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Title: HUMAN AVALANCHE EXPOSURE: A MISSING LINK IN REAL-TIME AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jeremy Hanke, Shena Thomas, Iain Stewart-Patterson
Description: Regional avalanche forecasts and terrain-classification systems describe avalanche conditions and terrain, but they do not explicitly classify the dyn...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS1.3.pdf
Keywords: human avalanche exposure; motorized travel; human positioning; avalanche risk management; rescue readiness; decision support
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Title: AVALANCHE SCENARIO MAPS: FROM TERRAIN IDENTIFICATION TO DECISION SUPPORT TOOL
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Christoph Hesselbach, Jakob Schwarz, Paula Spannring, Anna Wirbel, Andreas Huber, Michael Winkler, Christoph Mitterer, Harald Riedl, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: Site-specific avalanche warning requires spatially explicit estimates of where avalanches may release, how they may propagate, and what size they may ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain identification, avalanche scenario maps, site-specific avalanche warning, avalanche size, avalanche simulation, decision support
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Title: OPERATIONAL MEETINGS IN AVALANCHE OPERATIONS: IMPORTANCE, CHALLENGES, AND FUTURE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Marc R Piché
Description: Operational meetings remain one of the central decision-making tools in avalanche risk management. In many field programs, they are where weather, sno...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O10.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche operations, operational meetings, human factors, decision support, artificial intelligence
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Title: WHICH BUILDINGS ARE AT RISK? MEET ALARM: AN AUTOMATED WORKFLOW LINKING AVALANCHE RUNOUT MODELLING TO BUILDING RISK ASSESSMENT FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN NORWAY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Leonie Kommerell, Håvard Boutera Toft, Gustav Pless, Karin Bergbjørn
Description: During periods of high/extreme avalanche hazard, decision makers need to identify which buildings may be exposed and where field assessments or evacua...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O5.2.pdf
Keywords: avalanche exposure, emergency management, potential release areas, runout modelling, decision support, building prioritization
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Title: ASSIMILATION OF HUMAN JUDGMENT FOR MACHINE-GENERATED AVALANCHE TENDENCY FORECASTS: PERFORMANCE GAINS AND THE RISK OF FORECAST FEEDBACK LOOPS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Frank Techel, Marc Ruesch, Stephanie Mayer
Description: Swiss avalanche forecasters will soon issue map-based tendency forecasts two to three days ahead, a demanding and time-consuming task. We examine whet...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O9.2.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, feedback loops, artificial intelligence, decision-support systems
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Title: MACHINE LEARNING AND PATTERN RECOGNITION FOR PUBLIC AVALANCHE FORECASTING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Andrew Schauer, John Sykes
Description: Avalanche forecasters in the U.S. and Canada use the five-level North American Public Avalanche Danger Scale (NAPADS) as a tool to communicate avalanc...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.39.pdf
Keywords: machine learning, decision support, cmah, napads
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Title: FROM HAZARD ASSESSMENT TO ACTION IN SITE-SPECIFIC AVALANCHE OPERATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Aaron Careaga, Scott Havens, Don Sharaf, Dave Richards, Clark Corey
Description: Frameworks such as the Conceptual Model of Avalanche Hazard (CMAH; Statham et al., 2018) provide a structured basis for characterizing avalanche hazar...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard assessment, cmah, site-specific forecasting, hazard action matrices, operational decision support, osarm
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Title: BUILDING TRUST IN SNOWPACK MODELS: EVALUATION GUIDELINES FOR RESEARCHERS AND FORECASTERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Simon Horton, Florian Herla, Alec van Herwijnen, Francis Meloche, Travis J. Morrison, Louis Quéno, Vincent Vionnet
Description: Physically based snowpack models are increasingly integrated into operational avalanche hazard forecasting, yet fragmented evaluation practices reduce...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.1.pdf
Keywords: snowpack model, model evaluation, avalanche forecasting, decision support
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Title: THE OUTDOOR ADVENTURE RISK INDEX: FORECASTING BACKCOUNTRY EVACUATION LIKELIHOOD FROM WEATHER AND VISITOR EXPOSURE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Matthew Sheahan, Peter Tsigaris, Anne Terwiel, Yaou Hu
Description: Backcountry risk assessment requires practitioners and operators to interpret continually changing environmental conditions alongside uneven patterns ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.14.pdf
Keywords: backcountry risk, evacuation likelihood, rare-event prediction, visitor exposure, decision support, search and rescue
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Title: LAYERWISE: A FRACTURE-MECHANICAL CONCEPT FOR SNOW PROFILE INTERPRETATION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Yannik Werner, Valentin Adam, Stephan Harvey, Mary Kate Carara, Samuel Verplanck, Alec van Herwijnen, Florian Rheinschmidt, Philipp Weißgraeber, Philipp L. Rosendahl
Description: When interpreting a snow profile, snow industry professionals rely on accumulated knowledge and intuition to judge overall snowpack stability. Explici...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.33.pdf
Keywords: snow stability assessment, analytical modelling, decision support, interactive learning, avalanche initiation, propagation potential
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Title: VALIDATING THE UPDATES TO THE AVALUATOR VERSION 3: TRIP PLANNER AND SLOPE EVALUATOR
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: James Floyer, Keith Robine
Description: Canada has seen a steady reduction in its 10-year avalanche fatality trend over the past two decades. Throughout this period, the Avaluator framework ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.21.pdf
Keywords: avaluator, decision support, avalanche education, trip planner, slope evaluator
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Title: INITIAL EXPLORATIONS ON HOW SKITOURENGURU AFFECTS USERS' TRIP PLANNING AND AVALANCHE SAFETY PRACTICES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Günter Schmudlach
Description: Skitoureguru (STG) supports backcountry skiers by automatically combining public avalanche forecast information with terrain characteristics to provid...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.51.pdf
Keywords: decision support tools, trip planning, automation
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Title: SAFE - A LAYER-BASED AVALANCHE FORECAST EDITOR FOR BETTER INTEGRATION OF MODEL PREDICTIONS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Kurt Winkler, Jürg Trachsel, Jonas Knerr, Ueli Niederer, Gerd Weiss, Marc Ruesch, Frank Techel
Description: Machine learning (ML) models are revolutionizing avalanche forecasting, providing increasingly reliable predictions. At present, however, such model o...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.9.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecast, bulletin editor, numerical models, decision support, hazard assessment
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Title: SPECIALIZED PROBABILISTIC MOUNTAIN WEATHER FORECASTS IN SUPPORT OF SNOW SAFETY AND AVALANCHE MITIGATION EFFORTS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Michael E. Wessler, David Church, Allister Martinelli
Description: The National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Forecast Office (WFO) in Salt Lake City has a longstanding public-private partnership with the Utah Departm...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.35.pdf
Keywords: weather forecast, probabilistic forecast, operational forecast, national weather service, decision support, bias correction
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Title: THE AIARE BACKCOUNTRY DECISION-MAKING GUIDE: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF WHEN, WHERE, AND HOW IT IS USED
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: R. Lee Frazer, J. Aaron Ball
Description: Many avalanche professionals find decision aids or support tools useful to avalanche risk assessment. By extension, avalanche educators often employ t...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.39.pdf
Keywords: decision-making, avalanche education, risk management, decision support tool, risk assessment, avalanche safety
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