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Title: TO MEASURE OR NOT TO MEASURE: HOW DENSITY-DETERMINATION METHODS CAN INFLUENCE SNOW INSTABILITY SIMULATED FROM OBSERVED PROFILES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Leonardo Zoltan, Ingrid Reiweger
Description: Numerical snow cover models have emerged as valuable tools for avalanche forecasting, simulating snowpack stratigraphy and producing instability metri...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, modelling and quantitative forecasting, snowpack properties, snow density
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Title: MOBILE DRONE DOCKING STATIONS TO SUPPORT SITE-SPECIFIC AVALANCHE OBSERVATIONS AND FORECASTING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Halgeir Dahle, Ruben Jacobsen, Knut Inge Orset, Tore Humstad
Description: During periods of elevated avalanche hazard, field observations may be restricted due to safety concerns, limited accessibility, or rapidly changing c...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.21.pdf
Keywords: site-specific forecasting, road avalanche warning, mobile drone station, autonomous
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Title: ESTABLISHING A COLLABORATIVE PYTHON LIBRARY FOR PARSING AND POST-PROCESSING SNOW COVER SIMULATIONS: XSnow
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Florian Herla, Ron Simenhois, Simon Horton, Léo Viallon-Galinier, Mathias Bavay, Michael Reisecker, Pascal Haegeli
Description: Detailed snow cover models such as SNOWPACK and CROCUS have become valuable tools for avalanche warning services. Increasingly ambitious applications,...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.29.pdf
Keywords: snow cover modeling, avalanche forecasting, post-processing, gridded data model, open-source software, community-driven
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Title: TRACKING WATER IN SNOW: BRIDGING SENSOR DATA AND MODEL SIMULATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Andrea Bruckmeier, Christoph Mitterer, Robyn Gotz, Eric Sproles, Erich Peitzsch
Description: Forecasting wet slab avalanches remains one of the most demanding challenges in operational avalanche forecasting. A key obstacle is the difficulty of...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.30.pdf
Keywords: liquid water content, snowpack, in-situ measurements, avalanche forecasting
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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: FROM ZERO TO OPERATIONAL: RAPID DEPLOYMENT OF SNOW COVER SIMULATIONS VIA THE OPEN SOURCE FRAMEWORK AWSOME
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Michael Reisecker, Michael Binder, Florian Herla, Christoph Mitterer
Description: The Avalanche Warning Service Operational Meteo Environment (AWSOME) is an open-source framework for seasonal snow-cover modeling in both research and...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.46.pdf
Keywords: modeling, forecasting, snowpack, awsome
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Title: THE STATE OF THE SNOWPACK: A COMMUNITY-BASED APPROACH FOR TRANSFORMING HOW AVALANCHE FORECASTS ARE INTERPRETED AND APPLIED
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Morgan Dinsdale, Jason Wishlow, Catherine Paone
Description: Avalanche forecasts are widely accessed, but access alone does not ensure understanding or safe decision-making. Despite ongoing advances in forecasti...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.5.pdf
Keywords: risk communication; decision making; avalanche forecasting; community-based education; public safety; user behaviour
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Title: TOWARDS AN OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE FORECASTING TOOL USING RAMMS::EXTENDED
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Cam Campbell, Eirik Sharp
Description: Recent advances in remote sensing enable real-time estimation of snow depth in avalanche starting zones. An emerging opportunity for avalanche forecas...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.54.pdf
Keywords: release volume; runout distance; ramms::extended; model parameters; avalanche forecasting
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Title: AN OPERATIONAL SNOWPACK MODELING AND VISUALIZATION PIPELINE FOR SKI RESORT AVALANCHE FORECASTING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Eric E. Lawrence, Wendolyn Antibus
Description: Numerical models of snow stratigraphy have long served avalanche forecasting where in situ observations are challenging, typically in infrastructure p...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.7.pdf
Keywords: snowpack modeling, avalanche forecasting, snowpack, ski resort operations, snow stratigraphy, interactive visualization
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Title: SCALING OPERATIONAL SNOWPACK MODELING: INFRASTRUCTURE CHALLENGES AT THE 2.5 KM NWP GRID RESOLUTION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Bryce Schroers, Simon Horton
Description: Avalanche Canada runs a SNOWPACK simulation every morning, so that forecasters begin the day with modelled snow profiles and stability indices. Until ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.8.pdf
Keywords: snowpack modelling, operational forecasting, high-performance computing, data formats, model output, cloud infrastructure
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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: PATROLLING THE SNOW SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Austin Finnell
Description: Avalanche professionals usually build snowpack intuition from weather cues they can directly observe, including sun, cloud cover, air temperature, and...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.2.pdf
Keywords: snowpack properties, instrumentation and remote sensing, weather forecasting
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Title: THE INTERSECTION OF SCIENCE AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN TERRAIN MANAGEMENT: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ARE CHANGING THE CULTURE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Erme Catino
Description: Technology, specifically regarding social media and Artificial Intelligence (Al), is moving at a speed we as society are struggling to keep up with an...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.20.pdf
Keywords: artificial intelligence, avalanche education, avalanche forecasting, decision making, risk communication, terrain
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Title: DOES IT ALWAYS SNOW IN JULY, OR RAIN IN DECEMBER? MELT-FREEZE RECRYSTALLIZATION IN THE MIDST OF A RECORD SETTING SEASON
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: David Kelly, Drew Hardesty
Description: The winter of 2025-2026 set records for below average snowfall. Compared to the winter of 2022-2023, which set records for above average snowfall, one...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.30.pdf
Keywords: snowpack properties, avalanche forecasting, risk communication, melt-layer recrystallization, crusts
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Title: SAHARAN DUST DEPOSITION AND AVALANCHES: HOW MINERAL PARTICLES AFFECT THE SNOWPACK
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: C. Artoni, G. Lorenzoni, M.A.C. Potenza, B. Delmonte, C. Mangili, L. Teruzzi, V. Raspagni, V. Maggi
Description: Saharan dust intrusions are recurring events across the European Alps and other mid-latitude mountain ranges, depositing mineral particles onto season...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.43.pdf
Keywords: saharan dust, red snow, melt-freeze crust, faceted crystals, persistent weak layers, wet-snow avalanches, snowpack metamorphism, avalanche forecasting
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