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Title: INTERSECTIONAL RISK: AN EXPANDED DEFINITION OF RISK FOR THE AVALANCHE AND GUIDING PROFESSION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Rachel D. Reimer
Description: The Rise Study is a feminist appreciative Action Research project that utilized in-depth interviews amongst 17 mountain guides and avalanche professio...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS3.1.pdf
Keywords: risk, psychological safety, human factors, intersectional feminism, climate change.
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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: ADAPTING AVALANCHE HAZARD MAPPING TO A CHANGING CLIMATE – EMERGING PRACTICAL APPROACHES AND UNCERTAINTIES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Simon Grüter, Flurina Schnider, Damian Steffen, Stefan Margreth
Description: Avalanche hazard mapping in Switzerland is based on long-established regulations and methods and provides a valuable basis for avalanche risk manageme...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.20.pdf
Keywords: climate change, hazard mapping, case study, avalanche path, wet snow avalanche
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Title: CONSISTENT (NUMERICAL) APPROACH FOR LARGE SCALE SNOW-AVALANCHE HAZARD UPDATE: APPLICATION TO A POORLY DOCUMENTED AREA LIKE CORSICA ISLAND (FR)
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Philippe Berthet-Rambaud, Stéphane Roudnitska, Jérôme Bock, Clément Belgodère
Description: The avalanche of Ortiporio (1934), village of Corsica (mountainous island situated in the Mediterranean Sea), caused the death of 37 persons. Despite ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.36.pdf
Keywords: corsican mountain range, large-scale indicative hazard map, ramms climate change, protective forest effect
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Title: WHEN AVALANCHES GET WETTER: ARE OUR BUILDING CODES FIT FOR THE FUTURE?
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Michael L. Kyburz, Stefan Margreth, Betty Sovilla, Johan Gaume
Description: Avalanche impact pressures on structures remain challenging to predict because avalanche–structure interactions depend strongly on flow regime, snow...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.55.pdf
Keywords: wet avalanche impact loads, guidelines on structural actions, 3d numerical modelling, material point method, climate change
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Title: AVALANCHE FORECASTING ON THE VERGE: EPHEMERAL SNOWPACKS, CLIMATIC SHIFTS, AND THE EVOLUTION OF ARIZONA'S WINTERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: W. Tanner Porter, Paul Dawson, Mathieu Brown, Troy Marino, Len Necefer, David Lovejoy
Description: Arizona seems an improbable ski locale given North America's mountainous geography, yet its high-elevation sky islands support multiple winter backcou...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.49.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, climate change, risk communication, machine learning, snow-pack variability
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Title: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NETWORK OF AUTOMATIC SNOW STATIONS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC IN RELATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND OTHER FACTORS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jan Jirak, Simon Bercha
Description: Over the past two decades, the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI) has gradually expanded its manual snow monitoring network with automatic sno...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.16.pdf
Keywords: automatic snow station, snow water equivalent, meteorological data supplementation, climate change, station site selection
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Title: CLIMATE-DRIVEN CHANGES IN SNOWPACK TIMING, MAGNITUDE, AND DOWNSTREAM HYDROLOGY ACROSS WESTERN NORTH AMERICA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Kate Hale, Wouter Berghuijs
Description: Climate warming threatens snow-dependent water resources non-uniformly across western North America, where hydrologic sensitivities to snowpack loss a...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.60.pdf
Keywords: snow hydrology, seasonal water availability, hydrologic partitioning, runoff ratio, climate change, western north america
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Title: CLIMATE-SCALE MAPS OF COLD-SEASON TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION TRENDS IN THE MOUNTAINOUS AREAS OF COLORADO
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Valerie Foley, Jason Konigsberg, Brian Lazar, Ethan Greene
Description: Temperature and precipitation patterns in the Colorado mountains are important factors for a variety of practical and research applications, including...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.19.pdf
Keywords: weather forecasting and climate, instrumentation and remote sensing, climate change
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Title: FROM FIELD OBSERVATIONS TO ANALYSIS: CHANGING SNOWPACK AND AVALANCHE CONDITIONS IN THE AOSTA VALLEY (NW ITALIAN ALPS)
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Simone Laurent Roveyaz, Eloïse Bovet, Andrea Debernardi, Nathalie Durand, Stefano Pivot
Description: In recent years, avalanche forecasters in the Aosta Valley have observed significant changes in snowpack characteristics and avalanche dynamics due to...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.25.pdf
Keywords: snow-cover monitoring, historical database, climate change
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Title: THE CHALLENGE OF SHORTENING THE CLOSURE PERIOD OF A MOUNTAIN PASS ROAD IN WINTER – THE EXAMPLE OF THE GOTTHARD PASS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Stefan Margreth, Philipp Oberender
Description: The Gotthard axis is one of the most important north-south traffic corridors through the Alps. For road traffic, it comprises the 17-km-long road tunn...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.14.pdf
Keywords: avalanche mitigation, avalanche risk, climate change, cost-benefit analysis, pass road.
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Title: ARE OUR AVALANCHE IMPACT PRESSURE EQUATIONS FIT FOR A WARMING CLIMATE? - INSIGHTS FROM 3D AVALANCHE MODELING
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Michael J. Kohler, Johan Gaume, Betty Sovilla
Description: In densely populated mountain regions, snow avalanches are among the main natural hazards and have long been a threat to settlements and critical infr...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O2.4.pdf
Keywords: climate change, impact pressure, wet-snow, dense, avalanche dynamics, modeling, material point method
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Title: SCENARIO-BASED AVALANCHE SIMULATIONS INCLUDING SNOW ENTRAINMENT, SNOW TEMPERATURE AND DENSITY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Lukas Stoffel, Perry Bartelt, Stefan Margreth
Description: Avalanche engineers use scenario-based simulations to predict avalanche runout and quantify impact pressures. An important input parameter for such si...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P2.11.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics; snow entrainment, snow temperature, snow density, hazard evaluation, climate change
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Title: GLOBAL CHANGE IMPACTS ON AVALANCHE PROTECTIVE FORESTS—CURRENT KNOWLEDGE AND FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Michaela Teich, Ana Stritih, Alessandra Bottero, Christine Moos
Description: Protective forests provide an indispensable ecosystem service by protecting people and infrastructure against natural hazards and, therefore, serve a ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O4.1.pdf
Keywords: protective forest, nature-based solution, snow avalanche, climate change, natural disturbance, land-use change
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Title: CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON SNOW AVALANCHE ACTIVITY AND RELATED RISKS: OUTCOMES FROM A RECENT REVIEW
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Nicolas Eckert, Christophe Corona, Florie Giacona, Johan Gaume, Stephanie Mayer, Alec van Herwijnen, Pascal Hagenmuller, Markus Stoffel
Description: In a recent review of the available scientific literature, impacts of climate change on avalanche activity and the associated risks were analyzed. The...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O5.1.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, avalanche risk, climate change impact, review, research gaps
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