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Title: Before machine learning: validating historical SNOWPACK simulations for avalanche hazard forecasting in Glacier National Park, B.C., Canada.
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Benjamin Imbach, Francis Meloche, Jean-Benoit Madore, Paul Billecocq, Francis Gauthier, Alexandre Langlois, Philippe Gachon
Description: Accurate avalanche hazard forecasting depends on reliable snow and weather information, which is often unavailable in the complex mountainous terrain ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O2.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snowpack/alpine3d, model validation, weak layer identification, meteorological forcing data, glacier national park
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Title: EARLY DETECTION OF SNOWPACK WETTING USING SENTINEL-1 DATA: LINKING SEASONAL SNOWPACK DYNAMICS AND GLACIER MELT UNDER CLOUD-COVERED CONDITIONS ON THE BRØGGER PENINSULA, SVALBARD (2022–2025)
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jean-Michel Friedt, Eric Bernard
Description: Seasonal snow cover plays a fundamental role in controlling the timing, spatial distribution and intensity of glacier melt in the High Arctic. In Sval...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.25.pdf
Keywords: sentinel-1, sar, wet snow, snowpack, glacier melt, svalbard
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Title: MANAGING RISK AND ACCESS: THE WINTER PERMIT SYSTEM IN ROGERS PASS, BC
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Mark Herbison, Ross Campbell
Description: Parks Canada's Winter Permit System (WPS) in Rogers Pass, within Glacier National Park, is a unique public safety program designed to facilitate winte...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.41.pdf
Keywords: rogers pass, parks canada, backcountry, artillery, avalanche control, winter permit system, glacier national park
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Title: FROM PUBLICLY AVAILABLE WEBCAMS TO ICE-AVALANCHE HAZARD ASSESSMENT: A DECADE OF SERAC FALLS FROM A HANGING GLACIER OF THE MONT-BLANC MASSIF (FRANCE)
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Grégoire Guillet, Ludovic Ravanel
Description: Outside a few studies of ice masses threatening valleys (e.g., Weissmies, Taconnaz, and Grandes Jorasses in the Alps), hanging glaciers (HGs) and thei...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.61.pdf
Keywords: ice avalanches, serac falls, hanging glacier, bayesian inference, mont blanc du tacul.
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Title: Review of long-term climate and avalanche activity at Glacier National Park, B.C., Canada from 1965 to 2026
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Benjamin Imbach, Jean-Benoit Madore, Andrew Jones, Francis Gauthier, Alexandre Langlois, Philippe Gachon
Description: This paper reviews long-term changes in climate and avalanche activity at Glacier National Park (GNP), British Columbia, Canada, updating the record e...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.29.pdf
Keywords: avalanche climate, climate trends, mann-kendall trend test, snow cover, wet avalanches, glacier national park
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Title: ARCTIC MOUNTAIN GLACIERS LOVE AVALANCHES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Alexander Prokop, Bernhard Hynek, Eric Bernard, Signe Hillerup Larsen, Florian Tolle, Jean-Michel Friedt
Description: At ISSW and in general avalanches are usually discussed in the context of a natural hazard that harms people and infrastructure and needs to be manage...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P5.8.pdf
Keywords: avalanche deposit, climate warming, arctic glacier, lidar, sfm-photogrammetry
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Title: AVALANCHE SAFETY OPERATIONS IN GLACIER NATIONAL PARK SUPPORTED BY THE AVALANCHE DETECTION NETWORK, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Jim Phillips, Lisa Dreier, Walter Steinkogler
Description: Glacier National Park in British Columbia is managed by Parks Canada. Two important transportation routes, the Trans-Canada Highway and the Canadian P...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.54.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection network, infrasound, radar, avalanche monitoring, parks canada, glacier national park
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Title: Ice/snow avalanches from the hanging snout of the Palòn de la Mare glacier (Central Italian Alps)
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Margherita Maggioni, Giuseppe Cola, Riccardo Scotti, Michele Freppaz, Fabiano Monti
Description: In latter years, because of the climate change and the related transition from cold to warm based ice in high elevation glaciers, avalanches due to th...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P01.10.pdf
Keywords: hanging glacier, ice/snow avalanches, dynamical modeling, ice temperature.
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Title: Retrieving Ice-avalanche basal friction law parameters from a back-analysis of the collapse of Altels glacier (1895, Bernese Alps, Switzerland). Application to Taconnaz glacier instability (French Alps)
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Emmanuel Thibert, Thierry Faug, Mohamed Naaim, Mylène Bonnefoy-Demongeot, Adrien Gilbert, Christian Vincent, Olivier Gagliardini, Martin Funk
Description: High-elevation glaciers are undergoing substantial warming in response to current climate change. This warming is affecting the ice/rock interface tem...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P01.11.pdf
Keywords: glacier collapse, volume scenarios, ice avalanches, depth-averaged flow model.
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Title: Glacier hazards in the canton of Valais, Switzerland: observation and categorization of 80 dangerous glaciers
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Martin Proksch, Evelyn Zenklusen Mutter, André Burkard, Pascal Stoebener, Martin Funk, Damian Steffen
Description: Glacier hazards can threaten settlements, roads, railways or other infrastructure (e.g. cable ways, ski areas etc.). In the canton Valais in Switzerla...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P02.20.pdf
Keywords: glacier hazards, risk index, valais.
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Title: Spatial variability of snow depth using UAS technology: Study from Lirung Catchment
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Dol Prasad Lamsal, Rijan B. Kayasth
Description: In this work we generated spatially continuous snow depth maps using photogrammetry-based surveys with Unmanned Aerial Systems (U.A.S) at cm resolutio...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P04.13.pdf
Keywords: lirung glacier, himalaya, structure from motion, uas.
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Title: Estimation of accumulation from snow avalanches on the mountain glaciers
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Anton Lazarev, Alla Turchaninova, Yury Seliverstov, Anton Komarov, Sergey Sokratov
Description: Snow avalanches redistribute snow from the top of the mountain ridges down to the valley bottoms, which can be occupied by glaciers. The contribution ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P05.15.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, accumulation, mountain glacier, numerical modeling, gis, ramms.
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Title: Case Study: Natural Glide and Wet Slab Avalanche Cycle, Going-To-The-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana USA
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Jake Hutchinson, Erich H. Peitzsch, Adam M. Clark
Description: The Going-to-the-Sun Road (GTSR) is the premier tourist attraction in Glacier National Park, Montana. The GTSR also traverses through and under 40 ava...
Object ID: ISSW16_O3.02.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanche, wet slab avalanche, forecasting, glacier national park, montana
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Title: Using Structure From Motion Photogrammetry to Examine Glide Snow Avalanches
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Erich H. Peitzsch, Jordy Hendrikx, Daniel B. Fagre
Description: Structure from Motion (SfM), a photogrammetric technique, has been used extensively and successfully in many fields including geosciences over the pas...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.02.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanche, structure from motion, photogrammetry, glacier national park, montana
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Title: Assessing the Importance of Terrain Parameters on Glide Avalanche Release
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Erich H. Peitzsch, Jordy Hendrikx, Daniel B. Fagre
Description: Glide snow avalanches are dangerous and difficult to predict. Despite recent research there is still a lack of understanding regarding the controls of...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P2.19.pdf
Keywords: avalanches; avalanche forecasting; glide; glacier national park, montana
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