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Title: THIN-SLICING IN AVALANCHE FORECASTING: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF EXPERIENCE-BASED PATTERN RECOGNITION IN OPERATIONAL DECISION MAKING: Date: 2026-09-28; Authors: Jake M. Hutchinson; Description: This exploratory survey began with a simple operational question: when avalanche professionals first build a hazard picture, does the initial forecast...; Object ID: ISSW2026_O10.2.pdf; Keywords: avalanche forecasting, professional intuition, recognition, decision making, training; View additional details about THIN-SLICING IN AVALANCHE FORECASTING: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF EXPERIENCE-BASED PATTERN RECOGNITION IN OPERATIONAL DECISION MAKING

Title: Avalanche Close-Calls During Courses â€“ What Can We Learn?: Date: 2016-10-02; Authors: Steve Conger; Description: This paper and its associated poster present a study of avalanche close-calls or incidents that have occurred during field sessions in a formalized av...; Object ID: ISSW16_P3.15.pdf; Keywords: avalanche accidents, close calls, hazard evaluation conceptual model, recognition primed decision-making; View additional details about Avalanche Close-Calls During Courses â€“ What Can We Learn?

Title: The Development of Ski Guide Decision Expertise: Date: 2014-09-29; Authors: Iain Stewart-Patterson; Description: The development of ski guide decision expertise is situated within an environmental context influenced by massive consequence and feedback ambiguity. ...; Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O13.05.pdf; Keywords: decision-making, expertise, situational awareness, pattern recognition; View additional details about The Development of Ski Guide Decision Expertise

Title: Snow Profiling at Weissfluhjoch: Date: 2009; Authors: Roland Meister; Description: Systematic snow and avalanche research in Switzerland started shortly after 1932, when the Swiss snow and avalanche commission was founded and the cab...; Object ID: issw-2009-0124-0128.pdf; Keywords: weissfluhjoch research station, snow metamorphism, swiss ramsonde, avalanche formation, pattern recognition, avalanche warning; View additional details about Snow Profiling at Weissfluhjoch

Title: Intuition, Recognition and Patterns â€“ Decision-Making by Mountain Guides in Avalanche Situations: Date: 2009; Authors: Jan Mersch, Anton KÃ¼hberger; 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; View additional details about Intuition, Recognition and Patterns â€“ Decision-Making by Mountain Guides in Avalanche Situations

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; View additional details about Rules, Knowledge, Distance and Intuition - The Development of Risk Management Skills for Decision-Making in Avalanche Situations