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Title: A PHYSICS-INFORMED DATA-DRIVEN FRAMEWORK FOR REAL-TIME AVALANCHE RUNOUT PREDICTION USING SNOWPACK SIMULATIONS AND VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Bettina Richter, Anselm Köhler, Pierre Huguenin, Nander Wever, Eloïse Bovet, Betty Sovilla
Description: As most mass movement model were calibrated to reproduce extreme avalanches, their link to daily snow cover remains poorly constraint. In this study, ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS4.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, runout predictions, data-driven model, snowpack
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Title: LESSONS FROM THE CERRO COCINERO AVALANCHE: AEROSOL DYNAMICS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Cédric Larcher, Alejandro Casteller, Luis Schinelli
Description: On August 27, 2010, a large avalanche struck Cerro Cocinero (2,281 m), destroyed a mountain hut and buried three occupants. Due to delayed alert, sear...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O11.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, aerosol phase, search and rescue, recco detection, avalanche impact, field case study
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Title: Daily Avalanche Probability Indication Maps: First Operational Experience in Davos, Switzerland
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Julia Glaus, Pia Ruttner, Lukas Stoffel, Johan Gaume, Yves Bühler
Description: Avalanche risk management in ski resorts, along traffic routes, and for exposed buildings relies mainly on point-based measurements, field observation...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O7.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, road safety, forecasting, probability, hazard assessment
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Title: CASE STUDY OF A SLUSHFLOW IN SKARMODAL, NORWAY, IN 2010
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Peter Gauer
Description: Slushflows are a well-known hazard in Arctic regions and, to a lesser extent, in alpine environments. With ongoing climate change, conditions that pro...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.15.pdf
Keywords: slush-flow; observations; dynamics
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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: EVALUATING SIMULATIONS AGAINST MEASURED RADAR SPECTRA FROM AN AVALANCHE EVENT
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Peter Gauer, Callum Tregaskis, Anselm Köhler, Anna Wirbel, Richard Koschuch
Description: One major purpose of avalanche test sites such as Ryggfonn is to obtain measurements that can be used to characterize avalanche dynamics and to suppor...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.34.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, measurements, radar velocity spectra, synthetic spectra
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Title: THE EFFECT OF GEOMETRY ON THE GAS DYNAMICS IN AVALANCHE CONTROL GAS EXPLODERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Kevin Cheevers, Logan Maley, Elizabeth Ramey, Matei Radulescu
Description: The avalanche control industry is shifting towards the Remote Avalanche Control Systems (RACS) to protect both public and private infrastructure such ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.44.pdf
Keywords: remote avalanche control systems, gas dynamics, shock dynamics, cfd
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Title: CONSTRAINING μ(I) PARAMETERS FOR SNOW AVALANCHE MODELLING: A CASE STUDY IN THE CENTRAL APENNINES, ITALY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Sophie Fontana, Lars Blatny, Johan Gaume, Davide Pasquali, Marcello Di Risio
Description: Avalanche hazard assessment and the design of avalanche defensive structures rely on the accurate simulation of avalanche dynamics. This requires past...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.56.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, incidents and case studies, modelling and quantitative forecasting, rheology, terrain
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Title: OBSERVATIONS FROM AREAL SURVEILLANCE OF AVALANCHE ACTIVITY USING ROADSIDE DISTRIBUTED ACOUSTIC SENSING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Guro K. Svendsen, Antoine Turquet, Tore Humstad
Description: From January 2025 to January 2026 we used Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) to record avalanche activity in the valley of Lavangsdalen, Troms, Norway...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.22.pdf
Keywords: das, snow avalanche dynamics, road safety, warning systems
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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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Title: THE PERSISTENCE OF SOCIAL HEURISTICS IN BACKCOUNTRY DECISION-MAKING: AN ANALYSIS OF RESORT-ADJACENT USERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Duncan Knight
Description: Avalanche fatalities in recreational backcountry settings remain predominantly linked to human judgment errors rather than environmental unpredictabil...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.11.pdf
Keywords: avalanche decision-making, social heuristics, social proof, backcountry skiing, risk perception, group dynamics.
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Title: FLOWING FROM RELEASE TO RUNOUT: HIGH-RESOLUTION RADAR MEASUREMENTS OF SNOW AVALANCHES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Anselm Köhler, Michael Neuhauser, Gregoire Bobillier, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: Radar technology is indispensable in the context of snow avalanche monitoring. Practitioners rely on the capabilities of related real-time detection ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O2.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, radar measurements, weak layer crack propagation speed, front velocity
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Title: INNOVATIVE HIGH-SPEED CAMERA ARRAY FOR UNPRECEDENTED INSIGHTS INTO POWDER SNOW AVALANCHES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Ivan Calic, Prof. Dr. Filippo Coletti, Bernhard Roth, Dr. Betty Sovilla
Description: Powder snow avalanches (PSAs) pose significant threats to human lives and infrastructure in mountain regions. Measuring inside these natural flows is...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O2.2.pdf
Keywords: powder snow avalanche, experimental avalanche dynamics, high-speed cameras
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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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