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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: ASSESSING THE APPLICABILITY OF SNOWPACK IN AN ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT: A CASE STUDY IN NUNAVIK, QC
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: PAQUETTE VIOLAINE
- Description: Avalanche hazard in Arctic regions remains poorly documented, partly because continuous meteorological and snowpack observations are spatially limited...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.58.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack modelling, arctic snowpack, nunavik, avalanche hazard, model evaluation, alpine 3d
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- Title: IS ARCTIC SNOW DIFFERENT FROM ALPINE SNOW? DELVING INTO THE COMPLEXITIES OF SNOW COVER PROPERTIES AND SNOW INSTABILITY
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: Assessing snow instability is fundamental in avalanche forecasting. In the past, snow instability was seen as a balance between weak layer shear stren...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_O3.1.pdf
- Keywords: snow stability, weak layers, avalanche activity, arctic
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- Title: ARCTIC MOUNTAIN GLACIERS LOVE AVALANCHES
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Alexander Prokop, Bernhard Hynek, Eric Bernard, Signe Hillerup Larsen, Florian Tolle, Jean-Michel Friedt
- Description: At ISSW and in general avalanches are usually discussed in the context of a natural hazard that harms people and infrastructure and needs to be manage...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P5.8.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche deposit, climate warming, arctic glacier, lidar, sfm-photogrammetry
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- Title: AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT IN LONGYEARBYEN, SVALBARD
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Holt Hancock, Martin Indreiten, Christian Jaedicke
- Description: Snow avalanches have impacted human life and infrastructure in Longyearbyen, Svalbard since the settlement’s inception as a mining town in the early...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_O7.6.pdf
- Keywords: climate change, risk management, arctic, avalanche history
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- Title: SNOWPACK AND AVALANCHE CHARACTERIZATION OVER THE 2021-2022 WINTER SEASON IN SISIMIUT, WEST GREENLAND
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Alberto Mariani, A. B. Abrahamsen, D. Bridle, T. Ingeman-Nielsen, A. Cicoira, F. Monti, M. Marcer
- Description: In Greenland, snow avalanches have been recognized as a significant hazard and a risk to communities for decades. However, prior to this study, no fo...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.21.pdf
- Keywords: snow science, avalanche, greenland, weak layers formation, arctic snowpack, avalanche monitoring, avalanche bulletin
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- Title: DEVELOPMENT OF A SENSOR SYSTEM TO SUPPORT AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT IN ARCTIC NORWAY
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Holt Hancock, Einar Jenssen, Martin Indreiten, Eirik Albrechtsen
- Description: Automated measurements of snow cover properties serve as a key data source for most avalanche forecasting programs. In Longyearbyen, Svalbard, a lack ...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.37.pdf
- Keywords: sensors, risk management, terrestrial laser scanning, ground-based lidar, arctic
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- Title: A NOVEL LASER-BASED INSTRUMENT FOR ESTIMATING DEPTH-RESOLVED SNOW DENSITY – PART 2: FIELD TESTS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Marc Adams, Martin Koßagk, Malte Neubert, Henry Silderhuis, Reinhard Fromm, Rico Krause, Gerd Schaufelberger, Tino Schmiel
- Description: In this contribution, first results from field tests of a novel laser-based instrument for estimating depth-resolved snow density are presented. The S...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.22.pdf
- Keywords: snow density, laser, arctic and alpine snow, snow stratigraphy
- View additional details about A NOVEL LASER-BASED INSTRUMENT FOR ESTIMATING DEPTH-RESOLVED SNOW DENSITY – PART 2: FIELD TESTS
- Title: Improvement of snow physical parameters retrieval using SAR data in the Arctic (Svalbard)
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Jean-Pierre Dedieu, Charlène Negrello, Hans-Werner Jacobi, Yannick Duguay, Julia Boike, Eric Bernard, Sebastian Westermann, Jean-Charles Gallet, Anna Wendleder
- Description: Arctic snow cover dynamics offer a changing face in terms of temporal duration and water equivalent, due to recent climate change conditions (Callagha...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O04.2.pdf
- Keywords: snow, arctic, radar, remote sensing.
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- Title: A successful attempt to introduce the protective dams into snow avalanches simulations by RAMMS in the Khibini Mountains, Russia
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Alla Turchaninova, Yury Seliverstov, Anton Komarov, Sergey Sokratov, Ekaterina Loginova
- Description: Snow avalanches are the most pronounced natural hazards in Khibini Mountains (Northwest of Russia, Arctic). In this study the back-calculations of wel...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P08.15.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche protection, numerical modeling, ramms, avalanche risk, arctic.
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- Title: Comparison and classification of an Arctic Transitional snow climate in Tromsø, Norway
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Paul Velsand, Markus Eckerstorfer, Rune V. Engeset
- Description: Tromsø, Norway has a relatively mild climate and high precipitation levels compared to other locations at similar latitudes. Winter tourism in Trom...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P10.24.pdf
- Keywords: snow climatology, transitional snow climate, spatial variability, arctic snow climate
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- Title: Slope scale avalanche forecasting in the arctic (Svalbard)
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Alexander Prokop, Holt Hancock, Martin Praz, Elisabeth Jahn
- Description: On December 19th 2015 an avalanche struck the arctic town of Longyearbyen; 2 people were killed and 12 houses destroyed. Since this first avalanche ha...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O11.2.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow pack, arctic, snow pack properties
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- Title: Effects of large-scale atmosphere-ocean oscillations on the nature of avalanche hazard in western Canada
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Bret Shandro, Pascal Haegeli
- Description: Numerous large-scale atmosphere-ocean oscillations including El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), the Pacific N...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O12.10.pdf
- Keywords: el nino-southern oscillation, pacific decadal oscillation, pacific north america pattern, arctic oscillation, avalanche hazard, avalanche climate
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- Title: Longyearbyen, Svalbard - Vulnerability and Risk Management of an Arctic Settlement Under Changing Climate - a Challenge to Authorities and Experts
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Erik Hestnes, Steinar Bakkehøi, Christian Jaedicke
- Description: Longyearbyen, the administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago, is facing most types of natural hazards under a changing Arctic climate. The cata...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O16.02.pdf
- Keywords: arctic environment, climate change, natural hazards, mitigation, research, consulting
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- Title: Relating Avalanches to Large-Scale Ocean – Atmospheric Oscillations
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: Scott Thumlert, Sascha Bellaire, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Sea surface temperatures and sea-level pressures in the Pacific and Arctic oceans have
been shown to affect weather patterns in western Canada, thus ...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P1.19.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, el nino southern oscillation, pacific decadal oscillation, arctic oscillation, pacific north american pattern, north atlantic oscillation
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