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Title: A VERY LARGE WET SLAB AVALANCHE SURPRISED US, WHICH IS FUNNY BECAUSE THE SAME THING HAPPENED 31 YEARS EARLIER
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Tully Hamer, Sean Fallon, Jeff Bristow, Aleph Johnston-Bloom
Description: Wet slab avalanches at Alyeska Ski Resort in Girdwood, Alaska, have historically caused significant infrastructure damage and are among the most unpre...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O11.1.pdf
Keywords: wet slabs, operational forecasting, crusts, mental models
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Title: UNSTRUCTURED DATA PROCESSING: ASKING NEW QUESTIONS OF AVALANCHE ACCIDENT REPORTS AND OTHER NATURAL LANGUAGE DOCUMENTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Bhavya Chopra, Björn Hartmann, Aditya Parameswaran, Shreya Shankar
Description: Statistical analyses are powerful tools for distilling patterns in avalanche accidents. Most such analyses rely on structured data — quantities that...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.45.pdf
Keywords: large language models, unstructured data processing, visualization, avalanche reports
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Title: IMPROVING THE DATA BASIS FOR THE PRACTICAL ASSESSMENT OF SNOW SLIDE IMPACTS FOR PRACTICAL AVALANCHE ENGINEERING AND HAZARD MAPPING APPLICATIONS IN AUSTRIA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Andreas Huber, Christoph Hesselbach, Felix Oesterle, Matthias Granig, Christian Tollinger, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: Snow slide hazard and risk assessment is increasingly relevant in the operational work of the Austrian Service for Torrent and Avalanche Control (WLV)...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.46.pdf
Keywords: snow slide, avalanche modeling, rapid assessment, surrogate models, avalanche engineering
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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: REEVALUATING THE "10 CONTRIBUTORY FACTORS": DATA-DRIVEN METHODOLOGY FOR AVALANCHE ACTIVITY PREDICTION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: David E. Gluckman, Steven Clark
Description: In operational practice, many avalanche forecasters rely primarily on subjective experience to provide risk assessments. Long-standing ideas of contri...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.10.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, contributory factors, machine learning, data-driven models
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Title: ADVANCING ACCESSIBILITY IN AVALANCHE FORECASTING STRATEGIES FOR INTERPRETING GEOSPATIAL DATA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Tyson Rettie
Description: Building on prior work presented in Visually Impaired Forecasting and Accessible Software (Rettie, 2023), this paper examines advances in accessibilit...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.37.pdf
Keywords: screen reader, accessibility, snowpack models, metteograms, forecasting
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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: SAFE - A LAYER-BASED AVALANCHE FORECAST EDITOR FOR BETTER INTEGRATION OF MODEL PREDICTIONS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Kurt Winkler, Jürg Trachsel, Jonas Knerr, Ueli Niederer, Gerd Weiss, Marc Ruesch, Frank Techel
Description: Machine learning (ML) models are revolutionizing avalanche forecasting, providing increasingly reliable predictions. At present, however, such model o...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.9.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecast, bulletin editor, numerical models, decision support, hazard assessment
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Title: SNOW AVALANCHE HAZARD MAPPING USING SPATIO-TEMPORAL BAYESIAN MODELS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Kebene Amanuel Baissa, Ingelin Steinsland, Eivind Schnell Juvik
Description: Snow avalanches are a substantial hazard that demands more attention and study due to their potential for destruction. One key to reducing their impa...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.24.pdf
Keywords: heatmaps, topological features, spatio-temporal models, copernicus sentinel-1 satellite, lyngen region, inlabru r package
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Title: INITIALIZING AND EVALUATING SNOWPACK SIMULATIONS WITH RECURRING SNOW PROFILE OBSERVATIONS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Michael Binder, Martin Perfler, Florian Herla, Frank Techel, Christoph Mitterer
Description: Information on snow stratigraphy and stability is crucial in avalanche forecasting. Traditionally, this information has been obtained by manually obs...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O3.10.pdf
Keywords: snowpack simulations, snow profiles, profile comparison, weather station, numerical weather prediction models, snow profile alignment and similarity assessment
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Title: ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF PRECIPITATION INPUTS ON SNOWPACK SIMULATIONS IN WESTERN CANADA
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Kelsea Krawetz, Pascal Haegeli, Simon Horton
Description: Public avalanche forecasters in Canada increasingly rely on snowpack models to augment manual observations for avalanche hazard assessments, but sever...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P3.2.pdf
Keywords: snowpack models, precipitation, uncertainty, snow depth, validation
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Title: REGIONAL SLUSHFLOW EARLY WARNING WITH EXAMPLE FROM WESTERN NORWAY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Monica Sund, Siv Å. Seljesæter, Heidi A. Grønsten, Kamilla S. Sandboe
Description: The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate operates a regional early warning for slush-flow hazard (SEW). It is a part of the early warning ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O6.6.pdf
Keywords: slushflow, warning, weather models, forecasting
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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: RIVERS IN THE SKY, FORECASTING ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS A WEEK OUT
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Matthew MacDonald, Paul Harwood
Description: Some of our biggest snowfalls in western Canada and the Pacific Northwest occur when powerful, moisture-laden atmospheric flows from the sub-tropics l...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O4.01.pdf
Keywords: meteorology, atmospheric rivers, avalanche, ensemble models, uncertainty, risk communication
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Title: INITIALIZING SNOW COVER SIMULATIONS WITH OBSERVED SNOW PROFILES
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Michael Binder, Christoph Mitterer
Description: Snow cover models were originally developed to advance snow and avalanche research and assist operational avalanche forecasting. Though indispensable ...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O4.02.pdf
Keywords: snowpack simulations, snow profiles, operational assessment and forecasting of avalanche danger, snow density parameterization, numerical weather prediction models, snow profile alignment and similarity assessment
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