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Title: REVISING THE EUROPEAN AVALANCHE DANGER SCALE: PROCESS, FINAL PROPOSAL, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC COMMUNICATION: Date: 2026-09-28; Authors: Karsten Müller, Frank Techel, Christoph Mitterer, Philip A. Ebert, Ben Reuter, Veronika Krieger, Igor Chiambretti, Anne Dufour, Guillem M. Bellido, Lorenzo Bertranda; Description: The European Avalanche Danger Scale (EADS) is the central framework for communicating regional avalanche danger in Europe. Since its introduction in 1...; Object ID: ISSW2026_O3.3.pdf; Keywords: avalanche danger scale; avalanche hazard; risk communication; avalanche forecasting; eaws; european avalanche warning services; View additional details about REVISING THE EUROPEAN AVALANCHE DANGER SCALE: PROCESS, FINAL PROPOSAL, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC COMMUNICATION

Title: APPLYING THE AVALANCHE DANGER SCALE: CONSISTENCY DEPENDS MORE ON THE SITUATION THAN THE FORECASTER: Date: 2026-09-28; Authors: Brian Lazar, Dylan Craaybeek, Frank Techel, Simon Horton, Mike Cooperstein, Simon Trautman, Ethan Greene; Description: Public avalanche forecasts compress complex hazard assessments into a single danger level to guide backcountry recreationists' terrain choices. Danger...; Object ID: ISSW2026_O9.3.pdf; Keywords: avalanche danger scale, forecaster consistency, inter-rater reliability, judgment aggregation, avalanche problems, public avalanche forecasting; View additional details about APPLYING THE AVALANCHE DANGER SCALE: CONSISTENCY DEPENDS MORE ON THE SITUATION THAN THE FORECASTER

Title: ASSESSING PUBLIC BACKCOUNTRY AVALANCHE FORECASTS: Date: 2026-09-28; Authors: Ethan Davis, Zachary Miller, Scott Savage, Dallas Glass, Spencer Logan, Ethan Greene, Blase Reardon, Christine Donnelly, Andrew Schauer; Description: Avalanche danger ratings are the cornerstone of a public backcountry avalanche forecast, and the "Tier 1" danger — the highest rating across all ele...; Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.30.pdf; Keywords: regional avalanche forecasting, forecast verification, forecast assessment, avalanche danger, forecaster confidence; View additional details about ASSESSING PUBLIC BACKCOUNTRY AVALANCHE FORECASTS

Title: DO FORECASTERS AGREE WHEN GIVEN THE SAME INFORMATION? INTER-FORECASTER AGREEMENT ON AVALANCHE PROBLEM LIKELIHOOD UNDER THE EAWS AND CMAH FRAMEWORKS: Date: 2026-09-28; Authors: Olav Kvåle Myksvoll, Tim Dassler, Gerit Pfuhl; Description: Regional avalanche forecasting is a judgement-based process in which experts integrate heterogeneous and uncertain information when assessing avalanch...; Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.48.pdf; Keywords: avalanche problems, forecaster agreement, inter-rater reliability, likelihood, bayesian hierarchical model, avalanche danger; View additional details about DO FORECASTERS AGREE WHEN GIVEN THE SAME INFORMATION? INTER-FORECASTER AGREEMENT ON AVALANCHE PROBLEM LIKELIHOOD UNDER THE EAWS AND CMAH FRAMEWORKS

Title: HOW BACKCOUNTRY SKIERS TRANSLATE AVALANCHE BULLETINS INTO DECISIONS: A SEASON – LONG STUDY IN THE SONDRIO PROVINCE (ITALY), WINTER 2024/25: Date: 2026-09-28; Authors: Jacopo Borsotti, Alberto Mariani, Martin Metzger, Giacomo Villa, Luca Dellarole, Davide Spini, Federico Martinelli, Giulia Geronimi, Fabiano Monti; Description: Public avalanche forecasts are published daily by avalanche warning services to communicate avalanche hazard to the public for a particular area. They...; Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.35.pdf; Keywords: avalanche safety; hazard communication; winter backcountry recreation; avalanche danger; avalanche bulletin; View additional details about HOW BACKCOUNTRY SKIERS TRANSLATE AVALANCHE BULLETINS INTO DECISIONS: A SEASON – LONG STUDY IN THE SONDRIO PROVINCE (ITALY), WINTER 2024/25

Title: COMPREHENSION VALIDATION OF THE REVISED EAWS DANGER SCALE DESCRIPTORS: LESSONS FROM A LARGE-SCALE EUROPEAN END USER SURVEY ON AVALANCHE RISK PERCEPTION: Date: 2026-09-28; Authors: Philip A. Ebert, Frank Techel, Matthias Walcher, Benjamin Reuter, Igor Chiambretti, Lorenzo Bertranda, Montse Bacardit Peñarroya, Jaka Ortar, Mark Diggins, Karsten Müller, Gerit Pfuhl; Description: The descriptors of the European avalanche danger scale, in use since 1993, are being revised. In June 2025 EAWS forecasters agreed on a new provisiona...; Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.11.pdf; Keywords: avalanche danger scale, risk communication, risk perception, descriptors, multilingual communication; View additional details about COMPREHENSION VALIDATION OF THE REVISED EAWS DANGER SCALE DESCRIPTORS: LESSONS FROM A LARGE-SCALE EUROPEAN END USER SURVEY ON AVALANCHE RISK PERCEPTION

Title: BRINGING THE EUROPEAN AVALANCHE DANGER SCALE TO THE 21ST CENTURY: Date: 2024-09-23; Authors: Dr. Karsten Müller, Dr. Frank Techel, Dr. Christoph Mitterer, Dr. Stefano Sofia, Petter Palmgren, Nicolas Roux, Guillem M. Bellido, Lorenzo Bertranda, Giacomo Villa; Description: The European Avalanche Danger Scale (EADS) is the governing document for public avalanche warning services in Europe. It has been the common ground t...; Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.12.pdf; Keywords: avalanche danger scale, public avalanche forecasting; View additional details about BRINGING THE EUROPEAN AVALANCHE DANGER SCALE TO THE 21ST CENTURY

Title: CHARACTERIZING REGIONAL AVALANCHE DANGER LEVELS USING FIELD OBSERVATIONS OF SNOW INSTABILITY IN NORWAY: Date: 2024-09-23; Authors: Simon Grüter, Markus Eckerstorfer, Ingrid Reiweger; Description: Field observations of signs of instability are important sources of information when assigning the regional avalanche danger level. In an effort to ...; Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.16.pdf; Keywords: snow instability signs, avalanche danger levels, field observations, avalanche forecasting; View additional details about CHARACTERIZING REGIONAL AVALANCHE DANGER LEVELS USING FIELD OBSERVATIONS OF SNOW INSTABILITY IN NORWAY

Title: EVALUATION OF THE TRANSFERABILITY TO THE PYRENEES OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS DEVELOPED FOR AVALANCHE FORECASTING IN THE SWISS ALPS: Date: 2024-09-23; Authors: Montse Bacardit, Cristina Pérez-Guillén, Jordi Gavaldà Bordes, Ivan Moner Seira, Martin Hendrick, Fabiano Monti; Description: Avalanche forecasting is crucial for ensuring safety and mobility in snow-covered mountainous regions worldwide. While traditional avalanche forecasts...; Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.27.pdf; Keywords: machine learning, avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger, avalanche activity, snowpack model; View additional details about EVALUATION OF THE TRANSFERABILITY TO THE PYRENEES OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS DEVELOPED FOR AVALANCHE FORECASTING IN THE SWISS ALPS

Title: UNRELIABILITY IN EXPERT ESTIMATES OF FACTORS DETERMINING AVALANCHE DANGER AND IMPACT ON DANGER LEVEL ESTIMATION USING THE MATRIX: Date: 2024-09-23; Authors: Frank Techel, Célia Lucas, Karsten Müller, Christine Pielmeier, Michael Morreau; Description: Recent advances in automated snowpack modelling notwithstanding, public avalanche forecasting relies heavily on human estimates of avalanche condition...; Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.31.pdf; Keywords: avalanche danger level, avalanche forecasting, reliability, eaws matrix, forecast correctness; View additional details about UNRELIABILITY IN EXPERT ESTIMATES OF FACTORS DETERMINING AVALANCHE DANGER AND IMPACT ON DANGER LEVEL ESTIMATION USING THE MATRIX

Title: AVALANCHE HAZARD ASSESSMENT: THE PROBABILISTIC VS. ANALYTICAL APPROACH – THE WELL-CHERISHED DICHOTOMY: Date: 2024-09-23; Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Christoph Mitterer, Benjamin Reuter; Description: Assessing avalanche risk in the backcountry is a challenging task. First and foremost since avalanche hazard cannot be accurately determined: We do no...; Object ID: ISSW2024_O12.1.pdf; Keywords: avalanche danger, risk assessment, decision-making, backcountry touring; View additional details about AVALANCHE HAZARD ASSESSMENT: THE PROBABILISTIC VS. ANALYTICAL APPROACH – THE WELL-CHERISHED DICHOTOMY

Title: END USER INTERPRETATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN AVALANCHE DANGER SCALE: A CASE STUDY FROM SCOTLAND: Date: 2024-09-23; Authors: Philip A. Ebert, David L. Miller, David A. Comerford, Mark Diggins; Description: In this study, we investigate Scottish end users’ understanding and interpretation of the five point European Avalanche Danger Scale. Our main findi...; Object ID: ISSW2024_O12.5.pdf; Keywords: avalanche danger scale, probability, risk perception, avalanche risk communication; View additional details about END USER INTERPRETATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN AVALANCHE DANGER SCALE: A CASE STUDY FROM SCOTLAND

Title: TOWARDS A DICTIONARY OF AVALANCHE FORECASTING – DESCRIBING SOME KEY TERMS: Date: 2023-10-08; Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Benjamin Reuter, Christoph Mitterer; Description: Avalanche forecasting is to a large extent a communication challenge. To this end, a good mutual understanding of the underlying concepts and their sc...; Object ID: ISSW2023_O1.01.pdf; Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow stability, avalanche probability, avalanche danger level; View additional details about TOWARDS A DICTIONARY OF AVALANCHE FORECASTING – DESCRIBING SOME KEY TERMS

Title: INITIALIZING SNOW COVER SIMULATIONS WITH OBSERVED SNOW PROFILES: Date: 2023-10-08; Authors: Michael Binder, Christoph Mitterer; Description: Snow cover models were originally developed to advance snow and avalanche research and assist operational avalanche forecasting. Though indispensable ...; Object ID: ISSW2023_O4.02.pdf; Keywords: snowpack simulations, snow profiles, operational assessment and forecasting of avalanche danger, snow density parameterization, numerical weather prediction models, snow profile alignment and similarity assessment; View additional details about INITIALIZING SNOW COVER SIMULATIONS WITH OBSERVED SNOW PROFILES

Title: ASSESSING AVALANCHE PROBLEMS FOR OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE FORECASTING BASED ON DIFFERENT MODEL CHAINS: Date: 2023-10-08; Authors: Martin Perfler, Michael Binder, Benjamin Reuter, Rainer Prinz, Christoph Mitterer; Description: Snow-cover models were initially developed to assist with operational avalanche forecasting, but the full potential has yet to be exploited. There ar...; Object ID: ISSW2023_O4.05.pdf; Keywords: avalanche problems, snowpack, simulations, forecasting, model chains, avalanche danger assessment; View additional details about ASSESSING AVALANCHE PROBLEMS FOR OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE FORECASTING BASED ON DIFFERENT MODEL CHAINS

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