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Title: Regional Forecasting of Wet Snow Avalanche Cycles: an Essential Tool for Avalanche Warning Services?
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Alec van Herwijnen, Christoph Mitterer, Nora Helbig, Tobias Jonas, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Wet-snow avalanches are relatively poorly understood and difficult to forecast. By definition, liquid water is required in the snow cover, thus predic...
Object ID: ISSW16_O6.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, wet-snow avalanche, snow cover modelling, numerical weather prediction
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Title: Combining Snowpack Models and Observations for Better Avalanche Danger Assessments
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Fabiano Monti, Christoph Mitterer, Walter Steinkogler, Mathias Bavay, Andrea Pozzi
Description: Now-casting of avalanche danger is mainly based on direct snow stability observations (e.g. recent avalanches), snow stability tests combined with str...
Object ID: ISSW16_O15.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, manual observations, snow cover modeling, snow and weather data
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Title: Study on the Model to Estimate the Snow Property of the Slope Snowpack
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Ryota Sato, Yasushi Kamata, Masaya Shishido
Description: To ensure the safety of train operations for full depth avalanche, it is important to estimate the stability of the slope snow. And then, it is necess...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.37.pdf
Keywords: stability of the slope snowpack, physical properties, amedas weather data
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Title: Online Systems for Integrating the Safety, Strategy, and Stoke of Backcountry Adventure
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Brian A. Sather, Tesmond Hurd
Description: The primary focus of avalanche centers is disseminating safety information, guides focus on logistics and client care, retailers and product manufactu...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.19.pdf
Keywords: technology, multi-media, website, content management system, cms
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Title: Optimizing GIS For Snow Safety Operations at Taos Ski Valley: Avalanche and Explosive Tracking and Digital Avalanche Atlas Apps
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Rachel L. Moscarella, Andy Bond, Wetherbee B. Dorshow
Description: Given the tenet that ski patrollers are inherently reluctant to complete paperwork, we felt compelled to make the recording of explosive use and avala...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.34.pdf
Keywords: gis, risk management, avalanche mapping
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Title: The Norwegian Avalanche Observer Corps: Safety, Quality, Training, Procedures and Culture
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Markus Landrø, Rune Engeset, Andreas Haslestad, Jostein Aasen, Knut I. Orset
Description: Field observers are crucial to secure a steady flow of high quality observations from the field, which is necessary to provide a reliable avalanche fo...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.50.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, observer training, safety
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Title: Back When it Used to Snow: An Analysis of 65 Years of Snowfall Data in the Pacific Northwest
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Dan Veenhuizen
Description: The Stevens Pass area has a long history of use as a transportation and recreation corridor. A major US highway and railroad run through the region, a...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.03.pdf
Keywords: snowfall trends, data analysis, el nino southern oscillation, stevens pass
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Title: After the Avalanche: Protocols for Evacuation and Medical Treatment
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Stephen J. Christie
Description: The focus in recreational avalanche education has improved over the last decade with initiatives related to group communication, group leadership, saf...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.17.pdf
Keywords: medical treatment, education, evacuation, first aid
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Title: Analysis of 40 Years of Snowmobiler Fatalities – 1976-2016
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Iain Stewart-Patterson, Jeremy Hanke
Description: There have been 127 snowmobile avalanche fatalities in Canada over last 40 years. With 19 snowmobiler avalanche fatalities in the 2008-2009 season, th...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.18.pdf
Keywords: snowmobile, fatality, terrain management
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Title: Avalanche Fatalities in Utah in the Modern Era
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Drew Hardesty
Description: The Utah Avalanche Center (UAC) has records of Utah avalanche fatalities for the modern era, totaling 116 deaths. For this study, the first avalanche ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.19.pdf
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Title: Causes of Death Among Avalanche Fatalities in Colorado: a 20-Year Review
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Alison Sheets, Dale S. Wang, Spencer Logan, Dale Atkins
Description: Methods: We reviewed all avalanche fatalities between 1995 and 2015 in the state of Colorado, USA, using the database maintained by the Colorado Avala...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.20.pdf
Keywords: trauma, avalanche fatalities, asphyxia, colorado
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Title: Building an Inexpensive Beacon Basin
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Devin S. Hiemstra
Description: Beacon Basins are a great way to practice rescue techniques and educate the public but many organizations are unable to afford the price tag for a com...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.33.pdf
Keywords: training, practice, rescue, transceiver, recco
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Title: A Detailed Framework of the Snow and Avalanche Dynamics Class at the University of Utah
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Steven Clark
Description: Traditional certification-based avalanche education is often completed in short, intensive time periods that leaves many students wanting more detaile...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.43.pdf
Keywords: education, 5e instructional model, fieldwork, semester
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Title: Characteristics of Avalanche Release and an Approach of Avalanche Forecasting System Using SNOWPACK Model in the Tianshan Mountains, China
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Osamu Abe, Lanhai Li, Lei Bai, Jiansheng Hao, Hiroyuki Hirashima, Junrong Xu
Description: We summarized the characteristics of avalanche releases in the Tianshan Mountains of western China based on observations of snow cover and avalanche o...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche release, forecasting system, snowpack model, tianshan mountains
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Title: Double Mesures de Hauteurs de Neige: Une Innovation Pour Mieux Gérer le Risque d’Avalanche en Temps Réel sur les Routes de Savoie (France)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Gaëlle Bourgeois, Alain Duclos, Stéphane Caffo
Description: Savoy's regional government manages more than 3000km of roads, including approximately 1000km over the elevation of 1000m. More than a hundred sectio...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-05.pdf
Keywords: blowing snow, remote weather station, snow height measurement
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