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Title: SEGMENTATION OF BACKCOUNTRY SKIERS AND SNOWBOARDERS IN JAPAN BASED ON RECREATION SPECIALIZATION: A CLUSTER ANALYSIS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Masashi Nagai, Nao Yoshizawa, Yasukazu Hama, Masanori Take
Description: Backcountry skiing and snowboarding (BCSS) involve serious mountain hazards such as avalanches and falls, requiring participants to manage risks appro...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.29.pdf
Keywords: backcountry skiing, recreation specialization, cluster analysis, participant segmentation, japan
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Title: MUCH ADO ABOUT SLUSHING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Susanne Eide Haug, Louise Vick, Alfred Hanssen, Yoichi Ito, Satoru Yamaguchi, Chris D'Amboise, Dieter Issler
Description: Slush, or soaked now, is a poorly understood endmember of the wet–dry snow continuum that can produce fast, damaging flows. A commonly cited thresho...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.66.pdf
Keywords: slushflow, soaked snow, snow laboratory experiments, rotating drum experiments, runout and hazard analysis.
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Title: DESIGN OF FLEXIBLE ROCKFALL BARRIERS UNDER STATIC AND DYNAMIC AREAL LOADING FROM SNOW
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Dennis Gasteiger, Maximilian Kramer
Description: Flexible rockfall barriers are primarily designed to absorb high-energy point impacts caused by falling rocks. However, when installed in mountainous ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.8.pdf
Keywords: flexible rockfall barriers, snow loads, avalanche loads, rope statics, structural analysis, multi-hazard protection
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Title: FUNDING THE FORECAST: COMPARING APPROACHES TO AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Liz Daniel
Description: Winter backcountry recreation has grown dramatically in recent years. Despite this surge, annual avalanche fatalities in the US have remained stable f...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.28.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting operations, organizational structure, funding, program analysis
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Title: IS ARCTIC SNOW DIFFERENT FROM ALPINE SNOW? FOLLOWING UP ON THE DISCUSSION IN REGARDS TO AVALANCHE FORECASTING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Alexander Prokop, Bernhard Hynek, Eric Bernard, Jean-Michel Friedt, Florian Tolle
Description: A discussion at recent ISSWs elaborated on the question if Arctic snow is different from Alpine snow and in what way. Rather than using a physical sn...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.57.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, arctic snow pack, process analysis
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Title: PINPOINTING THE TIMING OF WEAK LAYER FAILURE: A CASE STUDY OF A LARGE, WIDESPREAD NATURAL AVALANCHE CYCLE IN THE BITTERROOT MOUNTAINS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: James Peabody, Nathalie de Leeuw, Ben VandenBos
Description: In March 2026, a multi-day storm deposited over 180 mm of snow water equivalent (SWE) across the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana and Idaho. Prior to t...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.61.pdf
Keywords: timing of weak layer failure, avalanche forecasting, geospatial analysis, deep slab instability, case study
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Title: CHARACTERISATION OF AVALANCHES IN THE DOLOMITES. STUDY BASED ON THE WEBGIS VALANGHE, A GEOGRAPHIC DB CONTAINING 40 YEARS OF OBSERVATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Stefano Dalle Fratte, Roberta Dainese, Mauro Valt, Igor Chiambretti
Description: The forecast of avalanche run-out is essential information, both in the long term, for adequate planning of the territory and installation of anthropi...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.16.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain, geographical information system, terrain analysis
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Title: A MULTI-SOURCE, INTERNATIONAL ANALYSIS OF AVALANCHE PROBLEM TYPES IN FATAL INCIDENTS (2017–2026)
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Keith Gale
Description: Avalanche danger ratings have appropriately received substantial research attention because they provide the primary regional summary of avalanche haz...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.42.pdf
Keywords: avalanche problem types, danger scale, persistent slab, fatality analysis, international harmonization
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Title: THE CHALLENGE OF SHORTENING THE CLOSURE PERIOD OF A MOUNTAIN PASS ROAD IN WINTER – THE EXAMPLE OF THE GOTTHARD PASS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Stefan Margreth, Philipp Oberender
Description: The Gotthard axis is one of the most important north-south traffic corridors through the Alps. For road traffic, it comprises the 17-km-long road tunn...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.14.pdf
Keywords: avalanche mitigation, avalanche risk, climate change, cost-benefit analysis, pass road.
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Title: AVALANCHE FATALITIES IN RELATION TO THE COVERAGE OF RECREATIONAL AVALANCHE FORECASTS IN THE UNITED STATES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Spencer Logan, Ethan Greene, Simon Trautman
Description: In the United States, avalanche forecasts for backcountry recreation are issued by a group of local and regional programs known as avalanche centers....
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.11.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche accidents, spatial analysis, forecast coverage, forecast zone size
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Title: THOUGHTS ON THE WHY’S AND HOW’S OF SMALL-AVALANCHE EXPERIMENTS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Dieter Issler, Yoichi Ito
Description: Small avalanche paths (typically 100–300 m long) offer great opportunities for detailed studies of most aspects of avalanche flow except the powder-...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P2.14.pdf
Keywords: avalanche experiments, avalanche release, flow regimes, erosion, measurement techniques, data analysis
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Title: ASYMMETRICAL THREE-POINT BEND TEST FOR INVESTIGATING MIXED-MODE FRACTURE TOUGHNESS IN WELL-BONDED SNOW
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Valentin Adam, Florian Rheinschmidt, Melin D. E. Walet, Jakob Schöttner, Dr.-Ing. Bastian Bergfeld, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Philipp Weißgraeber, Dr. Alec van Herwijnen, Dr.-Ing. Philipp L. Rosendahl
Description: Slab fracture plays a crucial role in the release of dry-snow slab avalanches, affecting the size of the release area. However, there is a lack of fr...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P3.16.pdf
Keywords: dry-snow slab avalanches, fracture toughness, mixed-mode loading, slab fracture, bending test, finite element analysis
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Title: A SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS TO QUANTIFY HOW ERRORS IN FOREST DATA AFFECT AVALANCHE HAZARD MAPS IN NORWAY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: J. Paul McLean, Dieter Issler, Kjersti G. Gisnås
Description: Forests play a major role in the mitigation of avalanche risk in Norway, but the regulations surrounding the management of “protection forests” ar...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O4.3.pdf
Keywords: protection forest, uncertainty, avalanche, risk analysis
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Title: HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF NIVOMETEO DATA OVER 100 YEARS OF RECORDINGS BY THE OROPA SEISMIC WEATHER OBSERVATORY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Ingegnere Massimo Raviglione, Michela Barberis
Description: The seismic weather observatory of Oropa is located within the Marian religious complex "Santuario di Oropa”. Geographically, it is located in the n...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P5.9.pdf
Keywords: climate change, weather data analysis
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Title: INTENSITY, RETURN PERIOD AND RISK: INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL PARAMETERS IN SPECIFIC CASES OF NATURAL HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DYNAMICS OF SNOW AVALANCHES.
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Sergi Riba Porras, Carles García-Sellés, Vincente Medina de Iglesias
Description: When planning road infrastructure projects in high mountain regions prone to avalanche hazard, crucial first step involves analysing the characteristi...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P7.20.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, avalanche protections, hazard, risk analysis.
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