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Title: Local Avalanche Danger Assessment in reduced means context: an example in Tetnuldi ski area (Georgia - Caucasus)
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Sébastian Escande, Jean Christophe Lapalus, Frédéric Marion
Description: The development of Georgians ski resort involves several skills, including local avalanche danger assessment. Human organization and financial context...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P11.10.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger assessment tools, risk management education, avalanche terrain classification
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Title: Ski alp races. Avalanche hazard evaluation and risk analysis
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Raviglione Massimo, Luca Macchetto, Flavio Saltarelli, Michel Barberis
Description: The organisers of sports events taking place outside managed areas, such as ski resorts, must understand the real local conditions of avalanche danger...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P11.11.pdf
Keywords: ski alp races, ski mountaineering, danger, risk, responsibility
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Title: An Operational Specific Avalanche Risk Matrix (OSARM): Combining the Conceptual Model of Avalanche Hazard with risk analysis and operational mitigation strategies
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: S. Langeland, P. Velsand, L. Solemsli Øyvind, W. Steinkogler
Description: Object specific avalanche forecasting is common in many countries and typically assesses avalanche hazard on an mountain (> 10 km2) scale or single pa...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O12.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, local forecasting, operational forecasting, danger scales, danger levels, conceptual model of avalanche hazard, osarm, avalanche risk, risk mitigation, iso 31 000, tasarm
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Title: Establishing the link between the Conceptual Model of Avalanche Hazard and the North American Public Avalanche Danger Scale: Initial Explorations from Canada
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Taylor Clark, Pascal Haegeli
Description: In 2010, Statham and colleagues introduced the conceptual model of avalanche hazard (CMAH; Statham et al., 2018) to make avalanche bulletin production...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O12.4.pdf
Keywords: danger rating, avalanche hazard, forecasting, decision trees
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Title: A concept of harmonizing regional avalanche forecasting
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Matthias Walcher, Christoph Mitterer, Norbert Lanzanasto
Description: The widely standardized communication of avalanche danger among different warning services worldwide, including a unified danger rating scale, evokes ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P12.2.pdf
Keywords: hazard assessment, hazard communication, workflow, danger level, forecasting system
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Title: Learning from a fatal avalanche incident
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Cindy Berlack
Description: The BRASS (Bryce & Ronnie Athlete Snow Safety) Foundation was established in the aftermath of losing our sons, Bryce Astle and Ronnie Berlack, US Ski ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P13.8.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger scale, snow safety improvements, ski resorts, warnings, brass
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Title: The Dangerator: a method for estimating avalanche danger in areas with no public avalanche forecast
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: James A. Floyer, Mark A. Bender
Description: Avalanche Canada has developed a simple methodology for estimating avalanche danger to support Avalanche Skills Training (AST) students and instructor...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O15.2.pdf
Keywords: dangerator, avalanche, danger ratings, avalanche skills training, forecast, data sparse
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Title: Analysis of decision-making frameworks for avalanche terrain
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Markus Landrø, Gerit Pfuhl
Description: To assist decision-making in avalanche terrain, several decision-making frameworks have been developed. These frameworks can have a more probabilistic...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O15.4.pdf
Keywords: danger level, avalanche forecast, strategies, intuitive judgements, expert opinion
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Title: Merging decision strategies for backcountry skiers in avalanche terrain using fuzzy logic and imprecise probability theory
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Christian Pfeifer, Thomas Fetz
Description: This paper presents two methods within the fuzzy or subjective probability framework in order to merge different decision strategies (particularly: Sn...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.8.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger, decision strategy, fuzzy
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Title: Consistency and Accuracy of Public Avalanche Forecasts in Western Canada
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Grant Statham, Stephen Holeczi, Bret Shandro
Description: Forecasting avalanche problems and avalanche danger is a judgmental assessment that is highly susceptible to interpretation and bias. Thus, congruency...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O17.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche problems, danger, forecasting, consistency, accuracy
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Title: Consistency in regional avalanche forecasts: a look across borders
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Frank Techel, Elisabetta Ceaglio, Cécile Coléou, Christoph Mitterer, Samuel Morin, Ross S. Purves, Francesca Rastelli
Description: Consistency in the way avalanche hazard is communicated in avalanche forecasts is essential to avoid misinterpretations by users utilizing bulletins i...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O17.2.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger level, consistency, european avalanche warning services
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Title: Avalanche danger ratings and deaths, putting things into perspective
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Terry Eyland
Description: Avalanche forecasters spend a lot of time to determine current and predicted avalanche danger levels, but to what extend does this danger rating have ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O17.4.pdf
Keywords: decision-making, avalanche danger scale, human factors, avalanche education
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Title: Terrain selection and forecasted avalanche danger: Do recreationists select safer terrain when the forecasted danger increases?
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Aubrey D. Miller, John R. Squires, Lucretia E. Olson, Elizabeth K. Roberts
Description: Backcountry winter recreationists move through landscapes differently depending on myriad factors, including mode of travel (e.g., backcountry skier v...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O19.4.pdf
Keywords: terrain selection, gps tracking, recreation, gis, danger scale, avalanche terrain
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Title: Acceptable risk for backcountry skiers and riders from avalanche hazards: Differences in uphill and downhill terrain selection
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Aubrey D. Miller, John R. Squires, Lucretia E. Olson, Elizabeth K. Roberts
Description: Backcountry skiers and riders move through terrain differently depending on whether they are traveling uphill, downhill or along rolling or flat terra...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P19.3.pdf
Keywords: terrain selection, gps tracking, recreation, gis, danger scale
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Title: Learn – E-learning Lessons About Avalanches
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Armin Rempfler
Description: "Learning by doing" is an obvious credo for every educator. In avalanche terrain, we do this most of the time. However, learning about avalanches also...
Object ID: ISSW16_O13.03.pdf
Keywords: white risk, avalanche education, e-learning, avalanche danger assessment, avalanche awareness
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