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Title: FROM THE CHIC-CHOCS TO THE SEA-TO-SKY CORRIDOR: BACKCOUNTRY USER PREPAREDNESS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Élodie Brousseau-Gaumond
Description: Backcountry ski touring and splitboarding participation continues to grow across North America, raising the question of how preparedness is expressed ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.43.pdf
Keywords: backcountry recreation, avalanche safety, preparedness, avalanche bulletin comprehension, human factors, sea-to-sky corridor
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Title: IMPROVING ACCESSIBILITY OF OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE BULLETINS THROUGH A MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL (MCP) SERVER
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Norbert Lanzanasto, Christoph Stanger, Bengt Haunerland, Simon Legner
Description: Timely access to official avalanche bulletins is critical for safe decision-making in avalanche terrain. While avalanche warning services publish stru...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche bulletin, model context protocol, large language models, caaml, information accessibility
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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
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Title: TOWARDS IMPROVED CONSISTENCY IN ASSIGNING AVALANCHE PROBLEMS AMONGST FORECASTERS IN NORWAY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Markus Landrø, Gustav Pless, Jostein Aasen, Karsten Müller, Solveig Kosberg
Description: Avalanche problems describe the cause and development of typical avalanche hazard situations and offer appropriate terrain management advice. Avalanch...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche problem standardization, consistency, avalanche bulletin communication, norway
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Title: SAFE - A LAYER-BASED AVALANCHE FORECAST EDITOR FOR BETTER INTEGRATION OF MODEL PREDICTIONS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Kurt Winkler, Jürg Trachsel, Jonas Knerr, Ueli Niederer, Gerd Weiss, Marc Ruesch, Frank Techel
Description: Machine learning (ML) models are revolutionizing avalanche forecasting, providing increasingly reliable predictions. At present, however, such model o...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.9.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecast, bulletin editor, numerical models, decision support, hazard assessment
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Title: ABUNDANCE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DATA PRODUCING THE AVALANCHE BULLETIN: WHAT ROLE DOES DIRECT OBSERVATION IN THE FIELD PLAY?
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Faletto Mattia, Pivot Stefano, Chiambretti Igor, Bormioli Daniele
Description: Technology lets us quickly process information to produce increasingly accurate and detailed avalanche forecasts. However, a good forecast cannot be m...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.22.pdf
Keywords: field evaluation comparison, wandering snowpack observations, avalanche forecasting, regional avalanche bulletin
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Title: THE ROLE OF THE FIELD OBSERVERS AND AVALANCHE FORECASTERS IN THE NORWEGIAN PUBLIC ROADS ADMINISTRATION
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Silje Sanderud Haaland
Description: The Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) is both an end-user of the snow avalanche bulletin and part in issuing. NPRA cooperates with Norwegia...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P7.18.pdf
Keywords: avalanche bulletin, field observers, avalanche forecasters, end-users, norwegian public roads administration
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Title: THE GERMAN ALPINE CLUB (DAV) SKI TOURING STUDY: HOW WELL DO SKI TOURING GROUPS KNOW THE AVALANCHE BULLETIN?
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Bernhard Streicher, Christoph Hummel, Michaela Brugger, Lukas Fritz, Martin Schwiersch, Florian Hellberg, Thomas Feistl
Description: The study investigated the comprehension and utilization of avalanche bulletins by ski touring groups in the Austrian Alps during the winters of 2019...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P12.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche bulletin knowledge, avalanche bulletin understanding, decision making, risk taking
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Title: SNOWPACK AND AVALANCHE CHARACTERIZATION OVER THE 2021-2022 WINTER SEASON IN SISIMIUT, WEST GREENLAND
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Alberto Mariani, A. B. Abrahamsen, D. Bridle, T. Ingeman-Nielsen, A. Cicoira, F. Monti, M. Marcer
Description: In Greenland, snow avalanches have been recognized as a significant hazard and a risk to communities for decades. However, prior to this study, no fo...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.21.pdf
Keywords: snow science, avalanche, greenland, weak layers formation, arctic snowpack, avalanche monitoring, avalanche bulletin
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Title: STANDARDIZING AVALANCHE INFORMATION: AN OVERVIEW OF CAAML VERSION 6 FOR EAWS BULLETINS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Norbert Lanzanasto, Jürg Trachsel, Jonas Knerr, Simon Legner, Friedrich Mütschele
Description: CAAML Version 6 for EAWS bulletins is a standardized data format designed to describe avalanche bulletins, providing a common language for conveying c...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.56.pdf
Keywords: exchange format, xml, json, avalanche bulletin, eaws
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Title: The extraordinary 2017-2018 winter season in Aosta Valley
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: A. Debernardi, G. Burelli, N. Durand, V.Segor
Description: In this work we will focus in particular on the exceptional avalanche events that occurred in January. The start of the winter season was not promisin...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P06.13.pdf
Keywords: danger avalanches, avalanches bulletin, surface hoar, spontaneous and triggered avalanche, avalanche cadastre
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Title: Methods used in operational avalanche forecasting around the globe - a comprehensive study
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Viktor A. Ágoston, Katalin A. Gillemot
Description: Operational avalanche forecasting is done in a large number of countries around the globe and has a great impact on both infrastructure and human life...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P12.3.pdf
Keywords: operational avalanche forecasting, avalanche bulletin, survey, statistical analysis, snow avalanche
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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: Avalanche Problems; An Important Part of the Norwegian Forecast, and a Useful Tool for the Users
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Markus Landrø, Solveig Kosberg, Karsten Müller
Description: The Norwegian Avalanche Warning Service uses avalanche problems in their bulletins to provide a compact, yet exact, description for the end user of th...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-14.pdf
Keywords: avalanche problems, avalanche patterns, avalanche forecasting, avalanche bulletin, norway
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Title: The Software Behind the Interactive Display of the Swiss Avalanche Bulletin
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Marc Ruesch, Andreas Egloff, Matthias Gerber, Gerd Weiss, Kurt Winkler
Description: The step towards interactively displaying the avalanche bulletins twice a day in four languages raised the need for specifically designed software to...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, software tools, avalanche bulletin, mobile applications
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