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Title: DATA-DRIVEN PREDICTION OF SATELLITE-OBSERVED AVALANCHE ACTIVITY FROM SNOWPACK SIMULATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jakob Grahn, Filippo Maria Bianchi, Bert Kruyt, Karsten Müller
Description: Avalanche forecasting requires knowledge of the snowpack and recent avalanche activity, but both are difficult to keep track of across large mountain ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.46.pdf
Keywords: avalanche activity; synthetic aperture radar; snowpack; deep learning; remote sensing
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Title: AVALANCHE FORECASTING ON THE VERGE: EPHEMERAL SNOWPACKS, CLIMATIC SHIFTS, AND THE EVOLUTION OF ARIZONA'S WINTERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: W. Tanner Porter, Paul Dawson, Mathieu Brown, Troy Marino, Len Necefer, David Lovejoy
Description: Arizona seems an improbable ski locale given North America's mountainous geography, yet its high-elevation sky islands support multiple winter backcou...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.49.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, climate change, risk communication, machine learning, snow-pack variability
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Title: LAYERWISE: A FRACTURE-MECHANICAL CONCEPT FOR SNOW PROFILE INTERPRETATION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Yannik Werner, Valentin Adam, Stephan Harvey, Mary Kate Carara, Samuel Verplanck, Alec van Herwijnen, Florian Rheinschmidt, Philipp Weißgraeber, Philipp L. Rosendahl
Description: When interpreting a snow profile, snow industry professionals rely on accumulated knowledge and intuition to judge overall snowpack stability. Explici...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.33.pdf
Keywords: snow stability assessment, analytical modelling, decision support, interactive learning, avalanche initiation, propagation potential
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Title: STUDENTS' REFLECTIVE EXPERIENCES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A STRAEGIC MINDSET FOR DECISIONS IN AVALANCE TERRAIN
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Linda Hallandvik, Odd L. Vikene
Description: Travel in avalanche terrain requires more than technical knowledge of snow, weather, and terrain. Research has repeatedly shown that human factors and...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.56.pdf
Keywords: decision-making, avalanche education, transparent guiding, strategic mindset, experiential learning.
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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: METEOROLOGICAL AND SNOWPACK PROPERTIES ASSOCIATED WITH CRUST-ADJACENT PERSISTENT WEAK LAYERS. PART 2: APPLYING THEORY TO OBSERVED PATTERNS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Andrew Schauer, Andy Moderow, Aleph Johnston-Bloom
Description: Over the past nine seasons, ten substantial melt-freeze crusts formed in avalanche start zones along Turnagain Pass, in the heart of Alaska’s Chuga...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.14.pdf
Keywords: crust, persistent weak layer, machine learning
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Title: FROM NOTEBOOK TO CAAML — DIGITIZING HANDWRITTEN SNOW PROFILES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Aron Widforss, Øystein Myhre, Erik Edin
Description: Most digital snow profile solutions have an unergonomic data entry step, and manually converting profiles from notebooks to a digital representation i...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.25.pdf
Keywords: caaml, snow profile, digitization, snow observations, machine learning
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Title: EVALUATION OF THE TRANSFERABILITY TO THE PYRENEES OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS DEVELOPED FOR AVALANCHE FORECASTING IN THE SWISS ALPS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Montse Bacardit, Cristina Pérez-Guillén, Jordi Gavaldà Bordes, Ivan Moner Seira, Martin Hendrick, Fabiano Monti
Description: Avalanche forecasting is crucial for ensuring safety and mobility in snow-covered mountainous regions worldwide. While traditional avalanche forecasts...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.27.pdf
Keywords: machine learning, avalanche forecasting, avalanche danger, avalanche activity, snowpack model
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Title: MACHINE LEARNING FOR AVALANCHE ACTIVITY FORECASTING: COMBINING THE KNOWLEDGE OF PAST AVALANCHE ACTIVITY AND SNOW MODELLING
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Léo Viallon-Galinier, Marianne Poussereau, Pascal Hagenmuller, Matthieu Lafaysse
Description: Predicting avalanche activity is critical in mountainous areas to support early warning services. For this purpose, and to complement field observatio...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O3.9.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, machine learning, snow modelling
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Title: AVALANCHE INFRASOUND SIGNAL CLASSIFICATION USING MACHINE LEARNING
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Jeffrey B Johnson, Scott Havens, Clark Corey, Evi Ofekeze, Skyler Chase, Owen Walsh, Jerry Mock, Hans Peter Marshall
Description: Infrasound monitoring is an established technology for detecting and locating snow avalanches using array processing techniques. Infrasound arrays are...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O8.2.pdf
Keywords: infrasound, snow avalanche dynamics, avalanche hazard mitigation, machine learning
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Title: OPTICAL MONITORING OF AVALANCHE REALEASE ZONES IN BESSANS, HAUTE MAURIENNE VALLEY, FRANCE, WITH A REMOTE AND ENERGY SELF-SUFFICIENT CAMERA SYSTEM
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Ishak Barkat, Christophe Lin-Kwong-Chon, Alain Duclos, Maxence Carrel, Severin Staehly, Cédric Périllat, Gaëlle Bourgeois, Anne Lescurier, Roger Fiandino, Argheesh Bhanot, Frédéric Pourraz
Description: The slopes between the Pointes du Chatelard and the Pointe de Claret in the Vanoise National ˆ Park, Haute-Maurienne in France are located right abo...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O8.8.pdf
Keywords: avalanche monitoring, energy self-sufficient camera system, image processing, digital image correlation, deep learning.
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Title: COMBINING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR THE AUTOMATED DETECTION OF AVALANCHES IN SEISMIC DATA
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Cristina Pérez-Guillén, Andri Simeon, Christine Seupel, Michele Volpi, Nicola Widmer, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: The destructive power of avalanches demands fast detection and early warning systems to mitigate avalanche risk in mountain areas. Since avalanches ar...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P8.26.pdf
Keywords: automatic avalanche detection, seismic monitoring and machine learning models
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Title: AUTOMATED SNOW AVALANCHE MAPPING WITH DEEP LEARNING IN AERIAL IMAGERY FROM THE EXTREME AVALANCHE WINTER OF 1999
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Mr. Jor Fergus Dal, Mrs. Elisabeth D. Hafner, Dr. Torben Peters, Dr. Dominik Narnhofer, Dr. Rodrigo Caye Daudt, Mr. Holger Heisig, Dr. Yves Bühler
Description: Snow avalanches are a major natural hazard in mountainous areas, posing a significant risk to lives and infrastructure. Knowing the location, frequen...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P9.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche mapping, remote sensing, deep learning
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