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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: Can We Derive an Avalanche Terrain Severity Rating from Observed Terrain Selection of Professional Guides? A Proof-Of-Concept Study
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Scott Thumlert, Pascal Haegeli
- Description: The physical risk from snow avalanches poses a serious threat to backcountry recreationalists and the winter backcountry recreation industry. Professi...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O5.03.pdf
- Keywords: terrain selection, helicopter ski guiding, avalanche risk management, avalanche hazard, gis avalanche terrain classification
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- Title: Weather Forecast Model Grid Spacing – Is Smaller Better
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: John Snook
- Description: The Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) implemented an in-house numerical weather prediction model in 2011. Computer-generated forecast produ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O15.01.pdf
- Keywords: numerical weather prediction, operational forecasting, colorado avalanche information center (caic)
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- Title: Making a Public Backcountry Zone Shared by a Cat Skiing Operation and a Variety of Other Users Safer Through a Simple Awareness Card with Pertinent Information
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Eric R. Tollund
- Description: As backcountry user numbers continue to rise we are seeing more and more unprepared and under equipped users in the backcountry. As a guide with a cat...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.16.pdf
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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: 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: 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: Integrating Gaming Technology to Map Avalanche Hazard
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Donna Delparte, Michael R. Peterson, John Perkins, Jahrain Jackson
- Description: As gaming physics engines advance, snow scientists have the opportunity to utilize
these engines to animate and model avalanche flow and runout. Nume...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-22.pdf
- Keywords: hazard mapping, gis, avalanche terrain modelling, dem, genetic algorithms
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- Title: Terrain Analysis of Skier-Triggered Avalanche Starting Zones
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Irene Vontobel, Stephan Harvey, Ross S. Purves
- Description: Terrain is one of the main factors contributing to avalanche formation and important for the assessment of avalanche risk. Terrain characteristics of ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-05.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, avalanche starting zone, terrain, gis
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- Title: Understanding Travel Behaviour in Avalanche Terrain: A New Approach
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson, Ellie Southworth
- Description: To date, most studies of the human dimensions of decision-making in avalanche terrain has focused on two areas - post-accident analysis using accident...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-09.pdf
- Keywords: decision making, human factors, heuristics, gps, gis, terrain analysis
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- Title: Software Tools Developed for the Swiss Avalanche Warning Service - A System Overview
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Andreas Stoffel, Ulrich Niederer
- Description: Today, highly specialized software is required to produce the public avalanche bulletin and complementary snow information. Numerous data sources cont...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-38.pdf
- Keywords: geoservices, gis, java, json
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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: 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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- Title: A Comparison of Terrain-Based Parameter, Wind-Field Modelling and TLS Snow Depth Data for Snow Drift Modelling
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Alexander Prokop, Peter Schön, Vincent Vionnet, Florence Naaim-Bouvet, Gilbert Guyomarc’h, Yves Durand, Hervet Bellot, Florain Singer, Kouichi Nishimura
- Description: Wind and the associated snow drift are dominating factors determining the snow distribution and accumulation in alpine areas, resulting in a in high s...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-60.pdf
- Keywords: snow, wind, redistribution, tls, terrain parameter, arps
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- Title: Snow Safety Control Operations: An Interactive Web-Based Approach
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Phoebe B. McNeally, Jim Collinson, Randy Trover, Peter Schory
- Description: Snow safety and ski patrol at skis areas are faced with the daunting task of maintaining avalanche control routes and artillery controlled areas. In t...
- Object ID: issw-2012-290-293.pdf
- Keywords: ski patrolling, starting zones, avalanche run-out, geographic information systems (gis),
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