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Title: THE ROLE OF SLOPE ANGLE IN SKIER-TRIGGERED SLAB AVALANCHE RELEASE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Alec van Herwijnen, Yannik Werner, Valentin Adam
Description: Slope angle is a key factor in dry-slab avalanche formation and central to avalanche education and terrain assessment. Combined with the avalanche dan...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.4.pdf
Keywords: slope angle, slab avalanche release, failure initiation, crack propagation, friction, skier triggering
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Title: MONITORING OF AVALANCHES USING DAS: FROM RELEASE TO FLOW MOTION DETECTION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Cristina Pérez-Guillén, Pascal Edme, Andri Simeon, Johannes Aichele, Alec van Herwijnen, Andreas Fichtner, Johan Gaume
Description: The destructive power of snow avalanches and the uncertainty in predicting them demand reliable monitoring systems in mountain regions. Distributed Ac...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS4.6.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, distributed acoustic sensing (das) monitoring, avalanche release
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Title: A REVIEW OF AVALANCHE RELEASE MECHANISMS: FROM ANTICRACK PROPAGATION TO SUPERSHEAR FRACTURE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Johan Gaume, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Dry-snow slab avalanches are responsible for most avalanche fatalities, making understanding of release mechanisms essential for forecasting and hazar...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O1.1.pdf
Keywords: dry-snow slab avalanche, avalanche release, weak layer, failure initiation, crack propagation, anticrack, supershear fracture, slab fracture.
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Title: REPLICATING SLAB AVALANCHE INITIATION: A FIELD TEST FOR CONTROLLED ANTICRACK NUCLEATION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Valentin Adam, Yannik Werner, Jakob Schöttner, Melin D. E. Walet, Florian Rheinschmidt, Philipp Weißgraeber, Alec van Herwijnen, Philipp L. Rosendahl
Description: Failure nucleation in slab avalanches is typically hidden beneath the snowpack, which, among other factors, makes this phenomenon so mysterious and di...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O1.2.pdf
Keywords: dry-snow slab avalanches, fracture initiation, finite fracture mechanics, release potential, stability assessment, field test
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Title: STABILITY CHANGES AFTER WEAK LAYER COLLAPSE: INSIGHTS FROM AN UNEXPECTED DATASET
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Andrea Bruckmeier, Erika Birkeland, Ron Simenhois, Alex Marienthal, Erich Peitzsch, Karl W. Birkeland
Description: While conducting avalanche mitigation or traveling through the backcountry, avalanche professionals sometimes experience a "whumpf": a collapse-mode c...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O1.3.pdf
Keywords: whumpf, crack propagation, propagation saw test (pst), snowpack stability, avalanche release
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Title: Slab Fractures during Dynamic Crack Propagation in Dry-Snow Slab Avalanches
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Francis Meloche, Bertil Trottet, Grégoire Bobillier, Johan Gaume
Description: Predicting the size of dry-snow slab avalanches remains difficult, limiting hazard assessment despite major advances in the understanding of crack ini...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O1.7.pdf
Keywords: slab fracture, crack propagation, avalanche size, release size index
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Title: WHICH BUILDINGS ARE AT RISK? MEET ALARM: AN AUTOMATED WORKFLOW LINKING AVALANCHE RUNOUT MODELLING TO BUILDING RISK ASSESSMENT FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN NORWAY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Leonie Kommerell, Håvard Boutera Toft, Gustav Pless, Karin Bergbjørn
Description: During periods of high/extreme avalanche hazard, decision makers need to identify which buildings may be exposed and where field assessments or evacua...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O5.2.pdf
Keywords: avalanche exposure, emergency management, potential release areas, runout modelling, decision support, building prioritization
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Title: AVALANCHE HAZARD IDENTIFICATION IN EMILIA-ROMAGNA APENNINES: A STATISTICAL EMPIRICAL APPROACH BASED ON THE RUN-OUT RATIO
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Sabbadini R., Cau M., Anfossi G., Fanari F., Dondi C., Mazzini E., Chiambretti I.
Description: In this study, a statistical-empirical methodology was developed to rapidly identify potential avalanche hazard zones in the Emilia-Romagna Apennines ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.24.pdf
Keywords: potential release area (pra), avalanche hazard mapping, northern apennines, run-out ratio, gumbel distribution, risk mitigation, civil protection, gis
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Title: FROM COMPACTION TO FAILURE: CREEP ACCELERATION AND BUCKLE FORMATION IN A GLIDING SNOW BEAM
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Grégoire Bobillier, Johan Gaume, Alec van Herwijnen, Christophe Ancey
Description: Glide-snow avalanches are difficult to predict and mitigate and can pose major challenges for the protection of roads, ski resorts, and buildings. The...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.30.pdf
Keywords: glide-snow avalanche release, tilt test, basal detachment
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Title: Numerical study of the feasibility of a downslope structure to limit avalanche size during avalanche control activity
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Francis Meloche, Ron Simenhois, Don Sharaf, Ethan Greene, Johan Gaume
Description: Avalanche defense structures in starting zones are effective, but they are also expensive and visually intrusive; as a result, many highway programs i...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.51.pdf
Keywords: crack arrest, avalanche mitigation structures, release size, numerical modelling, depth-averaged material-point-method.
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Title: START-ZONE TERRAIN AND THE OCCURRENCE AND TIMING OF WET SLAB AVALANCHES IN COLORADO
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Brandon Levy, Ron Simenhois, Erich H. Peitzsch, Ethan Greene
Description: Wet slab avalanches (WSAs) release when liquid water reduces the strength of a buried weak layer or interface, and their timing is governed primarily ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.24.pdf
Keywords: wet slab avalanche, start zone, terrain classification, release timing, bayesian hierarchical model, colorado
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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: A POST-MITIGATION DEEP SLAB IN THE HOURGLASS COULOIR
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Robert Griffith, Mike Rheam
Description: On the morning of January 1, 2026, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort saw its largest inbounds avalanche of the season in an area called the Hourglass Coulo...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.32.pdf
Keywords: incidents and case studies, post mitigation release, deep slab instability, ski area, explosives
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Title: LINKING SNOWPITS TO SNOW MECHANICS WITH AN EXTENSIBLE ALGORITHMIC FRAMEWORK
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Mary Kate Connelly, Philipp L. Rosendahl, Valentin Adam, Samuel V. Verplanck
Description: Mechanical models of avalanche release require mechanical properties of snow, such as Young's modulus, E, and Poisson's ratio, ν, that are seldom mea...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.34.pdf
Keywords: snow mechanics; snowpits; avalanche release; snowpilot; parameterization; uncertainty
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Title: A NEW OPERATIONAL APPROACH FOR THE DAILY ASSESSMENT OF POTENTIAL AVALANCHE DANGER
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Alberto Mariani, Luca Dellarole, Giacomo Villa, Jacopo Borsotti, Fabiano Monti
Description: Over the past 20 years, the need to identify the spatial distribution of avalanche-prone areas, crucial for evaluating the avalanche risk, has led to...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.8.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard indication maps, potential release areas, snowpack stability, avalanche forecasting
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