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Title: A COMPREHENSIVE AVALANCHE MITIGATION AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK FOR ARCTIC COASTAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION ON ARNØYA, NORWAY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: von Wartburg J, Wickström S, Berger T, Kavli Walberg N, St Pierre Ostrander T, Carrel M
Description: Arnøya, a remote island in Troms County, Northern Norway, saw the installation of a comprehensive avalanche mitigation and monitoring system in 2024,...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.40.pdf
Keywords: avalanche monitoring, norway, racs, mitigation, forecasting
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Title: VALIDATION OF SNOWPACK SIMULATIONS USING A LOW-COST WEATHER STATION IN SOUTHERN NORWAY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Bert Kruyt, Markus Landrø, Håvard Boutera Toft, Rasmus Haury, Eirik Stave, Jostein Aasen, Karsten Müller
Description: Snow-cover models are increasingly used to support avalanche forecasting, but their reliability must be demonstrated under prevailing climatic conditi...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.26.pdf
Keywords: validation, modelling, snowpack, norway, case-study
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Title: MANAGING AVALANCHE HAZARD ON A MAJOR ROAD DURING AN EXTREME SNOWFALL EVENT IN NORTHERN NORWAY , MARCH 2025
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jacob Berg Lofthus, Ole-Andre Helgaas
Description: During March 2025, an exceptional avalanche cycle affected the E6 highway corridor in Langfjorden, Finnmark, Northern Norway. Persistent snowfall thro...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.50.pdf
Keywords: avalanche cycle, daisybell, highway safety, avalanche control, norway
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Title: TOWARDS IMPROVED CONSISTENCY IN ASSIGNING AVALANCHE PROBLEMS AMONGST FORECASTERS IN NORWAY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Markus Landrø, Gustav Pless, Jostein Aasen, Karsten Müller, Solveig Kosberg
Description: Avalanche problems describe the cause and development of typical avalanche hazard situations and offer appropriate terrain management advice. Avalanch...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche problem standardization, consistency, avalanche bulletin communication, norway
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Title: FORTY YEARS WITH AVALANCHE DETECTION SYSTEMS IN NORWAY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Tore Humstad
Description: As part of public strategies for the protection of Norwegian roads against avalanches, automatic avalanche monitoring for spontaneous road closure an...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O8.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, monitoring, geophones, radar, norway
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Title: AVALANCHE CONTROL ON NORWEGIAN HIGHWAYS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Jens Tveit, Njål Farestveit
Description: A lot have happened on avalanche control in Norway since we started to test new methods in 2010. Before 2010 the methods for avalanche control were li...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.39.pdf
Keywords: avalanche control, avalanche mitigation, norwegian public roads administration, norway
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Title: E-LEARNING AS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL FOR AVALANCHE BULLETIN USERS, OBSERVERS, AND FORECASTERS IN NORWAY
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Rune Engeset, Jostein Aasen
Description: Regional, daily avalanche bulletins are the primary tool of avalanche warning services to inform winter backcountry recreationists and preparedness au...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.04.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche bulleting literacy, e-learning, norway
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Title: Monitoring of snow and ground temperature in the glide avalanche area at Trefall, Eksingadalen in Western Norway
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Julie Bjørlien, Njål Farestveit
Description: Glide avalanches represent a problem in Western Norway, with known areas where glides and glide avalanche problems arise towards the end of the winter...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P01.6.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanche, time-lapse, the norwegian public roads administration, norway.
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Title: Operational avalanche activity monitoring using radar satellites: From Norway to worldwide assistance in avalanche forecasting
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Eirik Malnes, Hannah Vickers, Karsten Müller, Rune Engeset, Tore Humstad
Description: The seemingly simple questions of when and where avalanches have released are difficult to answer for large avalanche forecasting regions, especially ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O04.9.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, operational avalanche activity monitoring, sentinel-1, radar, norway.
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Title: Evaluating the Local Avalanche Danger in Tromsø, Northern Norway Using Field Monitoring, Field Investigations and the SURFEX/ISBA-CROCUS Snowpack Model
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Eirik Malnes, Dagrun Vikhamar-Schuler, Yngve Antonsen
Description: During the winter 2013/2014 we conducted frequent fieldwork, collecting snowpack property and stability data from five monitoring sites along a verti...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P1.07.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger scale, stability test, ect, surfex/isba-crocus snowpack model,norway
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Title: Avalanche Problems; An Important Part of the Norwegian Forecast, and a Useful Tool for the Users
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Markus Landrø, Solveig Kosberg, Karsten Müller
Description: The Norwegian Avalanche Warning Service uses avalanche problems in their bulletins to provide a compact, yet exact, description for the end user of th...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-14.pdf
Keywords: avalanche problems, avalanche patterns, avalanche forecasting, avalanche bulletin, norway
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Title: Report From the First Operational Winter of the Norwegian Avalanche Centre
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Karsten Müller, Solveig Kosberg, Markus Landrø, Rune V. Engeset
Description: The Norwegian Avalanche Centre had its first operational season from mid-January until the end of May 2013. We report on the experiences from the firs...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-20.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting service, avalanche bulletin, norway, winter conditions, varsom. no
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Title: The Norwegian Public Roads Administration`s Role as a Major Contributor and End User of the New Norwegian Avalanche Bulletin
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Njål Farestveit, Julie Engelien Bjørlien, Jens Tveit
Description: The first national avalanche bulletin in Norway was launched the 14th of January 2013 on www.varsom.no. The bulletin is the result of a major effort, ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-22.pdf
Keywords: avalanche bulletin, the norwegian public roads administration, norway
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Title: Experiences from a Heavy Avalanche Season 2013, Caused by a Weak Snow Layer, and Leading to Several Road Closures in Northern Norway
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Silje S. Haaland, Jeanette Kvalvaagnes, Ole-André Helgaas
Description: During the last week of March and first days of April 2013 a significant large number of avalanches hit roads and cut off all infrastructures to sever...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-58.pdf
Keywords: snowpack, avalanche, weak layers, norway
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Title: Avalanche Research, Education and Forecasting in Svalbard, Norway – A Roadmap Provided by an Expert Workshop in Longyearbyen, April 2013
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Jordy Hendrikx, Hanne H. Christiansen
Description: The mountainous landscape around Svalbard’s main settlement Longyearbyen is snow covered for 8-10 months per year. Infrastructure is built in a...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-28.pdf
Keywords: avalanche research, avalanche education, avalanche forecasting, svalbard, norway
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