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- Title: A PHYSICS-INFORMED DATA-DRIVEN FRAMEWORK FOR REAL-TIME AVALANCHE RUNOUT PREDICTION USING SNOWPACK SIMULATIONS AND VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Bettina Richter, Anselm Köhler, Pierre Huguenin, Nander Wever, Eloïse Bovet, Betty Sovilla
- Description: As most mass movement model were calibrated to reproduce extreme avalanches, their link to daily snow cover remains poorly constraint. In this study, ...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS4.3.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche dynamics, runout predictions, data-driven model, snowpack
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- Title: TOWARDS REAL-TIME FRACTIONATION OF MIXED-PHASE PRECIPITATION
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Eric R. Pardyjak, Dhiraj K. Singh, Daniel Webster, Benjamin H. Silberman, Timothy Garrett, Travis Morrison
- Description: Near-surface precipitation can occur as liquid, solid, or mixed-phase hydrometeors. In many winter storms, individual particles are not purely rain or...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS4.4.pdf
- Keywords: mixed-phase precipitation, deid, avalanche forecasting, rain-on-snow events.
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- Title: MONITORING OF AVALANCHES USING DAS: FROM RELEASE TO FLOW MOTION DETECTION
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Cristina Pérez-Guillén, Pascal Edme, Andri Simeon, Johannes Aichele, Alec van Herwijnen, Andreas Fichtner, Johan Gaume
- Description: The destructive power of snow avalanches and the uncertainty in predicting them demand reliable monitoring systems in mountain regions. Distributed Ac...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS4.6.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche detection, distributed acoustic sensing (das) monitoring, avalanche release
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- Title: A REVIEW OF AVALANCHE RELEASE MECHANISMS: FROM ANTICRACK PROPAGATION TO SUPERSHEAR FRACTURE
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Johan Gaume, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Dry-snow slab avalanches are responsible for most avalanche fatalities, making understanding of release mechanisms essential for forecasting and hazar...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O1.1.pdf
- Keywords: dry-snow slab avalanche, avalanche release, weak layer, failure initiation, crack propagation, anticrack, supershear fracture, slab fracture.
- View additional details about A REVIEW OF AVALANCHE RELEASE MECHANISMS: FROM ANTICRACK PROPAGATION TO SUPERSHEAR FRACTURE
- Title: STABILITY CHANGES AFTER WEAK LAYER COLLAPSE: INSIGHTS FROM AN UNEXPECTED DATASET
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Andrea Bruckmeier, Erika Birkeland, Ron Simenhois, Alex Marienthal, Erich Peitzsch, Karl W. Birkeland
- Description: While conducting avalanche mitigation or traveling through the backcountry, avalanche professionals sometimes experience a "whumpf": a collapse-mode c...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O1.3.pdf
- Keywords: whumpf, crack propagation, propagation saw test (pst), snowpack stability, avalanche release
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- Title: Slab Fractures during Dynamic Crack Propagation in Dry-Snow Slab Avalanches
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Francis Meloche, Bertil Trottet, Grégoire Bobillier, Johan Gaume
- Description: Predicting the size of dry-snow slab avalanches remains difficult, limiting hazard assessment despite major advances in the understanding of crack ini...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O1.7.pdf
- Keywords: slab fracture, crack propagation, avalanche size, release size index
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- Title: THIN-SLICING IN AVALANCHE FORECASTING: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF EXPERIENCE-BASED PATTERN RECOGNITION IN OPERATIONAL DECISION MAKING
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jake M. Hutchinson
- Description: This exploratory survey began with a simple operational question: when avalanche professionals first build a hazard picture, does the initial forecast...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O10.2.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, professional intuition, recognition, decision making, training
- View additional details about THIN-SLICING IN AVALANCHE FORECASTING: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF EXPERIENCE-BASED PATTERN RECOGNITION IN OPERATIONAL DECISION MAKING
- Title: THE RUN LIST IN MECHANISED SKIING: HISTORY, EVOLUTION AND CURRENT PRACTICE
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Peter Macpherson, Scott Thumlert
- Description: Managing exposure to avalanche hazard through terrain selection is the primary avalanche risk mitigation strategy in winter backcountry guiding. The r...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O10.3.pdf
- Keywords: run list, run coding, mechanized skiing, canadian mountain holidays, terrain selection, avalanche risk management, decision-making
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- Title: OPERATIONAL MEETINGS IN AVALANCHE OPERATIONS: IMPORTANCE, CHALLENGES, AND FUTURE
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Marc R Piché
- Description: Operational meetings remain one of the central decision-making tools in avalanche risk management. In many field programs, they are where weather, sno...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O10.4.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche operations, operational meetings, human factors, decision support, artificial intelligence
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- Title: PRACTITIONERS' INTERPRETATION OF AVALANCHE PROBLEM TYPE AND DISTRIBUTION WITHIN THE CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF AVALANCHE HAZARD
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Aaron C. Barnett, Andrew Forsman, Eeva Latosuo, Ryan Minton
- Description: The Conceptual Model of Avalanche Hazard (CMAH) was created to be a systematic, consistent workflow for avalanche hazard and risk assessment. It is a ...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O10.6.pdf
- Keywords: conceptual model of avalanche hazard, decision aid, avalanche forecasting, expert interpretation, avalanche type, distribution
- View additional details about PRACTITIONERS' INTERPRETATION OF AVALANCHE PROBLEM TYPE AND DISTRIBUTION WITHIN THE CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF AVALANCHE HAZARD
- Title: A CLOSER LOOK AT SLOPE ANGLES OF ACCIDENTALLY TRIGGERED PERSISTENT AND DEEP PERSISTENT SLAB AVALANCHES
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Roger Atkins, John Sykes, Nicholas Rigby, Pascal Haegeli
- Description: Persistent slab avalanches remain a challenge for backcountry avalanche risk management. Of the 222 fatal avalanche accidents in Canada with known wea...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O10.7.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk management, perception gap, lingering instability, low angle avalanches
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- Title: INSIGHTS INTO AVALANCHE FLOW REGIMES FROM A HIGH PRECIPITATION, HIGH RELIEF REGION IN NEW ZEALAND
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Aubrey Miller, Pascal Sirguey, Perry Bartelt, Nicolas Cullen, Yves Bühler
- Description: Snow avalanches in high-relief maritime mountains may release from cold alpine snowpacks yet descend through the rain-snow transition into warm, satur...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O11.3.pdf
- Keywords: flow regime change, large avalanche, maritime, ramms, new zealand
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- Title: THE RAIN FINALLY STOPPED: A HISTORIC ATMOSPHERIC RIVER AVALANCHE CYCLE AT ROGERS PASS, BC (2026)
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Mark Herbison, Dan Hudson, Catherine Brown, Danyelle Magnan
- Description: The transportation corridor through Rogers Pass, exposed to 135 avalanche paths over 43 km of road is one of Canada's highest snowfall regions (10–1...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O11.6.pdf
- Keywords: atmospheric river, historic avalanche cycle, rogers pass, highway avalanche hazard, artillery, parks canada
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- Title: LESSONS FROM THE CERRO COCINERO AVALANCHE: AEROSOL DYNAMICS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Cédric Larcher, Alejandro Casteller, Luis Schinelli
- Description: On August 27, 2010, a large avalanche struck Cerro Cocinero (2,281 m), destroyed a mountain hut and buried three occupants. Due to delayed alert, sear...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O11.7.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche dynamics, aerosol phase, search and rescue, recco detection, avalanche impact, field case study
- View additional details about LESSONS FROM THE CERRO COCINERO AVALANCHE: AEROSOL DYNAMICS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS
- Title: MISTAKE-BASED LEARNING ACROSS HIGH-RISK DISCIPLINES: AN AVALANCHE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: J. Aaron Ball
- Description: Snow avalanche professionals operate in wicked learning environments, where mistakes are inevitable due to feedback that is absent, inconsistent, or d...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O12.1.pdf
- Keywords: mistake-based learning, professional avalanche training, high-risk decision-making, wicked learning environment, learning context
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