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Title: RISKCHECK: A FRAMEWORK FOR AVALANCHE RISK ASSESSMENT, INTEGRATING MANUAL AND SEMI-AUTOMATED APPROACHES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Benjamin Reuter, Josiah Rohrer, Martin Ruggli, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Those traveling in the winter backcountry expose themselves to avalanche danger, where the interplay of triggering probability and potential conseque...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O11.2.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk assessment, avalanche terrain, avalanche hazard evaluation, bayesian framework, decision-making
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Title: RISK MANAGEMENT TRENDS IN U.S. BACKCOUNTRY AVALANCHE ACCIDENTS: SKIERS AND SNOWBOARDERS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Ian McCammon, Kelly McNeil
Description: Winter backcountry use in the United States has soared over the past decade while avalanche fatalities have remained relatively constant. Researchers ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O11.7.pdf
Keywords: education, fatalities, accidents, trends, risk reduction, risk management
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Title: A ROUTING ALGORITHM FOR BACKCOUNTRY SKI TOURS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Guenter Schmudlach, Andreas Eisenhut
Description: For over a decade skitourenguru.com has been assigning daily avalanche risk scores to thousands of backcountry ski tours in the alpine region. These ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O11.9.pdf
Keywords: backcountry ski touring, routing algorithm, avalanche risk, skitourenguru
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Title: CHOOSING TO HOLD ‘EM OR FOLD ‘EM – EFFECTS OF AVALANCHE FORECAST INFORMATION ON TERRAIN EXPOSURE
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Håvard Boutera Toft, Andrea Mannberg, Martin Ahrland Stefan, Markus Johnsen Aase, Audun Hetland
Description: We use Bayesian estimation methods to analyze how backcountry riders’ terrain choices covary with forecast avalanche problems, avalanche danger leve...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P11.7.pdf
Keywords: risk communication, avalanche forecast, decision-making in avalanche terrain, gps tracks
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Title: COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE IN SAFETY JUDGEMENTS BY GROUPS OF SKIERS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Tim Dassler, Richard Fjellaksel, Michael Morreau
Description: Underestimating avalanche factors can give backcountry skiers a false sense of safety. In theory, aggregating the estimates of group members can enabl...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P11.11.pdf
Keywords: wisdom of crowds, risk assessment, avalanche education, avalanche course evaluation, trip planning, hazard management
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Title: THE GERMAN ALPINE CLUB (DAV) SKI TOURING STUDY: MINDSET, RISK ASSESSMENT AND DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES AMONG SKI TOURING GROUPS IN THE ALPS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Martin Schwiersch, Michaela Brugger, Lukas Fritz, Bernhard Streicher, Florian Hellberg, Christoph Hummel, Thomas Feistl
Description: This study investigates the decision-making processes of ski touring groups in avalancheprone areas. Existing research has primarily explored specifi...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P11.14.pdf
Keywords: tour planning, equipment, risk assessment, decision making, backcountry skiing
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Title: AVALANCHE HAZARD ASSESSMENT: THE PROBABILISTIC VS. ANALYTICAL APPROACH – THE WELL-CHERISHED DICHOTOMY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Christoph Mitterer, Benjamin Reuter
Description: Assessing avalanche risk in the backcountry is a challenging task. First and foremost since avalanche hazard cannot be accurately determined: We do no...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O12.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger, risk assessment, decision-making, backcountry touring
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Title: ASSESSING AND COMMUNICATING LIKELIHOOD AND PROBABILITY OF SNOW AVALANCHES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Scott Thumlert
Description: Forecasting avalanche hazard is the prediction of the magnitude, likelihood, timing, and location of potential avalanches. Assessing the likelihood of...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O12.2.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, likelihood scale, probability communication, risk communication,
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Title: USERS' AWARENESS AND RESPONSE TO UNCERTAINTY INFORMATION IN PUBLIC AVALANCHE FORECASTS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Eeva Latosuo, Pascal Haegeli, Julie Demuth, Ethan Greene
Description: Uncertainty is inherent in avalanche forecasting. On some days, the available evidence provides a clear picture of the existing hazard situation, whil...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O12.3.pdf
Keywords: risk communication, uncertainty, public avalanche forecast, user research
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Title: END USER INTERPRETATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN AVALANCHE DANGER SCALE: A CASE STUDY FROM SCOTLAND
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Philip A. Ebert, David L. Miller, David A. Comerford, Mark Diggins
Description: In this study, we investigate Scottish end users’ understanding and interpretation of the five point European Avalanche Danger Scale. Our main findi...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O12.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger scale, probability, risk perception, avalanche risk communication
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Title: REFINED SWISS AVALANCHE TERRAIN MAPPING CATV2 / ATHV2
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Marc Christen, Yves Bühler, Cyrill Hänni, Noel Boos, Boris Bernegger
Description: Avalanche terrain maps are becoming increasingly common for large areas due to the availability of high-resolution and high-quality digital elevation...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P12.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain maps, white risk, avalanche terrain, avalanche hazard mapping, backcountry tour planning
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Title: UNDERSTANDING EXPOSURE TO AVALANCHE TERRAIN AND AVALANCHE INFORMATION PRODUCT USE OF SNOWSHOERS AND WINTER HIKERS: INSIGHTS FROM MOUNT SEYMOUR PROVINCIAL PARK
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Griffin Slimkowich, Pascal Haegeli
Description: Snowshoeing and winter hiking has experienced a tremendous boom in the last decade. To better serve this community with effective avalanche safety mes...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P12.4.pdf
Keywords: risk communication, avalanche safety, user characteristics
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Title: AVALANCHE DANGER MAP: DOES A MAP REPRESENTATION OF THE AVALANCHE FORECAST MAKE IT EASIER TO IDENTIFY SAFE(R) ROUTES?
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Solveig Kosberg, Andrea Mannberg, Markus Landrø
Description: A significant disparity exists between the content of published avalanche forecasts and users’ understanding thereof. Avalanche forecasts contain in...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P12.6.pdf
Keywords: map applications, user comprehension, recreational safety, risk communication
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Title: THE GERMAN ALPINE CLUB (DAV) SKI TOURING STUDY: HOW WELL DO SKI TOURING GROUPS KNOW THE AVALANCHE BULLETIN?
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Bernhard Streicher, Christoph Hummel, Michaela Brugger, Lukas Fritz, Martin Schwiersch, Florian Hellberg, Thomas Feistl
Description: The study investigated the comprehension and utilization of avalanche bulletins by ski touring groups in the Austrian Alps during the winters of 2019...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P12.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche bulletin knowledge, avalanche bulletin understanding, decision making, risk taking
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Title: AVALANCHE WARNINGS: THE MAIN INFORMATION CHANNELS IN FRANCE, WITH A FOCUS ON “VIGILANCE”, A MATURE CRISIS COMMUNICATION TOOL
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Anne Dufour, Cécile Coléou, Benjamin Reuter, Léo Viallon-Galinier, Bruno Gillet-Chaulet, Olivier Hamelin, Alexandre Trajan
Description: In France, avalanches are responsible for around thirty fatalities a year, mainly among winter recreationists. Avalanches also threaten housings and t...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P12.10.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk, crisis communication, audience, cap
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