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Title: MARCH MEGA THAW: FORECASTING CASE STUDY DURING A PROLONGED EARLY SPRING HEAT EVENT IN UTAH, 2025–26
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Nikki Champion, Jenna Malone, Jonathan Morgan
Description: The 2025–26 winter in Utah produced a complex snowpack shaped by persistent weak layers, multiple rain-on-snow events, extended high-pressure period...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.47.pdf
Keywords: wet slab avalanches, persistent weak layers, spring warming event, avalanche forecasting, snow climatology, utah
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Title: A BRIEF HISTORY OF AVALANCHE INCIDENTS IN NEW MEXICO
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jasper H. Thompson
Description: When one thinks of New Mexico, avalanches may not come to mind. Nonetheless, avalanche incidents have occurred, and avalanche awareness has existed, i...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.52.pdf
Keywords: incidents, accidents, case studies, new mexico, history, forecasting
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Title: AVALANO – HIGH-RESOLUTION THERMAL PROFILING FOR MINIMAL INVASIVE SNOWPACK ANALYSIS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Patrick H. Jenewein, Marcel Maffey
Description: Avalano is a novel avalanche probe for automated recording of high-resolution temperature profiles throughout the snowpack and addresses a key challen...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O7.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, modeling & quantitative forecasting, snowpack properties
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Title: CLIMATE-DRIVEN SHIFTS IN SNOWPACK CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR WET SNOW AVALANCHES: INSIGHTS FROM SNOW COVER MODEL SIMULATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Walter Steinkogler
Description: Effective knowledge transfer is critical to operational continuity and safety in high-risk environments. When knowledge transfer fails, operational ri...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.31.pdf
Keywords: knowledge transfer, explicit knowledge, tacit knowledge, seci model, avalanche forecasting.
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Title: CLIMATE-DRIVEN SHIFTS IN SNOWPACK CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR WET SNOW AVALANCHES: INSIGHTS FROM SNOW COVER MODEL SIMULATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Andrea Bruckmeier, Christoph Mitterer, Karl Birkeland, Eric Sproles, Erich Peitzsch
Description: Forecasting wet snow avalanches remains a major challenge due to their temporal and spatial variability. Long-term climate trends are producing more v...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.48.pdf
Keywords: snowpack, wet snow, snow depth, pgw, long-term trends, avalanche forecasting
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Title: ANALYZING AUTOMATED AND METEOROLOGIST-DERIVED QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECASTS: OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS IN HIGHWAY AVALANCHE FORECASTING PROGRAMS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: John Stimberis, Seth Waterfall, Rachel Griffith
Description: Mountain weather significantly influences avalanche activity in maritime snow climates. The rapid accumulation of precipitation from snow or rain-on-s...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, weather forecasting, weather data, forecast accuracy, highways, precipitation.
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Title: HUMAN VS. MACHINE - COMPARING MODEL PREDICTIONS AND HUMAN FORECASTS OF AVALANCHE DANGER AND SNOW INSTABILITY IN THE SWISS ALPS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Frank Techel, Andrea Helfenstein, Stephanie Mayer, Cristina Pérez-Guillén, Ross Purves, Marc Ruesch, Günter Schmudlach, Katia Soland, Kurt Winkler
Description: In recent years, the integration of physical snowpack models coupled with machine-learning techniques has become more prevalent in public avalanche fo...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.6.pdf
Keywords: public avalanche forecasting, forecast verification, machine learning, model-driven predictions
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Title: DATA-DRIVEN AVALANCHE FORECASTING - USING WEATHER AND SATELLITE DATA
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Jakob Grahn, Filippo Maria Bianchi, Karsten Müller, Eirik Malnes
Description: Avalanche forecasting is essential for safety in mountainous regions where avalanches threaten human life and infrastructure. Traditional methods for...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, forecasting, machine learning, satellite, meteorology
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Title: INTEGRATING AUTOMATED AVALANCHE DETECTIONS FOR VALIDATING AND EXPLAINING AVALANCHE FORECASTING MODELS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Cristina Pérez-Guillén, Andri Simeon, Frank Techel, Michele Volpi, Betty Sovilla, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Snow avalanches are the deadliest natural hazards in Switzerland and cause significant economic losses annually. Therefore, avalanche detection and pr...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.9.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, automatic avalanche detection, machine learning models
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Title: AN ANALYSIS OF FORECASTER ACCURACY IN PREDICTING AVALANCHE PROBLEM TYPE AND LIKELIHOOD IN SKI AREA OPERATIONAL HAZARD ASSESSMENTS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Wendolyn Antibus, Evan Leonard, Matt Zupan
Description: Forecasting staff at Mt Rose Ski Tahoe have been utilizing the InfoEx International product to issue daily hazard assessments and record avalanche act...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.11.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, ski resort operations, conceptual model, infoex, avalanche problem type, avalanche likelihood
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Title: BRINGING THE EUROPEAN AVALANCHE DANGER SCALE TO THE 21ST CENTURY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Dr. Karsten Müller, Dr. Frank Techel, Dr. Christoph Mitterer, Dr. Stefano Sofia, Petter Palmgren, Nicolas Roux, Guillem M. Bellido, Lorenzo Bertranda, Giacomo Villa
Description: The European Avalanche Danger Scale (EADS) is the governing document for public avalanche warning services in Europe. It has been the common ground t...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.12.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger scale, public avalanche forecasting
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Title: THE FOUR KEY COMPONENTS OF THE PHYSICAL HAZARD POSED BY SNOW AVALANCHES ACROSS TERRAIN
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Scott Thumlert
Description: Forecasting the physical hazard posed by snow avalanches is the prediction of the magnitude, likelihood, timing, and location of potential avalanches ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard, forecasting, hazard assessment and communication, avalanche size, likelihood, spatial distribution
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Title: AUTOMATED DRY SNOWFALL LEVEL CALCULATION FOR IMPROVED ASSESSMENT OF MELT-FREEZE CRUSTS AND ASSOCIATED FACETED WEAK LAYERS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Marie Hofmann, Jil Lehnert, Christoph Mitterer
Description: Faceted weak layers relevant for avalanche triggering often develop around melt-freeze crusts. These can - besides a formation through shortwave radi...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.7.pdf
Keywords: melt-freeze crust, snowfall level, avalanche forecasting, automated weather stations
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Title: A NEW OPERATIONAL APPROACH FOR THE DAILY ASSESSMENT OF POTENTIAL AVALANCHE DANGER
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Alberto Mariani, Luca Dellarole, Giacomo Villa, Jacopo Borsotti, Fabiano Monti
Description: Over the past 20 years, the need to identify the spatial distribution of avalanche-prone areas, crucial for evaluating the avalanche risk, has led to...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.8.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard indication maps, potential release areas, snowpack stability, avalanche forecasting
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Title: METEOROLOGICAL AND SNOWPACK PROPERTIES ASSOCIATED WITH CRUST-ADJACENT PERSISTENT WEAK LAYERS - PART 1: A REVIEW OF PREVIOUS RESEARCH
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Andy Moderow, Andrew Schauer, Aleph Johnston-Bloom
Description: Previous research has explored the mechanisms - in theory, field studies, and lab experiments - that explain the formation of faceted grains at crust/...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.10.pdf
Keywords: crusts, melt-freeze layers, persistent weak layer, deep slab, avalanche forecasting
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