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- Title: REPLICATING SLAB AVALANCHE INITIATION: A FIELD TEST FOR CONTROLLED ANTICRACK NUCLEATION
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Valentin Adam, Yannik Werner, Jakob Schöttner, Melin D. E. Walet, Florian Rheinschmidt, Philipp Weißgraeber, Alec van Herwijnen, Philipp L. Rosendahl
- Description: Failure nucleation in slab avalanches is typically hidden beneath the snowpack, which, among other factors, makes this phenomenon so mysterious and di...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O1.2.pdf
- Keywords: dry-snow slab avalanches, fracture initiation, finite fracture mechanics, release potential, stability assessment, field test
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- Title: ON EXPLOSIVE BLAST WAVES AND SNOW: Insights from measurements with time-synchronized air pressure sensors and geophones
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Benjamin Meier, Samuel V. Verplanck
- Description: In a project funded by the Transportation Avalanche Research Pool (TARP), we investigated the interaction between explosive blast waves and the snowpa...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O1.4.pdf
- Keywords: explosives, avalanches, pressure, shockwave, experiments, geophones
- View additional details about ON EXPLOSIVE BLAST WAVES AND SNOW: Insights from measurements with time-synchronized air pressure sensors and geophones
- 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
- View additional details about A CLOSER LOOK AT SLOPE ANGLES OF ACCIDENTALLY TRIGGERED PERSISTENT AND DEEP PERSISTENT SLAB AVALANCHES
- Title: LARGE AVALANCHES IN FORESTED TERRAIN IN PIRIN MOUNTAINS – TREE-RING AND NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS ANALYSIS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Momchil Panayotov, Nickolay Tsvetanov, Violeta Kotova, Valentin Balov, Yves Bühler, Perry Bartelt, Peter Bebi
- Description: Pirin National park in Bulgaria is refuge of some of the best-preserved endemic Pinus peuce and Pinus heldreichii forests in the world. Due to the ste...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O11.4.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, dendrochronology, ramms::extended, pirin mountains, bulgaria
- View additional details about LARGE AVALANCHES IN FORESTED TERRAIN IN PIRIN MOUNTAINS – TREE-RING AND NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS ANALYSIS
- Title: SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION OF THE LOCAL CRITICALITY OF RECENT OVERLOADS AND TEMPERATURE EFFECTS TO MITIGATE AVALANCHE RISK FOR TRAFFIC ROADS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Camille Ligneau, Frédéric Pourraz, Alain Duclos, Jill Chevalier, Gilles Mauris
- Description: The closing of roads due to snow avalanches is a common issue in mountainous regions during winter. The decision to temporarily restrict traffic acces...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O2.2.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, traffic roads, criticality, expert system, fuzzy logic.
- View additional details about SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION OF THE LOCAL CRITICALITY OF RECENT OVERLOADS AND TEMPERATURE EFFECTS TO MITIGATE AVALANCHE RISK FOR TRAFFIC ROADS
- 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
- View additional details about FOLLOWING THE DATA: LESSONS LEARNED FROM A DECADE OF MAPPING AVALANCHES AND EXPLOSIVE USE
- Title: MOUNTAIN ROADS AND AVALANCHES: RISK ASSESSMENT
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Massimo Raviglione, Ludovico Raviglione
- Description: Mountain roads, due to their nature, are constantly subject to natural hazards (landslides, rockfalls, debris flows, avalanches, ice, etc.) which, dur...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.25.pdf
- Keywords: hazard, danger, risk, avalanches, roads
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- Title: DRY-TO-WET TRANSITIONAL AVALANCHES: INFERENCE MADE USING INFRA SOUND SURVEILLANCE
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jeffrey Johnson, Scott Havens, Timothy Glassett, Chris Stinson, Steven Clark, Jerry Mock, Hans Peter Marshall, Leighton Watson
- Description: The maritime climate of Turnagain Arm, near Anchorage, Alaska, provides snow conditions conducive to the generation of frequent large avalanches, whic...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.28.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche monitoring, infrasound, transitional avalanches
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- Title: MACHINE LEARNING FOR AUTOMATED AVALANCHE TERRAIN EXPOSURE SCALE CLASSIFICATION – A COMPARISON OF TWO APPROACHES
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Kalin Markov, Yves Bühler, Andreas Huber, Momchil Panayotov
- Description: Backcountry travel in mountainous regions in Bulgaria has increased significantly in recent decades, heightening the need for effective avalanche risk...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.33.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, ates, machine learning, com4flowpy, ramms, bulgaria
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- Title: TOWARDS A MICROSTRUCTURE-INFORMED REPRESENTATION OF STRENGTH AND STIFFNESS OF WEAK SNOW LAYERS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jakob Schöttner, Melin Walet, Valentin Adam, Francesca Carletti, Philipp Weißgraeber, Philipp Rosendahl, Florian Rheinschmidt, Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: Compilations of the mechanical properties of snow often exhibit scatter spanning orders of magnitude. The resulting uncertainty poses a significant ch...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.41.pdf
- Keywords: snow slab avalanches, snow mechanics, weak layers, microstructure, strength, stiffness
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- Title: RAIN-ON-SNOW (ROS) EVENTS IN THE ITALIAN ALPS AND INCREASED AVALANCHE ACTIVITY
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Valt M., Bee C., Monti F.
- Description: On the southern side of the European Alps (Italian Alps), an increase in the number of rain-on-snow (ROS) events has been observed, including during t...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.54.pdf
- Keywords: ros, snow, alps, snowfall, wet avalanches
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- Title: PATTERNS OF GLIDE AVALANCHE RELEASE: INSIGHTS FROM 23 YEARS OF OBSERVATIONS ALONG THE GOING-TO-THE-SUN ROAD, MONTANA, USA
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Erika Birkeland, Maddey Frey, Sarah Williams, Erich Peitzsch
- Description: Glide avalanches pose a notable hazard during annual spring snow removal operations along the Going-to-the-Sun Road (GTSR) in Glacier National Park (G...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.25.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, glide avalanches, indicator path.
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- Title: FROM SNOW TO SEDIMENT: MAPPING AND QUANTIFYING DIRTY SNOW AVALANCHE DEPOSITS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Magdalena Koschmieder, Johanna Mascher, Lukas Winiwarter, Arnaud Temme
- Description: Avalanches have the potential to harm people and livestock as well as damage or destroy infrastructure. Furthermore, avalanches can erode and transpor...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.12.pdf
- Keywords: dirty snow avalanches, uav photogrammetry, remote sensing, spring avalanches, sfm, wet-snow avalanches
- View additional details about FROM SNOW TO SEDIMENT: MAPPING AND QUANTIFYING DIRTY SNOW AVALANCHE DEPOSITS
- Title: DIGITAL IMAGE CORRELATION (DIC) IN SNOW MECHANICS: PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND APPLICATIONS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jakob Schöttner, Melin Walet, Valentin Adam, Michael J. Kohler, Bastian Bergfeld, Marcus Muhonen, Daan Leeflang, Florian Rheinschmidt, Philipp Rosendahl, Philipp Weißgraeber, Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: In snow mechanics experiments, complex loading configurations and layered snow can produce highly non-uniform deformation, including strain localizati...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.35.pdf
- Keywords: digital image correlation, dic, snow mechanics, snow slab avalanches, avalanche dynamics
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- Title: INFERING AVALANCHE DYNAMICS AND MAGNITUDE FROM INFRASOUND SOURCE LOCATION AND ENERGY PROXY
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Ulivieri G., Ripepe M., Lacanna G., Biagioli F., Chen D., Dreier L., Steinkogler W., Magnan D.
- Description: Infrasound is nowadays routinely used for avalanche detection, but its potential to constrain avalanche dynamics and magnitude remains poorly quantifi...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.52.pdf
- Keywords: infrasonic detection of avalanches ida®, avalanche dynamics, infrasonic avalanche energy proxy
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