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Title: INSIGHTS INTO AVALANCHE FLOW REGIMES FROM A HIGH PRECIPITATION, HIGH RELIEF REGION IN NEW ZEALAND
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Aubrey Miller, Pascal Sirguey, Perry Bartelt, Nicolas Cullen, Yves Bühler
Description: Snow avalanches in high-relief maritime mountains may release from cold alpine snowpacks yet descend through the rain-snow transition into warm, satur...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O11.3.pdf
Keywords: flow regime change, large avalanche, maritime, ramms, new zealand
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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: MACHINE LEARNING FOR AUTOMATED AVALANCHE TERRAIN EXPOSURE SCALE CLASSIFICATION – A COMPARISON OF TWO APPROACHES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Kalin Markov, Yves Bühler, Andreas Huber, Momchil Panayotov
Description: Backcountry travel in mountainous regions in Bulgaria has increased significantly in recent decades, heightening the need for effective avalanche risk...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.33.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, ates, machine learning, com4flowpy, ramms, bulgaria
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Title: CONSISTENT (NUMERICAL) APPROACH FOR LARGE SCALE SNOW-AVALANCHE HAZARD UPDATE: APPLICATION TO A POORLY DOCUMENTED AREA LIKE CORSICA ISLAND (FR)
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Philippe Berthet-Rambaud, Stéphane Roudnitska, Jérôme Bock, Clément Belgodère
Description: The avalanche of Ortiporio (1934), village of Corsica (mountainous island situated in the Mediterranean Sea), caused the death of 37 persons. Despite ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.36.pdf
Keywords: corsican mountain range, large-scale indicative hazard map, ramms climate change, protective forest effect
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Title: TOWARDS AN OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE FORECASTING TOOL USING RAMMS::EXTENDED
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Cam Campbell, Eirik Sharp
Description: Recent advances in remote sensing enable real-time estimation of snow depth in avalanche starting zones. An emerging opportunity for avalanche forecas...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.54.pdf
Keywords: release volume; runout distance; ramms::extended; model parameters; avalanche forecasting
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Title: FIELD INTERVENTION AND CONTROL OF A GLIDE AVALANCHE IN AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT WITHOUT EXPLOSIVE RELEASE OPTIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Sergi Riba Porras, Vicente Medina, Joan Albós, Carles García-Sellés
Description: On 17 February 2026, a ~50 m long basal crack developed on a short snow-covered slope immediately above an urban sector of Pas de la Casa, Andorra. Th...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.46.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanche; hydraulic fragmentation; ramms; urban risk; avalanche mitigation; andorra
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Title: ENHANCING OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE RISK ASSESSMENT WITH RPAS LIDAR SNOW DEPTH MAPS AND AVALANCHE SIMULATIONS: A CASE STUDY IN WESTERN CANADA
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Eirik Ainer-Sharp, Cam Campbell, Alexis Tessier
Description: In this study, we present a novel approach to operational avalanche risk assessment using numerical avalanche models initialized with snow depth maps ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.30.pdf
Keywords: rpas, uav, drone, lidar, ramms, forecasting.
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Title: A MULTI-STEP AVALANCHE RISK FRAMEWORK FOR THE QUANTIFICATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON LARGE SCALE AVALANCHE HAZARD
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Gregor Ortner, Michael Bründl, David N. Bresch
Description: Specific impacts of climate change on snow avalanche risk for inhabited areas are largely unknown and call for further investigation. Numerous studie...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O5.2.pdf
Keywords: climate change, avalanche, risk assessment, snowpack, ramms, climada, risk maps
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Title: THE LILLET LAKE AVALANCHE: A POTENTIAL SLUSH FLOW CASE FOR ITALIAN ALPS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Massimiliano Barbolini, Peter Gauer, Francesco Stefanini
Description: The Lillet Lake avalanche site is in the Piedmont region, north-west Italian Alps, in the community of Ceresole Reale, Province of Turin, close to the...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P6.5.pdf
Keywords: slushflow, mixed avalanche, ramms, samos, lillet lake avalanche
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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: REPRODUCING LAYER AND POWDER AVALANCHE FLOW FROM STRUCTURAL BUILDING DAMAGES BY MEANS OF THE RAMMS EXTENDED MODEL
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Sergi Riba, Glòria Martí, Carles García-Sellés, Santiago Manguán, Jordi Pons, Francesc Vilar
Description: The 1995-96 winter was the last major avalanche cycle for the last 50 years in the Eastern Pyrenees. Nearly 150 avalanches were classified as 4 and 5 ...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.21.pdf
Keywords: mixed flowing/powder avalanches, ramms extended, impact pressures, eastern pyrenees
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Title: PERFORMANCE OF THE KITCHENER PATH PROTECTION BERM DURING THE HISTORIC JULY 2022 AVALANCHE CYCLE, SOUTHERN ALPS, NEW ZEALAND
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Aubrey Miller, Alan Jones, Mike Smallwood, Don Bogie, Pascal Sirguey, Todd Redpath, Perry Bartelt
Description: An extreme mid-winter rain event generated the largest avalanche cycle seen in decades in the central Southern Alps of Aotearoa New Zealand. The recor...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.34.pdf
Keywords: diversion berm, hazard mitigation, extreme rain, rain-on-snow, ramms, new zealand
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Title: THE DESTRUCTIVE POTENTIAL OF LARGE AVALANCHES CLOSE TO BANSKO SKI RESORT IN PIRIN MOUNTAINS – TREE-RING AND NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS ANALYSIS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Momchil Panayotov, Nickolay Tsvetanov, Marc Christen, Peter Bebi, Perry Bartelt
Description: In our study we reconstruct past avalanches in three couloirs in close proximity to Bansko ski resort in Pirin Mountains, Bulgaria. We combined tree-r...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O13.05.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, avalanche-forest interaction, pirin, tree-ring analysis, ramms
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Title: The January 18th 2017 Rigopiano avalanche disaster in Italy - Analysis of the avalanche dynamics
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Frigo B., Chiaia B., Chiambretti I., Bartelt P., Maggioni M., Freppaz M.
Description: On January 18th, 2017, a catastrophic avalanche released from Mount Siella (Gran Sasso Massif - Italy) after a 48-hour period of heavy snowfall. The a...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O01.2.pdf
Keywords: rigopiano disaster, wood avalanche, ramms, impact pressure, structural collapse.
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Title: A new approach to avalanche risk assessment in Russia
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Anton Komarov, Yuri Seliverstov, Alla Turchaninova, Sergey Sokratov
Description: Snow avalanches pose a challenging problem in many mountain regions of Russia. The expansion of infrastructure and therefore the increased avalanche r...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O03.8.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, risk assessment, risk zoning, ramms, ski resort.
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