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Title: THE GERMAN ALPINE CLUB (DAV) SKI TOURING STUDY: DO AVALANCHE AIRBAGS LEAD TO RISKIER CHOICES?
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Bernhard Streicher, Michaela Brugger, Lukas Fritz, Martin Schwiersch, Florian Hellberg, Christoph Hummel, Thomas Feistl
Description: Avalanche airbags have emerged as a significant advancement in avalanche safety, increasing survival rates by reducing burial depth during an avalanch...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P13.6.pdf
Keywords: airbag use, airbag knowledge, impact of airbag use, decision making, risk taking, backcountry skiing
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Title: RIVERS IN THE SKY, FORECASTING ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS A WEEK OUT
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Matthew MacDonald, Paul Harwood
Description: Some of our biggest snowfalls in western Canada and the Pacific Northwest occur when powerful, moisture-laden atmospheric flows from the sub-tropics l...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O4.01.pdf
Keywords: meteorology, atmospheric rivers, avalanche, ensemble models, uncertainty, risk communication
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Title: THUMBS-UP FOR ANALYTIC SNOWPACK ASSESSMENT – PUTTING NEW EAWS STANDARDS INTO PRACTICE
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Thomas Feistl, Franziska Ehrnsperger, Philip Luger, Christoph Hummel
Description: Snowpack stability tests, snow profiles, and process-based analysis of terrain features and weather help avalanche professionals in assessing avalanch...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.08.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, snowpack, stability, risk management, eaws
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Title: AN OPERATIONAL TOOL FOR MANAGING EMERGENCIES BY CIVIL PROTECTION IN CASE OF HIGH AVALANCHE HAZARD
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Carles García-Sellés, Manuel Bertrán, Glòria Martí, Santiago Manguán, Jordi Pons, Francesc Vilar
Description: In the framework of the European RECIPE Project (Reinforcing Civil Protection capabilities into multi-hazard risk assessment under climate change - DG...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.10.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, risk assessment, emergency, major avalanches, pyrenees
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Title: AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT IN ARTIFICIAL TERRAIN
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Kristian Pettersen, Jon Aarbakk, Elise Morken, Sunniva Skuset, Graham Gilbert, Kjersti Gisnås, Peter Gauer
Description: Human intervention in natural terrain during industrial or recreational pursuits can lead to the altering or creation of avalanche terrain. Examples i...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.16.pdf
Keywords: avalanche warning, construction site, hydropower dams, risk management
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Title: ASSESSING THE LIKELIHOOD FOR EACH AVALANCHE SIZE IN SITE-SPECIFIC AVALANCHE FORECASTING
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Stian Langeland, Walter Steinkogler
Description: When an object of value is exposed to avalanche hazard this object is at risk. One way of managing such risk is by executing site-specific avalanche f...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.18.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, site-specific avalanche forecasting, tasarm, risk
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Title: STRUCTURED RISK MITIGATION DISCUSSION IN AN INFORMAL MOMENT: THE HOW AND WHEN OF HUCKEM
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Steven Conger
Description: During avalanche risk management, we acknowledge uncertainty's presence; and reduce it where possible by influencing the likelihood or destructive siz...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.36.pdf
Keywords: risk communication, decision-making, uncertainty, recreation, acceptable risk, human factors, group dynamics, group check tool, avalanche prevention
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Title: TERRAIN USE METRICS AND AVYSCORE IN AVALANCHE AIRBAG USERS: A PILOT STUDY OF GPS TRACKING TO EVALUATE RISK HOMEOSTASIS EFFECTS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Patrick Fink, Claudine Tobalske, Blessing Ofori-Atta, Matthew Ainsley, Scott McIntosh, Graham Brant-Zawadzki
Description: The effect of avalanche airbag use on backcountry user behavior is not known. Risk-homeostasis theory predicts that utilization of a new avalanche saf...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.37.pdf
Keywords: risk homeostasis, terrain choices, avalanche airbags, gps tracking, avyscore
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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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Title: INSIGHTS ON HOW AVALANCHE FORECAST USERS COMBINE DANGER RATINGS WITH STEEPNESS TO ASSESS THE AVALANCHE RISK OF INDIVIDUAL SLOPES DURING TRIP PLANNING
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Christoph Mitterer, Thomas Stucki, Matthias Walcher, Reto Rupf
Description: Several recent studies have examined avalanche forecast users' ability to understand the provided hazard information, but they have so far not evaluat...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.40.pdf
Keywords: risk communication, decision-making, avalanche forecast users, survey study
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Title: THE AVALANCHE TERRAIN EXPOSURE SCALE V.2
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Grant Statham, Cam Campbell
Description: The Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) is an avalanche terrain classification system used to assess and communicate the degree of avalanche terra...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O8.01.pdf
Keywords: snow, terrain, avalanche, exposure, risk, gis
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Title: AUTOMATIC CRUX DETECTION FOR PLANNING BACKCOUNTRY TOURS IN AVALANCHE TERRAIN
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Cyrill Hänni, Noel Boos, Jorim Urner
Description: For travelling in the backcountry, good planning is crucial. Besides the current weather and avalanche forecast, terrain characteristics must be asses...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O8.02.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain, crux detection, avalanche hazard mapping, white risk, backcountry tour planning, decision making
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Title: THE EVOLUTION OF RISK PERCEPTION ASSOCIATED WITH LOW-PROBABILITY-HIGH-CONSEQUENCE EVENTS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Terry Eyland
Description: During the 2022-23 winter in western Canada, most avalanche fatalities were attributed to the early season, deeply buried persistent weak layer (PWL)...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O8.05.pdf
Keywords: risk perception, negative event feedback, avalanche education, decision making, trend effects, human error
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Title: CHARACTERIZING AN INCREASINGLY DIVERSE AND GROWING BACKCOUNTRY COMMUNITY: A HOLISTIC AND INFORMATIVE APPROACH USING AUDIENCE SEGMENTATION
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Anneliese Neweduk, Pascal Haegeli
Description: Over the past two decades, there has been tremendous growth in winter backcountry recreation, challenging the traditional ways in which recreationists...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O8.07.pdf
Keywords: forecast users, user characterization, risk communication
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Title: K9-XE: UTILIZING SEARCH CANINES TO LOCATE EXPLOSIVE CONTROL MISFIRES AND FRAGMENTS IN AVALANCHE SEASON. A CASE STUDY.
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Karsten von Hoesslin
Description: A challenge in utilizing explosives for avalanche control is the potential for misfires or possibly explosive fragmentation where unprimed components ...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.22.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, search dog, explosives control, risk treatment, confidence, uncertainty
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