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- Title: TRACKING WATER IN SNOW: BRIDGING SENSOR DATA AND MODEL SIMULATIONS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Andrea Bruckmeier, Christoph Mitterer, Robyn Gotz, Eric Sproles, Erich Peitzsch
- Description: Forecasting wet slab avalanches remains one of the most demanding challenges in operational avalanche forecasting. A key obstacle is the difficulty of...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.30.pdf
- Keywords: liquid water content, snowpack, in-situ measurements, avalanche forecasting
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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
- View additional details about DENSITY-INSENSITIVE DETERMINATION OF LIQUID WATER CONTENT IN SNOW USING MICROWAVE ATTENUATION MEASUREMENTS
- Title: RECENT ADVANCES IN MEASURING SNOW PHYSICAL PROPERTIES: DENSITY, SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA, AND LIQUID WATER CONTENT
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Benjamin Walter, Valentin Philippe, Leah Gaillard Festa, Michael Lombardo, Lars Mewes
- Description: Accurate measurements of snow density, specific surface area (SSA), and liquid water content (LWC) are essential for studying snow metamorphosis, snow...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.7.pdf
- Keywords: snow microstructure, density, specific surface area, liquid water content, cryosphere monitoring.
- View additional details about RECENT ADVANCES IN MEASURING SNOW PHYSICAL PROPERTIES: DENSITY, SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA, AND LIQUID WATER CONTENT
- Title: ASSESSING CRITICAL WET-SNOW AVALANCHE SITUATIONS WITH SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED SNOW COVER SIMULATIONS
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Andrea Bruckmeier, Erwin Rottler, Michael Warscher, Ulrich Strasser, Christoph Mitterer
- Description: In recent years, physics-based snow cover models have gained importance in supporting avalanche forecasting to better assess critical avalanche condit...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.8.pdf
- Keywords: wet snow, openamundsen, snowpack, liquid water content, avalanche problems, snow cover simulations
- View additional details about ASSESSING CRITICAL WET-SNOW AVALANCHE SITUATIONS WITH SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED SNOW COVER SIMULATIONS
- Title: GLIDE-SNOW AVALANCHES: INSIGHTS FROM SPATIO-TEMPORAL SOIL AND SNOW MONITORING
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Amelie Fees, Michael Lombardo, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Glide-snow avalanche release at the ground-snow interface and are currently considered unpredictable due to a lack of process understanding. It is gen...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_O6.1.pdf
- Keywords: glide-snow avalanche, spatio-temporal monitoring, soil temperature, liquid water content
- View additional details about GLIDE-SNOW AVALANCHES: INSIGHTS FROM SPATIO-TEMPORAL SOIL AND SNOW MONITORING
- Title: TOWARDS AN IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF GLIDE-SNOW AVALANCHE RELEASE: INTERFACE SHEAR COLD LABORATORY TESTS
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Grégoire Bobillier, Amelie Fees, Michael Lombardo, Jakob Schöttner, Miguel Cabrera, Alec van Herwijnen, Johan Gaume, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Glide-snow avalanches involve significant volumes of moving snow and present a major
challenge to infrastructure in snow-covered mountain regions. Th...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P6.1.pdf
- Keywords: glide-snow avalanche initiation, liquid water content, friction
- View additional details about TOWARDS AN IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF GLIDE-SNOW AVALANCHE RELEASE: INTERFACE SHEAR COLD LABORATORY TESTS
- Title: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIQUID WATER CONTENT IN DIFFERENT SNOW TYPES AS INPUT TO SLUSHFLOW EARLY WARNING
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Thor Parmentier, Hallgeir Elvehøy, Turid Haugen, Aron Widforss, Monica Sund
- Description: Slushflows are rapid mass-movements of water-saturated snow that can occur when liquid water content (LWC) becomes high enough (> 15 vol. %), melting ...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P6.7.pdf
- Keywords: lwc, liquid water content, slushflow, snow wetness, snow hydrology
- View additional details about AN INVESTIGATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIQUID WATER CONTENT IN DIFFERENT SNOW TYPES AS INPUT TO SLUSHFLOW EARLY WARNING
- Title: SNOWAVE: A MULTIBAND MICROWAVE RADAR INSTRUMENT FOR SNOWPACK AND GLACIER MONITORING
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Martina Lodigiani
- Description: The cryosphere is a crucial field of study due to climate change’s impact on ice and snow, affecting freshwater supplies, agriculture, hydroelectric...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P8.21.pdf
- Keywords: cryosphere monitoring, radar, snow water equivalent (swe), liquid water content (lwc), multiband radar
- View additional details about SNOWAVE: A MULTIBAND MICROWAVE RADAR INSTRUMENT FOR SNOWPACK AND GLACIER MONITORING
- Title: INTERPRETING SENTINEL-1 RADAR BACKSCATTERING FOR THE MELT DYNAMIC OF AN ALPINE SNOWPACK WITH A HIGH RESOLUTION GROUND TRUTH DATASET
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Francesca Carletti
- Description: Snow in mountain catchments serves as a constant water release during the melting season, supporting many human activities downstream. However, it als...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_O9.5.pdf
- Keywords: snowmelt, sar, sentinel-1, liquid water content, surface roughness, snow profiles
- View additional details about INTERPRETING SENTINEL-1 RADAR BACKSCATTERING FOR THE MELT DYNAMIC OF AN ALPINE SNOWPACK WITH A HIGH RESOLUTION GROUND TRUTH DATASET
- 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
- View additional details about THE FORMATION OF BASAL LIQUID-WATER LAYERS IN EARLY-WINTER ("COLD") GLIDE-SNOW AVALANCHES
- Title: QUANTIFYING SHORT-TERM CHANGES IN SNOW STRENGTH DUE TO INCREASING LIQUID WATER CONTENT ABOVE HYDRAULIC BARRIERS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Mikael Schlumpf, Jordy Hendrikx, John Stormont, Ryan Webb
- Description: The rapid weakening of snow layers that accumulate infiltrating liquid water is a well-known, but poorly quantified, mechanism for wet slab avalanche ...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.63.pdf
- Keywords: wet snow, wet slab avalanches, blade hardness, liquid water content
- View additional details about QUANTIFYING SHORT-TERM CHANGES IN SNOW STRENGTH DUE TO INCREASING LIQUID WATER CONTENT ABOVE HYDRAULIC BARRIERS
- Title: TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF SLAB AND WEAK LAYER PROPERTIES DURING THE TRANSITION FROM DRY TO WET SNOWPACK CONDITIONS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Josh Lipkowitz, Erich Peitzsch, Jean Dixon, Marcus Kalb, Doug McCabe, Griffin Ditmar, Christoph Mitterer
- Description: Wet-snow slab avalanches are destructive and may become more prevalent in a warming climate. This type of avalanche remains challenging to forecast be...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.23.pdf
- Keywords: wet slab, liquid water content, pst
- View additional details about TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF SLAB AND WEAK LAYER PROPERTIES DURING THE TRANSITION FROM DRY TO WET SNOWPACK CONDITIONS
- Title: A NEW HANDHELD CAPACITIVE SENSOR TO MEASURE SNOW DENSITY AND LIQUID WATER CONTENT
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Fabian Wolfspeger, Michel Geisser, Silvio Ziegler, Henning Löwe
- Description: Quantifying the density (ρ) and liquid water content (LWC) of snow is crucial for any physical process in the snowpack. A widely used method to measu...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.52.pdf
- Keywords: snow density, snow wetness, liquid water content, capacitive sensor, permittivity, dielectric method, snow profile
- View additional details about A NEW HANDHELD CAPACITIVE SENSOR TO MEASURE SNOW DENSITY AND LIQUID WATER CONTENT
- Title: Snow gliding and glide snow avalanches: recent outcomes from two experimental test sites in Aosta Valley (NW Italian Alps)
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Margherita Maggioni, Danilo Godone, Barbara Frigo, Michele Freppaz
- Description: We have been continuing our research on snow gliding and glide snow avalanches in two experimental test sites in Aosta Valley Region. The sites are lo...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P01.9.pdf
- Keywords: snow gliding processes, driving factors, liquid water content, soil, monitoring system.
- View additional details about Snow gliding and glide snow avalanches: recent outcomes from two experimental test sites in Aosta Valley (NW Italian Alps)
- Title: Analysis of the spatio-temporal development of snow surface wetness in a high alpine area using terrestrial laser scanning reflectivity
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Katharina Knoebl, Paul Schattan, Christine Fey, Volker Wichmann
- Description: One indicator that provides information about the state of snow melting and snow pack stability is the liquid water content (LWC); however, it remains...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O04.4.pdf
- Keywords: terrestrial laser scanning, snow surface, reflectivity, liquid water content.
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