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Title: SITE SPECIFIC WARNING POLLFJELLET AKA "THE AVALANCHE MACHINE", THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Kristin Brandtsegg Lome, Hallvard Skaare Nordbrøden, Siiri Wickström, Nils Arne Kavli Walberg
Description: The mountain “Pollfjellet” in Lyngen municipality has several avalanche paths, and a radar is installed as a mitigation measure to detect avalanch...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.1.pdf
Keywords: site-specific, avalanche warning, meteorological condition
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Title: APPLICATION AND EVALUATION OF THE EAWS GUIDELINES FOR SITE-SPECIFIC AVALANCHE WARNING
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Dr. Christian Jaedicke, Dr. Fabiano Monti, Paola Dellavedova, Lukas Stoffel, Sergio Azzarello, Toni Molné
Description: The EAWS (European Avalanche Warning Services) recommendations for site-specific avalanche warning were officially adopted in 2022. The guidelines pro...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.2.pdf
Keywords: avalanche warning, site-specific, risk management, eaws
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Title: PROJECT CAIROS: HARMONIZING AVALANCHE COMMISSIONS’ WORKFLOW, TRAINING AND TOOLS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Michael Winkler, Alice Gasperi, Jakob Schwarz, Christoph Hesselbach, Anne St. Clair, Silke Griesser, Sergio Benigni, Mauro Gaddo, Michela Munari, Manuel Genswein, Christoph Mitterer, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Marc Adams, Harald Riedl
Description: In many parts of the European Alps, local operational avalanche hazard management is understood as being avalanche commission work. In this context, n...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche commission, avalanche safety, risk management, dynamic avalanche modeling, cross-border collaboration
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Title: ANALYZING AUTOMATED AND METEOROLOGIST-DERIVED QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECASTS: OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS IN HIGHWAY AVALANCHE FORECASTING PROGRAMS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: John Stimberis, Seth Waterfall, Rachel Griffith
Description: Mountain weather significantly influences avalanche activity in maritime snow climates. The rapid accumulation of precipitation from snow or rain-on-s...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, weather forecasting, weather data, forecast accuracy, highways, precipitation.
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Title: REPEATED UAS LIDAR SCANNING OF SNOW SURFACE TO SUPPORT SITE-SPECIFIC AVALANCHE WARNING
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Emil Solbakken
Description: Site-specific avalanche warning often involves assessment of avalanche hazard in remote avalanche paths with limited observations of relevant snowpack...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.5.pdf
Keywords: lidar, uas, site-specific avalanche warning
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Title: HUMAN VS. MACHINE - COMPARING MODEL PREDICTIONS AND HUMAN FORECASTS OF AVALANCHE DANGER AND SNOW INSTABILITY IN THE SWISS ALPS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Frank Techel, Andrea Helfenstein, Stephanie Mayer, Cristina Pérez-Guillén, Ross Purves, Marc Ruesch, Günter Schmudlach, Katia Soland, Kurt Winkler
Description: In recent years, the integration of physical snowpack models coupled with machine-learning techniques has become more prevalent in public avalanche fo...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.6.pdf
Keywords: public avalanche forecasting, forecast verification, machine learning, model-driven predictions
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Title: DATA-DRIVEN AVALANCHE FORECASTING - USING WEATHER AND SATELLITE DATA
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Jakob Grahn, Filippo Maria Bianchi, Karsten Müller, Eirik Malnes
Description: Avalanche forecasting is essential for safety in mountainous regions where avalanches threaten human life and infrastructure. Traditional methods for...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, forecasting, machine learning, satellite, meteorology
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Title: ASSESSING CRITICAL WET-SNOW AVALANCHE SITUATIONS WITH SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED SNOW COVER SIMULATIONS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Andrea Bruckmeier, Erwin Rottler, Michael Warscher, Ulrich Strasser, Christoph Mitterer
Description: In recent years, physics-based snow cover models have gained importance in supporting avalanche forecasting to better assess critical avalanche condit...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.8.pdf
Keywords: wet snow, openamundsen, snowpack, liquid water content, avalanche problems, snow cover simulations
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Title: INTEGRATING AUTOMATED AVALANCHE DETECTIONS FOR VALIDATING AND EXPLAINING AVALANCHE FORECASTING MODELS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Cristina Pérez-Guillén, Andri Simeon, Frank Techel, Michele Volpi, Betty Sovilla, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Snow avalanches are the deadliest natural hazards in Switzerland and cause significant economic losses annually. Therefore, avalanche detection and pr...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.9.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, automatic avalanche detection, machine learning models
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Title: A CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE TO IDENTIFY SPATIAL PATTERNS IN SNOW COVER MODEL OUTPUT
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Simon Horton, Florian Herla, Pascal Haegeli
Description: Spatially distributed snowpack models are increasingly being adopted by avalanche forecasting agencies, but forecasters could benefit from simpler met...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.10.pdf
Keywords: snowpack modelling, clustering, forecast regions, spatial variability
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Title: AN ANALYSIS OF FORECASTER ACCURACY IN PREDICTING AVALANCHE PROBLEM TYPE AND LIKELIHOOD IN SKI AREA OPERATIONAL HAZARD ASSESSMENTS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Wendolyn Antibus, Evan Leonard, Matt Zupan
Description: Forecasting staff at Mt Rose Ski Tahoe have been utilizing the InfoEx International product to issue daily hazard assessments and record avalanche act...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.11.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, ski resort operations, conceptual model, infoex, avalanche problem type, avalanche likelihood
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Title: BRINGING THE EUROPEAN AVALANCHE DANGER SCALE TO THE 21ST CENTURY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Dr. Karsten Müller, Dr. Frank Techel, Dr. Christoph Mitterer, Dr. Stefano Sofia, Petter Palmgren, Nicolas Roux, Guillem M. Bellido, Lorenzo Bertranda, Giacomo Villa
Description: The European Avalanche Danger Scale (EADS) is the governing document for public avalanche warning services in Europe. It has been the common ground t...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.12.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger scale, public avalanche forecasting
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Title: THE FOUR KEY COMPONENTS OF THE PHYSICAL HAZARD POSED BY SNOW AVALANCHES ACROSS TERRAIN
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Scott Thumlert
Description: Forecasting the physical hazard posed by snow avalanches is the prediction of the magnitude, likelihood, timing, and location of potential avalanches ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard, forecasting, hazard assessment and communication, avalanche size, likelihood, spatial distribution
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Title: LOOKING BACK AT THE LAST 15 YEARS OF OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE WARNING WITH THE SNOWPACK MODEL IN SWITZERLAND
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Mathias Bavay, Nander Wever, Charles Fierz, Michael Lehning
Description: From the start, the SNOWPACK model was created to address the needs of the avalanche warning in Switzerland based on a large network of Automatic Weat...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.2.pdf
Keywords: numerical modeling, snowpack, operational, avalanche warning, automatic weather station
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Title: TOWARDS IMPROVED CONSISTENCY IN ASSIGNING AVALANCHE PROBLEMS AMONGST FORECASTERS IN NORWAY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Markus Landrø, Gustav Pless, Jostein Aasen, Karsten Müller, Solveig Kosberg
Description: Avalanche problems describe the cause and development of typical avalanche hazard situations and offer appropriate terrain management advice. Avalanch...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche problem standardization, consistency, avalanche bulletin communication, norway
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