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Title: Portable Road Weatr Information System: Fabrication and Uses of Autonomous Weather Stations Deployed For Atmospheric Date Collection
Date: 2010
Authors: Brett Hansen, Matt McKee, Craig Patterson, Ralph Patterson
Description: The collection of accurate real-time atmospheric data is of paramount importance when working in an operational setting. Both the current and historic...
Object ID: ISSW_P-019.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, weather forecasting, decision making, portable weather station
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Title: Implications of Recent Research in the Fields of Evolutionary Psychology and Cognitive Biology for Avalanche Safety Education
Date: 2010
Authors: David M. Sweet
Description: Since its inception the goal of avalanche safety education has been to reduce or eliminate avalanche fatalities and injuries. Education about avalanch...
Object ID: ISSW_P-033.pdf
Keywords: avalanche safety, decision making, cognitive biology, evolutionary psychology
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Title: Group Dynamics and Decision Making: Backcountry Recreationists in Avalanche Terrain
Date: 2010
Authors: L. Shay Bright
Description: Although avalanche literature emphasizes group communication and decision making, little empirical evidence exists regarding how these groups communic...
Object ID: ISSW_P-035.pdf
Keywords: decision making, group dynamics, backcountry recreationists, avalanche terrain, leadership
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Title: Applying New Uncertainty Related Theories and Multicriteria Decision Analysis Methods to Snow Avalanche Risk Management
Date: 2010
Authors: Jean-Marc Tacnet, Mireille Batton-Hubert, Jean Dezert, Didier Richard
Description: Making the best decision in the event of a snow avalanche encounters problems in the assessment and management process because of the lack of informat...
Object ID: ISSW_P-040.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, risk management, expert judgement, reliability, uncertainty, decision making, multicriteria decision analysis, analytic hierarchy process (ahp), information fusion, fuzzy sets theory, possibility theory, evidence theory, dempster shafer t
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Title: Compiling and Studying Professional Avalanche Worker Incident Data to Improve Worker Safety
Date: 2010
Authors: Ron Simenhois, Scotty Savage
Description: Avalanche professionals work in a hazardous alpine environment, often under physical and emotional stress. Working in an uncertain, stressful, and ris...
Object ID: ISSW_P-044.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, avalanche safety, risk managment, decision-making errors, snowpack, weather
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Title: Is Going From Snow Avalanche Analysis to Decision Making Different for Snow Scientists or Practitioners? Overview of the Two Contexts.
Date: 2010
Authors: Séba stien Escande, Dominique Létang
Description: Snow avalanche analysis is needed either for experts to reduce the risk for people and assets at risk or for skiers and alpinists to choose the best w...
Object ID: ISSW_P-050.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche analysis, decision making, snow scientists, snow practitioners, mountain guides
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Title: Ethics of Experimenting With People's Lives in Winter Backcountry
Date: 2010
Authors: Bob Uttl, Dylan Smibert, Alain Morin, Gregory Wells, Jan Uttl, Breanne Hamper
Description: The purpose of the Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card, designed by Haegeli and McCammon (2006) and published by the Canadian Avalanche Assoc...
Object ID: ISSW_P-055.pdf
Keywords: ethics, avaluator avalanche accident prevention card, accident prevention, risk reduction tools, risk, decision making
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Title: Avalanche Patterns as Aid in Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 2009
Authors: Patrick Nairz
Description: Everyone who deals with avalanches over long periods of time automatically draws upon that experience when determining avalanche hazards. The principl...
Object ID: issw-2009-0389-0390.pdf
Keywords: avalanche pattern, avalanche forecasting, decision making
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Title: Intuition, Recognition and Patterns – Decision-Making by Mountain Guides in Avalanche Situations
Date: 2009
Authors: Jan Mersch, Anton Kühberger
Description: The community of professional mountain guides is an expert group in the field of avalanche danger. In a naturalistic decision making framework we stu...
Object ID: issw-2009-0606-0609.pdf
Keywords: naturalistic decision making, critical decision method, recognition primed decisions, intuition, avalanche risk management
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Title: Avalanche Hazard and Visitor Numbers- A Study in Lochaber, Scotland
Date: 2009
Authors: Grahma Moss
Description: Avalanche hazard in Scotland is characterized by rapidly changing weather, rugged topography and a snowpack shaped above all by wind. Avalanche foreca...
Object ID: issw-2009-0628-0632.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecast, decision making process, scotland, mountain visitor numbers
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Title: Apprehension of Avalanche Risk and Decision Making Process in a Mediumhigh Mountain Range. The Case of the Vosges (France)
Date: 2009
Authors: Florie Giacona, Brice Martin
Description: Mentioning avalanche risk in the Vosges generally causes a certain incredulity for this range of modest height and its irregular snowfalls. However, ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0633-0635.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, sluff, vulnerability, decision-making, medium-high mountain, representation
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Title: Human Factors in Avalanche Accidents: Evolution and Interventions
Date: 2009
Authors: Ian McCammon
Description: Errors in judgement have long been identified as key contributors to backcountry avalanche accidents. Our understanding of human error in avalanche t...
Object ID: issw-2009-0644-0648.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accidents, human factor, human error, education, decision making
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Title: How Do Leadership Styles Cope With the Impact of Human Factors in Decision Making in Risky Terrain?
Date: 2009
Authors: M. Förster
Description: As people are a major source of risk and the least predictable, it seems important to look at the different ways how we can cope with this risk. Sever...
Object ID: issw-2009-0649-0653.pdf
Keywords: leadership, human factors, risk, decision-making, training, gender
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Title: Practical Risk Assessment and Decision Making in Avalanche Terrain. An Overview of Concepts and Tools in Switzerland
Date: 2009
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Paul Nigg
Description: Risk assessment and decision making tools for backcountry and off-piste skiing have changed time and again. Basic avalanche knowledge about the main ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0654-0658.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, risk assessment, decision making
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Title: Rules, Knowledge, Distance and Intuition - The Development of Risk Management Skills for Decision-Making in Avalanche Situations
Date: 2009
Authors: Jan Mersch, Wolfgang Behr
Description: Avalanches represent a major threat to people in high Alpine regions during the winter. However, a discrepancy exists between actual expert decisions...
Object ID: issw-2009-0659-0663.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, naturalistic decision making, recognition and patterns, intuition, risk management
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