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Title: Safety Concept for Hazards Caused by Ice Avalanches from the Whymper Hanging Glacier in the Mont Blanc Massif
Date: 2010
Authors: Stefan Margreth, Martin Funk, Marco Vagliasindi, Massimo Broccolato
Description: The Whymper glacier is a hanging glacier located on the south face of the Grandes Jorasses (Mont Blanc Massif, Italy). Combined snow and ice avalanche...
Object ID: ISSW_O-055.pdf
Keywords: ice avalanche, safety concept, hazard map
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Title: A Paint Scraper Hardness Blade
Date: 2010
Authors: Chris Borstad, David McClung
Description: We present a new hand-held hardness gauge that measures penetration resistance over a length scale of about 100 grains. The apparatus consists of a 10...
Object ID: ISSW_P-001.pdf
Keywords: paint scraper, blade, penetration resistance, densification
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Title: Infrasound Monitoring of Snow Avalanches Activity in the Italian Alps
Date: 2010
Authors: M. Ripepe, G. Ulivieri, Marchetti E., V. Segor, I. Chiambretti, L. Pitet, P. Dellavedova
Description: Risk assessment of snow avalanches is mostly related to weather conditions and snow cover. However a rigorous risk validation is required to identify ...
Object ID: ISSW_P-017.pdf
Keywords: infrasound monitoring, infrasound array, avalanche
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Title: Potential Changes in the Frequency of Rain-On-Snow Events for U.S. Cascades Ski Areas As A Result of Climate Change: Projections for Mt Bachelor, Oregon in the 21rst Century
Date: 2010
Authors: Brian Lazar, Mark W. Williams
Description: We evaluate how climate change resulting from increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions may affect the frequency of rain-on-snow events at Mt. Bachelo...
Object ID: ISSW_P-024.pdf
Keywords: climate change, rain-on-snow, avalanches, mt bachelor, ski areas, cascades
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Title: Visitor Risk Management Applied to Avalanches in New Zealand
Date: 2010
Authors: Don Bogie, Mike Davies
Description: The Department of Conservation (DOC) manages a third of the land in New Zealand. This is also where the majority of avalanches occur. Many huts, track...
Object ID: ISSW_P-037.pdf
Keywords: visitor risk management, department of conservation, avalanche terrain
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Title: A Recipe for Widespread Persistent Deep Slab Avalanche Characteristics in Western Canada
Date: 2010
Authors: Cam Campbell, Matt MacDonald
Description: Of the 29 avalanche fatalities during the avalanche season of 2002-03 in western Canada, at least 14 were attributed to persistent deep slab avalanche...
Object ID: ISSW_P-059.pdf
Keywords: slab avalanche, fatalities, snowpack, weather conditions
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Title: 2010 Saddle Peak Avalanche: Sidecountry Challenges, Misconceptions, and Lessons
Date: 2010
Authors: Doug Chabot, Mark Staples, Karl Birkeland, Eric Knoff
Description: On February 16th, 2010 a person accidentally kicked off a cornice that triggered a large slide on Saddle Peak immediately outside Bridger Bowl’...
Object ID: ISSW_O-063.pdf
Keywords: cornice, facets, hard slab, slide, safety
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Title: Characterizing Wet Slab and Glide Slab Avalanche Occurrence Along the Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
Date: 2010
Authors: Erich H. Peitzsch, Jordy Hendrikx, Daniel B. Fagre, Blase Reardon
Description: Wet slab and glide slab snow avalanches are dangerous and yet can be particularly difficult to predict. Both wet slab and glide slab avalanches are th...
Object ID: ISSW_P-066.pdf
Keywords: wet slab, going to-the-sun road, snotel site, free water, snowpack
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Title: A Historical Analysis of the Stanley Avalanche Area with Implications for Predicting Road-Hit Avalanches, Berthoud Pass, Colorado
Date: 2010
Authors: Matthew Primomo, Mark W. Williams
Description: The Stanley avalanche area is commonly regarded as one of the most dangerous to impact a roadway in the state of Colorado. Weather and snowpack struct...
Object ID: ISSW_P-071.pdf
Keywords: berthoud pass, snowpack, forecast, wind patterns, precipitation
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Title: A Look Back on the Avalanche Cycle in Queyras in December 2008
Date: 2010
Authors: Romain Gaucher, Sebastien Escand, Mylene Bonnefoy, Xavier Pasquier, Nicolas Eckert
Description: Almost ten years after the catastrophic avalanche in Chamonix, which killed 39 people in February 1999, the French Alps has been the theatre of a new ...
Object ID: ISSW_P-090.pdf
Keywords: accumulation, unpredicted avalanches
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Title: An Extreme Slush and Slab Avalanche Event in High Arctic Maritime Svalbard
Date: 2010
Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Hanne H. Christiansen
Description: Ten slush avalanches and 31 slab avalanches were observed and documented in a 16.8 km² large mountainous area, around Svalbard’s main settle...
Object ID: ISSW_P-093.pdf
Keywords: slushflow, snowpack, solid precipitation
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Title: Case Study: Schober Avalanche on February 28th, 2009, Styria, Austria
Date: 2010
Authors: A. Studeregger, H. Rieder, A. Riegler, G. Zenkl
Description: On February 28th, 2009 at 07.00 a.m. the Schober avalanche cracked in an altitude of 1820 m above sea level as a slab avalanche with a fracture depth ...
Object ID: ISSW_P-094.pdf
Keywords: wet snow avalanche, slab avalanche, snow drift, styrian avalanche service
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Title: Full-Depth Avalanches and Soil Erosion: An Experimental Site in Aosta Valley (NW Italian Alps)
Date: 2010
Authors: E. Ceaglio, V. Segor, M. Freppaz, M. Maggioni, G. Filippa, P. Dellavedova, D. Canone, S. Ferraris
Description: Snow gliding and full-depth avalanches are often associated with soil erosion in the starting and track areas, with the release of significant amount ...
Object ID: ISSW_P-100.pdf
Keywords: soil physical properties, liquid and plastic limits, snow gliding, soil-snow interface
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Title: Meteorological and Environmental Observations from Three Glide Avalanche Cycles and the Resulting Hazard Management Technique
Date: 2010
Authors: Ron Simenhois, Karl Birkeland
Description: Glide avalanches are a significant hazard that threatens people and property in many snowy climates. They are hard to control, poorly understood, and ...
Object ID: ISSW_P-104.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanches, cylces, hazard management, snowpack
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Title: Avalanches in the Sibillini Mounts (Marche, Italy)
Date: 2009
Authors: Alessandro Fabbrizio, Giuliano Mainini
Description: Generally we are capacities to think that the avalanche is an event that happens in high mountains or inhabited centers near alpine zones in concomita...
Object ID: issw-2009-0039-0043.pdf
Keywords: sibillini, avalanche, inhabited centers, ski touring, road, ski resort
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