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Title: TOWARDS AUTOMATIC AVALANCHE DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION USING SEISMIC AND INFRASOUND ARRAY DATA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Christine Seupel, Patrick Düggelin, Andri Simeon, Cristina Pérez-Guillén, Andreas Fichtner, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Reliable avalanche detection and localization are essential for effective hazard mitigation. They support avalanche forecasting, risk management, and ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O5.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, seismic, infrasound, array processing, instrumentation and remote sensing
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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: 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: AN EVALUATION OF EXISTING ANEMOMETER TECHNOLOGY TO DETERMINE HIGH RELIABILITY IN HEAVY RIMING ENVIRONMENTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Evan Salke, Reid Nolan, Scott Quirsfeld, Gordon Bease
Description: Accurate, high-resolution measurements of wind speed and direction are critical data for avalanche forecasting. As maintaining traditional Taylor SE a...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.18.pdf
Keywords: anemometer, rime, wind, instrumentation, sensor
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Title: DENSITY-INSENSITIVE DETERMINATION OF LIQUID WATER CONTENT IN SNOW USING MICROWAVE ATTENUATION MEASUREMENTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Marco Niederberger, Michel A. Nyffenegger, Albert Loichinger, Fabian Wolfsperger, Alec van Herwijnen, Hans-Dieter Lang
Description: Wet snow avalanche modeling and forecasting remain a significant challenge, in part due to the limitations of currently available instruments for dete...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.47.pdf
Keywords: liquid water content (lwc), snowpack properties, microwave measurement, instrumentation, remote sensing
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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: THERMAL UAS USE DURING A NIGHTTIME SEARCH AT VAIL PASS, COLORADO
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Drew Gibson, Austin Finnell, Aaron J. Parmet
Description: Summit County Rescue Group (SCRG) deployed an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) equipped with a thermal camera during an overnight response for a missing...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.3.pdf
Keywords: search and rescue, instrumentation and remote sensing, avalanche response, case studies, unmanned aircraft system, thermal imaging.
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Title: ACOUSTIC SNOW STRATIGRAPHY MEASUREMENTS - FROM THE SOUND OF BREAKING SNOW TOWARDS ENHANCED SNOWPACK STABILITY ASSESSMENT
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Tiziano Di Pietro, Julia Kaltenborn, Sophia Groninger, Christoph Mitterer, Martin Schneebeli
Description: Snowpack stratigraphy measurements are essential for avalanche forecasting, snow-sports, and various cryospheric science applications. Such measureme...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P8.1.pdf
Keywords: instrumentation, snow stratigraphy measurement, acoustic measurement
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Title: TOWARDS AN OPEN HARDWARE IOT PLATFORM FOR ADVANCED MEASUREMENT OF SNOWPACK PROPERTIES AND AVALANCHE INSIGHTS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Albert Loichinger, Felix Nyffenegger, Anselm Koehler, Jan Thomas Fischer
Description: Inflow sensor concepts such as particle tracking, offer a promising potential to further investigate avalanche dynamics. Beyond the scientific merit o...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P8.5.pdf
Keywords: instrumentation, monitoring, sensors, particle tracking, iot
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Title: AUTOMATIC AVALANCHE DETECTION USING DOPPLER RADARS – LESSONS LEARNED AFTER 1000 DETECTED AVALANCHES IN NORWAY SINCE 2020
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Nils Arne K. Walberg, Pål Lohne, Andreia Farrér
Description: Automatic detection of avalanches using a Doppler radar has become increasingly popular in Norway in the recent decade due to the relatively low costs...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P8.12.pdf
Keywords: monitoring, radar, early warning, instrumentation, risk management
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Title: DETECTING SNOWPACK WITH LOW-COST RADAR – CASE STUDY IN PYHäTUNTURI, FINLAND
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Lauri Nieminen, Harri Valasma, Saana Valasma
Description: Measuring snowpack and its qualities is a difficult task for snow scientists. Instrumentation is expensive and usually requires maintenance. The obser...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P8.32.pdf
Keywords: iot, radar, instrumentation
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Title: MEASUREMENT OF SHEAR STRESS AND SNOWFLAKE CRYSTAL TYPE WITHIN STORM SNOW AT THE ALTA MID-COLLINS STUDY PLOT
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Benjamin Silberman, Travis Morrison, Dhiraj Singh , Timothy Garrett, Eric Pardyjak
Description: While we currently rely on field observations, historic data, and a scientific understanding of how snow behaves under stress to predict for avalanche...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.29.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, field testing and instrumentation, deid
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Title: REMOTE GAME CAMERAS AS A COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTION FOR MONITORING STORM TOTALS IN DATA-SPARSE AREAS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Zachary M. Guy, Evan Ross
Description: Ground truthing snowfall amounts during a storm is essential for weather forecast validation and predicting avalanche activity. Because of the prohibi...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.36.pdf
Keywords: snowfall monitoring, remote instrumentation, game cameras
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Title: WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK DESIGN FOR MEASUREMENT OF SNOW RESPONSE TO DYNAMIC LOADING CONDITIONS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: James B. Lesser, E. E. Adams
Description: A WSN (Wireless Sensor Network) was developed for the purpose of measuring snow acceleration in response to loading of various types. The WSN is compo...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.40.pdf
Keywords: wireless, sensor, network, snow, instrumentation, acceleration
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