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Title: OPERATIONALIZING AVALANCHE-TERRAIN SAR DECISIONS: THE KING COUNTY WINTER RESPONSE TEAM MODEL
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Erik Olson, Brad Hefta-Gaub, Jim Hirshfield
Description: Avalanche-terrain Search and Rescue (SAR) missions in King County, Washington occur across a large and complex operational area. Potential missions sp...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS3.3.pdf
Keywords: search and rescue, avalanche terrain, mission planning, incident command, avalanche forecasting
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Title: FROM DETECTION TO DECISION SUPPORT: EXPANDING THE ROLE OF DOPPLER AVALANCHE RADAR IN HAZARD MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Théo St. Pierre Ostrander, Heather Hordowick, Bret Shandro, Eoin Trainor, Peter Barsevskis, Maxence Carrel, Greg Johnson
Description: Avalanche mitigation infrastructure, including remote avalanche control systems, bridges, snowsheds, and large earthen diversion or arresting structur...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS4.2.pdf
Keywords: doppler radar, planning, operations, monitoring, mitigation.
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Title: A PRACTITIONER'S PERSPECTIVE ON TOOLS FOR UNDERSTANDING WIND FIELDS, SNOW DRIFT, AND SNOW DISTRIBUTION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Holt Hancock, Kjersti Gisnås, Peter Gauer, Nikolas Aksamit, Anna Poltronieri, Christian Jaedicke, Anders Kleiven
Description: Understanding how, where, and when snow accumulates due to blowing and drifting snow processes plays a key role in avalanche forecasting, hazard mappi...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O4.5.pdf
Keywords: snow drift, blowing snow, wind, avalanche forecasting, planning.
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Title: SNOW CREEP AND GLIDE FIELD MEASUREMENTS: IMPROVEMENTS FOR DESIGN OF GAS-BASED REMOTE AVALANCHE CONTROL SYSTEMS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Adam Davis, Anton Avchyan
Description: Snow creep and glide forces in alpine environments contribute to structural damage and midwinter failure of remote avalanche control systems (RACS), p...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.47.pdf
Keywords: planning and engineering, racs installation and maintenance, snow creep, glide
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Title: AUTOATES V3.0: AUTOMATED ATES MAPPING AT SCALE ACROSS WESTERN CANADA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: John Sykes, Declan Knies, Pascal Haegeli, Kristin Anthony-Malone, Grant Statham
Description: Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) maps help backcountry travelers understand how exposed a piece of terrain is to avalanche hazard. Making those...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.48.pdf
Keywords: automated avalanche terrain mapping; avalanche terrain exposure scale (ates); runout simulation; model validation; trip planning
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Title: INITIAL EXPLORATIONS ON HOW SKITOURENGURU AFFECTS USERS' TRIP PLANNING AND AVALANCHE SAFETY PRACTICES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Günter Schmudlach
Description: Skitoureguru (STG) supports backcountry skiers by automatically combining public avalanche forecast information with terrain characteristics to provid...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.51.pdf
Keywords: decision support tools, trip planning, automation
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Title: LIMITATIONS OF RAMMS:DEBRISFLOW AS A SLUSHFLOW SIMULATION TOOL
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Vilde E. Hansen, Christopher J.L. D'Amboise, Louise M. Vick
Description: Slushflows are defined as water-saturated snow (slush), that moves rapidly downslope as a gravitational mass flow. The high-water content of the flow ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P6.10.pdf
Keywords: slushflow, simulation, spatial planning, ramms
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Title: AVALANCHE HAZARD ZONING AND SETTLEMENT DEVELOPMENT IN AUSTRIA
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Barbara Steinbrunner
Description: Hazard zoning has a tradition of over 50 years in Austria and is an essential part of natural hazard management. Both the criteria for zoning and the ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O7.8.pdf
Keywords: spatial planning, hazard zoning, settlement development, risk reduction
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Title: SPATIAL INTERPOLATION METHODS FOR ESTIMATING EXTREME SNOW SUPPLY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: SCOTT THUMLERT
Description: Estimating potential extreme snow supply is one of the most important tasks when planning for large destructive infrequent avalanches. We define it as...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P7.15.pdf
Keywords: snow supply, extreme snowpack depths, spatial interpolation, engineering, planning
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Title: COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE IN SAFETY JUDGEMENTS BY GROUPS OF SKIERS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Tim Dassler, Richard Fjellaksel, Michael Morreau
Description: Underestimating avalanche factors can give backcountry skiers a false sense of safety. In theory, aggregating the estimates of group members can enabl...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P11.11.pdf
Keywords: wisdom of crowds, risk assessment, avalanche education, avalanche course evaluation, trip planning, hazard management
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Title: THE GERMAN ALPINE CLUB (DAV) SKI TOURING STUDY: MINDSET, RISK ASSESSMENT AND DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES AMONG SKI TOURING GROUPS IN THE ALPS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Martin Schwiersch, Michaela Brugger, Lukas Fritz, Bernhard Streicher, Florian Hellberg, Christoph Hummel, Thomas Feistl
Description: This study investigates the decision-making processes of ski touring groups in avalancheprone areas. Existing research has primarily explored specifi...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P11.14.pdf
Keywords: tour planning, equipment, risk assessment, decision making, backcountry skiing
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Title: REFINED SWISS AVALANCHE TERRAIN MAPPING CATV2 / ATHV2
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Marc Christen, Yves Bühler, Cyrill Hänni, Noel Boos, Boris Bernegger
Description: Avalanche terrain maps are becoming increasingly common for large areas due to the availability of high-resolution and high-quality digital elevation...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P12.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain maps, white risk, avalanche terrain, avalanche hazard mapping, backcountry tour planning
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Title: AUTOMATIC CRUX DETECTION FOR PLANNING BACKCOUNTRY TOURS IN AVALANCHE TERRAIN
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Cyrill Hänni, Noel Boos, Jorim Urner
Description: For travelling in the backcountry, good planning is crucial. Besides the current weather and avalanche forecast, terrain characteristics must be asses...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O8.02.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain, crux detection, avalanche hazard mapping, white risk, backcountry tour planning, decision making
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Title: BRITISH COLUMBIA MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE PROVINCIAL AVALANCHE HAZARD INDEX
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Brian Gould, Scott Thumlert, Eirik Sharp, Cam Campbell, Dorian Schjelderup, Lea Green
Description: This paper presents work completed to quantify and visualize snow avalanche hazard for the entire provincial highway network as managed by the British...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.37.pdf
Keywords: british columbia, ministry of transportation and infrastructure, avalanche hazard index, transportation corridor risk, risk planning tool, ahi
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Title: DATA-DRIVEN METHODS FOR THE AVALANCHE HAZARD INDEX
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Scott Thumlert, Brian Gould, Cam Campbell, Dorian Schjelderup, Eirik Sharp, Lea Green
Description: Describing snow avalanche hazard for transportation corridors with the Avalanche Hazard Index (AHI) provides valuable planning insights. The AHI allow...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.38.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard index, transportation corridor risk, risk planning tool, ahi
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