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- Title: Holistic Geographical Visualization of Spatial Data with Applications in Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Phoebe B. McNeally, Harvey J. Miller
- Description: Avalanche forecasters face ever increasing pressure to make more informed
decisions and accurate predictions. Decisions often are made very quickly a...
- Object ID: issw-2006-478-482.pdf
- Keywords: geographic visualization, avalanche forecasting, spatial decision support system
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- Title: Supporting Sound Decisions: A Professional Perspective on Recreational Avalanche Accident Prevention in Canada
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Laura Adams
- Description: Relative to recreationists, avalanche professionals in Canada have a high success rate for managing avalanche hazard and making sound decisions in ava...
- Object ID: issw-2004-441-451.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, decision making, human factors, hazard communication
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- Title: Differences Between Avalanche Experts and Novices
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Dale Atkins, Ian McCammon
- Description: Differences between avalanche experts and novices have long been cited as a key issue in designing effective avalanche education, yet few investigatio...
- Object ID: issw-2004-452-461.pdf
- Keywords: expertise, expert, novice, avalanche education, training, experience, decision making
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- Title: Sex, Drugs and the White Death: Lessons for Avalanche Educators from Health and Safety Campaigns
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Ian McCammon
- Description: A common expectation of avalanche education is that it should reduce the frequency of avalanche deaths. But is this expectation realistic? After all, ...
- Object ID: issw-2004-492-501.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, risk, decision making, training
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- Title: Online Decision Support Tool for Avalanche Risk Management
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Patrick Nairz, Karel Kriz, Michaela Kinberger
- Description: The Avalanche Warning Center Tyrol (Innsbruck, Austria) together with the Department of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna ha...
- Object ID: issw-2004-514-519.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk management, online information system, decision support system
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- Title: Beyond the Go / No Go Decision Making Paradigm
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Howie Schwartz
- Description: Avalanche education courses and publications for backcountry travelers traditionally
present decision-making processes in the context of whether or n...
- Object ID: issw-2004-531.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, education, risk, decision
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- Title: Decision Making in the Mountain Environment
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Iain Stewart-Patterson
- Description: Mountain guides are making decisions on a continual basis. Some of them are as
seemingly simple as “Which boots should I wear today� Som...
- Object ID: issw-2004-535-544.pdf
- Keywords: decision making, training, coaching, assessment
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- Title: Avalanche Statistical Survey
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Gary Brill
- Description: Recent work has demonstrated what has long been known; that avalanche incidents
have as much to do with human factors as with the other parts of the ...
- Object ID: issw-2004-711.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, decision making, avalanche triangle, avalanche accidents
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- Title: Evidence of Heuristic Traps in Recreational Avalanche Accidents
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Ian McCammon
- Description: Even though people are capable of making decisions in a thorough and methodical way, it appears that most of the time they don't. A growing body of re...
- Object ID: issw-2002-244-251.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche education, decision making, heuristics, human factors
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- Title: Operational Decision Tree Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Walter Rosenthal, Kelly Elder, Robert E. Davis
- Description: Decision tree models ofmaximum avalanche size class run daily at Mammoth Mountain, California. A classification tree grown on an eight-year subset of ...
- Object ID: issw-2002-152-158.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, decision trees, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: The Role of Training in Recreational Avalanche Accidents in the United States
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Ian McCammon
- Description: Avalanche education has become widely available in the United States, and yet trained recreationists continue to comprise over a third of avalanche vi...
- Object ID: issw-2000-037-045.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche education, human factors, decision making, heuristics, risk homeostasis, risk reduction, behavioral education, naturalistic decision making
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- Title: Decision Trees Predicting Avalanche Response: Tools for Training?
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Kelly Elder, Robert E. Davis
- Description: This contribution shows examples of decision trees relating weather and between-storm factors to expected maximum avalanche size based on the historic...
- Object ID: issw-2000-140-146.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, weather factors, avalanche training
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- Title: Avalanche Warning Switzerland 2000
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Tom Russi, Walter Ammann, Bernhard Brabec, Michael Lehning, Roland Meister
- Description: Avalanche Warning has been a key task of the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and
Avalanche Research in Davos (SLF) since it was established over hal...
- Object ID: issw-1998-146-153.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, avalanche forecasting, snow cover
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- Title: The Seven Elements of Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 1998
- Authors: David M. McClung
- Description: The first element of avalanche forecasting is the definition: the prediction of current and future snow instability in space and time relative to a gi...
- Object ID: issw-1998-426.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, avalanche forecasting, avalanche accidents
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- Title: Avalanche Forecasting in Iceland and Norway: Proposed Guidelines for Implementation and Operation of Local Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Krister Kristensen, Magnus Mar Magnusson
- Description: A proposed procedure for the implementation and operation of local avalanche forecasting programs in Iceland and Norway has been worked out in co-oper...
- Object ID: issw-1996-047-052.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, forecasting, iceland, norway
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