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Title: AVALANCHE FORECASTING IN THE PEJO SKI AREA: A DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH USING A SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Christian Brida, Carlo Bee, Giorgio Rosatti
Description: Snow avalanches pose a major hazard in alpine ski areas, where reliable local forecasts are essential for operational decisions such as ski slope open...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.3.pdf
Keywords: artificial intelligence, avalanche forecasting, decision making, quantitative forecasting, ski resort management, local forecasting
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Title: INFOEX FOR PROFESSIONAL AVALANCHE EDUCATION: USING THE TOOL FOR COURSE RISK MANAGEMENT AND MEETING STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Sean Zimmerman-Wall, Karin Pocock, Chris Dyck
Description: For many avalanche education organizations, the documentation of daily avalanche forecasting and risk management has relied on internally developed pa...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.53.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche forecasting, decision-making, information exchange, terrain, operations and program management
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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: A MACHINE LEARNING SURROGATE FOR ALPINE3D SNOWPACK SIMULATION: PERSISTENCE-BASED EVALUATION AND A PATH TOWARD SNOWDRIFT
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Michael Brandon Hurd
Description: Distributed snow-cover models such as Alpine3D and SNOWPACK provide spatially detailed information on snowpack evolution, surface energy balance, and ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.58.pdf
Keywords: graph neural network, alpine3d, snowpack, snowpack modelling, avalanche forecasting, persistence baseline
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Title: REEVALUATING THE "10 CONTRIBUTORY FACTORS": DATA-DRIVEN METHODOLOGY FOR AVALANCHE ACTIVITY PREDICTION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: David E. Gluckman, Steven Clark
Description: In operational practice, many avalanche forecasters rely primarily on subjective experience to provide risk assessments. Long-standing ideas of contri...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.10.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, contributory factors, machine learning, data-driven models
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Title: USING MODIFIED PROPAGATION SAW TESTS TO TRACK INCREMENTAL CHANGES IN SNOWPACK STABILITY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Itai Sheleg, Bruce Jamieson, Karl W. Birkeland, Dave Gauthier, Ron Simenhois
Description: Backcountry avalanche forecasters issue daily snowpack stability assessments to guide danger ratings and travel recommendations. Stability trends are ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.12.pdf
Keywords: propagation saw test, crack propagation, snowpack stability, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Avalanche Forecast Verification and Occurrence in Scotland, 2007–2025
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ian N. Durbach, Blair Fyffe, Brian Morrison, Mark Diggins, Philip A. Ebert
Description: The Scottish Avalanche Information Service (SAIS) has issued daily avalanche forecasts across Scotland since 1988. In 2016, the service adopted the Eu...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.14.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, forecast verification, danger level, avalanche occurrence, scotland
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Title: USING HIGH-RESOLUTION VERTICAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS TO FORECAST PERSISTENT WEAK LAYER FORMATION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Seth Waterfall, John Stimberis, Rachel Griffith
Description: Vertical temperature gradients near the snow surface play a critical role in snowpack metamorphism and atmospheric energy exchange. The near-surface b...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.18.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, instrumentation and remote sensing, snowpack properties, modelling and quantitative forecasting
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Title: IMPLEMENTATION OF SNOWPACK AND MACHINE LEARNING MODELS IN AN OPERATIONAL FORECASTING WORKFLOW
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Chad Brackelsberg, Paige Pagnucco, Travis J. Morrison
Description: Snowpack modeling and machine-learning–based decision-support tools offer increasing potential for operational avalanche forecasting, yet their comp...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.2.pdf
Keywords: snowpack, machine learning, operational forecasting, workflow
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Title: A DECISION SUPPORT TOOL FOR ASSESSING THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF STORM TOTALS FROM REMOTE AUTOMATED WEATHER STATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Michelle Dalpes, John Sykes, Jason Konigsberg, Spencer Logan
Description: Regional backcountry forecast centers face persistent challenges in understanding the historical significance of ongoing storms. This situational awar...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.23.pdf
Keywords: weather forecasting and climate, avalanche forecasting, incidents and case studies, instrumentation and remote sensing
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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: FUNDING THE FORECAST: COMPARING APPROACHES TO AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Liz Daniel
Description: Winter backcountry recreation has grown dramatically in recent years. Despite this surge, annual avalanche fatalities in the US have remained stable f...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.28.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting operations, organizational structure, funding, program analysis
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Title: MID-WINTER WET SLABS IN INTERMOUNTAIN SNOWPACKS: HOW "UNUSUAL" IS THIS REALLY?
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Brooke Maushund, Ben VandenBos
Description: Mid-winter wet slab avalanche cycles are most often thought of as phenomena associated with rain-on-snow events in maritime snow climates. Intermounta...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.29.pdf
Keywords: wet slab; mid-winter; intermountain snowpack; avalanche forecasting; utah; wasatch
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Title: AN APPLIED VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION FRAMEWORK FOR COMPUTER-ASSISTED PUBLIC AVALANCHE FORECASTING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: McKinley Talty, Travis J. Morrison, Jack Eskeland
Description: Computer-assisted avalanche forecasting models are increasingly used to support operational avalanche forecasting, yet robust and repeatable validatio...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.3.pdf
Keywords: artificial intelligence, avalanche forecasting, modeling and quantitative forecasting, validation and verification
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Title: ASSESSING PUBLIC BACKCOUNTRY AVALANCHE FORECASTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ethan Davis, Zachary Miller, Scott Savage, Dallas Glass, Spencer Logan, Ethan Greene, Blase Reardon, Christine Donnelly, Andrew Schauer
Description: Avalanche danger ratings are the cornerstone of a public backcountry avalanche forecast, and the "Tier 1" danger — the highest rating across all ele...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.30.pdf
Keywords: regional avalanche forecasting, forecast verification, forecast assessment, avalanche danger, forecaster confidence
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