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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: DIGITAL IMAGE CORRELATION (DIC) IN SNOW MECHANICS: PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND APPLICATIONS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jakob Schöttner, Melin Walet, Valentin Adam, Michael J. Kohler, Bastian Bergfeld, Marcus Muhonen, Daan Leeflang, Florian Rheinschmidt, Philipp Rosendahl, Philipp Weißgraeber, Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: In snow mechanics experiments, complex loading configurations and layered snow can produce highly non-uniform deformation, including strain localizati...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.35.pdf
- Keywords: digital image correlation, dic, snow mechanics, snow slab avalanches, avalanche dynamics
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- Title: MANAGING RISK AND ACCESS: THE WINTER PERMIT SYSTEM IN ROGERS PASS, BC
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Mark Herbison, Ross Campbell
- Description: Parks Canada's Winter Permit System (WPS) in Rogers Pass, within Glacier National Park, is a unique public safety program designed to facilitate winte...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.41.pdf
- Keywords: rogers pass, parks canada, backcountry, artillery, avalanche control, winter permit system, glacier national park
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- Title: AVALANCHE WARNING SIGNS ON HIGHWAYS: A PRACTITIONER'S FRAMEWORK FOR DESIGN, PLACEMENT, AND RISK-BASED STANDARDIZATION
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Sharp, Eirik, Campbell, Cam, Thumlert, Scott
- Description: This paper examines how transportation agencies design, place, and deploy avalanche warning signage, and proposes a framework for standardizing those ...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.43.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche signage, highway avalanche risk management, transportation infrastructure.
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- Title: APPLICATIONS FOR RADAR AVALANCHE DETECTION AT NORTH AMERICAN SKI RESORT OPERATIONS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Reid Nolan, Nicole Koshure, Tim Haggerty
- Description: Automated avalanche detection systems (AADS) have been utilized by a wide range of operations but have only recently been adopted by North American sk...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.44.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche detection, avalanche forecasting, radar, automated avalanche detection systems (aads), ski resort, avalanche risk management
- View additional details about APPLICATIONS FOR RADAR AVALANCHE DETECTION AT NORTH AMERICAN SKI RESORT OPERATIONS
- Title: SITE SUITABILITY, PERFORMANCE, AND OPERATIONAL LESSONS FROM SIX YEARS OF INFRASOUND AVALANCHE MONITORING
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jerry Mock, Scott Havens, Aaron Careaga, Clark Corey
- Description: Infrasound monitoring uses low-frequency acoustic signals, typically below 20 Hz, to detect and characterize avalanche activity over operationally use...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.45.pdf
- Keywords: infrasonic, avalanche detection, remote monitoring, site suitability, avalanche mitigation
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- Title: THE STATE OF THE SNOWPACK: A COMMUNITY-BASED APPROACH FOR TRANSFORMING HOW AVALANCHE FORECASTS ARE INTERPRETED AND APPLIED
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Morgan Dinsdale, Jason Wishlow, Catherine Paone
- Description: Avalanche forecasts are widely accessed, but access alone does not ensure understanding or safe decision-making. Despite ongoing advances in forecasti...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.5.pdf
- Keywords: risk communication; decision making; avalanche forecasting; community-based education; public safety; user behaviour
- View additional details about THE STATE OF THE SNOWPACK: A COMMUNITY-BASED APPROACH FOR TRANSFORMING HOW AVALANCHE FORECASTS ARE INTERPRETED AND APPLIED
- Title: THE AVALANCHE TEST SITE IN LECH AM ARLBERG, AUSTRIA: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Alexander Prokop, Nicola Agostinetti, Stefan Muckenhuber, Stefan Graf, Thomas Gölles, Richard Koschuch, Stefan Wallner, Birgit Schlager, Benedikt Anwander, Florian Singer, Bernhard Grasemann
- Description: For more than 20 years a unique avalanche test site in the ski resort of Lech am Arlberg, Austria at the slopes of Mohnenfluh Mountain is used for sno...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.50.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, snow properties, test site, alps.
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- Title: PREDICTION OF THE DESTRUCTIVE SIZE OF DRY SLAB AVALANCHES FROM FIELD MEASUREMENTS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: DM McClung, Nicola Pugno
- Description: In this paper we present estimates of the Destructive Size of dry snow slab avalanches based on field measurements of initial dimensions. The dimensio...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.51.pdf
- Keywords: dry slab avalanche, destructive size, statistical prediction
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- Title: INFERING AVALANCHE DYNAMICS AND MAGNITUDE FROM INFRASOUND SOURCE LOCATION AND ENERGY PROXY
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Ulivieri G., Ripepe M., Lacanna G., Biagioli F., Chen D., Dreier L., Steinkogler W., Magnan D.
- Description: Infrasound is nowadays routinely used for avalanche detection, but its potential to constrain avalanche dynamics and magnitude remains poorly quantifi...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.52.pdf
- Keywords: infrasonic detection of avalanches ida®, avalanche dynamics, infrasonic avalanche energy proxy
- View additional details about INFERING AVALANCHE DYNAMICS AND MAGNITUDE FROM INFRASOUND SOURCE LOCATION AND ENERGY PROXY
- Title: TOWARDS AN OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE FORECASTING TOOL USING RAMMS::EXTENDED
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Cam Campbell, Eirik Sharp
- Description: Recent advances in remote sensing enable real-time estimation of snow depth in avalanche starting zones. An emerging opportunity for avalanche forecas...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.54.pdf
- Keywords: release volume; runout distance; ramms::extended; model parameters; avalanche forecasting
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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: BEYOND INFRASTRUCTURE: AN OFF-GRID, TRAILER-BASED AVALANCHE RADAR FOR REMOTE FORECASTING AND OPERATIONAL DECISION SUPPORT
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Susanne Wahlen, Severin Staehly, Lorenz Meier
- Description: Automated avalanche detection provides continuous information on avalanche activity independently of daylight and visibility conditions, and is partic...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.59.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche detection, doppler radar, automated monitoring, off-grid power supply, mobile monitoring, road safety
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- Title: AN OPERATIONAL SNOWPACK MODELING AND VISUALIZATION PIPELINE FOR SKI RESORT AVALANCHE FORECASTING
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Eric E. Lawrence, Wendolyn Antibus
- Description: Numerical models of snow stratigraphy have long served avalanche forecasting where in situ observations are challenging, typically in infrastructure p...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.7.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack modeling, avalanche forecasting, snowpack, ski resort operations, snow stratigraphy, interactive visualization
- View additional details about AN OPERATIONAL SNOWPACK MODELING AND VISUALIZATION PIPELINE FOR SKI RESORT AVALANCHE FORECASTING
- Title: SNOW AVALANCHE EXPOSURE AND CONSEQUENCES IN NORWAY
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Håvard B. Toft, Pierrick S. Nicolet, Tore Humstad
- Description: This study provides a national overview of snow avalanche exposure and consequences in Norway across three key sectors: buildings, roads, and backcoun...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.9.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, exposure, consequences, buildings, roads, recreation
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