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Title: LARGE AVALANCHES IN FORESTED TERRAIN IN PIRIN MOUNTAINS – TREE-RING AND NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS ANALYSIS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Momchil Panayotov, Nickolay Tsvetanov, Violeta Kotova, Valentin Balov, Yves Bühler, Perry Bartelt, Peter Bebi
Description: Pirin National park in Bulgaria is refuge of some of the best-preserved endemic Pinus peuce and Pinus heldreichii forests in the world. Due to the ste...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O11.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, dendrochronology, ramms::extended, pirin mountains, bulgaria
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Title: LAWYERS CREEK – MANAGING AVALANCHE RISK IN THE OMINECA MOUNTAINS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Mark Vesely, Greg Johnson
Description: The Omineca Mountains are made up of a series of remote ranges located in north central British Columbia, Canada. Due to their remote nature, publishe...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.8.pdf
Keywords: omineca mountains, operations, avalanche climate
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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: BOOSTING AND NUDGING PEOPLE TO MAKE SMART BACK-COUNTRY DECISIONS: THE CASE OF WINTER NORWAY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Tove I. Dahl, Tim Dassler, Christin Schulze, Richard Fjellaksel, Gerit Pfuhl, Karin Street, Håvard Boutera Toft, Andrea Mannberg, Audun Hetland
Description: Each year, alongside Norwegians, a concerning number of visiting backcountry ski-tourists lose their lives to avalanches in Norway. How do you suppor...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P13.8.pdf
Keywords: boosting, nudging, back-country activity, winter mountains, snow sports
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Title: A SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT DATASET FOR THE APENNINES (ITALY) BASED ON IN-SITU MEASUREMENTS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Vincenzo Romeo, Nicola Colombo, Nicolas Guyennon, Emanuele Romano, Franco Salerno, Danilo Godone, Michele Freppaz
Description: Snow stores a relevant amount of water in mountain regions. Snow water equivalent (SWE) represents the equivalent amount of liquid water stored in the...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.11.pdf
Keywords: swe, mountains, snow, meteomont carabinieri, sater storage, mediterranean region, avalanche
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Title: TOWARDS IMPROVED SNOWFALL ESTIMATIONS IN THE CANADIAN MOUNTAINS IN SUPPORT OF AVALANCHE HAZARD ASSESSMENT
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Jean-Benoit Madore, Vincent Vionnet, Dikraa Khedhaouiria, Nicolas Wagneur, William Durand, Vincent Fortin, Alexandre Langlois
Description: Snowfall significantly influences avalanche hazards in mountainous regions, and accurately estimating snow properties in Canada's vast mountains remai...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.24.pdf
Keywords: solid precipitation estimation, snowpack modeling, mountains
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Title: 240 years of climatic trends in avalanche activity in the Vosges Mountains, north-east France
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Florie Giacona, Nicolas Eckert, Christophe Corona, Robin Mainieri, Samuel Morin, Brice Martin, Markus Stoffel, Mohamed Naaim
Description: Studies addressing the link between snow avalanches and climate change remain to date rare and often inconclusive. This work grounds on more than 700 ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O05.5.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, climate change, historical data, hierarchical bayesian modelling, vosges mountains, time trends.
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Title: Characteristics of Avalanche Release and an Approach of Avalanche Forecasting System Using SNOWPACK Model in the Tianshan Mountains, China
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Osamu Abe, Lanhai Li, Lei Bai, Jiansheng Hao, Hiroyuki Hirashima, Junrong Xu
Description: We summarized the characteristics of avalanche releases in the Tianshan Mountains of western China based on observations of snow cover and avalanche o...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche release, forecasting system, snowpack model, tianshan mountains
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Title: Gone Like a Ghost: The Ghost Glacier Failure and Subsequent Outburst Flood, Mt. Edith Cavell, Jasper National Park
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Rupert J. Wedgwood
Description: During the evening of August 9th or early morning of the 10th 2012 the Ghost Glacier fell from the North Face of Mount Edith Cavell in Jasper National...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P3.53.pdf
Keywords: complex avalanche, rocky mountains, ablation
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Title: Geo-Historical Analysis of the Interactions Between Forest and Avalanche Dynamics in a Medium-High Mountain: The Case of the Vosges Range (France)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Florie Giacona, Brice Martin
Description: Ten meters of snow. This is the height, important for the Massif of Vosges, of the deposit of the avalanche of the end of January, 2012 in the bottom ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-25.pdf
Keywords: vosges mountains, geohistory, avalanche, forest
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Title: Implications Juridiques des Accidents en Montagne et Investigations Médicolégales
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: François PAYSANT, Frédérique FIECHTER BOULVARD, Florian GRENIER, V.SCOLAN
Description: The mountains especially during snow period is the place of accidents, some of which are fatal. In a first approach explanations of accidents may seem...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-42.pdf
Keywords: mountains accidents, legal investigation, responsibility
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Title: Road Network Management in the Context of Natural Hazards: A Decision-Aiding Process Based on Multi-Criteria Decision Making Methods and Network Structural Properties Analysis
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Tacnet J.-M., Mermet E., Zadonina E., Deschatres M., Humbert P., Dissart J.-C., Labbe S.
Description: In mountain areas, transport infrastructures (roads, railways) are exposed to natural hazards such as avalanches, torrent floods and rockfalls. Road n...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-69.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, natural hazards, mountains, indirect vulnerability, roads, network structural properties, information quality
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Title: Snow Avalanche Hazard Mapping for Different Frequency Scenarios, The Case of the Tatra Mts., Western Carpathians
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Paweł Chrustek, Marek Świerk, Marek Biskupič
Description: Snow avalanche hazard mapping is an important tool for land-use planning and safety assessment. It has proven to be the one of the most efficient and ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-54.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche mapping, hazard mapping, ramms, carpathians, tatra mountains
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Title: Modelling the Effect of Changing Snow Cover Regimes on Alpine Plant Species Distribution in Alpine Context
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jean-Pierre DEDIEU, Christophe RANDIN, Massimiliano ZAPPA, Stefan DULLINGER
Description: Snow cover is a critical parameter for the distribution of plant species in alpine regions. Earlier snow melt and an elongation and/or shift of the sn...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-25.pdf
Keywords: snow, mountains, climate change, alpine ecology
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Title: Can We Document Avalanche Activity by Plants Succession Monitoring?
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Milena Kociánová, Irena Špatenková, Petra Šťastná, Jiří Váňa, Josef Halda, Jana Kocourková, Helena Štursová, Roman Juras, Alena Vítová, Alena Bartošová, Veronika Langová, Jan Altman
Description: Avalanche activity in Krkonoše Mountains in the Czech Republic is mostly monitored during winter season. Some traces of avalanche activity stay vis...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-27.pdf
Keywords: krkonoše mountains, full depth avalanches, vegetation, dendrochronology
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