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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: 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: 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: 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: Key to Success for the Norwegian Avalanche Center: Merging of Theoretical and Practical Knowhow
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Solveig Kosberg, Karsten Müller, Markus Landrø, Ragnar Ekker, Rune Engeset
- Description: Norway has chosen a quite practical approach to avalanche forecasting. Field observations from the more than 50 professional observers are very import...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-21.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, field observations, practical knowhow, training
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- Title: Tracking Melt-Freeze Crust Evolution
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Ryan Buhler, Sascha Bellaire, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Melt-freeze crusts are one of the most critical layers for slab avalanche formation. These layers usually undergo complex metamorphism and associated ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-084-091.pdf
- Keywords: melt-freeze crust, snowpack evolution, persistent weak layer, columbia mountains, thermal imaging, crust index
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- Title: Statistical Avalanche Runout Models: How Well Can Computers Predict Beta?
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Alexandra Sinickas, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: We reviewed the performance of a 23 m and 30 m Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and
Google Earth in predicting beta (β) points for statistical runout...
- Object ID: issw-2012-716-722.pdf
- Keywords: extreme avalanche runout, statistical model, alpha-beta, runout ratio, repeatability, error
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- Title: Vulnerability: Caught in an Avalanche – Then What are the Odds?
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Alan S.T. Jones
- Description: Vulnerability is an essential component in qualitative and quantitative avalanche risk
analyses. It is the probable consequences given that the eleme...
- Object ID: issw-2012-001-008.pdf
- Keywords: vulnerability, avalanche properties, destructive avalanches, avalanche risk management, hazard index,
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