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- Title: Human-Triggered Slab Avalanche Properties From the Catalan Pyrenees
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Montse Bacardit, Ivan Moner, Jordi Gavaldà , Glòria MartÃ, Carles Garcia
- Description: During the last three decades in the Catalan Pyrenees (Eastern side of the range), data on avalanche and snowpack characteristics from reported human-...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.09.pdf
- Keywords: slab avalanche, avalanche release, human-triggering, snowpack structure, snowpack stability
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- Title: Passive Avalanche Defense Mounds in the Bull of the Woods Avalanche Path, Wyoming
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jamie Yount, Brian Gorsage, Rod Newcomb, Lee Elder, Kelly Elder, Galen Richards
- Description: On February 16, 2014 a large natural avalanche (HS-N-R5-D5) released in the Bull of the Woods avalanche path at milepost 156.5 on US 191 in the Hoback...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.10.pdf
- Keywords: passive mitigation, defense mounds, berms, dendrochronology
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- Title: Characteristics of Snow Avalanche Release in Forests During a Heavy Snowfall Event
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Hiroki Matsushita, Koji Ishida
- Description: The heavy snowfall on February 14–15, 2014 caused many snow avalanches in the Kanto-Koshin region, Japan, where a thin snow cover exists during...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.11.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, forest, air temperature, snowfall intensity, hardness, stability
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- Title: Evaluation of Protection Measures Against Avalanches in Forested Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Thomas Feistl, Armin Fischer, Peter Bebi, Perry Bartelt
- Description: Small to medium sized avalanches release in forest gaps and open forest above roads and infrastructure in the Prealps regularly each winter. Avalanche...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.12.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, forest, public safety, modelling
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- Title: Drone-Based UWB Radar to Measure Snow Layering in Avalanche Starting Zones
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Rolf O. Rydeng Jenssen, Markus Eckerstorfer, Hannah Vickers, Kjell-Arild Høgda, Eirik Malnes, Svein K. Jacobsen
- Description: Slab avalanches release due to failure in a weak snow layer. Determining the spatial distribution and depth of weak layers in avalanche starting zones...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.15.pdf
- Keywords: uwb radar, uav, snow stratigraphy, avalanche risk assessment, avatech
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- Title: The Eye in the Sky: Avalanche Mapping From Space
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Regula Frauenfelder, Timothy Glassett, Christian Jaedicke, Malte Vöge, Carlo Robiati
- Description: The Seward Highway in Alaska has over one hundred avalanche paths spread out along a 150 km major transportation corridor, which traverses three diffe...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.18.pdf
- Keywords: glide avalanche, remote sensing, sentinel satellites, transportation corridor
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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: 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: 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: 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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