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- Title: Public Participation in Snow Science
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Birgit Ottmer, Julia Wessels
- Description: Public awareness of snow and avalanche science and hence a research-friendly society
is and will become more and more important in an increasingly co...
- Object ID: issw-2006-917-924.pdf
- Keywords: knowledge transfer, publicity, credibility, image improvement, awareness rising
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- Title: March Wet Avalanche Prediction at Bridger Bowl Ski Area, Montana
- Date: 2004
- Authors: J.M. Romig, S.G. Custer, K. Birkeland, W.W. Locke
- Description: Few avalanche forecast models are tailored specifically for wet avalanche forecasting. Bridger Bowl (intermountain climate) is a good area to develop ...
- Object ID: ISSW-2004-010.pdf
- Keywords: wet snow, avalanche, probability, forecast, model
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- Title: Melt-Induced Deformation in an Isothermal Snowpack
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Simon A. Trautman, Stephan G. Custer, Karl W. Birkeland
- Description: Bridger Bowl Ski Area outside of Bozeman, MT, USA, has encountered annual problems forecasting large, wet loose avalanches that occur during warming e...
- Object ID: ISSW-2004-011.pdf
- Keywords: loose avalanche, hazard, deformation
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- Title: Snowpack Spatial Variability in the Chugach Mountain Range
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Jerry Hance
- Description: A case study: how spatial variations in snowpack influence guides directing human
travel patterns during a day of heliskiing near Thompson Pass in th...
- Object ID: issw-2004-298.pdf
- Keywords: spatial variability, safety, snowpack, structures
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- Title: An Information System for the Canadian Avalanche Community
- Date: 2004
- Authors: R. Atkins, P. Hägeli
- Description: Exchange of avalanche related information among professionals has become crucial
for avalanche safety programs. The success story of the Canadian ava...
- Object ID: issw-2004-469.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, safety
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- Title: Parks Canada’s Evolution of Public Avalanche Safety
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Grant Statham
- Description: The winter of 2002/03 presented western Canada with one of the most complex and
challenging snowpacks in recent memory. On February 1, 2003 in Glacie...
- Object ID: issw-2004-534.pdf
- Keywords: safety, terrain, risk, backcountry, decision making
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- Title: A Multi-Lingual Glossary for Common Terms in European Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 2004
- Authors: T. Stucki, C. Pielmeier, J. Rhyner, B. Zweifel, A. Eisele, B. Zenke, P. Nairz, J. Villecrose, C. Oberschmied, A. Cagnaty, M. Hill
- Description: In 2001, a meeting of the European Avalanche Warning Services (Austria, France,
Germany, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Scotland, Spain, Slovakia, S...
- Object ID: issw-2004-555.pdf
- Keywords: safety, forecasting, warning
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- Title: Graphical Techniques for Teaching Public Bulletin Interpretation
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Niko Weis, Steven Conger
- Description: Review and interpretation of the public avalanche bulletin is recommended by numerous how-to avalanche safety manuals and recreational avalanche educa...
- Object ID: issw-2004-556.pdf
- Keywords: safety, bulletin, methodology, travel plan
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- Title: Optimal Preparation of Alpine Ski Runs
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Mathieu Fauve, Hansueli Rhyner, Martin Schneebeli, Walter Ammann
- Description: The demands on the quality of ski runs have grown with the development of sports
equipment. A skiing run must nowadays provide perfect grip, have a c...
- Object ID: issw-2004-656-660.pdf
- Keywords: ski run, snow grooming, weather, snow properties, snow sintering, machine-made snow
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- Title: Highland Bowl – A Ski Area Expansion
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Kevin Heinecken
- Description: The Highland Bowl is a large area which rises above the current lift structures south of the Aspen Highlands Ski Area and has recently been opened to ...
- Object ID: issw-2004-661-665.pdf
- Keywords: skiing, starting zones, runout, triggered
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- Title: Snow Pressure on Cableway Masts: Analysis of Damages and Design Approach
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Stefan Margreth
- Description: Cableway masts are often built in slopes exposed to snow pressure. In areas with large snow depths and low ground roughness the creeping and gliding s...
- Object ID: issw-2004-666-674.pdf
- Keywords: snow pressure, snow gliding, snow cover, masts
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- Title: The Relationship Between Introductory Snow Hydrology Field Methods and Level I Avalanche Courses
- Date: 2004
- Authors: S.R. Fassnacht, A.E. Sawyer, E. Foster
- Description: The International Snow Science Workshop focuses primarily on avalanche and
related issues. To be aware of safety concerns, those taking snowpack meas...
- Object ID: issw-2004-721.pdf
- Keywords: snow hydrology, avalanche safety, avalanche modeling
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- Title: A Probabilistic Technique for Exploring Multi-Scale Spatial Patterns in Historical Avalanche Data By Combining GIS and Meteorological Nearest Neighbors with an Example from the Jackson Hole Ski Area
- Date: 2002
- Authors: C. McCollister, K. Birkeland, K. Hansen, R. Aspinall, R. Comey
- Description: Many ski areas, backcountry avalanche centers, highway departments, and helicopter ski operations record and archive daily weather parameters and the ...
- Object ID: issw-2002-109-116.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, geographic information systems (gis), nearest neighbors, geographic visualization, knowledge discovery in databases
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- Title: Development of Avalanche Safety and Control Programs in the Canadian Rocky Mountain National Parks - A Historical Perspective
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Brad White
- Description: The Parks Canada Warden Service has the responsibility for avalanche safety and control programs within the Canadian Rocky Mountains National Parks. T...
- Object ID: issw-2002-208-220.pdf
- Keywords: aces, safety, control, forecasting
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- Title: The Affect of Snow Density on the Temperature Gradient
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Robert S. Rosso
- Description: Temperature data loggers were positioned on three marked layers during the early season in the Collins Snow Study Plot, Alta, Utah. A series of pits w...
- Object ID: issw-2002-376-379.pdf
- Keywords: snow compaction, snow density, snow settlement, snow temperature
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