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Title: TOWARDS AN AUTOMATED AVALANCHE THALWEG ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY AND COMPARE AVALANCHE TERRAIN
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Paula Spannring, Christoph Hesselbach, Andreas Huber, Anna Wirbel, Felix Oesterle, John Sykes, Alberto Mariani, Declan Knies, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: To reduce complexity of avalanche simulation outputs in three-dimensional terrain, individual avalanches can be represented by thalwegs. A thalweg des...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain identification, avalanche size, avalanche mobility, automated model chain
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Title: CHARACTERIZING DIFFERENCES AMONG AUTOMATED AVALANCHE TERRAIN MAPPING APPROACHES: A MULTI-INSTITUTION COMPARISON AT ROGERS PASS, CANADA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: John Sykes, Stephan Harvey, Paula Spannring, Christoph Hesselbach, Kalin Markov, Pascal Haegeli, Grant Statham
Description: Automated avalanche terrain mapping has become an established approach for communicating avalanche terrain exposure to public and professional backcou...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.7.pdf
Keywords: automated avalanche terrain mapping, avalanche terrain exposure scale (ates), runout simulation, model comparison
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Title: A PHYSICS-INFORMED DATA-DRIVEN FRAMEWORK FOR REAL-TIME AVALANCHE RUNOUT PREDICTION USING SNOWPACK SIMULATIONS AND VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Bettina Richter, Anselm Köhler, Pierre Huguenin, Nander Wever, Eloïse Bovet, Betty Sovilla
Description: As most mass movement model were calibrated to reproduce extreme avalanches, their link to daily snow cover remains poorly constraint. In this study, ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS4.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, runout predictions, data-driven model, snowpack
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Title: PRACTITIONERS' INTERPRETATION OF AVALANCHE PROBLEM TYPE AND DISTRIBUTION WITHIN THE CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF AVALANCHE HAZARD
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Aaron C. Barnett, Andrew Forsman, Eeva Latosuo, Ryan Minton
Description: The Conceptual Model of Avalanche Hazard (CMAH) was created to be a systematic, consistent workflow for avalanche hazard and risk assessment. It is a ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O10.6.pdf
Keywords: conceptual model of avalanche hazard, decision aid, avalanche forecasting, expert interpretation, avalanche type, distribution
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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: HOW AND WHY ARE SNOWPACK MODELS USED OPERATIONALLY?
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Zachary Miller, Simon Horton, Stan Nowak, Christine Donnelly
Description: Public avalanche forecasters in North America rely on sparse weather station and field observation networks, coupled with numerical weather models, to...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O9.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snowpack modeling, large-scale operational model chain, spatial variability, avalanche problems
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Title: IMPROVING ACCESSIBILITY OF OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE BULLETINS THROUGH A MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL (MCP) SERVER
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Norbert Lanzanasto, Christoph Stanger, Bengt Haunerland, Simon Legner
Description: Timely access to official avalanche bulletins is critical for safe decision-making in avalanche terrain. While avalanche warning services publish stru...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche bulletin, model context protocol, large language models, caaml, information accessibility
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Title: DO INFRASOUND ARRAYS HAVE AN ACCENT? VALIDATING AVALANCHE DETECTION ACROSS SITES AND WINTERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Leslie King, Scott Havens
Description: Infrasound arrays may be used to monitor avalanches and other natural hazards, and machine learning classifiers can be used to discriminate event sign...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.64.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection; infrasound; machine learning; sensor arrays; model transfer
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Title: WATER RETANTION CURVE OF SNOW FROM X-RAY MICROSTRUCTUER
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Satoru Yamaguchi, Satoru Adachi, Takafumi Katsushima
Description: Because most meltwater movement within a snowpack occurs under unsaturated conditions, the snow water retention curve (SWRC) must be represented appro...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.13.pdf
Keywords: snow water retention curve, equivalent pore-body diameter, x-ray micro-ct, 3d watershed, kosugi model
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Title: STUDY OF SNOW PHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND ASSESSMENY OF SNOWPACK STABILITY TO ANTICIPATE AVALANCHE HAZARDS IN NUNAVIK (CANADA)
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Laura Guilhot, Najat Bhiry, Alexandre Langlois
Description: The current warming observed in northern regions such as Nunavik (Canada) has cascading effects on natural and human systems, potentially leading to d...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.21.pdf
Keywords: snowpack properties, nunavik, snowpack model, remote sensing
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Title: START-ZONE TERRAIN AND THE OCCURRENCE AND TIMING OF WET SLAB AVALANCHES IN COLORADO
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Brandon Levy, Ron Simenhois, Erich H. Peitzsch, Ethan Greene
Description: Wet slab avalanches (WSAs) release when liquid water reduces the strength of a buried weak layer or interface, and their timing is governed primarily ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.24.pdf
Keywords: wet slab avalanche, start zone, terrain classification, release timing, bayesian hierarchical model, colorado
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Title: DO FORECASTERS AGREE WHEN GIVEN THE SAME INFORMATION? INTER-FORECASTER AGREEMENT ON AVALANCHE PROBLEM LIKELIHOOD UNDER THE EAWS AND CMAH FRAMEWORKS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Olav Kvåle Myksvoll, Tim Dassler, Gerit Pfuhl
Description: Regional avalanche forecasting is a judgement-based process in which experts integrate heterogeneous and uncertain information when assessing avalanch...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.48.pdf
Keywords: avalanche problems, forecaster agreement, inter-rater reliability, likelihood, bayesian hierarchical model, avalanche danger
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Title: BUILDING TRUST IN SNOWPACK MODELS: EVALUATION GUIDELINES FOR RESEARCHERS AND FORECASTERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Simon Horton, Florian Herla, Alec van Herwijnen, Francis Meloche, Travis J. Morrison, Louis Quéno, Vincent Vionnet
Description: Physically based snowpack models are increasingly integrated into operational avalanche hazard forecasting, yet fragmented evaluation practices reduce...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.1.pdf
Keywords: snowpack model, model evaluation, avalanche forecasting, decision support
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Title: ESTABLISHING A COLLABORATIVE PYTHON LIBRARY FOR PARSING AND POST-PROCESSING SNOW COVER SIMULATIONS: XSnow
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Florian Herla, Ron Simenhois, Simon Horton, Léo Viallon-Galinier, Mathias Bavay, Michael Reisecker, Pascal Haegeli
Description: Detailed snow cover models such as SNOWPACK and CROCUS have become valuable tools for avalanche warning services. Increasingly ambitious applications,...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.29.pdf
Keywords: snow cover modeling, avalanche forecasting, post-processing, gridded data model, open-source software, community-driven
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Title: TOWARDS AN OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE FORECASTING TOOL USING RAMMS::EXTENDED
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Cam Campbell, Eirik Sharp
Description: Recent advances in remote sensing enable real-time estimation of snow depth in avalanche starting zones. An emerging opportunity for avalanche forecas...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.54.pdf
Keywords: release volume; runout distance; ramms::extended; model parameters; avalanche forecasting
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