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- Title: The Most Disastrous Avalanche Events in Austria Since 1946/47
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Peter Höller
- Description: Avalanches are one of the principal natural hazards in alpine regions, resulting frequently in disastrous accidents. In this paper accidents with 5 or...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O18.01.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche fatalities, avalanche history
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- Title: Terrain Classification of Norwegian Slab Avalanche Accidents
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Linda Hallandvik, Eivind Aadland, Odd L. Vikene
- Description: It is difficult to rely on snow conditions, weather and human factors when making judgements about avalanche risk because these variables are dynamic ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.03.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche terrain exposure scale (ates), fatal avalanche accidents, outdoor recreation, practical implications, from novice to expert
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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: The Svalbard Fatal Accident 19th December 2015 – the Acute Phase
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Kjetil Brattlien, Erik Hestnes, Ulrik Domaas
- Description: The Svalbard fatal avalanche caused massive destruction when it hit part of the village Longyearbyen Saturday morning at the start of the Christmas ho...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.22.pdf
- Keywords: svalbard, fatal accident
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- Title: Recreational Avalanche Accidents in Switzerland: Trends and Patterns With an Emphasis on Burial, Rescue Methods and Avalanche Danger
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Frank Techel, Benjamin Zweifel
- Description: During the last 20 years (1992/93 to 2011/12) more than 90% of the avalanche fatalities in Switzerland occurred in uncontrolled avalanche terrain (rec...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-08.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche survival, mortality, rescue methods
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- Title: Formation de Verglas Sur la Neige
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Dominique Vrécourt
- Description: During January 2012, 2 to 5cm of ice appeared on the top of snow layer of the Pyrénées between 2000 to 2800m. That ice took place during two wee...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-25.pdf
- Keywords: ice
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- Title: Implications Juridiques des Accidents en Montagne et Investigations Médicolégales
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: François PAYSANT, Frédérique FIECHTER BOULVARD, Florian GRENIER, V.SCOLAN
- Description: The mountains especially during snow period is the place of accidents, some of which are fatal. In a first approach explanations of accidents may seem...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-42.pdf
- Keywords: mountains accidents, legal investigation, responsibility
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- Title: Wave of Avalanche Disasters in Response to Colonization: A Century of Statistics from the World’s Deadliest Avalanche-Prone Islands
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Evgeny A. Podolskiy, Kaoru Izumi, Vladimir E. Suchkov, IRSTEA (UR ETGR), St.-Martin-d'Heres, France
- Description: The record of avalanche disasters on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands was always incomplete due to the historical divide of the region between Japan and...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-43.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, fatalities, disaster, statistics, sakhalin, kuril islands
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- Title: An Extraordinary Avalanche Winter in Troms, Norway - Special Avalanche Conditions – and the Tromdalen Avalanche Disaster
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Ragnar Glomseth, Tor André Skjelbakken, Knut Fredriksen
- Description: This winter (12/13) was one of the most challenging ever for the regional avalanche rescue team in Tromsø, Norway, with (per 26 April) a total of 1...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-47.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, rescue, accident
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- Title: How Mountain Snowmobilers Adjust Their Riding Preferences in Response to Avalanche Hazard Information Available at Different Stages of Backcountry Trips
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Luke Strong-Cvetich, Wolfgang Haider
- Description: Over the last five winters, mountain snowmobilers accounted for 53% (41 of 77) of all recreational avalanche fatalities in Canada, which is a signific...
- Object ID: issw-2012-800-806.pdf
- Keywords: mountain snowmobiling, avalanche hazard information, decision making, terrain choices, discrete choice experiment
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- Title: How Do You Stress the Snowpack?
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Scott Thumlert, Bruce Jamieson, Thomas Exner
- Description: In the majority of fatal avalanches, skiers and snowmobilers apply load to the
snowpack which triggers the initial failure in a weak layer. Understan...
- Object ID: issw-2012-506-512.pdf
- Keywords: dynamic stress, localized dynamic loading, snowmobile, snow stability, avalanche forecasting, snowpack stratigraphy
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- Title: Lessons Learned From Boulder Mountain
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Mary Clayton
- Description: The largest recreational avalanche accident in Canadian history occurred on March 13, 2010, on Boulder Mountain, just outside of Revelstoke, BC. This ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-513-515.pdf
- Keywords: recreational avalanche data , avalanche danger degree, snomobiles
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- Title: A Phase-Tracking Snow Micro-Structure Model
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Andrew E. Slaughter, Nicholas Zabaras
- Description: Depending on the thermal conditions, snow metamorphoses via two processes: kinetic or equilibrium metamorphism. Kinetic growth occurs due to temperatu...
- Object ID: issw-2012-395-397.pdf
- Keywords: snow metamorphism, kinetic growth, thermistors
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- Title: Post-Control Avalanches: Definition, History, Causes and the Future
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Michael Ferrari
- Description: At developed ski areas the term post-control avalanches generally has been used to
describe avalanches that occur after mitigation measures have been...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-047.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche control, ski areas, explosives, investigate
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