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- Title: The Five Decisive Avalanche Problems
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Rudi Mair
- Description: Making forecasts and compiling studies of hundreds of avalanches for 25 years have demonstrated one thing to us:
Avalanches are no coincidence. They ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.25.pdf
- Keywords: danger patterns, snowdrifts, gliding snow, old snow, fresh-fallen snow, wet snow
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- Title: Triage Strategies for Multiple Avalanche Burials – a Monte Carlo Simulation
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Ingrid Reiweger, Manuel Genswein, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Settings with multiple avalanche burials and a limited number of rescuers require triage strategies, i.e. guidelines for rescuers as to where to devot...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O12.03.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, monte carlo simulation, triage, cardiopulmonary resuscitation
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- Title: North American Avalanche Danger Scale: Are Public Backcountry Forecasters Applying it Consistently?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Brian Lazar, Simon Trautman, Mike Cooperstein, Ethan Greene, Karl Birkeland
- Description: The North American Avalanche Danger Scale is a tool used by backcountry avalanche forecasters to communicate the potential for avalanches to cause har...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O20.01.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche danger scale, avalanche danger ratings, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Variations in Individual Danger Level Estimates Within the Same Forecast Region
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Frank Techel, Lukas Dürr, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Forecasters in many public avalanche forecast operations rely on field observations and danger (or stability) assessments by experienced and well-trai...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O20.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger level, observer-specific bias
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- Title: Combining the Conceptual Model of Avalanche Hazard With the Bavarian Matrix
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Karsten Müller, Christoph Mitterer, Rune V. Engeset, Ragnar Ekker, Solveig Ø. Kosberg
- Description: The European Avalanche Danger Scale provides definitions for each of the five danger levels. However, some terms used in the scale are not fully defin...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O20.03.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, bavarian matrix, conceptual model of avalanche hazard, eaws
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- Title: Five Seasons of Detailed Surface Hoar Observations: What Have We Learned?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Tom Leonard
- Description: Since the start of the 2011-12 season the Yellowstone Club Ski Patrol have diligently been collecting detailed observations of surface hoar (SH) prese...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.07.pdf
- Keywords: spatial variability, surface hoar, synoptic approach, forecasting
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- Title: Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Avalanche Problems in Western Canada: An Analysis of the Winters 2010-2016
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Bret Shandro, Pascal Haegeli, Grant Statham, James Floyer
- Description: Not all avalanches are the same. Different combinations of snowpack structures and meteorological conditions create different types of avalanche probl...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.34.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche danger, aval anche forecasting, avalanche hazard, avalanche problems
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- Title: Effect of High Elevation Birch Forest on Snow Stability
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Hedda Breien, Øyvind A. Høydal
- Description: Forest and especially evergreen conifers like pine and spruce are known to reduce
avalanche formation due to their physical anchoring effect and thei...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-05.pdf
- Keywords: birch, deciduous forest, protection forest, avalanche, anchoring effect
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- Title: Avalanche Danger Variability in Level 2 – Moderate and 3 – Considerable of the European Danger Scale Following the EAWS Bavarian Matrix: Experimental Use of Icons Representing Different Weight Within
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Mauro Valt, Flavio Berbenni
- Description: The avalanche forecaster should describe and represent, unambiguously and clearly
to users, the avalanche danger through the bulletin. The EAWS bavar...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-12.pdf
- Keywords: bavarian matrix, avalanche forecast, avalanche danger scale
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- Title: Avalanche Danger Patterns – A New Approach to Snow and Avalanche Analysis
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Rudi Mair, Patrick Nairz
- Description: In recent years, backcountry winter sports far removed from secured ski slopes have
undergone a surprising upsurge. Connected with this boom are heig...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-13.pdf
- Keywords: danger pattern, threat of avalanches, danger level, avalanche bulletin, avalanche warning service
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- Title: Avalanche Problems; An Important Part of the Norwegian Forecast, and a Useful Tool for the Users
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Markus Landrø, Solveig Kosberg, Karsten Müller
- Description: The Norwegian Avalanche Warning Service uses avalanche problems in their bulletins to provide a compact, yet exact, description for the end user of th...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-14.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche problems, avalanche patterns, avalanche forecasting, avalanche bulletin, norway
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- Title: Avalanche Terrain Exposure Classification for Avalanche Accidents in Catalan Pyrenees
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Glòria MartÃ, Laura Trabal, Joan Manel Vilaplana, Carles GarcÃa-Sellés
- Description: Avalanche terrain exposure consists of identifying and classifying areas prone to avalanches taking into account terrain features. From a data set of ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-20.pdf
- Keywords: accidents, avalanche terrain exposure scale, danger
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- Title: Stability Tests and Their Association With the Local Avalanche Danger
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Shane Haladuick, Michael Schirmer, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: The avalanche forecast regions in Canada range from 100 to 30,000 km2, far larger than the 10 km2 covered in a typical backcountry day. This differenc...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-01.pdf
- Keywords: local avalanche danger, compression test, rutschblock test, avalanche problem, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: European Avalanche Warning Services (EAWS) – Latest News
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Patrick Nairz, Karel Kriz
- Description: 30 years ago the European Avalanche Warning Services (EAWS) started to collaborate in a structured and regular basis. Since then there had been lots o...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-18.pdf
- Keywords: european avalanche warning services, avalanche information system, harmonization
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- Title: Modern Forms of Communicating Avalanche Danger – A Norwegian Case
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Erik Rose Johnsen
- Description: Norway established a national public service for avalanche danger warning on 14
January 2013, based on international standards. This is an important ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-20.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche bulletin distribution, public licence policy, crowd sourcing, user involvement, communication, social media, education
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