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Title: Artificial Snow and its Impacts in a Ski Resort and its Mountain Hydrosystem: Example of Avoriaz Resort
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Elodie Magnier
Description: The practice of artificial snowmaking is recent (1950 in the United States) and since 1990, French resorts, including Avoriaz, as well as their Swiss...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-11.pdf
Keywords: artificial snow, water resource, mountain area, catchment area, hydrosystem
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Title: Partner Rescue Skills: An Organizational and Individual Assessment Over the 2010-11 and 2011-12 Winter Seasons at Big Sky Resort
Date: 2012
Authors: Jonathan Binger, Chelan Babineau-Z
Description: Avalanche hazard mitigation work is one of the more hazardous aspects of professional ski patrolling. Ski patrollers rely almost entirely on their par...
Object ID: issw-2012-783-785.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard, avalanche rescue and survival, ski patrolling
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Title: Educating Ski Patrollers at Chimbulak (Shymbulak) Ski Resort, Kazakhstan
Date: 2012
Authors: Alexander Prokop, Peter Dirninger
Description: Chimbulak ski resort, located close to the former capital city of Kazakhstan, Almaty, has challenging preconditions to make their resort avalanche saf...
Object ID: issw-2012-831-833.pdf
Keywords: ski patrolling, avalanche risk management, artificially triggered, snow control
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Title: An Experimental Investigation of Explosives and Snowpack Dynamic Response
Date: 2010
Authors: R.G. Tichota, D.A. Miller, R. Larson, D. Richmond
Description: Explosives are frequently used for avalanche control in public transportation corridors and within ski area boundaries, yet there has been little rese...
Object ID: ISSW_P-016.pdf
Keywords: explosives, snowpack, public transportation
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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: 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: Avalanche Forecasting at Stevens Pass Part II Ski Area Rating for Avalanche Potential
Date: 2000
Authors: Jon Andrews
Description: In 1994 we started a new program for avalanche control purposes at the Stevens Pass ski area. We have given the U.S. avalanche danger scale nine weath...
Object ID: issw-2000-153-157.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, ski area, control, danger scale
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Title: Telluride Ski Area Expansion Snow Safety Plan Development and lmplementation 1993-2001
Date: 2000
Authors: Craig Sterbenz
Description: Proposed expansion of the Telluride Ski Area onto previously permitted, but undeveloped, National Forest lands required an Environmental Impact Statem...
Object ID: issw-2000-584-586.pdf
Keywords: ski area, planning, hazard mapping, hazard identification & mitigation, expert forecasting
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Title: Preferred Knots for Joining Hollow Braid Poly Rope
Date: 1998
Authors: Dick Chisholm
Description: Ski patrollers disagree about which is the most secure knot for joining two pieces of hollow braid polypropylene rope. This shiny, diamond-patterned r...
Object ID: issw-1998-325-334.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk management, knot security, knots for polypropylene rope, ski area management, hollow braid polypropylene rope
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Title: The New Avalanche Control Programme at the Lake Louise Ski Area
Date: 1996
Authors: Mark Klassen
Description: Avalanche control operations at the Lake Louise Ski Area have a history spanning nearly thirty years. Originally a small resort which did not extend a...
Object ID: issw-1996-213-216.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, ski area, management
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Title: Snow Avalanche Experiments at Ski Jump
Date: 1996
Authors: K. Nishimura, Y. Nohguch, Y. Ito, K. Kosugi, K. Izumi
Description: In 1995, we have started the experiments at a ski jump to investigate the avalanche dynamics and internal structures in detail. In winter, natural sno...
Object ID: issw-1996-244-251.pdf
Keywords: avalanche experiment, ski jump, ping-pong balls
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Title: (Snow Management) at a Ski Area Using Machine and Blowing Snow Effects as Tools
Date: 1992
Authors: David H. Hendrickson
Description: The topic relates specifically to practices we have been using at our ski area in order to: 1. reduce the effects of wind blown snow and "blowing snow...
Object ID: issw-1992-068-071.pdf
Keywords: snow drifting, management, wind, snow blowing
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Title: Installation Design of the Avalanche Impact Pylon Facility, Alta, Utah
Date: 1992
Authors: Andrea Clayton, Rand Decker, Charles Richardson, Osamu Abe
Description: In order to research avalanche forces, an impact pylon was installed at Alta Ski Area, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah. The pylon is located beneath Mo...
Object ID: issw-1992-182-190.pdf
Keywords: epoxy anchor belts, ski lifts, avalanche path, release
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Title: The Susan Jane Avalanche Path: A Case Study in Ski Area Planning and Avalanche Path Identification
Date: 1988
Authors: Chester Marler, Ann Fin
Description: Some of the planning efforts for a ski area expansion project are studied, identifying aspects of the planning process which related to potential aval...
Object ID: issw-1988-098-102.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, hazard, ski area
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