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Title: Intuition, Recognition and Patterns – Decision-Making by Mountain Guides in Avalanche Situations
Date: 2009
Authors: Jan Mersch, Anton Kühberger
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
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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
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Title: Meteorological and Synoptical Conditions Leading to Critical Avalanche Situations in the European Alps
Date: 1988
Authors: Michael Staudinger
Description: The analvsis of the most severe avalanche accidents of the last years in the Austrian Alps showed a distinctive correlation between the general synopt...
Object ID: issw-1988-239-240.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accidents, synoptic, slope exposure, absolute altitude
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