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Title: FORECASTING STORM-SNOW AVALANCHES USING A COMBINED SHEAR AND ANTICRACK INSTABILITY MATRIX
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Benjamin H. Silberman, Eric R. Pardyjak, Dhiraj K. Singh, Jim Steenburgh, Steven Clark, Travis Morrison, Jack Eskeland
Description: Forecasting storm-snow avalanches remain challenging due to limited access to the mechanical properties of snow during active snowfall and the lack of...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O4.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, storm-snow, anticrack, shear strength, stability index, densification
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Title: GLIDE-SNOW AVALANCHE MECHANICS: VELOCITY-DEPENDENT SNOW-GROUND INTERFACIAL FRICTION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Grégoire Bobillier, Rosa Schnebli, Miguel Cabrera, James Glover, Alec van Herwijnen, Johan Gaume, Christophe Ancey, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Glide-snow avalanches occur when the entire snow cover slowly slides downslope and suddenly releases and forms an avalanche. The physical processes co...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O4.4.pdf
Keywords: glide-snow avalanche, snow-ground interface, rate-dependent friction
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Title: A PRACTITIONER'S PERSPECTIVE ON TOOLS FOR UNDERSTANDING WIND FIELDS, SNOW DRIFT, AND SNOW DISTRIBUTION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Holt Hancock, Kjersti Gisnås, Peter Gauer, Nikolas Aksamit, Anna Poltronieri, Christian Jaedicke, Anders Kleiven
Description: Understanding how, where, and when snow accumulates due to blowing and drifting snow processes plays a key role in avalanche forecasting, hazard mappi...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O4.5.pdf
Keywords: snow drift, blowing snow, wind, avalanche forecasting, planning.
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Title: ON HOW THE TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF SLAB AND WEAK LAYER PROPERTIES AFFECTS FAILURE INITIATION AND CRACK PROPAGATION IN DRY-SNOW SLAB AVALANCHE FORMATION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Benjamin Reuter, Christoph Mitterer
Description: In the European Alps, the avalanche situation in winter 2025/26 was dominated by persistent weak layers. Very many dry-snow slab avalanches were trigg...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O4.6.pdf
Keywords: dry-snow slab avalanche, failure initiation, crack propagation, snow stability, weak layer, strength, toughness
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Title: AVALANCHE PATH-SPECIFIC CRITICAL WIND ENVELOPES FOR START-ZONE LOADING IN COMPLEX TERRAIN
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Seth Hewie, Eirik Sharp
Description: Wind loading is a key mechanism of slab avalanche formation, and forecasting requires detailed local terrain and climatological knowledge. Models of w...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O4.7.pdf
Keywords: weather forecasting and climate, avalanche forecasting, avalanche formation, terrain
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Title: TESTING OF DRONE AVALANCHE CONTROL IN JASPER NATIONAL PARK
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Amanda Bischke
Description: Recent technological and regulatory advances in drones have enabled the technology to become a new avalanche control tool. The flexible use of drones ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O5.1.pdf
Keywords: drone, avalanche control, rpas, uas
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Title: WHICH BUILDINGS ARE AT RISK? MEET ALARM: AN AUTOMATED WORKFLOW LINKING AVALANCHE RUNOUT MODELLING TO BUILDING RISK ASSESSMENT FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN NORWAY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Leonie Kommerell, Håvard Boutera Toft, Gustav Pless, Karin Bergbjørn
Description: During periods of high/extreme avalanche hazard, decision makers need to identify which buildings may be exposed and where field assessments or evacua...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O5.2.pdf
Keywords: avalanche exposure, emergency management, potential release areas, runout modelling, decision support, building prioritization
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Title: TOWARDS AUTOMATIC AVALANCHE DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION USING SEISMIC AND INFRASOUND ARRAY DATA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Christine Seupel, Patrick Düggelin, Andri Simeon, Cristina Pérez-Guillén, Andreas Fichtner, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Reliable avalanche detection and localization are essential for effective hazard mitigation. They support avalanche forecasting, risk management, and ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O5.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, seismic, infrasound, array processing, instrumentation and remote sensing
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Title: AN INTEGRATED MULTI-INSTRUMENT FRAMEWORK FOR OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT: THE MILANO CORTINA 2026 WINTER OLYMPICS IN LIVIGNO, ITALY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Fabiano Monti, Alberto Mariani, Martin Metzger, Luca Dellarole, Giacomo Villa, Diana Lazzeri
Description: Avalanche risk management in complex alpine environments increasingly relies on the integration of heterogeneous data sources and modelling approaches...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O5.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk management; multi-instrument monitoring; snowpack; prism; avaframe; sar remote sensing; winter olympics
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Title: METHODS FOR EVALUATING AVALANCHE LOADS ON BRIDGES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Greg Johnson, Alan Jones, Chris Wilbur, John Stimberis
Description: Transportation corridors crossing mountainous terrain frequently intersect avalanche paths capable of producing destructive snow avalanches. Avalanche...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O5.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche loads, avalanche bridges, bridge design, transportation infrastructure, structural loading, avalanche mitigation
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Title: PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES WITH THE OPEN-SOURCE AVALANCHE SIMULATION TOOL AVAFRAME
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Matthias Granig, Felix Oesterle, Engelbert Gleirscher
Description: Since 2023, the open-source avalanche simulation framework AvaFrame has been in operational use. Developed through a cooperation between the Austrian ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O5.6.pdf
Keywords: avalanche modelling, avaframe, open-source tool, natural hazards, practical use.
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Title: EXPERIENCES ON EFFECTIVE APPLICATIONS OF SITE-SPECIFIC AVALANCHE WARNING IN AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Holt Hancock, Piotr Kupiszewski, Steinar Bakkehøi
Description: Avalanche warning as a mitigation measure was introduced in Norway when the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute's (NGI) avalanche research station at Fon...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O5.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche warning, risk management, risk communication
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Title: USE OF HAZARD RATING SCALES WITHIN A SKI AREA OPERATIONAL CONTEXT
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Wendolyn C. Antibus
Description: Hazard rating scales are widely utilized in both public and operational forecasting contexts as a communication tool. While the output of the CMAH pro...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O6.1.pdf
Keywords: hazard ratings, operational forecasting, avalanche hazard, infoex, worker safety
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Title: FOLLOWING THE DATA: LESSONS LEARNED FROM A DECADE OF MAPPING AVALANCHES AND EXPLOSIVE USE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Alex Mithoefer, Malia Reeves, Taos Ski Patrol
Description: Taos Ski Valley Ski Patrol has been using GIS mapping software to record explosive use and avalanche activity since 2015. In over a decade, we have d...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O6.3.pdf
Keywords: mapping, explosives, avalanches, ski resort, avalanche mitigation, gis
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Title: TRACKING WET SNOW AVALANCHE FREQUENCY AND SEASONAL PATTERNS AT ALYESKA RESORT, GIRDWOOD, ALASKA, FROM 1968 TO 2026
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Aleph Johnston-Bloom, Jeff Bristow
Description: This study uses 58 seasons (1968/69–2025/26) of avalanche records from Alyeska Resort in Girdwood, Alaska, to evaluate changes in the recorded frequ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O6.4.pdf
Keywords: wet snow, climate, avalanche forecasting, machine learning
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