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Title: Sensitive Avalanche Paths: Using a New Method for Inventory and Classification of Risk
Date: 2006
Authors: François Rapin, Laurent Belanger, Antoine Hurand, Jean-Marc Bernard
Description: The dangerousness of all avalanche paths which threat winter living buildings is upon inventory and classification in France. It seeks to reveal the a...
Object ID: issw-2006-444-451.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk, inventory, classification, data base
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Title: A Unique Approach to Selling Avalanche Education to Today’s Young Snowsport Enthusisits
Date: 2006
Authors: Kent Scheler, John Bressette, Bill Glude
Description: Over the last decade an increase in winter recreation activities in the backcountry has been observed in America and Canada. This growth can be attri...
Object ID: issw-2006-461-464.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, young adults, media trends, documentary film
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Title: Using GIS and Remote Sensing to Assess Avalanche Hazards for New Road Corridors in Alaska
Date: 2006
Authors: Douglas D. Scott
Description: As part of HDR’s Chignik Connectors Project (a road system connecting the three communities of Chignik), assessment and mapping of potential av...
Object ID: issw-2006-465-467.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard assessment, alaska, transportation, geographic information systems (gis), terrain modeling, and remote sensing
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Title: Can Stability Tests Help Recreationists Assess the Local Avalanche Danger?
Date: 2006
Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Jürg Schweizer, Pascal Haegeli, Cam Campbell
Description: In western Canada, various agencies issue public avalanche bulletins three to seven times per week for regions which range from less than 500 km2 to a...
Object ID: issw-2006-468-477.pdf
Keywords: snowpack stability tests, avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger, spatial scale
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Title: Holistic Geographical Visualization of Spatial Data with Applications in Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 2006
Authors: Phoebe B. McNeally, Harvey J. Miller
Description: Avalanche forecasters face ever increasing pressure to make more informed decisions and accurate predictions. Decisions often are made very quickly a...
Object ID: issw-2006-478-482.pdf
Keywords: geographic visualization, avalanche forecasting, spatial decision support system
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Title: Deep Slab Avalanche Hazard Forecasting and Mitigation: The South Face at Big Sky Ski Area
Date: 2006
Authors: Scott Savage
Description: In December 1995, the Big Sky Ski Area installed a tram to the summit of Lone Mountain, accessing over 130 hectares (320 acres) of avalanche terrain i...
Object ID: issw-2006-483-490.pdf
Keywords: deep slab instability, crusts, ice, facets, explosives, avalanche forecasting
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Title: The Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale
Date: 2006
Authors: Grant Statham, Bruce McMahon, Ian Tomm
Description: Exposure to avalanche terrain is a fundamental concept and an important parameter for winter routefinding decisions in the backcountry. However, educa...
Object ID: issw-2006-491-497.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain, terrain classification, exposure scale, education
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Title: Minimizing “False-Stable” Stability Test Results: Why Digging More Snowpits is a Good Idea
Date: 2006
Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Doug Chabot
Description: The worst nightmare for an avalanche worker is to assess an unstable slope as stable since the consequence of such an assessment is that you, your cli...
Object ID: issw-2006-498-504.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, stability assessment, stability tests, false-stable conditions
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Title: Graphic Avalanche Information for the New Media
Date: 2006
Authors: Bruce Tremper, Jim Conway
Description: As recently as ten years ago, the only way to deliver avalanche information to the public was through the recorded telephone advisory. Most avalanche ...
Object ID: issw-2006-505-509.pdf
Keywords: avalanche advisory, graphics, media, communication, avalanche hazard, public
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Title: Instructing Students on How to Conduct a Multiple Burial Search Using the Micro Search Strip Method
Date: 2006
Authors: Steve Blagbrough, Jesse De Montigny
Description: At Yamnuska Mountain Adventures (Yamnuska), guides that instruct the school’s recreational avalanche courses have adopted the micro search str...
Object ID: issw-2006-510-512.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, micro search strip, multiple burials, novice, pinpoint, students, strip width
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Title: Rewarming Mild Hypothermia After Avalanche Burial
Date: 2006
Authors: Colin K. Grissom, Chris H. Harmston, John C. McAlpine, Martin I. Radwin, Brad Ellington, Ellie Hirshberg
Description: Purpose: To determine if mildly hypothermic avalanche burial victims can be rewarmed in the field we measured esophageal core body temperature (Tes) d...
Object ID: issw-2006-513-521.pdf
Keywords: avalanche burial, avalanche rescue, hypothermia, afterdrop
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Title: Strategic Shoveling: The Next Frontier in Companion Rescue
Date: 2006
Authors: Bruce Edgerly, Dale Atkins
Description: With the widespread use of digital avalanche transceiver technology, search times for companion rescue have decreased significantly. Dedicated transce...
Object ID: issw-2006-522-529.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, companion rescue, shovel, probe, transceiver, beacon
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Title: Methodology of Snow Avalanche Post-Event Field Investigations: Tools, Difficulties and Perspectives
Date: 2006
Authors: Jean-Marc Tacnet , Sébastien Escande, François Rapin, Roland Burnet, Mireille Batton-Hubert
Description: Avalanche post-event field investigations are usually made immediately following the event. Assessments and results often vary depending on the person...
Object ID: issw-2006-530-539.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche assessment, analytic hierarchic process, reliability, traceability, information systems
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Title: Field Report on the Validation of a Capacitance Snow Profile Probe in an Avalanche Forecasting Application
Date: 2006
Authors: Steven Conger
Description: During the winters of 2004/05 and 2005/06, I field-tested the prototype and second generation portable, capacitance-type snow sonde in an avalanche fo...
Object ID: issw-2006-540-544.pdf
Keywords: snow density profile, dielectrics, snow sonde
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Title: On the Effects of Receiver Bandwidth on the Performance of Avalanche Beacons
Date: 2006
Authors: Felix Meier, Andreas Ehrensperger
Description: Contrary to transmitter frequency tolerance, the receiver bandwidth is not standardized for avalanche beacons. Some transmitters even transmit outside...
Object ID: issw-2006-562-565.pdf
Keywords: avalanche beacons, receiver bandwidth, frequency tolerance, standards
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