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Title: THE INCIDENT SUPPORT TOOL: A NOVEL FRAMEWORK FOR ENHANCING AVALANCHE RESPONSE OPERATIONS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Laura McGladrey , Gabriel Benel, Dr. William Mundo, Isabelle Trachtenberg, Dr. Laura Maguire
Description: Avalanche response and forecasting operations often involve complex decision making before, during and after an incident. Responders navigate challen...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P11.2.pdf
Keywords: incident support tool, stress, injury, avalanche work
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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: 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: BRITISH COLUMBIA MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE PROVINCIAL AVALANCHE HAZARD INDEX
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Brian Gould, Scott Thumlert, Eirik Sharp, Cam Campbell, Dorian Schjelderup, Lea Green
Description: This paper presents work completed to quantify and visualize snow avalanche hazard for the entire provincial highway network as managed by the British...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.37.pdf
Keywords: british columbia, ministry of transportation and infrastructure, avalanche hazard index, transportation corridor risk, risk planning tool, ahi
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Title: DATA-DRIVEN METHODS FOR THE AVALANCHE HAZARD INDEX
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Scott Thumlert, Brian Gould, Cam Campbell, Dorian Schjelderup, Eirik Sharp, Lea Green
Description: Describing snow avalanche hazard for transportation corridors with the Avalanche Hazard Index (AHI) provides valuable planning insights. The AHI allow...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.38.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard index, transportation corridor risk, risk planning tool, ahi
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Title: PERCEIVED VALUES, MOTIVATORS, AND BARRIERS ASSOCIATED WITH A POPULAR FIELD-BASED DECISION-MAKING TOOL FOR BACKCOUNTRY TRAVEL IN THE U.S.
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: J. Aaron Ball, R. Lee Frazer
Description: In this paper, we report the results of a non-random survey of recreationalists and snow professionals familiar with a common, yet empirically unstud...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.38.pdf
Keywords: decision-making, avalanche education, risk management, decision support tool, risk assessment, avalanche safety
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Title: NATLEFS: A snow observing tool for mountain guides in South Tyrol
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Lukas Rastner, Norbert Lanzanasto, Fabio Gheser
Description: About 29 avalanche forecasting centres in the European Alps assess the regional avalanche danger for their area on a regular basis and inform the publ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P18.5.pdf
Keywords: observing tool, avalanches, mountain guides, forecasting service
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Title: Monitoring Avalanche Activity Using Distributed Acoustic Fiber Optic Sensing
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Alexander Prokop, Peter Schön, Anna Wirbel, Markus Jungmayr
Description: A new tool for avalanche monitoring, a distributed fiber optic system, was for the first time installed and adapted for the purpose of monitoring snow...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O5.05.pdf
Keywords: avalanche monitoring, seismic detection, acoustic fiber optic sensing, warning tool
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Title: A Tool, Not a Test: Use of Explosives for Avalanche Hazard Assessment
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Dick Penniman, Michael Leatherbee
Description: By most widely accepted definitions a "test" is a procedure for critical evaluation; a measure to check the reliability of something, especially befor...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P2.33.pdf
Keywords: post control avalanche, stability, instability, null hypothesis, type i error, test, tool, cognitivedissonance.
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Title: Efficient and Transparent Data Visualisation for Avalanche Forecasters and Observers
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Emma Barford, Karsten Müller, Nils K. Orthe
Description: Improving the daily routine of avalanche forecasting is a continuous process for everyone involved. Handling all available data is certainly one of th...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P3.06.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, map centric tool, observations, weather stations, snow model.
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Title: Social – A Group Check Tool
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Benjamin Zweifel
Description: Despite the fact that recreationists in avalanche terrain usually travel in groups empirical research on group phenomena is still sparse. We propose a...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P3.23.pdf
Keywords: human factors, group dynamics, group check tool, avalanche prevention
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Title: The Norwegian Avalanche Card
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Birgit K. Rustad
Description: The Norwegian national avalanche bulletins include avalanche problems to improve communication of the current avalanche danger to the public. In order...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P4.36.pdf
Keywords: avalanche card, avalanche decision-making tool, avalanche problem, avalanche risk
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Title: NAVAL: A Computer-Based Tool for Avalanche Risk Scenarios Definition
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Massimiliano Barbolini, Francesco Stefanini, Lisa Bonomi
Description: The software NAVAL has been developed in order to support avalanche experts and decision makers to promptly define and visualise probable avalanche ri...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-12.pdf
Keywords: risk management, avalanche risk scenarios, computer-based tool, google earth
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Title: The expert tool XGEO and its applications in the Norwegian Avalanche Forecasting Service
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Emma Barfod, Karsten Müller, Tuomo Saloranta, Jess Andersen, Nils Kristian Orthe, Anders Wartianien, Tore Humstad, Steinar Myrabø, Rune Engeset
Description: Norway is highly dependent on tracking the changing snow cover, not only for the avalanche forecasting but also for hydropower production planning, fl...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-13.pdf
Keywords: map centric tool, observations, snow model, avalanche forecasting
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Title: A Snow Stratigraphy Comparison with the Ramsonde and Thin-Blade Penetrometer
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Christopher DeVito, Andrea Tupy, Brandon Gonzales
Description: Variations in snow density and bond strength throughout a seasonal snow pack play a major role in the formation of avalanches. Various mechanisms and ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-28.pdf
Keywords: ramsonde, thin-blade penetrometer, tool comparison
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