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Title: SCALING OPERATIONAL SNOWPACK MODELING: INFRASTRUCTURE CHALLENGES AT THE 2.5 KM NWP GRID RESOLUTION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Bryce Schroers, Simon Horton
Description: Avalanche Canada runs a SNOWPACK simulation every morning, so that forecasters begin the day with modelled snow profiles and stability indices. Until ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.8.pdf
Keywords: snowpack modelling, operational forecasting, high-performance computing, data formats, model output, cloud infrastructure
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Title: EVALUATION OF FALLING SNOW DENSITY PARAMETERIZATIONS AGAINST REAL-TIME SNOW DENSITY MEASUREMENTS FROM A DIFFERENTIAL EMISSIVITY IMAGING DISDROMETER (DEID)
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Travis J. Morrison, Bettina Richter, Benjamin Silberman, Dhiraj Kumar Singh, Eric R. Pardyjak
Description: Snow-cover models are becoming increasingly popular in the snow and hydrological communities and are highly sensitive to initial or falling snow densi...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.1.pdf
Keywords: new-snow density, snow density parameterization, disdrometer, deid, snow-cover modelling, wasatch mountains
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Title: A CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE TO IDENTIFY SPATIAL PATTERNS IN SNOW COVER MODEL OUTPUT
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Simon Horton, Florian Herla, Pascal Haegeli
Description: Spatially distributed snowpack models are increasingly being adopted by avalanche forecasting agencies, but forecasters could benefit from simpler met...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.10.pdf
Keywords: snowpack modelling, clustering, forecast regions, spatial variability
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Title: THE AVALANCHE MODELLING ATLAS – A FRAMEWORK FOR THE COLLECTION, ORGANISATION AND ANALYSIS OF AVALANCHE PATH AND EVENT DATA
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Marc S. Adams, Magdalena Fischer, Laura Stephan, Christian Demmler, Anna Wirbel, Felix Oesterle, Christoph Hesselbach, Christoph Mitterer, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: An extensive, detailed and reliable identification of avalanche paths and documentation of past avalanche events is the backbone of avalanche model de...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P2.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche modelling, past events cadastre, avalanche classification
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Title: INFLUENCE OF DTM/DEM RESOLUTION AND DOMAIN DISCRETIZATION ON THE SNOW AVALANCHE DYNAMICS MODELLING
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Marcos Sanz-Ramos, Pere Oller, Ernest Bladé
Description: Numerical modelling of snow avalanche dynamics requires necessarily the utilisation of terrain topography to update the elevation of the calculation m...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P2.5.pdf
Keywords: dtm/dem, numerical modelling, iber, smoothing, fill sinks
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Title: FROM DEBRIS IN LAKE SEDIMENTS TO BACK-CALCULATION OF SNOW AVALANCHES ON LAKE ICE OF ANESTØLSVATNET, NORWAY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Denise Rüther, Torgeir Opeland Røthe, Simon de Villiers
Description: Situated at 439 m a.s.l. in northernmost Sogndalsdalen, Western Norway, lake Anestølen has a known history for snow avalanches which primarily origin...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P2.7.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches on lake ice, lacustrine record, avalanche modelling
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Title: WHAT ARE THE LIMITATIONS OF DYNAMICAL MODEL USE IN AVALANCHE CONSULTANCY TODAY?
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Callum Tregaskis, Peter Gauer
Description: Understanding the limitations of dynamical modelling approaches is essential to providing accurate and useful information to clients. In avalanche co...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P2.10.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche dynamics, numerical modelling, depth-averaged modelling
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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: IMPROVEMENT OF SNOWPACK MODEL OUTPUT THROUGH HAND PROFILES? – A CASE STUDY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Franziska Ehrnsperger, Felix Myhsok, Vera Langer, Dr. Thomas Feistl
Description: Modelling the layered snow cover offers a wide range of possibilities in snow and avalanche research and is an important piece of information for ass...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P3.14.pdf
Keywords: snowpack modelling, integration of hand profiles, snowpack
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Title: TRENDS IN HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL AVALANCHE INDICATORS IN NORWAY AND SVALBARD IN 1961-2020
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Tuomo Saloranta, Karsten Müller, Siiri Wickström
Description: Hydrometeorological factors, such as snow depth, length of the snow season, wind speed and direction, air temperature, as well as the amount and inten...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P5.2.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, climate change, modelling
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Title: CLIMATE ATTRIBUTION FOR SNOW AVALANCHES HAZARD. A CASE STUDY IN ITALY.
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Lucia Ferrarin, Daniele Bocchiola
Description: We introduce a comprehensive framework to assess i) future avalanche hazard, and ii) explicit climate change attribution, with the case study of mount...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P5.5.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, dynamic modelling, hazard mapping, avalanche forest interaction, snow erosion, snow entrainment.
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Title: A PROBABILITY-BASED MODELLING APPROACH BEYOND A FEW SELECTED RETURN PERIODS FOR COMPREHENSIVE AND ROBUST HAZARD AND RISK ASSESSMENT
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Jan Kleinn, Yves Bühler, Julia Glaus, Dörte Aller, Catherine Berger, Michael Rinderer, Nils Hählen, Adrian Peter, Corinne Singeisen
Description: We present an innovative modelling approach, which allows to derive probability-based hazard information at any location in avalanche-prone areas. Su...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O7.7.pdf
Keywords: hazard modelling, risk modelling, probabilistic modelling, avalanche hazard, avalanche risk, loss-frequency-curves
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Title: SUPPORTING LOCAL AVALANCHE RISK ASSESSMENT: INTEGRATING SNOW COVER SIMULATIONS INTO LOCAL AVALANCHE RISK ASSESSMENT PROTOCOLS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Veronika Hatvan, Marco Knoflach, Andreas Gobiet, Christian Rachoy
Description: In snow science and avalanche forecasting, snow cover modelling is increasingly important. However, the complex nature of simulation results often lim...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P7.11.pdf
Keywords: snow cover modelling, local risk assessment, visualisation
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Title: QUANTITATIVELY CAPTURING DECISION-MAKING PRACTICES OF MECHANIZED SKI GUIDES USING GPS TRACKING, AVALANCHE TERRAIN MODELING AND BAYESIAN NETWORKS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: John Sykes, Pascal Haegeli, Roger Atkins, Patrick Mair, Yves Bühler
Description: Snow avalanches are the primary mountain hazard for mechanized skiing operations. Helicopter and snow-cat ski guides are tasked with finding safe terr...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O3.03.pdf
Keywords: decision-making, avalanche terrain modelling, gps tracking, mechanized skiing, backcountry
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Title: A DEPTH-AVERAGED µ(I) MODEL FOR DENSE SNOW AVALANCHES
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Callum Tregaskis, Peter Gauer, Dieter Issler
Description: Observations from large-scale avalanche test sites indicate velocity measurements are not always adequately captured by widely used rheological model...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.65.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche dynamics, numerical modelling, depth-averaged modelling
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