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- Title: Terrain and Traumatic Injury in US Avalanche Accidents
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: Ian McCammon, MIchael Ditolla, Scott McIntosh
- Description: Previous studies have investigated the incidence of traumatic injury in avalanche victims. But the relationship between these injuries and the terrain...
- Object ID: P__8120.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche terrain, trauma, rescue, education, risk management
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- Title: Application and Limitations of Dynamic Models for Snow Avalanche Hazard Mapping
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Stefan Margreth, Alan Jones
- Description: Dynamic models, initially based on fluid flow, have been used since the 1950s for modelling the motion and runout of extreme snow avalanches. The fric...
- Object ID: P__8052.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, hazard mapping, runout, dynamic model, uncertainty, friction coefficients
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- Title: Does Size Matter? A Comparison of Avalanche Dimensions for Recreationalists Injured/Killed or Not Injured/Killed
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Dale Atkins
- Description: Conventional wisdom prescribes that larger avalanches pose a more serious danger to recreationists than smaller avalanches. However, this supposition ...
- Object ID: P__8229.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, size, recreationalists, killed, injured
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- Title: Recent Trends and Prevention Strategies for Avalanche and Snow Immersion Risk at U.S. and B.C. Ski Areas
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Paul Baugher
- Description: Many ISSW participants are involved in snow safety operations at ski areas. Understanding recent changes in trends in avalanche and snow immersion ris...
- Object ID: P__8158.pdf
- Keywords: snow immersion, avalanche fatalities, narsid, ski area, risk management
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- Title: Avalanche Hazard Mapping and Risk Assessment in Iceland
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Harpa GrÃmsdóttir
- Description: A number of avalanche accidents have occurred in Icelandic towns since urbanization started in the late 19th century. In the year 1995, 34 people were...
- Object ID: P__8224.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk, hazard mapping, individual risk, iceland, risk assessment, acceptable risk
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- Title: Values at Risk Due to Avalanche and Rock Fall Hazard in Norway
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Kalle Kronholm
- Description: More than 6.7 % of the Norwegian land area features terrain steeper than 30 degrees. It is commonly assumed that these areas can be the source for bot...
- Object ID: P__8130.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, hazard, risk, danger
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- Title: Risk and Avalanche Rescue
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Krister Kristensen, Manuel Genswein, Dale Atkins
- Description: More than 6.7 % of the Norwegian land area features terrain steeper than 30 degrees. It is commonly assumed that these areas can be the source for bot...
- Object ID: P__8220.pdf
- Keywords: risk assessment, risk management, rescue simulation, rescuer safety, acceptable risk
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- Title: High Arctic Avalanche Monitoring in Maritime Svalbard
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Ullrich Neumann, Hanne H. Christiansen
- Description: The arctic, high relief Svalbard landscape, largely without vegetation and with a continuous snow cover for large parts of the year, is very exposed t...
- Object ID: P__8122.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche monitoring and mapping, meteorological observations, high arctic avalanche climate, snowpit study
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- Title: Hazard Levels Warning for Avalanche Danger on Dwellings Proposal
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: François Rapin
- Description: Avalanches effecting or destroying dwellings are fortunately relatively rare. As such, when these events occur they are surprising and often devastati...
- Object ID: P__8185.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, hazard, level, warning, dwelling
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- Title: Snow Avalanche Path Ecology: Examples from the San Juan Mountains, Colorado
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Sara Simonson, Thomas Stohlgren, Chris Landry, Steven Fassnacht
- Description: We evaluated landscape ecology approaches to characterize snow avalanche paths based on patterns of plant species composition and evidence of disturba...
- Object ID: P__8241.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche path vegetation, plant species diversity, tree-ring analyses, disturbance ecology
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- Title: Passive Avalanche Defense for a Domestic Transportation Application: The Milepost 151 Avalanche, Jackson, Wyoming
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Josh Hewes, Rand Decker, Rick Dustin, Scott Merry, James Montuoro, Perry Wood, Jamie Yount
- Description: Despite increasing traffic volumes and all-weather travel demands on the mountain roads of the Western United States, surprisingly few examples of con...
- Object ID: P__8146.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, hazard, mitigation, passive, snow bridge
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- Title: Natural Glide Slab Avalanches, Glacier National Park, USA: A Unique Hazard and Forecasting Challenge
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Blase A. Reardon, Daniel B. Fagre, Mark Dundas, Chris Lundy
- Description: In a museum of avalanche phenomena, glide cracks and glide avalanches might be housed in the “strange but true†section. These oddities ar...
- Object ID: issw-2006-778-785.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, natural avalanches, glide avalanches, glacier national park
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- Title: Relating Wet Loose Snow Avalanching to Surficial Shear Strength
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Simon Trautman, Eric Lutz, Karl W. Birkeland, Stephan G. Custer
- Description: Wet loose snow avalanches are a significant hazard within many ski areas. Wet
snow stability changes dramatically over short time periods which typic...
- Object ID: issw-2006-071-078.pdf
- Keywords: wet snow, shear strength, wet avalanche
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- Title: Dynamic Modeling of Speed Profiles of Extreme Dry Snow Avalanches
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Christopher P. Borstad, David M. McClung
- Description: We present an improved method for calculating the speed of extreme dry snow
avalanches for land-use planning applications. This work is a response to...
- Object ID: issw-2006-128.pdf
- Keywords: dynamics, extreme events, land use planning, hazard mapping, avalanche speed
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- Title: Waiting Time Between Avalanches
- Date: 2006
- Authors: D.M. McClung
- Description: One of the requirements for a self-organized critical system is scale invariance in
the time or frequency domain. Sandpile avalanches and other types...
- Object ID: issw-2006-181.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanches, waiting time, critical system, self-organized criticality
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