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Title: IMPROVING WORKER SAFETY AND ACCESS TIMING WITH AVALANCHE RADAR IN A COMPLEX SKI RESORT: CRANS-MONTANA-AMINONA, SWITZERLAND
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Fabrice Meyer, Severin Stähly, Susanne Wahlen
Description: The Crans-Montana-Aminona (CMA) ski resort lies on the southern side of the Alpine main ridge in Valais, Switzerland, on predominantly south-facing te...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O6.6.pdf
Keywords: avalanche radar, doppler detection, remote avalanche control, worker safety, ski resort access management
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Title: THE CHALLENGES OF MANAGING GLACIATED AVALANCHE TERRAIN AT A SKI AREA: LESSONS FROM BLACKCOMB MOUNTAIN
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Koshure, Nicole, Gould, Brian, Campbell, Cam, Tessier, Alexis
Description: Whistler Blackcomb (WB), the largest ski resort in North America, contains glaciated avalanche terrain, including the Horstman and Blackcomb Glaciers....
Object ID: ISSW2026_O6.7.pdf
Keywords: glacial recession, climate change, avalanche terrain, avalanche hazard, risk management, remote sensing, adaptive risk management
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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: FROM UAS SNOW DEPTH SURVEYS TO AVALANCHE RUNOUT: A MODEL CHAIN OF AVALANCHE RUNOUT FOR HIGHWAY FORECASTING OPERATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ron Simenhois, Ryan Zarter, Valerie Foley, John Snook, Mike Cooperstein, Ethan Greene
Description: Avalanche programs that protect highways need to know whether an avalanche in a specific path will reach the road. Forecasters estimate this from expe...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O7.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, runout modeling, uas, photogrammetry, snowpack modeling, crack propagation
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Title: FORECASTING AVALANCHES IN DATA-SPARSE CENTRAL ASIA USING SNOWPACK AND WEATHER MODELING WITH AVALANCHE OBSERVATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Itai Sheleg, Doug Chabot, John Snook, Jaime Peters, Walter Steinkogler, Ron Simenhois
Description: Avalanches in Central Asia, particularly in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Pakistan, are a persistent hazard, causing hundreds of fatalities in severe w...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O7.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snowpack, bayesian modeling, central asia
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Title: SAR REMOTE SENSING AS A SUPPORT TOOL FOR OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE FORECASTING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Alberto Mariani, Jacopo Borsotti, Martin Metzger, Giacomo Villa, Luca Dellarole, Martin Ahrland Stefan, Franz Livio, Fabiano Monti
Description: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) remote sensing has increasingly been exploited for snow and avalanche research to derive spatially explicit information...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O7.6.pdf
Keywords: synthetic aperture radar; remote sensing; wet snow; snow depth; avalanche deposits
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Title: AVALANCHE FORECASTING FOR ICE CLIMBERS: ESTIMATING EXPOSURE AND MANAGING OPERATIONAL UNCERTAINTY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Tim Ricci
Description: Avalanche bulletins give us the regional picture, but ice-climbing decisions are made at one climb, one start zone, one runout, and often one short se...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O8.2.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, ice climbing, spatial scale, uncertainty, exposure, operational risk
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Title: REVISITING AVALANCHE DESTRUCTIVE SCALE AND ASSOCIATED MASS ESTIMATES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Erich H. Peitzsch, John M. Sykes, Zachary M. Guy, Ron Simenhois, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Avalanche destructive (D) size classifications are essential for forecasting, communication, and risk management, yet size estimation remains one of t...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O8.3.pdf
Keywords: destructive scale, avalanche size, avalanche mass.
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Title: VISUALIZATION OF RUN USAGE HISTORY AND OBSERVATIONS AS A DECISION-MAKING AID DURING PERIODS OF PERSISTENT WEAK LAYER AVALANCHE RISK
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Tristen Rasmussen, John Forrest, Ryan Merrill
Description: Management of persistent weak layer (PWL) avalanche risk to guests and workers in the Helicopter Skiing Industry is of critical importance. PWL avalan...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O8.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, terrain usage, decision tools.
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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: ASSIMILATION OF HUMAN JUDGMENT FOR MACHINE-GENERATED AVALANCHE TENDENCY FORECASTS: PERFORMANCE GAINS AND THE RISK OF FORECAST FEEDBACK LOOPS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Frank Techel, Marc Ruesch, Stephanie Mayer
Description: Swiss avalanche forecasters will soon issue map-based tendency forecasts two to three days ahead, a demanding and time-consuming task. We examine whet...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O9.2.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, feedback loops, artificial intelligence, decision-support systems
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Title: APPLYING THE AVALANCHE DANGER SCALE: CONSISTENCY DEPENDS MORE ON THE SITUATION THAN THE FORECASTER
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Brian Lazar, Dylan Craaybeek, Frank Techel, Simon Horton, Mike Cooperstein, Simon Trautman, Ethan Greene
Description: Public avalanche forecasts compress complex hazard assessments into a single danger level to guide backcountry recreationists' terrain choices. Danger...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O9.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger scale, forecaster consistency, inter-rater reliability, judgment aggregation, avalanche problems, public avalanche forecasting
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Title: HOW AND WHY ARE SNOWPACK MODELS USED OPERATIONALLY?
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Zachary Miller, Simon Horton, Stan Nowak, Christine Donnelly
Description: Public avalanche forecasters in North America rely on sparse weather station and field observation networks, coupled with numerical weather models, to...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O9.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snowpack modeling, large-scale operational model chain, spatial variability, avalanche problems
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Title: CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN SATELLITES AND FORECASTERS: EXPERIENCES FROM THE SWEDISH MOUNTAINS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jakob Grahn, Daniel Stødle, Petter Palmgren, Anton Grindgärds, Mattias Tarestad
Description: Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can help observe avalanches across large and remote areas, but detection results alone are not enough for ro...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O9.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, synthetic aperture radar, avalanche detection, visualisation
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Title: AN EXTRAORDINARY WINTER IN TIROL: PERSISTENT WEAK LAYERS, PRO-LONGED INSTABILITY, AND COMMUNICATION CHALLENGES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Matthias Walcher, Patrick Nairz, Bengt Haunerland
Description: The 2025/26 winter season in Tirol, Austria, was characterized by an unusually widespread basal persistent weak layer (PWL) that remained relevant unt...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O9.6.pdf
Keywords: persistent weak layer, avalanche forecasting, prolonged instability, avalanche communication, lift-accessed terrain, operational resilience
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