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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-­making, 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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