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Title: HUNTING MACH CONES IN SNOW:SUPERSHEAR FRACTURE & SHOCK FRONT REFRACTION IN LAYERED SLABS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Alexandre Pellet, Bastian Bergfeld, Alec van Herwijnen, Johan Gaume
Description: Supershear crack propagation has recently been identified as an important mechanism in snow slab avalanche release. In this regime, the crack in the w...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.16.pdf
Keywords: snow slab avalanche, crack propagation, supershear fracture, mach cone, weak layer, propagation saw test, snow stratigraphy.
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Title: COMPREHENSION VALIDATION OF THE REVISED EAWS DANGER SCALE DESCRIPTORS: LESSONS FROM A LARGE-SCALE EUROPEAN END USER SURVEY ON AVALANCHE RISK PERCEPTION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Philip A. Ebert, Frank Techel, Matthias Walcher, Benjamin Reuter, Igor Chiambretti, Lorenzo Bertranda, Montse Bacardit Peñarroya, Jaka Ortar, Mark Diggins, Karsten Müller, Gerit Pfuhl
Description: The descriptors of the European avalanche danger scale, in use since 1993, are being revised. In June 2025 EAWS forecasters agreed on a new provisiona...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.11.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger scale, risk communication, risk perception, descriptors, multilingual communication
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Title: AVALANCHEALLEY.COM A PROGRAM DATABASE & RISK COMMUNICATION TOOL
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Richard W. Steiner, Jr., Adam M. Clark, Calvin Hill
Description: In 2010 avalanche forecasters with the BNSF Avalanche Safety Program (Program) began developing the Interactive Avalanche Information System (IAIS). B...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.36.pdf
Keywords: avalanche alley, iais, data, data management, web atlas.
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Title: POWDER, PERCEPTION, & THE PATRIARCHY: A GENDERED LOOK AT BACKCOUNTRY BEHAVIOR
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Sarah Petelinsek, Kailey Mahoney, Nikki Champion, Rowan Kelner, Olivia Pearson, Boomer Olsen, Peilu Zhang, Patrick G. Hughes
Description: Gender may influence risk perception, decision-making, and participation in high-risk outdoor environments, yet gender differences among backcountry r...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.42.pdf
Keywords: gender; backcountry recreation; avalanche education; risk-taking behavior; risk perception; decision-making
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Title: CLIMATE-DRIVEN SHIFTS IN SNOWPACK CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR WET SNOW AVALANCHES: INSIGHTS FROM SNOW COVER MODEL SIMULATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Walter Steinkogler
Description: Effective knowledge transfer is critical to operational continuity and safety in high-risk environments. When knowledge transfer fails, operational ri...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.31.pdf
Keywords: knowledge transfer, explicit knowledge, tacit knowledge, seci model, avalanche forecasting.
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Title: CLIMATE-DRIVEN SHIFTS IN SNOWPACK CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR WET SNOW AVALANCHES: INSIGHTS FROM SNOW COVER MODEL SIMULATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Andrea Bruckmeier, Christoph Mitterer, Karl Birkeland, Eric Sproles, Erich Peitzsch
Description: Forecasting wet snow avalanches remains a major challenge due to their temporal and spatial variability. Long-term climate trends are producing more v...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.48.pdf
Keywords: snowpack, wet snow, snow depth, pgw, long-term trends, avalanche forecasting
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Title: SITE SPECIFIC WARNING POLLFJELLET AKA "THE AVALANCHE MACHINE", THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Kristin Brandtsegg Lome, Hallvard Skaare Nordbrøden, Siiri Wickström, Nils Arne Kavli Walberg
Description: The mountain “Pollfjellet” in Lyngen municipality has several avalanche paths, and a radar is installed as a mitigation measure to detect avalanch...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.1.pdf
Keywords: site-specific, avalanche warning, meteorological condition
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Title: APPLICATION AND EVALUATION OF THE EAWS GUIDELINES FOR SITE-SPECIFIC AVALANCHE WARNING
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Dr. Christian Jaedicke, Dr. Fabiano Monti, Paola Dellavedova, Lukas Stoffel, Sergio Azzarello, Toni Molné
Description: The EAWS (European Avalanche Warning Services) recommendations for site-specific avalanche warning were officially adopted in 2022. The guidelines pro...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.2.pdf
Keywords: avalanche warning, site-specific, risk management, eaws
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Title: PROJECT CAIROS: HARMONIZING AVALANCHE COMMISSIONS’ WORKFLOW, TRAINING AND TOOLS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Michael Winkler, Alice Gasperi, Jakob Schwarz, Christoph Hesselbach, Anne St. Clair, Silke Griesser, Sergio Benigni, Mauro Gaddo, Michela Munari, Manuel Genswein, Christoph Mitterer, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Marc Adams, Harald Riedl
Description: In many parts of the European Alps, local operational avalanche hazard management is understood as being avalanche commission work. In this context, n...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche commission, avalanche safety, risk management, dynamic avalanche modeling, cross-border collaboration
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Title: ANALYZING AUTOMATED AND METEOROLOGIST-DERIVED QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECASTS: OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS IN HIGHWAY AVALANCHE FORECASTING PROGRAMS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: John Stimberis, Seth Waterfall, Rachel Griffith
Description: Mountain weather significantly influences avalanche activity in maritime snow climates. The rapid accumulation of precipitation from snow or rain-on-s...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, weather forecasting, weather data, forecast accuracy, highways, precipitation.
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Title: REPEATED UAS LIDAR SCANNING OF SNOW SURFACE TO SUPPORT SITE-SPECIFIC AVALANCHE WARNING
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Emil Solbakken
Description: Site-specific avalanche warning often involves assessment of avalanche hazard in remote avalanche paths with limited observations of relevant snowpack...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.5.pdf
Keywords: lidar, uas, site-specific avalanche warning
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Title: HUMAN VS. MACHINE - COMPARING MODEL PREDICTIONS AND HUMAN FORECASTS OF AVALANCHE DANGER AND SNOW INSTABILITY IN THE SWISS ALPS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Frank Techel, Andrea Helfenstein, Stephanie Mayer, Cristina Pérez-Guillén, Ross Purves, Marc Ruesch, Günter Schmudlach, Katia Soland, Kurt Winkler
Description: In recent years, the integration of physical snowpack models coupled with machine-learning techniques has become more prevalent in public avalanche fo...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.6.pdf
Keywords: public avalanche forecasting, forecast verification, machine learning, model-driven predictions
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Title: DATA-DRIVEN AVALANCHE FORECASTING - USING WEATHER AND SATELLITE DATA
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Jakob Grahn, Filippo Maria Bianchi, Karsten Müller, Eirik Malnes
Description: Avalanche forecasting is essential for safety in mountainous regions where avalanches threaten human life and infrastructure. Traditional methods for...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, forecasting, machine learning, satellite, meteorology
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Title: ASSESSING CRITICAL WET-SNOW AVALANCHE SITUATIONS WITH SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED SNOW COVER SIMULATIONS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Andrea Bruckmeier, Erwin Rottler, Michael Warscher, Ulrich Strasser, Christoph Mitterer
Description: In recent years, physics-based snow cover models have gained importance in supporting avalanche forecasting to better assess critical avalanche condit...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.8.pdf
Keywords: wet snow, openamundsen, snowpack, liquid water content, avalanche problems, snow cover simulations
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Title: INTEGRATING AUTOMATED AVALANCHE DETECTIONS FOR VALIDATING AND EXPLAINING AVALANCHE FORECASTING MODELS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Cristina Pérez-Guillén, Andri Simeon, Frank Techel, Michele Volpi, Betty Sovilla, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Snow avalanches are the deadliest natural hazards in Switzerland and cause significant economic losses annually. Therefore, avalanche detection and pr...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.9.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, automatic avalanche detection, machine learning models
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