EGUsphere EGUsphere EGUsphere EGUsphere Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/egusphere-2026-3189 Brief communication: Keeping pace with human factors in avalanche decision‑making—an update to the NHESS scoping review (2023–2026) Hetland Audun https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1299-8077 1 2 Myksvoll Olav Kvåle 1 2 Westerlund Tarjei 1 2 Mannberg Andrea 1 4 Hetland Rebecca Anne https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6998-9697 3 CARE (Center for Avalanche Research and Education), UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway School of Business and Economics, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway 12 06 2026 2026 1 4 Copyright: © 2026 Audun Hetland et al. 2026 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is available from https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2026/egusphere-2026-3189/ The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2026/egusphere-2026-3189/egusphere-2026-3189.pdf

We update our NHESS scoping review of human factors in avalanche decision‑making to include 35 peer‑reviewed studies published 1 Jan 2023–13 May 2026. New work concentrates in Decision‑making strategies (9/35), with additions to Willingness to take risk (5/35), Population characteristics (4/35), Theory and Methods (5/35), Risk communication (3/35), Social factors and group decision‑making (3/35), Risk perception (2/35), and Avalanche accidents (1/35), Motivation (1/35); Avalanche education (1/35), Experience (1/35), none in Biases. Methods and sampling resemble the baseline. We recommend causal identification, behavioral linkage, and group‑level designs. Data and scripts are openly provided; this is a time‑bounded snapshot with a defined cut‑off.

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