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Title: REPLICATING SLAB AVALANCHE INITIATION: A FIELD TEST FOR CONTROLLED ANTICRACK NUCLEATION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Valentin Adam, Yannik Werner, Jakob Schöttner, Melin D. E. Walet, Florian Rheinschmidt, Philipp Weißgraeber, Alec van Herwijnen, Philipp L. Rosendahl
Description: Failure nucleation in slab avalanches is typically hidden beneath the snowpack, which, among other factors, makes this phenomenon so mysterious and di...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O1.2.pdf
Keywords: dry-snow slab avalanches, fracture initiation, finite fracture mechanics, release potential, stability assessment, field test
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Title: ADAPTING THE RESPONSE ASSESSMENT AND DECISION-MAKING SUPPORT (RADEMS) TOOL FOR AVALANCHE HAZARD AND TERRAIN EVALUATION IN U.S. SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jennifer A. Reddy
Description: Search and rescue (SAR) teams in the United States are increasingly called to respond in avalanche terrain, yet most operate without a standardized sc...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O12.6.pdf
Keywords: radems, avalanche search and rescue (avsar), ates, dangerator, risk assessment.
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Title: A CONSEQUENCE ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK FOR SITE-SPECIFIC ROAD AVALANCHE WARNING IN NORWAY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Emil Solbakken, Halgeir Dahle, Tore Humstad, Njål Farestveit, Jens Øyen Tveit, Eivind Schnell Juvik, Dag Theodor Røsvik Andreassen
Description: Site-specific avalanche warning for roads is a risk-reducing measure that combines an assessment of avalanche likelihood with an impact-based assessme...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O2.1.pdf
Keywords: site-specific avalanche warning, consequence assessment, road avalanche risk, residual risk, impact-based forecasting
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Title: Daily Avalanche Probability Indication Maps: First Operational Experience in Davos, Switzerland
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Julia Glaus, Pia Ruttner, Lukas Stoffel, Johan Gaume, Yves Bühler
Description: Avalanche risk management in ski resorts, along traffic routes, and for exposed buildings relies mainly on point-based measurements, field observation...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O7.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, road safety, forecasting, probability, hazard assessment
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Title: INTERLINKING DAILY ASSESSMENTS: TOWARDS A MORE COMPREHENSIVE WORKFLOW IN PUBLIC AVALANCHE FORECASTING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Norbert Lanzanasto, Matthias Walcher
Description: Public avalanche warning services (AWS) assess avalanche hazard on a regional scale to support risk management for people, infrastructure, and propert...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O9.1.pdf
Keywords: public avalanche forecasting, workflow, hazard assessment, operational learnings
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Title: AVSAR MINDSETS: A COMPANION FRAMEWORK FOR THE AVGAR
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Michael Ackerman
Description: The AvGAR is a decision-making tool for assessing and deploying avalanche search and rescue (AvSAR) missions, adapted from the United States Coast Gua...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.19.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, decision making, risk assessment, human factors, search and rescue, mindsets
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Title: WILDFIRE-DRIVEN INCREASES IN AVALANCHE HAZARD: MECHANISMS, CANADIAN CASE STUDIES, AND A POST-WILDFIRE AVALANCHE RISK ASSESSMENT TOOL
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Scott Thumlert, Jillian Harvey, Cam Campbell, Marie-Pierre Rogeau, Brian Gould
Description: Wildfire-induced forest disturbance in snow-dominated mountain regions can significantly alter snowpack processes and increase avalanche hazard. The r...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.2.pdf
Keywords: post wildfire geohazard assessment, snow avalanche risk assessment, protective forest, burn severity, wildfire
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Title: IMPROVING THE DATA BASIS FOR THE PRACTICAL ASSESSMENT OF SNOW SLIDE IMPACTS FOR PRACTICAL AVALANCHE ENGINEERING AND HAZARD MAPPING APPLICATIONS IN AUSTRIA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Andreas Huber, Christoph Hesselbach, Felix Oesterle, Matthias Granig, Christian Tollinger, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: Snow slide hazard and risk assessment is increasingly relevant in the operational work of the Austrian Service for Torrent and Avalanche Control (WLV)...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.46.pdf
Keywords: snow slide, avalanche modeling, rapid assessment, surrogate models, avalanche engineering
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Title: RESIDUAL AVALANCHE RISK ASSESSMENT AT THE PODLJUBELJ TUNNEL (SLOVENIA): A COMPARATIVE METHODOLOGICAL STUDY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Mattia Matzutzi, Barbara Frigo, Blaž Komac
Description: Avalanche risk to transportation infrastructure remains a critical challenge in alpine regions, particularly where mitigation measures may be insuffic...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.52.pdf
Keywords: residual risk, exposure conditions, traffic risk assessment, comparative approaches, avalanche–infrastructure interaction
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Title: ASSESSING PUBLIC BACKCOUNTRY AVALANCHE FORECASTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ethan Davis, Zachary Miller, Scott Savage, Dallas Glass, Spencer Logan, Ethan Greene, Blase Reardon, Christine Donnelly, Andrew Schauer
Description: Avalanche danger ratings are the cornerstone of a public backcountry avalanche forecast, and the "Tier 1" danger — the highest rating across all ele...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.30.pdf
Keywords: regional avalanche forecasting, forecast verification, forecast assessment, avalanche danger, forecaster confidence
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Title: FROM HAZARD ASSESSMENT TO ACTION IN SITE-SPECIFIC AVALANCHE OPERATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Aaron Careaga, Scott Havens, Don Sharaf, Dave Richards, Clark Corey
Description: Frameworks such as the Conceptual Model of Avalanche Hazard (CMAH; Statham et al., 2018) provide a structured basis for characterizing avalanche hazar...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard assessment, cmah, site-specific forecasting, hazard action matrices, operational decision support, osarm
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Title: LAYERWISE: A FRACTURE-MECHANICAL CONCEPT FOR SNOW PROFILE INTERPRETATION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Yannik Werner, Valentin Adam, Stephan Harvey, Mary Kate Carara, Samuel Verplanck, Alec van Herwijnen, Florian Rheinschmidt, Philipp Weißgraeber, Philipp L. Rosendahl
Description: When interpreting a snow profile, snow industry professionals rely on accumulated knowledge and intuition to judge overall snowpack stability. Explici...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.33.pdf
Keywords: snow stability assessment, analytical modelling, decision support, interactive learning, avalanche initiation, propagation potential
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Title: HOW DOES GRID CONFIGURATION INFLUENCE SNOWPACK REPRESENTATION? EXPLORING SPATIAL SAMPLING STRATEGIES FOR DISTRIBUTED SNOWPACK MODELING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Martin Perfler, Simon Horton, Florian Herla, Michael Binder, Pascal Haegeli
Description: Avalanche forecasting at the regional scale requires translating spatially heterogeneous snowpack conditions into coherent hazard assessments. Distrib...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.39.pdf
Keywords: distributed snowpack modeling, grid configuration, spatial sampling, hazard assessment
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Title: OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF SNOW CORNICE DEVELOPMENT ON ARTIFICIAL VERTICAL SECTIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Takahiro Tanabe, Kouichi Nshimura, Taiki Nunokawa, Yoshihiko Saito, Tsubasa Okaze, Satoru Adachi, Satoru Yamaguchi, Yoichi Ito, Sojiro Sunako, Hirofumi Niiya
Description: Snow cornices are overhanging accumulations of wind-transported snow that frequently develop along mountain ridges and may trigger avalanches when the...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.15.pdf
Keywords: snow cornice, blowing snow, ski resort, hazard assessment
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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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