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Title: AVALANCHE PATH-SPECIFIC CRITICAL WIND ENVELOPES FOR START-ZONE LOADING IN COMPLEX TERRAIN
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Seth Hewie, Eirik Sharp
Description: Wind loading is a key mechanism of slab avalanche formation, and forecasting requires detailed local terrain and climatological knowledge. Models of w...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O4.7.pdf
Keywords: weather forecasting and climate, avalanche forecasting, avalanche formation, terrain
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Title: A STUDY OF REPEATING PERSISTENT SLAB AVALANCHES ALONG THE PARK CITY RIDGELINE: THE EFFECTS OF REMOVING NEW SNOW ABOVE A WEAK LAYER
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Michael Craig
Description: Slide paths containing shallow snow depths can present a more unpredictable hazard. When a thick slab is unable to form above a persistent weak layer ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.11.pdf
Keywords: slab formation, shallow snowpack, repeater slide-path, persistent weak layer
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Title: INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ICE PARTICLES IN CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATION PARTICLES DURING SNOWFALL EVENTS: A CASE STUDY AT SONNBlick OBSERVATORY, AUSTRIA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Veronika Krieger, Julia Burkart, Christian Maier, Thomas Bachleitner, Gerhard Schauer
Description: The Sonnblick Observatory - located at 3,116 m above sea level in the Austrian Alps - provides a unique environment for studying cloud microphysics un...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.40.pdf
Keywords: ice crystal formation, crystal growth, holographic imaging, nakaya diagram, in-cloud particles
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Title: ON SNOW AND AVALANCHE CLIMATES IN THE SWISS ALPS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Lydia Knappe, Benjamin Reuter, Stephanie Mayer
Description: The snow and avalanche climate types maritime, transitional (or intermountain), and continental are well-established in North America, but rarely used...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.21.pdf
Keywords: snow climate, avalanche climate, avalanche formation, snow stratigraphy, avalanche problem type
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Title: INFLUENCE OF CHANGING FOREST HEIGHT ON THE FREQUENCY OF AVA-LANCHE RELEASE IN AN ALPINE AFFORESTATION IN THE SWISS ALPS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Natalie Piazza, Alessandra Bottero, Johan Gaume, Giorgio Vacchiano, Peter Bebi
Description: A continuous upward shift of the upper treeline is observed in many mountain regions worldwide. Such forest expansion is causing significant impacts o...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O4.2.pdf
Keywords: tree regeneration, snow avalanche, avalanche formation, avalanche release, effective tree height
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Title: SNOWPACK AND AVALANCHE CHARACTERIZATION OVER THE 2021-2022 WINTER SEASON IN SISIMIUT, WEST GREENLAND
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Alberto Mariani, A. B. Abrahamsen, D. Bridle, T. Ingeman-Nielsen, A. Cicoira, F. Monti, M. Marcer
Description: In Greenland, snow avalanches have been recognized as a significant hazard and a risk to communities for decades. However, prior to this study, no fo...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.21.pdf
Keywords: snow science, avalanche, greenland, weak layers formation, arctic snowpack, avalanche monitoring, avalanche bulletin
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Title: THE FORMATION OF BASAL LIQUID-WATER LAYERS IN EARLY-WINTER ("COLD") GLIDE-SNOW AVALANCHES
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Michael Lombardo, Amelie Fees, Peter Lehmann, Alec van Herwijnen, Juerg Schweizer
Description: A liquid water layer in the basal snowpack is considered one of the critical requirements for glide-snow avalanche release. However, the processes lea...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.56.pdf
Keywords: glide-snow avalanche, liquid water content, avalanche formation
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Title: RECENT ADVANCES IN MODELING SNOW AND AVALANCHES WITH THE MATERIAL POINT METHOD AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Johan Gaume, Lars Blatny, Grégoire Bobillier, Louis Guillet, Michael J. Kohler, Michael Kyburz, Xingyue Li, Francis Meloche, Betty Sovilla, Bertil Trottet, Louis Védrine
Description: The Material Point Method (MPM) is an Eulerian-Lagrangian numerical technique used to solve partial differential equations in continuum mechanics. It...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.48.pdf
Keywords: snow, avalanches, material point method, simulation, avalanche formation, avalanche dynamics
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Title: Thresholds in Wind Speed, Air Temperature and Relative Humidity Controlling Slab Formation
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Patrick J. Wright, Bob Comey, Morgan Comey
Description: Weather variables including wind speed, air temperature and relative humidity have important controls on slab formation, influencing the dynamics of s...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P10.27.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, slab formation, weather
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Title: When do avalanches release: investigating time scales in avalanche formation
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Matthias Heck, Bettina Richter, Betty Sovilla, Frank Techel
Description: Forecasting snow avalanches requires a detailed understanding of the influence of meteorological boundary conditions on avalanche formation. For insta...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O11.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, remote avalanche detection, detrended cross-correlation, avalanche formation, meteorological drivers
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Title: Artificial Avalanche Release: Flat Field Experiments Using a Gas Exploder
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Stephan Simioni, Jürg Dual, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Fixed avalanche control installations are frequently used today due to their various advantages to artificially trigger avalanches. Gas mixtures or ex...
Object ID: ISSW16_O17.04.pdf
Keywords: avalanche control, gas exploder, avalanche formation, experiments
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Title: Producing Nature-Like Snow in a Supercooled Cloud for Laboratory Experiments
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Ursula Enzenhofer, Michael Bacher, Sergey Sokratov, Christian Mahr, Johannes Müller, Ulrich Worthmann, Ingrid Reiweger
Description: We here introduce our cloud chamber which enabled us to grow snow crystals from water vapour under conditions similar to those in natural clouds. The ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.35.pdf
Keywords: ice crystals, snow formation, technical snow, supercooled cloud
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Title: Effects of Saharan Dust Outbreaks on the Snow Stability in the Pyrenees
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Laetitia Chomette, Montse Bacardit, Jordi Gavaldà, Ivan Moner
Description: Saharan dust outbreaks occur nearly every winter in the Pyrenees. It is well established that dust layers on the top of the snowpack reduce the snow a...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.02.pdf
Keywords: snowpack structure, variability and metamorphism; avalanche formation, release and dynamics
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Title: Avalanche Release 101
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Benjamin Reuter, Alec van Herwijnen, Johan Gaume
Description: Our understanding of dry-snow slab avalanche release improved over the last decade – not the least by consistently following a fracture mechani...
Object ID: ISSW16_O1.01.pdf
Keywords: snow failure, failure initiation, crack propagation, avalanche formation, avalanche release, fracture mechanics
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Title: Detecting Avalanches Using Seismic Monitoring Systems
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Matthias Heck, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Meteorological, snowpack and avalanche activity data provide the essential building blocks for avalanche forecasting. While in recent decades the avai...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O5.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche monitoring, avalanche forecasting, seismic instrumentation, avalanche formation
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