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- Title: SLOPE MEASUREMENT FOR HUMANS: INCLINOMETER ERROR AND RISK COMMUNICATION
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Ian McCammon
- Description: Inclinometers are key tools for assessing risk in avalanche terrain, and a wide variety of devices and methods are in use across the avalanche communi...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O12.05.pdf
- Keywords: slope measurement, slope angle, inclinometer, error, start zone, risk communication, decision making
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- Title: A SYSTEMATIC OVERVIEW OF PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH ON THE HUMAN FACTORS IN AVALANCHE DECISION-MAKING
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Audun Hetland, Rebecca A. Hetland, Andrea Mannberg, Tarjei T. Skille, Pascal Haegeli, Anne St. Clair, Kelly McNeil
- Description: Interest in the human aspects of avalanche risk mitigation has increased steadily over the past few decades. Following McCammon's (2002) seminal work ...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O3.02.pdf
- Keywords: human factor, systematic search, avalanche research, decision-making
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- Title: PERCEIVED VALUES, MOTIVATORS, AND BARRIERS ASSOCIATED WITH A POPULAR FIELD-BASED DECISION-MAKING TOOL FOR BACKCOUNTRY TRAVEL IN THE U.S.
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: J. Aaron Ball, R. Lee Frazer
- Description: In this paper, we report the results of a non-random survey of recreationalists and snow
professionals familiar with a common, yet empirically unstud...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.38.pdf
- Keywords: decision-making, avalanche education, risk management, decision support tool, risk assessment, avalanche safety
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- Title: DEVELOPING A UNIFIED APPROACH FOR APPLYING AVALANCHE PROBLEMS: A DECISION TREE- BASED SOLUTION FOR CONSISTENT HAZARD COMMUNICATION
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Matthias Walcher, Norbert Lanzanasto
- Description: Avalanche problems are used in public avalanche forecasts to communicate complex information in a simplified manner, allowing users to understand pote...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O5.03.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche problems, avalanche forecasting, decision tree, communication, risk management, standardization
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- Title: Risk-oriented vs hazard-oriented decision-making for opening and closing of traffic routes
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Michael Bründl, Lukas Stoffel, Walter Steinkogler
- Description: People expect to be safe when driving on roads. During winter, local avalanche services in charge for infrastructure safety continuously assess the ha...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O03.4.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche hazard and risk assessment, duty of care, individual risk, decision making, safety services.
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- Title: Results of a survey amongst avalanche professionals on preventive avalanche control
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Lisa Dreier, Walter Steinkogler
- Description: With the aim to improve our understanding of decision making processes amongst avalanche professionals in relation to preventive avalanche control, we...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P09.1.pdf
- Keywords: preventive avalanche control, practitioner, survey, decision-making.
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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: Avalanche Problem Solver (APS) - a decision support system for forecasters
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Karsten Müller, Rune V. Engeset, Markus Landrø, Tore Humstad, Espen B. Granan, Håvard Thorset
- Description: The Norwegian Avalanche Warning Service is developing a data analysis and decision support system called Avalanche Problem Solver (APS). The goal is t...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O12.7.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, decision making, data analysis
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- Title: Snow avalanches and accountability - Examples from Svalbard, Norway
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Hrefna Dögg Gunnarsdóttir, Holt Hancock, Markus Eckerstorfer
- Description: Nation states and local authorities involved in disaster risk reduction decision making are increasingly faced with the legal consequences of their de...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O14.1.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, accountability, risk-management decision making, disaster risk reduction
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- Title: Are strategic methods sufficient for an adequate assessment of avalanche danger? - the state of facts in the case of a judicial procedure
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Peter Höller
- Description: The number of strategic methods to estimate a prevailing situation in the field is quite large and not well-structured. The majority of these methods ...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P14.1.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche hazard assessment, strategies, decision making
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- Title: Illegal & Lethal Snowmobiling in Northern Norway`s Avalanche Prone Mountains - what`s going on?
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Bjørn Michaelsen, Carsten Rolland, Rune V. Engeset
- Description: Snowmobile avalanche related accidents is an increasing problem in Norway. Out of the 58 fatalities between 2009 and 2015, 10 were snowmobilers. Anoth...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P14.4.pdf
- Keywords: snowmobiling, illegal, qualitative methods, avalanche education, decision-making
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- Title: How do we really use terrain in the backcountry? A comparison between stated terrain preferences and observed backcountry travel behaviour
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Hendrikx J., Johnson J., Mannberg A.
- Description: Surveys have been used in avalanche research to gain insights into risk preferences and hypothetical choices to understand the links and drivers betwe...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.1.pdf
- Keywords: decision making, backcountry, survey, risk, gps tracking, terrain analysis
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- Title: Probabilistics reloaded? A detailed avalanche accident analysis based on the snowcard
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Wolfgang Behr, Jan Mersch
- Description: So called "probabilistic methods" to take decisions in avalanche terrain have become a permanent element of avalanche trainings. However, as far as we...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.2.pdf
- Keywords: decision-Âmaking, risk management, decision under risk, intuition, probabilistic methods, reduction methods, avalanche accidents, avalanche terrain, snowcard, grm
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- Title: Avalanche avoidance made simple: Instant clinometry and immediate visual risk check
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Matti Verkasalo
- Description: The winter of 2018 brought an unusually large amount of snow in Southern Norway. At the start of February there was up to twice the normal amount of s...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.7.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche avoidance, decision frameworks, novices
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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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