2012
Authors: Xavier Ravanat, Hervé Bellot, Frederic Ousset, Emmanuel Thibert, Mohamed Naaim
Description: The Lautaret full-scale avalanche test site has been used by Cemagref-Irstea since the early 70’s. The first studies were dedicated to avalanch...
Object ID: issw-2012-622-627.pdf
Keywords: snow, avalanche, experimental test-site, propagation model
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Title: Econome Develop – A Software Tool for Assessing Natural Hazard Risk and Economic Optimisation of Mitigation Measures
Date: 2012
Authors: Michael Bründl
Description: In most countries, public money is used to finance the protection of human life, material assets and infrastructure against natural hazards. Limited f...
Object ID: issw-2012-639-643.pdf
Keywords: risk analysis, economic efficiency, risk-calculation tool, risk management
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Title: A CBA of Artificial Avalanche Release Devices in Ski Resort: Monterosaski (AO – Italy) Case Study
Date: 2012
Authors: B. Frigo, M. Barbero, V. de Biagi
Description: The CBA is a procedure directly linked with a risk analysis and it supports risk-managers to choose the preventive technology to be implemented. To st...
Object ID: issw-2012-662-665.pdf
Keywords: gaz-ex, daisybell, explosives, economic index
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Title: A Rule Based Risk Management System Based on Maps and Danger Level
Date: 2012
Authors: Kalle Kronholm, Jo Gunnar Ellevold
Description: After a tragic accident where 16 soldiers were killed in an avalanche during a military exercise in 1986, the Norwegian Armed Forces took several ste...
Object ID: issw-2012-693-695.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk management, release zones, geographic information systems (gis)
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Title: Infrasonic Monitoring of Snow Avalanches in the Alps
Date: 2012
Authors: Ulivieri G., E. Marchetti, M. Ripepe, I. Chiambretti, V. Segor
Description: Validation of risk assessment of snow avalanches requires to identify the occurrence of avalanches. For this purpose, after a pilot experiment in Gres...
Object ID: issw-2012-723-728.pdf
Keywords: infrasound array network, snow avalanche monitoring, risk assessment
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Title: Avalanche Accident Risk Reduction Tools in a North American Context
Date: 2012
Authors: Bob Uttl, Joanna McDouall, Christina Mitchell, Carmela A. White
Description: Over the last decade, a number of avalanche risk reduction tools have been developed to assist recreational winter backcountry users avoid avalanche a...
Object ID: issw-2012-834-839.pdf
Keywords: accident prevention, risk reduction tools, risk, decision making
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Title: Evaluating the Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card 2.0
Date: 2012
Authors: Bob Uttl, Joanna McDouall, Christina Mitchell
Description: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card (Haegeli & McCammon, 2006), consisting of the Trip Planner and Obvious Clues, was marketed by the Ca...
Object ID: issw-2012-840-847.pdf
Keywords: avaluator avalanche accident prevention card, accident prevention, risk reduction tools, risk, decision making
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Title: Measurement Campaigns to Investigate Blowing Snow and Snow Drift Conditions at a High Altitude Site
Date: 2012
Authors: G. Guyomarc’h, H. Bellot, Y. Durand, F. Naaim-Bouvet, A. Prokop, V. Vionnet
Description: In order to make progress in avalanche research and to improve avalanche risk forecasting, at least two elements must be taken into account: the inves...
Object ID: issw-2012-961-967.pdf
Keywords: blowing snow modeling, in-situ measurements
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Title: Geoavalanche - Spatial Data Infrastructure for Avalanche Awareness Warning
Date: 2012
Authors: Bartoli F.
Description: Avalanches are a serious problem across the Alps even more in the latest years, considering the number of people playing outdoor activities on snow a...
Object ID: issw-2012-367-374.pdf
Keywords: backcountry recreationists, avalanche awareness, risk
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Title: The New Challenge is No More to Improve Prediction, But to Better Manage the Unexpected
Date: 2012
Authors: Alain Duclos
Description: While researchers are devoting their efforts for decades to improve avalanche forecasting, it still appears that the victims are almost always surpris...
Object ID: issw-2012-473-478.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche risk reduction, hazard
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Title: Perception of Risk in Avalanche Terrain
Date: 2012
Authors: Krister Kristensen, Manuel Genswein, Werner Munter
Description: Although avalanche training and the risk minimization strategies have greatly evolved and are being widely taught to recreational and professional use...
Object ID: issw-2012-501-505.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, risk perception, education
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Title: Prevention of Risk Along Minor Roads by Avalanche Danger Analysis on Small Scale Management Experience in Winters 2008 – 2009 – 2010 - 2011
Date: 2012
Authors: Raviglione Massimo, Barberis Michela
Description: This paper deals with the prevention activity and the assessment methods of the local avalanche risk linked to issues of civil protection aiming at as...
Object ID: issw-2012-528-534.pdf
Keywords: risk, avalanche danger, snowpack stability
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Title: Artificial Release and Detection of Avalanches: Managing Avalanche Risk on Traffic Infrastructures, A Case Study from Austria
Date: 2012
Authors: Arnold Kogelnig, Samuel Wyssen, Josef Pichler
Description: The Austrian state road Paznauntal road B188 is located in the avalanche-exposed Paznaun Valley. Several sections of the road have to be closed regula...
Object ID: issw-2012-535-540.pdf
Keywords: avalanche management, radar, artificial release
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Title: Local Management of Avalanche Hazard on the Aosta Valley’s Roads and Identification of Event Scenarios
Date: 2012
Authors: Segor V., Dellavedova P., Pitet L., Sovilla B.
Description: The Region of the Aosta Valley, situated in the far north-western part of Italy, borders to the north and west with Switzerland and France. 60% of its...
Object ID: issw-2012-541-546.pdf
Keywords: roads, avalanche hazard management, event scenarios
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Title: The North American Public Avalanche Danger Scale
Date: 2010
Authors: Grant Statham, Pascal Haegeli, Karl W. Birkeland, Ethan Greene, Clair Israelson, Bruce Tremper, Chris Stethem, Bruce McMahon, Brad White, John Kelly
Description: The Avalanche Danger Scale is an ordinal, five-level warning system that is a cornerstone of public avalanche information. The system was developed in...
Object ID: ISSW_O-020.pdf
Keywords: danger scale, avalanche, warning system design, risk communication
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