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Title: IMPROVING THE DATA BASIS FOR THE PRACTICAL ASSESSMENT OF SNOW SLIDE IMPACTS FOR PRACTICAL AVALANCHE ENGINEERING AND HAZARD MAPPING APPLICATIONS IN AUSTRIA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Andreas Huber, Christoph Hesselbach, Felix Oesterle, Matthias Granig, Christian Tollinger, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: Snow slide hazard and risk assessment is increasingly relevant in the operational work of the Austrian Service for Torrent and Avalanche Control (WLV)...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.46.pdf
Keywords: snow slide, avalanche modeling, rapid assessment, surrogate models, avalanche engineering
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Title: SHALLOW BUT STILL LONG: PECULIAR AVALANCHE ACTIVITY IN NORTHERN NORWAY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Matrin Ahrland Stefan, Holt Hancock, Peter Gauer
Description: Between December 3rd and 4th, 2025 some peculiar natural avalanches occurred in Tverrbotn adjacent to the Andersdalen valley, approx. 20 km south of T...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.26.pdf
Keywords: shallow avalanches, field observations, avalanche modeling.
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Title: STATEWIDE AVALANCHE HAZARD MODELING ALONG ALASKA'S TRANSPORTATION CORRIDORS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Gabriel J. Wolken, Elizabeth Fischer, Yves Bühler, Marc Christen, Katreen Wikstrom Jones
Description: Alaska's road and rail network traverses some of the most active and least observed avalanche terrain in North America, creating persistent challenges...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O2.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche modeling, transportation corridors, alaska, hazard indication mapping, climate reanalysis.
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Title: FROM MILITARY OUTPOST TO MAJOR ALPINE RESORT: OPERATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND DIGITALIZATION OF THE PATROL AND RESCUE SERVICE IN THE ANDERMATT–SEDRUN–DISENTIS SKI RESORT
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Carlo Danioth, Stefanie Cavaletti, Luc Danioth, David Monn, Björn Becker, Matthias Pleyer, Walter Steinkogler
Description: Over the past two decades, Andermatt has grown from a military-influenced mountain village into one of central Switzerland's most significant winter s...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O6.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche modeling, transportation corridors, alaska, hazard indication mapping, climate reanalysis.
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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: REGIONAL-SCALE AVALANCHE MODELING WITH COM4FLOWPY—POTENTIAL AND LIMITATIONS FOR CONSIDERING AVALANCHE-FOREST INTERACTION ALONG THE AVALANCHE TRACK
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Andreas Huber, Laura Saxer, Paula Spannring, Christoph Hesselbach, Michael Neuhauser, Christopher J.L. D’Amboise, Michaela Teich
Description: Flow-Py is an empirically motivated tool for the simulation of gravitational mass flows (GMFs) and has recently been integrated into the Open Avalanch...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P4.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche modeling, forest-effects, regional-scale, empirical, avaframe
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Title: ASSESSING POWDER CLOUD IMPACT ON ELECTRICAL TRANSMISSION LINES AT SNOWSLIDE CREEK AVALANCHE PATH IN SOUTHEAST ALASKA
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Katreen Wikstrom Jones, Gabriel J. Wolken, Michael Janes, Chris Wilbur, Julia Glaus, Perry Bartelt, Marc Christen
Description: Power transmission lines conduct electricity across avalanche terrain to communities in Alaska. Many of the towers along these lines have been redesig...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.40.pdf
Keywords: avalanche modeling, powder avalanche, powder cloud, avalanche engineering, lidar, snow mapping
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Title: USING SNOW REMOTE SENSING AND AVALANCHE SIMULATIONS TO INFORM THE PLACEMENT OF REMOTE AVALANCHE CONTROL SYSTEMS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Katreen Wikstrom Jones, Gabriel J. Wolken, Matt McKee, Perry Bartelt, Yves Buhler, Marc Christen
Description: Snow avalanches regularly damage infrastructure and block transportation corridors in mountainous regions in Alaska, impeding access to natural resour...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O13.02.pdf
Keywords: avalanche modeling, remote avalanche control systems, remote sensing, lidar, snow mapping
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Title: Historic snow avalanches in the Pyrenees: the destruction of the small village of Àrreu (Pallars Sobirà)
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Elena Muntán, Pere Oller
Description: Snow-avalanche events which cause destruction and loss of human lives stand out in the memory of people. In the Pyrenees several such avalanches are h...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P03.14.pdf
Keywords: historical snow avalanches, pyrenees, dendrogeomorphology, snow avalanche modeling.
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Title: Model fusion - from weather activity to avalanche length
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Lisa Jöbstl, Matthias Granig, Arnold Studeregger
Description: For a technical improvement of forecasting the snow situation and possible avalanches in single slopes the Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geod...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P08.17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche modeling, forecast, model chain, avalanche simulation.
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Title: Using Spatially Distributed Statistical Models for Avalanche Runout Estimation
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Andreas Huber, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Andreas Kofler, Karl Kleemayr
Description: State of the art physical-dynamical avalanche models are a commonly used tool in avalanche research and practice. Research and practical experience ha...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.38.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, avalanche modeling, raster-based modeling, regional-scale, hazard-indicator maps
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Title: West Twin Avalanche- Helicopter Involvement: How Safe are Our Pick-up Locations?
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Jeff Honig, Perry Bartelt, Yves Bühler
Description: On Feb 19 2014, a Bell 205 helicopter of Selkirk Tangiers Heli Skiing (STHS), was shut down at one of the most highly used pick-ups within their tenur...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O14.04.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, helicopter, heliskiing, avalanche modeling, air blast
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Title: Safety Concept "Liesele Avalanche", A High Resoultion Appoach To Support Decision Making of Avalanche Commissions and to Analyze the Usage of Protection Measures
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Alexander Prokop, Clemens Schekulin, Josef Pichler, Reinhard Kaplanski
Description: In April 2009 an avalanche event at the Liesgele avalanche track in Carinthia, Austria, destroyed an electrical tower and stopped only 100 m away from...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P2.34.pdf
Keywords: avalanche modeling, wind field modeling, terrestrial laser scanning, decision making
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Title: Probabilistic Calibration of Avalanche Block Models
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Peter Gauer, Zenon Medina-Cetina, Karstein Lied, Krister Kristensen
Description: The Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) has been operating the full-scale avalanche test-site Ryggfonn in western Norway for more than 25 years. Du...
Object ID: P__8044.pdf
Keywords: probabilistic avalanche modeling, bayesian modeling, calibration, prior knowledge, stochastic framework
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Title: The Relationship Between Introductory Snow Hydrology Field Methods and Level I Avalanche Courses
Date: 2004
Authors: S.R. Fassnacht, A.E. Sawyer, E. Foster
Description: The International Snow Science Workshop focuses primarily on avalanche and related issues. To be aware of safety concerns, those taking snowpack meas...
Object ID: issw-2004-721.pdf
Keywords: snow hydrology, avalanche safety, avalanche modeling
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