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Title: HUMAN AVALANCHE EXPOSURE: A MISSING LINK IN REAL-TIME AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jeremy Hanke, Shena Thomas, Iain Stewart-Patterson
Description: Regional avalanche forecasts and terrain-classification systems describe avalanche conditions and terrain, but they do not explicitly classify the dyn...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS1.3.pdf
Keywords: human avalanche exposure; motorized travel; human positioning; avalanche risk management; rescue readiness; decision support
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Title: THE RUN LIST IN MECHANISED SKIING: HISTORY, EVOLUTION AND CURRENT PRACTICE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Peter Macpherson, Scott Thumlert
Description: Managing exposure to avalanche hazard through terrain selection is the primary avalanche risk mitigation strategy in winter backcountry guiding. The r...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O10.3.pdf
Keywords: run list, run coding, mechanized skiing, canadian mountain holidays, terrain selection, avalanche risk management, decision-making
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Title: A CLOSER LOOK AT SLOPE ANGLES OF ACCIDENTALLY TRIGGERED PERSISTENT AND DEEP PERSISTENT SLAB AVALANCHES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Roger Atkins, John Sykes, Nicholas Rigby, Pascal Haegeli
Description: Persistent slab avalanches remain a challenge for backcountry avalanche risk management. Of the 222 fatal avalanche accidents in Canada with known wea...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O10.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk management, perception gap, lingering instability, low angle avalanches
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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: 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
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Title: AN AUTOMATIC AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (AVALARMS)
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Francesc Grau, Pere Oller
Description: Endesa, a gas and electricity company belonging to the Enel group, has dozens of roads leading to its hydropower assets, scattered in a wide area in t...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.19.pdf
Keywords: automatic avalanche risk management, road safety
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Title: 33 YEARS IN THE SERVICE OF THE AVALANCHE-SAFETY-TEAM IDALPE - A LOOK BACK AT IMPORTANT MILESTONES AND DEVELOPMENTS IN THE AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT OF THE ISCHGL SKI RESORT
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Serafin Siegele, Paul Dobesberger, Harald Riedl
Description: 33 winters, Serafin Siegele was an integral part of the avalanche-safety-team in the ski resort Ischgl. Not only are the slopes in the ski area and th...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O10.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk management, avalanche safety team, ski area management, controlled avalanche release, racs
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Title: DIFFERENTIATING CONTEXTS ACROSS EUROPEAN AVALANCHE COMMISSIONS TO SUPPORT FUTURE DEVELOPMENT: AN INVITATION TO UNIFY EFFORTS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Anne St. Clair, Pascal Haegeli, Walter Steinkogler, Michael Winkler, Alice Gasperi, Jakob Schwartz
Description: The risk from avalanches to infrastructure and the general public is managed in a wide range of contexts that differ in operational scale, number of p...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P10.8.pdf
Keywords: avalanche commissions, operational avalanche risk management, program development, product design
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Title: TERRAIN SELECTION TACTICS FOR HELICOPTER SKIING - MANAGING AVALANCHE RISK DURING THE 2022-23 SEASON
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Scott Thumlert, Criag McGee, Carl Trescher
Description: Managing snow avalanche risk during guided helicopter skiing operations is critical for guest and worker safety. The 2022-23 winter snowpack in Britis...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O14.04.pdf
Keywords: guided helicopter skiing, terrain selection tactics, avalanche risk management, deep persistent slab avalanche problem.
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Title: Wind transport scenarios based on the slope aspect for avalanche risk management purposes
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Eloïse Bovet, Luca Pitet, Igor Torlai, Valerio Segor, Paola Dellavedova, Umberto Pellegrini
Description: Avalanche risk management assumes an in-depth knowledge of the nivometeorological situation to which tools for the definition of avalanche potential r...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O02.1.pdf
Keywords: snow-drift, forecast, avalanche risk management, avalanche scenario.
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Title: Increasing the operational usability of the snow cover model SNOWPACK
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Fabiano Monti, Christoph Mitterer, Walter Steinkogler
Description: Snow cover modelling has large potential to increase the spatial and temporal resolution of snow stratigraphy and stability information available for ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P10.28.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche risk management, snow cover simulations, snowpack model
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Title: LAWIS - A Collaborative Data Communication Portal for Avalanche Risk Management and Prevention
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Karel Kriz, Patrick Nairz, Gernot Zenkl
Description: LAWIS (lawis.at) is a portal for sustainable data retrieval, dissemination and communication of avalanche relevant information. The acronym stands for...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P18.2.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk management and prevention, web-portal, geo-communication
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Title: A new, guide-focused approach for characterizing skiing terrain to facilitate risk management decisions and research
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Brendan F. Wakefield, Pascal Haegeli, Reto Sterchi, Roger Atkins, Clair Israelson
Description: Perception of terrain characteristics is fundamental to risk and hazard management for professional guides in mechanized skiing operations. Existing t...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O19.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain, terrain characterization, ski guiding, avalanche risk management
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Title: What type of ski runs are acceptable for skiing under different avalanche hazard conditions? Extracting knowledge from heli-ski guides
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Reto Sterchi, Pascal Haegeli
Description: While guides in mechanized skiing operations use a well-established terrain selection process to limit their exposure to avalanche hazard and keep the...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P19.5.pdf
Keywords: mixed effects model, avalanche risk management, terrain selection, decision making, helicopter skiing, conceptual model of avalanche hazard
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