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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
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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
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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
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Title: IS IT A PROBLEM? TAKEAWAYS FROM RESEARCH INTO THE USE AND EFFECTIVENESS OF AVALANCHE PROBLEMS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Simon Horton, Pascal Haegeli, Grant Statham, Bret Shandro, Taylor Clark, Stan Nowak, Moses Towell, Heather Hordowick, Florian Herla
Description: Over the past 20 years, avalanche safety operations in North America adopted common standards for assessing avalanche hazard, including the North Amer...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O1.04.pdf
Keywords: hazard assessment, avalanche problems, danger ratings, conceptual model
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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
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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
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Title: ARE WE CONSISTENT? ON ASSESSING AND COMMUNICATING THE REGIONAL AVALANCHE DANGER LEVEL ACROSS FORECASTING CENTERS IN EUROPE
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Christoph Mitterer, Friedrich Mütschele, Simon Legner, Jakob Schwarz, Alexander Kehl, Norbert Lanzanasto
Description: The avalanche danger level is vital for those engaging in backcountry activities, yet obtaining this information used to require consulting multiple s...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O5.01.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger level, consistency, software
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Title: ASSESSING THE COLORADO AVALANCHE INFORMATION CENTER'S BACKCOUNTRY AVALANCHE FORECASTS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Spencer Logan, Ethan Greene
Description: Understanding the quality of a prediction is an integral part of improving any forecasting process. The Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) s...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O5.02.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, verification, avalanche danger
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Title: THE EAWS MATRIX, A LOOK-UP TABLE FOR REGIONAL AVALANCHE DANGER LEVEL ASSESSMENT, AND ITS UNDERLYING CONCEPT
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Karsten Müller, Frank Techel, Christoph Mitterer, Thomas Feistl, Stefano Sofia, Nicolas Roux, Petter Palmgren, Guillem M. Bellido, Lorenzo Bertranda9
Description: With the motivation to increase consistency between forecasters and warning services when assessing regional avalanche danger, a working group of the ...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O5.05.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, forecasting, danger level, matrix, workflow, consistency
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Title: ANALYSIS OF 50 YEARS OF FATAL AVALANCHE ACCIDENTS IN THE CATALAN PYRENEES (1970-2020)
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Glòria Martí, Ricard Cabré, Íñigo Soteras, Ramón Arqué, Carles García-Sellés, Santiago Manguan
Description: The creation of The Mountain Accident Observatory in Catalonia allowed to bring together different professionals (rescue teams, doctors and avalanche ...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, fatal accident, mortality, avalanche danger
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Title: Destructive avalanches in mediterranean region
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Vincenzo Romeo, Anselmo Cagnati, Mauro Valt
Description: In the winter of 2016 - 2017, in the heart of the Mediterranean (Apennins - Italy), during a period of abundant snowfalls, large and very large destru...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O03.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger, avalanche dynamics, apennins, rigopiano, climate change.
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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: Patterns in avalanche events and regional scale avalanche forecasts in Colorado, USA
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Spencer Logan, Ethan Greene
Description: The Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) issues backcountry avalanche forecasts daily through the winter. In this paper, we relate the forecas...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P11.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger, avalanche problems, risk communication
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Title: Evaluation tool for avalanche commissions
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Nadalet R.
Description: The web-based evaluation tool aims to support the avalanche commission members in systematically assessing the avalanche danger. Data from the measuri...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P11.6.pdf
Keywords: avalanche commissions, avalanche danger, evaluation procedure, residual risk management, traceability
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Title: Forecast avalanche danger, avalanche activity, and avalanche accidents in Colorado, USA, winters 2014 to 2018
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Spencer Logan, Ethan Greene
Description: The Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC), Colorado USA, has been using the same format for public avalanche forecasts since the winter of 2013...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P11.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, public communication, avalanche danger scale, avalanche accidents
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