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Title: CONSIDERATIONS FOR EFFECTIVE UNCERTAINTY COMMUNICATION IN PUBLIC AVALANCHE FORECASTS: Date: 2026-09-28; Authors: Eeva Latosuo, Pascal Haegeli, Julie Demuth, Stan Nowak, Ethan Greene; Description: Uncertainty is fundamental to avalanche risk management, yet public avalanche forecasts have not communicated it as consistently as other hazard chara...; Object ID: ISSW2026_O3.4.pdf; Keywords: avalanche risk communication, uncertainty, public avalanche forecasting, user research; View additional details about CONSIDERATIONS FOR EFFECTIVE UNCERTAINTY COMMUNICATION IN PUBLIC AVALANCHE FORECASTS

Title: INTERLINKING DAILY ASSESSMENTS: TOWARDS A MORE COMPREHENSIVE WORKFLOW IN PUBLIC AVALANCHE FORECASTING: Date: 2026-09-28; Authors: Norbert Lanzanasto, Matthias Walcher; Description: Public avalanche warning services (AWS) assess avalanche hazard on a regional scale to support risk management for people, infrastructure, and propert...; Object ID: ISSW2026_O9.1.pdf; Keywords: public avalanche forecasting, workflow, hazard assessment, operational learnings; View additional details about INTERLINKING DAILY ASSESSMENTS: TOWARDS A MORE COMPREHENSIVE WORKFLOW IN PUBLIC AVALANCHE FORECASTING

Title: APPLYING THE AVALANCHE DANGER SCALE: CONSISTENCY DEPENDS MORE ON THE SITUATION THAN THE FORECASTER: Date: 2026-09-28; Authors: Brian Lazar, Dylan Craaybeek, Frank Techel, Simon Horton, Mike Cooperstein, Simon Trautman, Ethan Greene; Description: Public avalanche forecasts compress complex hazard assessments into a single danger level to guide backcountry recreationists' terrain choices. Danger...; Object ID: ISSW2026_O9.3.pdf; Keywords: avalanche danger scale, forecaster consistency, inter-rater reliability, judgment aggregation, avalanche problems, public avalanche forecasting; View additional details about APPLYING THE AVALANCHE DANGER SCALE: CONSISTENCY DEPENDS MORE ON THE SITUATION THAN THE FORECASTER

Title: GREY ZONES – EXAMINING FORECASTERS' PRACTICES AND PERSPECTIVES FOR COMMUNICATING UNCERTAINTY IN PUBLIC AVALANCHE FORECASTS: Date: 2026-09-28; Authors: Eeva Latosuo, Pascal Haegeli, Julie Demuth, Ethan Greene; Description: Uncertainty is inherent in avalanche forecasting, yet it is not communicated in a consistent way in public avalanche forecasts. Avalanche forecast use...; Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.13.pdf; Keywords: avalanche risk communication, uncertainty, public avalanche forecasting, user research; View additional details about GREY ZONES – EXAMINING FORECASTERS' PRACTICES AND PERSPECTIVES FOR COMMUNICATING UNCERTAINTY IN PUBLIC AVALANCHE FORECASTS

Title: HUMAN VS. MACHINE - COMPARING MODEL PREDICTIONS AND HUMAN FORECASTS OF AVALANCHE DANGER AND SNOW INSTABILITY IN THE SWISS ALPS: Date: 2024-09-23; Authors: Frank Techel, Andrea Helfenstein, Stephanie Mayer, Cristina Pérez-Guillén, Ross Purves, Marc Ruesch, Günter Schmudlach, Katia Soland, Kurt Winkler; Description: In recent years, the integration of physical snowpack models coupled with machine-learning techniques has become more prevalent in public avalanche fo...; Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.6.pdf; Keywords: public avalanche forecasting, forecast verification, machine learning, model-driven predictions; View additional details about HUMAN VS. MACHINE - COMPARING MODEL PREDICTIONS AND HUMAN FORECASTS OF AVALANCHE DANGER AND SNOW INSTABILITY IN THE SWISS ALPS

Title: BRINGING THE EUROPEAN AVALANCHE DANGER SCALE TO THE 21ST CENTURY: Date: 2024-09-23; Authors: Dr. Karsten Müller, Dr. Frank Techel, Dr. Christoph Mitterer, Dr. Stefano Sofia, Petter Palmgren, Nicolas Roux, Guillem M. Bellido, Lorenzo Bertranda, Giacomo Villa; Description: The European Avalanche Danger Scale (EADS) is the governing document for public avalanche warning services in Europe. It has been the common ground t...; Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.12.pdf; Keywords: avalanche danger scale, public avalanche forecasting; View additional details about BRINGING THE EUROPEAN AVALANCHE DANGER SCALE TO THE 21ST CENTURY

Title: INTERLINKING DAILY ASSESSMENTS: IDEAS TOWARDS A MORE COMPREHENSIVE WORKFLOW IN PUBLIC AVALANCHE FORECASTING: Date: 2023-10-08; Authors: Matthias Walcher, Norbert Lanzanasto; Description: Public avalanche warning services (AWS') play a crucial role in assessing and communicating the hazard of snow avalanches. The core product of AWS' is...; Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.34.pdf; Keywords: public avalanche forecasting, workflow, hazard source, hazard assessment, standardization; View additional details about INTERLINKING DAILY ASSESSMENTS: IDEAS TOWARDS A MORE COMPREHENSIVE WORKFLOW IN PUBLIC AVALANCHE FORECASTING