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- Title: Human Factor and Avalanche Decision Making in a Commercial Context
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Sigmund Andersen, Arild Rokenes
- Description: Professional ski and nature guides, as well as outdoor educators, have a considerable amount of time in exposed avalanche terrain. This paper focuses ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.08.pdf
- Keywords: human factor, guiding, friluftsliv, avalanche, commercial demands
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- Title: La Skieda Telemark Festival: Managing Risk and Human Factors of 350 Skiers and 12 Guides
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Fabiano Monti, Alberto Marazzi, Davide Spini, Christoph Mitterer, Walter Steinkogler
- Description: Often, accidents involving avalanche-aware people can be ascribed to human factors, i.e. inappropriate risk management; professional mountain guides a...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.46.pdf
- Keywords: mountain guides, decision-making, human factor, heuristic traps
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- Title: Case Study: Forecasting Challenges on San Francisco Peaks, Arizona; Anomalies of This Low Mid-Latitude Strata Volcano
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: David W. Lovejoy
- Description: San Francisco Peaks in northern Arizona is the focus of this case study which characterizes unique attributes of this mid-latitude, high elevation str...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.24.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, mid-latitude volcanoes, mountain weather
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- Title: Loveland Pass Avalanche Mitigation
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Fanny Bourjaillat, Ethan Greene, Raymond Mumford, Tyler Weldon, Philippe Berthet-Rambaud
- Description: Close to Denver, Loveland Pass is part of the route that provides access to some famous ski resorts such as Vail and Keystone and is among of the more...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.51.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche mitigation, loveland pass, protection strategy
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- Title: A Review of Avalanche Ecology: Forest Habitat Structure and Wildlife Biodiversity
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Kelly Muller, Philip Straub
- Description: Avalanches are significant drivers of natural processes in mountain ecosystems. This study reviews previous research on the effects of avalanches to t...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.52.pdf
- Keywords: mountain ecosystems, forest structure, wildlife habitat, biodiversity, bark beetle (coleopter:scolytidae), vegetation mosaic
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- Title: Training (Formation) of the Followers and the Professionals
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Paul Bonhomme and Copil
- Description: The French mountain guides intervene in a regular way in all the types of training
(formation) bound in snowy areas. Both as regards the professional...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-20.pdf
- Keywords: coordination, formation, practice, stakes, perspectives
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- Title: Temporal and Spatial Changes of a Seasonal Snowpack Within a Small Sheltered Slope
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Achim Heilig, Hans-Peter Marshall, Samantha Evans
- Description: We studied the seasonal evolution of a natural snowpack and changes thereof within a small sheltered slope, utilizing non-destructive monitoring syste...
- Object ID: issw-2012-1069-1080.pdf
- Keywords: upground penetrating radar (gpr), tramway ground penetrating radar (gpr), temporal/ spatial variability
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- Title: Lautaret Avalanche Test Site: Outcomes from the 11th April 2012 Event
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Xavier Ravanat, Hervé Bellot, Frederic Ousset, Emmanuel Thibert, Mohamed Naaim
- Description: The Lautaret full-scale avalanche test site has been used by Cemagref-Irstea since the early 70’s. The first studies were dedicated to avalanch...
- Object ID: issw-2012-622-627.pdf
- Keywords: snow, avalanche, experimental test-site, propagation model
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- Title: Insights into the It Depends Quantitative Explorations of the Assessment Expertise of Mountain Guides
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Roger Atkins
- Description: Unavailable
- Object ID: ISSW_O-022.pdf
- Keywords: decision-making, expertise, field observations, terrain, avalanche character
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- Title: The Big Loss: JHSP’s Avalanche Mitigation Fatality and the Resulting Program Changes
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Mike Rheam, Bob Comey
- Description: On January 5th, 2010, veteran patrolman Mark Wolling, known throughout the world as BIG WALLY triggered an avalanche that killed him during avalanche ...
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- Keywords: fatality, program changes, avalanche reduction, rescue efforts
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- Title: An Avalanche Terrain Assessment of Proposed Manitoba Mountain and Whistle Stop Hut-to-Hut Systems Using a Geographical Information System
- Date: 2010
- Authors: E. Cleary, E. Latosuo, J. Geck, J. Wolfe
- Description: Alaska Mountain and Wilderness Hut Association has proposed a hut-to-hut system
on the Kenai Peninsula of Southcentral Alaska. A terrain assessment i...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-039.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche terrain, geographic information systems (gis), hut-to-hut system
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- Title: Observations of Two Seasons of Sintering in a Mountain Snowpack
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Edward H. Bair, Jeff Dozier, Robert E. Davis, Thomas U. Kaempfer, Michael T. Colee, Randall Mielke, Jane R. Blackford
- Description: We present results from an ongoing two-year study at Mammoth Mountain, California. We track multiple layers, starting at a variety of initial conditio...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0115-0119.pdf
- Keywords: sintering, avalanche, microscopy
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- Title: Understanding Snow Transport Processes Shaping the Mountain Snow-Cover
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Rebecca Mott, Michael Schirmer, Thomas Grünewald, Michael Lehning
- Description: In alpine terrain the snow cover is heterogeneously distributed as a result of wind and precipitation interacting with the snow cover at various scale...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0141-0145.pdf
- Keywords: spatial variability, small scale wind fields, snow transport processes
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- Title: Measurements of Small Scale Spatial and Temporal Variability of Snow Depth and SWE in a Small Mountain Catchment
- Date: 2009
- Authors: T. Grünewald, M. Schirmer, M. Lehning
- Description: Using a new type of terrestrial laser scanner (TLS), which is particularly suited for measurements of snow covered surfaces, we monitored snow depth, ...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0151-0154.pdf
- Keywords: spatial variability, snow water equivalent, snow depth, terrestrial laser scanner, melt rates
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- Title: Using High Resolution LiDAR Data to Estimate Potential Avalanche Release Areas on the Example of Polish Mountain Regions
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Pawel Chrustek, Piotr Wezyk
- Description: Mountains in Poland (with height over 500 m a.s.l.) cover only 3,1% of the total country area so avalanches are a less serious problem than in e.g. al...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0495-0499.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, potential release areas, geographic information systems (gis), lidar, als data, avalanche mapping
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