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Title: TOWARDS AN AUTOMATED AVALANCHE THALWEG ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY AND COMPARE AVALANCHE TERRAIN
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Paula Spannring, Christoph Hesselbach, Andreas Huber, Anna Wirbel, Felix Oesterle, John Sykes, Alberto Mariani, Declan Knies, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: To reduce complexity of avalanche simulation outputs in three-dimensional terrain, individual avalanches can be represented by thalwegs. A thalweg des...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain identification, avalanche size, avalanche mobility, automated model chain
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Title: AVALANCHE SCENARIO MAPS: FROM TERRAIN IDENTIFICATION TO DECISION SUPPORT TOOL
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Christoph Hesselbach, Jakob Schwarz, Paula Spannring, Anna Wirbel, Andreas Huber, Michael Winkler, Christoph Mitterer, Harald Riedl, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: Site-specific avalanche warning requires spatially explicit estimates of where avalanches may release, how they may propagate, and what size they may ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain identification, avalanche scenario maps, site-specific avalanche warning, avalanche size, avalanche simulation, decision support
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Title: Slab Fractures during Dynamic Crack Propagation in Dry-Snow Slab Avalanches
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Francis Meloche, Bertil Trottet, Grégoire Bobillier, Johan Gaume
Description: Predicting the size of dry-snow slab avalanches remains difficult, limiting hazard assessment despite major advances in the understanding of crack ini...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O1.7.pdf
Keywords: slab fracture, crack propagation, avalanche size, release size index
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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: TOWARDS A TECHNICAL AND COMMUNICATION SCHEME FOR AVALANCHE SIZE CLASSIFICATION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jan-Thomas Fischer, Paula Spannring, Christoph Hesselbach, Andreas Huber, Anna Wirbel, Anselm Koehler, Betty Sovilla, Peter Gauer, Scott Thumlert
Description: The 1981 Avalanche Atlas is a landmark achievement in snow and avalanche science. It provides a unified, multilingual framework for describing and cla...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche atlas, avalanche size, avalanche classification, avalanche dynamics, iacs
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Title: USING TOTAL AVALANCHE VOLUME TO ASSESS CONSISTENCY IN OPERATION AVALANCHE SIZE REPORTING.
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: M. Sydney White
Description: Avalanche size assignments often rely on visual estimates of key parameters such as destructive potential, debris extent, and avalanche mass, all of w...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.41.pdf
Keywords: avalanche size, avalanche volume, avalanche volume deposits
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Title: PHOTOGENIC AVALANCHES: WHAT MAKES AN OBSERVER PHOTO USEFUL FOR ESTIMATING AVALANCHE SIZE?
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Andy Moderow, Jeremiah Lance, Ben Crosier, Eva Lotosuo
Description: People entering the backcountry rely on avalanche forecasts for up-to-date knowledge about the avalanche hazard. In return, backcountry travelers supp...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.56.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche size, observations, photos
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Title: THE FOUR KEY COMPONENTS OF THE PHYSICAL HAZARD POSED BY SNOW AVALANCHES ACROSS TERRAIN
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Scott Thumlert
Description: Forecasting the physical hazard posed by snow avalanches is the prediction of the magnitude, likelihood, timing, and location of potential avalanches ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard, forecasting, hazard assessment and communication, avalanche size, likelihood, spatial distribution
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Title: WHY OBSERVERS' MAY NOT AGREE ON THE DESTRUCTIVE POTENTIAL SIZE RATING AND A DRAFT SCALE FOR MORE CONSISTENT RATINGS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Tyler Carson, Lisa Larson, Brendan Martland, Bruce Jamieson
Description: When looking at the same avalanche, observers sometimes rate the size differently on the Destructive scale. Different ratings for similar avalanches a...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O1.05.pdf
Keywords: avalanche size, destructive potential, damage potential, avalanche classification
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Title: EXPERIMENTS ON SELF-SUSTAINED CRACK PROPAGATION IN AVALANCHES
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Bastian Bergfeld, Melin Walet, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: If a slab avalanche is triggered, how big will it be? This question is crucial for avalanche forecasters and backcountry travelers alike, yet it is di...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O2.02.pdf
Keywords: avalanche release, fracture mechanics, avalanche size, dynamic crack propagation, supershear
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Title: SPEED MATTERS: INVESTIGATING THE RELATION BETWEEN WEAK LAYER CRACK SPEED AND PROPAGATION DISTANCE
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Bastian Bergfeld, Melin Walet, Andreas Fichtner, Karl Birkeland
Description: Crack propagation in weak snowpack layers is a fundamental process in slab avalanche formation. It is now widely accepted that before an avalanche rel...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O9.02.pdf
Keywords: crack propagation, crack speed, propagation distance, avalanche size
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Title: Relationship between avalanche size and frequency based on avalanche video image observation in a warm snowy region
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Kazuya Akiyama, Yusuke Harada
Description: Avalanche observation site was established on the east side slope and foot of Mt. Gongendake (1104m a.s.l.), central Japan, in a warm snowy region whe...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P01.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche tremor and video image observation, avalanche size, avalanche frequency.
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Title: Avalanche probability: Slab release and the effect of forest cover
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Peter Gauer
Description: One of the main challenges in regard to hazard mapping is to estimate avalanche probabilities and avalanche size for a given path. One reason for this...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P01.13.pdf
Keywords: avalanche probability, avalanche size, hazard mapping, forest.
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Title: Quantifying the obvious: the avalanche danger level
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Christoph Mitterer, Frank Techel, Andreas Stoffel, Benjamin Reuter
Description: The avalanche danger level is the key communication vehicle when it comes to describing the avalanche situation and issuing public warnings. Yet the f...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O11.6.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow instability, avalanche triggering, avalanche size
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Title: How Big is Big: Results of the Avalanche Size Classification Survey
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Ivan Moner, Sara Orgué, Jordi Gavaldà, Montse Bacardit
Description: Avalanche size is a key parameter in avalanche danger rating as well as in the communication between technicians. In 2009 the European Avalanche Warni...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-05.pdf
Keywords: avalanche size, survey, eaws
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