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Title: Airborne Detection of Avalanche Victims with Ground Penetrating Radar
Date: 2006
Authors: Achim Heilig, Martin Schneebeli
Description: The detection of buried avalanche victims not wearing a beacon is an important problem for rescue operations. The development of a fast and reliable ...
Object ID: issw-2006-660-666.pdf
Keywords: ground penetrating radar (gpr), avalanche victim, airborne detection
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Title: Sheet Pile Walls – A Space-Saving Avalanche Defence Structure
Date: 2006
Authors: Árni Jonsson, Erik Hestnes
Description: Steel sheet piles, primarily used as retaining walls when excavating soft ground and for stabilizing fills, are introduced as flexible components for ...
Object ID: issw-2006-667-671.pdf
Keywords: avalanche mitigation, steel sheet piles, deflecting dam, catching dam, energy dissipation
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Title: Special Avalanche Warnings at the Canadian Avalanche Centre
Date: 2006
Authors: John Kelly, Ilya Storm, Jim McAllister
Description: This poster describes the Special Public Avalanche Warning Program. The Canadian Avalanche Centre with the support of the British Columbia Provincial ...
Object ID: issw-2006-672-681.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, avalanche warning, avalanche accident, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Challenges to an Avalanche Center in a Time of Seasonal Climate Variability: A Case Study
Date: 2006
Authors: David W. Lovejoy, Leland R. Dexter, Kevin Tatsugawa
Description: Kachina Peaks (San Francisco Peaks) rising to nearly 13,000 ft. in northern Arizona represent an exception to the commonly held perception that snow a...
Object ID: issw-2006-683-690.pdf
Keywords: snow, avalanche forecasting, san francisco peaks, kpac, backcountry skiing
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Title: Interaction of Flexible Rockfall Barriers With Avalanches and Snow Pressure
Date: 2006
Authors: Stefan Margreth, Andrea Roth
Description: Rockfall barriers are optimized to absorb high punctual impact energies. In mountain areas the barriers are also loaded by avalanches and snow pressu...
Object ID: issw-2006-691-700.pdf
Keywords: avalanche protection, rockfall barrier, avalanche dynamics, snow pressure
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Title: Evaluating Nearest Neighbours in Avalanche Forecasting - A Qualitative Approach to Assessing Information Content
Date: 2006
Authors: Ross S. Purves, Joachim Heierli
Description: Nearest neighbours (NN) approaches are a statistically-based pattern classification technique used extensively for computer-assisted decision making i...
Object ID: issw-2006-701-708.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, validation, nearest-neighbours
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Title: Legal Consequences of Fatal Avalanche Accidents in the European Alps
Date: 2006
Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Stephan Harvey
Description: If a fatal avalanche occurs in an Alpine country such as France, Italy, Austria, Germany or Switzerland the circumstances need to be investigated by l...
Object ID: issw-2006-709-713.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, law, litigation, criminal proceedings
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Title: Practical Implementation of Avalanche Infrasound Monitoring Technology for Operational Utilization Near Teton Pass Wyoming
Date: 2006
Authors: Ernest D. Scott, Christopher T. Hayward, Timothy J. Colgan, Jerry C. Hamann, Robert F. Kubichek, John W. Pierre, Jamie Yount
Description: Recent advancements in infrasound monitoring hardware and software for the detection and identification of avalanche-generated infrasound signals have...
Object ID: issw-2006-714-723.pdf
Keywords: avalanche monitoring, infrasound, signal discrimination, sensor array
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Title: The Backcountry Avalanche Advisory: Design and Implementation of a New Public Avalanche Warning System in Canada
Date: 2006
Authors: Grant Statham, Alan Jones
Description: Public avalanche forecasters continually search for ways of communicating sophisticated information in a comprehensible format. To accommodate this ne...
Object ID: issw-2006-724-731.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, risk communication, media, avalanche education
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Title: Translation of Public Avalanche Bulletins
Date: 2006
Authors: Grant Statham, Louise Claude, Marc Deschênes, Stéphane Gagnon, Lise Gautron, John Kelly
Description: Parks Canada produces avalanche bulletins in four Mountain National Park regions; avalanche forecasters write these daily bulletins in English. All p...
Object ID: issw-2006-732.pdf
Keywords: avalanche bulletins, translation, bilingual, terminology
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Title: Avalanche Risk for Recreationists in Backcountry and in Off-Piste Area: Surveying Methods and Pilot Study at Davos, Switzerland
Date: 2006
Authors: Benjamin Zweifel, Adrian Raez, Thomas Stucki
Description: In the field of avalanche warning and avalanche protection, the usage of free area (nonavalanche- secured terrain) is of high importance and was hardl...
Object ID: issw-2006-733-741.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk, avalanche warning, avalanche accident, backcountry area, off-piste area, individual risk
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Title: Winter 2003 in Southern BC – Perspective, Recognition, Management
Date: 2006
Authors: Chris Stethem, Marc Piché
Description: The winter of 2002-03 began with the formation of a rain crust in November, followed by an extended period of fair weather and the development of a pe...
Object ID: issw-2006-742-746.pdf
Keywords: accidents, below average snowpacks, winter mountain travel, mechanized skiing
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Title: Enviromental Implications for Explosives Based Risk Mitigation: A Case Study from the BNSF Railway Avalanche Safety Program Essex, Montana, USA
Date: 2006
Authors: David Hamre, Richard W. Steiner
Description: On January 28th, 2004, numerous avalanches released above the BNSF Railway tracks located in John F. Stevens Canyon, Montana. In particular, three ava...
Object ID: issw-2006-747-756.pdf
Keywords: bnsf, railroad, snowsheds, avalanche forecasting, avalanche hazard, explosives, artillery
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Title: Avalanche Risk Evalution with Practical Suggestions for Risk Minimisation: A Case Study of the Milford Road, New Zealand
Date: 2006
Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Ian Owens, Wayne Carran, Ann Carran
Description: This paper examines two methods for risk evaluation in a case study for the Milford Road, New Zealand. These results are then used to quantify the eff...
Object ID: issw-2006-757-767.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk, hazard index, traffic, milford road, new zealand
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Title: Avalanche Cycles in Austria – An Analysis of the Greatest Events in the Last 50 Years
Date: 2006
Authors: Peter Höller
Description: This paper deals with an analysis of major avalanche cycles in Austria. In particular the effects of certain weather situations on avalanche cycles a...
Object ID: issw-2006-768-774.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche cycles, avalanche climatology
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