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- Title: Potential Release Areas and Return Period of Avalanches: Is There a Relation?
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Margherita Maggioni, Urs Gruber, Ross S. Purves, Michele Freppaz
- Description: Avalanche hazard zones are usually defined in terms of impact pressures and run-out
distances for avalanches with a specific return period (T). Calcu...
- Object ID: issw-2006-566-571.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche hazard maps, release area, return period, extreme-values statistics
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- Title: Evolution of the Avalauncher
- Date: 2006
- Authors: John Brennan
- Description: The Avalauncher has been an integral tool for avalanche mitigation work for close to 50
years. With their ability to place a kilogram of high explosi...
- Object ID: issw-2006-572-575.pdf
- Keywords: avalauncher, avalanche mitigation, avalanche control
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- Title: Avalanche Control Past-Present-Future
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Jon Andrews
- Description: Forecasting for avalanches and applying the information to avalanche control and route
safety should start at the beginning of the storm cycle and no...
- Object ID: issw-2006-576-578.pdf
- Keywords: route safety, control, forecasting, weather, stormy cycle
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- Title: Probing for Avalanche Victims Revisited
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Henry Ballard, Dale Atkins, Lin Ballard
- Description: A poster presentation that builds upon the results of the Probing for Avalanche Victims
(ISSW 2004). This poster explores the common errors of probe ...
- Object ID: issw-2006-579-583.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, probing, pod, probe line, probe
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- Title: Risk Trends at U.S. and British Columbia Ski Areas: An Evaluation of the Risk of Snow Immersion Versus Avalanche Burials
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Paul Baugher
- Description: The risk trends for avalanche and snow accidents at U.S. and B.C. ski areas are changing. During the period from 1990/91 to 2005/06, there were four a...
- Object ID: issw-2006-584-591.pdf
- Keywords: snow immersion, avalanche fatalities, narsid, ski area, risk management
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- Title: A Study of Blasting -Induced Snow Instabilities and Avalanche Releases
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Pavel Chernouss, Yuri Fedorenko, Nikolai Barashev, Evgeny Mokrov
- Description: It is known that explosions can trigger avalanches but mechanisms of their influence remain unstudied and experimental data on explosion effects on th...
- Object ID: issw-2006-598-606.pdf
- Keywords: explosions, seismicity, air shock waves, avalanches, simulation
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- Title: Multiple Beacon Searching for the Masses: A Standardized Approach for Avalanche Educators
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Steve Christie
- Description: Teaching complex multiple burial scenarios for single searchers in recreational avalanche courses needs to be standardized. Every avalanche beacon on ...
- Object ID: issw-2006-607-610.pdf
- Keywords: multiple burials, avalanche educators, three circle method, primary search, standardized approach
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- Title: Automated Numerical Prediction Using Electronic Meteorological and Manual Snowpack Data
- Date: 2006
- Authors: P. D. Cordy, D. M. McClung , C. J. Hawkins, T. Weick
- Description: Nearest neighbor algorithms using manual observation data can provide useful and
accurate predictions of avalanche activity (McClung and Tweedy 1994,...
- Object ID: issw-2006-612-617.pdf
- Keywords: numerical avalanche prediction, nearest neighbours, mart, highways
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- Title: Case Report: Avalanche Accidents for Recreational Users 2005-6 Winter in Japan
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Azusa Degawa , Shinji Ikeda, Yukinori Saotome
- Description: An average number of people who killed by avalanches each year in Japan is
approximately ten. This season, however, we had more than ten people kille...
- Object ID: issw-2006-618-623.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche incident, avalanche rescue and survival
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- Title: The French Nivological Workstation an Integrated Software for Regional Snow Data Analysis
- Date: 2006
- Authors: J.L Dumas, Y. Danielou, C. Gendre, G. Giraud, E. Pougatch
- Description: For more than 20 years, the CEN (Snow Study Centre) has been developing
operational software for snow data analysis including models for avalanche ha...
- Object ID: issw-2006-624-627.pdf
- Keywords: nivological workstation, modeling, operational forecast
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- Title: Analysis of Signal Accumulation of Avalanche Transceivers During Multiple Burial Scenarios
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Markus Eck, Rudi Sackl, Michael Schober
- Description: More and more avalanche transceivers are becoming highly sophisticated signal processing units - not least due to the challenge of solving multiple bu...
- Object ID: issw-2006-628.pdf
- Keywords: transceivers, burial, victims, signals
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- Title: Survey Results from the Colorado Avalanche Information Center
- Date: 2006
- Authors: J. Andrew Gleason, Ethan Greene, Larry Scott
- Description: The Colorado Avalanche Information Center conducted a user survey of people who utilize our avalanche forecast products. The survey was conducted on t...
- Object ID: issw-2006-629.pdf
- Keywords: survey, avalanche forecast, demographics, colorado
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- Title: Evaluating the AK Block, A Sized Non-Cutback Snow Test
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Bill Glude, Randall Mullen
- Description: The AK Block is a snow test block sized to the tester’s weight and their ski or snowboard contact length, dug out on three sides, and loaded mu...
- Object ID: issw-2006-630-639.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, snow stability tests, block tests, sized-block, ak block, rutschblock
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- Title: Fatal Avalanche Accidents and Forecasted Danger Levels: Patterns in the United States, Canada, Switzerland and France
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Ethan Greene, Thomas Wiesinger, Karl Birkeland, Cécile Coléou, Alan Jones, Grant Statham
- Description: Throughout the winter, avalanche forecasters issue bulletins to help the public and the managers of public facilities make avalanche safety decisions....
- Object ID: issw-2006-640-649.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche danger, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Advanced Technologies in Avalanche Programs
- Date: 2006
- Authors: David Hamre
- Description: Between 1985 and 2000, the Alaska Railroad operated a conventional avalanche risk
mitigation program which relied heavily on artillery based risk mit...
- Object ID: issw-2006-650-659.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, avalanche guard, detection, risk, mitigation, data management
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