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- Title: Using Thermal Imaging to Verify Avalanche Control Results
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Mark Saurer, Damian Jackson, Bill Nalli
- Description: As the population of the Salt Lake Valley and popularity of backcountry skiing in the Wasatch continues to grow, so do the logistic difficulties of co...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O2.02.pdf
- Keywords: thermal imaging, avalanche control, irt
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- Title: Exemplary Actions of Education for Increasing the Resilience of Communities to Natural Hazards in High Mountain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Paola Dellavedova, Océane Vibert, Luca Pitet, Jean Pierre Fosson, Valerio Segor, Alessandro Benati, Elisabetta Ceaglio, Nathalie Durand, Antoine Brulport
- Description: In response to actual climatic variations and global warming, highlighted by the scorching
summers of 2003 and 2015, major alpine faces within the Mo...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O4.02.pdf
- Keywords: mountaineering, natural hazards, education, resilience, risks, prévriskhautemontagne project
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- Title: A Unique Time Series of Daily and Weekly Snowpack Measurements At Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Neige Calonne, Cecilia Cetti, Charles Fierz, Alec van Herwijnen, Matthias Jaggi, Henning Löwe, M. Matzl, Lino Schmid, Martin Schneebeli
- Description: Recently, different efforts were dedicated to improve various components of snowpack models, notably, by including more objective parameters of snow m...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.39.pdf
- Keywords: density, specific surface area, snowpack, monitoring, measurement
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- Title: Stress Cortisol in Professional Ski Patrol
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Alex Bergeron, Jerry Johnson, Scott Creel
- Description: Professional ski patrollers work in demanding and risky environments where stress is considered part of the job. Based on a previous study, the number...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.12.pdf
- Keywords: stress, cortisol, avalanche mitigation, ski patrol
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- Title: Observing Ski Touring and Decision making in the Alps. What Ordinary People Do or Not Do, and Why?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Bjørn Michaelsen, Carsten Rolland
- Description: Recreational avalanche accident prevention seems to be based on a universal understanding of snow and avalanche science. This has led to an impressive...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.13.pdf
- Keywords: ski touring, decision making, risk cultures, tradition, qualitative methods, avalanche education
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- Title: Evaluation of SNOWPACK Metamorphism and Microstructure in a Canadian Context: a Case Study for Snow Stability Assessment
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jean-Benoit Madore, Kevin Côté, Alexandre Langlois
- Description: The snow thermodynamic multi-layer model SNOWPACK was developed in order to address the risk of avalanches by simulating the vertical geophysical and ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.06.pdf
- Keywords: snow grain, snowpack, avalanche, model, stability, metamorphism
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- Title: Climate Change Impacts on Utah's Central Wasatch Snowpacks
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Rand Decker, Hugo Froyland
- Description: Climate change has resulted in winters that are much different than in previous decades. For the better part of 20 years, the central and southern Roc...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.09.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack distribution, climate change, snowmelt, drought
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- Title: Distance between Electronic Devices and Avalanche Transceivers on a Professional Ski Patrol
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Shawn Orloff
- Description: Cellular phones and two-way radios are indispensable communication tools for professional ski patrollers. It has been well established that electronic...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.14.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, transceiver, electronic interference
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- Title: Artificial Snow and its Impacts in a Ski Resort and its Mountain Hydrosystem: Example of Avoriaz Resort
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Elodie Magnier
- Description: The practice of artificial snowmaking is recent (1950 in the United States) and since
1990, French resorts, including Avoriaz, as well as their Swiss...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-11.pdf
- Keywords: artificial snow, water resource, mountain area, catchment area, hydrosystem
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- Title: A Network-Based Approach for the Study of Criticalities in Ski-Resorts
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Valerio De Biagi, Barbara Frigo, Bernardino Chiaia
- Description: The correct management of ski-resorts requires wide knowledge in mountain hazards, as well as a large experience. Usually ski-resorts cover a surface ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-34.pdf
- Keywords: ski-resort management, graph theory, criticalities
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- Title: Future Changes in Ski Resorts
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Stewart Sheppard
- Description: Ski resorts are on the front line when confronted with the consequences of changes in the business environment, changes in climate and sociological ch...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-38.pdf
- Keywords: weather patterns, energy markets, sociologial change, adaptation, future ski resorts
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- Title: Risk Management With Mandatory Upper Risk Threshold in the World’s Largest Mountaineering School
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Manuel Genswein, Krister Kristensen
- Description: At the beginning of the new millennium, the DAV Summit Club, the commercial mountaineering school of the German Alpine Club and world’s largest...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-03.pdf
- Keywords: risk management, residual risk threshold, mountain guiding
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- Title: Ski-Touring, Avalanche Risk and Human Factors
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Boris Valat, et Ludovic Ravanel
- Description: Every winter, mountain practitioners are directly confronted with the question of avalanches. During the 2011-2012 season, 32 avalanche accidents and ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-14.pdf
- Keywords: ski touring, avalanche risk, human factors, decision making
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- Title: Partner Rescue Skills: An Organizational and Individual Assessment Over the 2010-11 and 2011-12 Winter Seasons at Big Sky Resort
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Jonathan Binger, Chelan Babineau-Z
- Description: Avalanche hazard mitigation work is one of the more hazardous aspects of professional ski patrolling. Ski patrollers rely almost entirely on their par...
- Object ID: issw-2012-783-785.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche hazard, avalanche rescue and survival, ski patrolling
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- Title: Educating Ski Patrollers at Chimbulak (Shymbulak) Ski Resort, Kazakhstan
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Alexander Prokop, Peter Dirninger
- Description: Chimbulak ski resort, located close to the former capital city of Kazakhstan, Almaty, has challenging preconditions to make their resort avalanche saf...
- Object ID: issw-2012-831-833.pdf
- Keywords: ski patrolling, avalanche risk management, artificially triggered, snow control
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