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Title: THE CHALLENGE OF SHORTENING THE CLOSURE PERIOD OF A MOUNTAIN PASS ROAD IN WINTER – THE EXAMPLE OF THE GOTTHARD PASS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Stefan Margreth, Philipp Oberender
Description: The Gotthard axis is one of the most important north-south traffic corridors through the Alps. For road traffic, it comprises the 17-km-long road tunn...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.14.pdf
Keywords: avalanche mitigation, avalanche risk, climate change, cost-benefit analysis, pass road.
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Title: COMPREHENSION VALIDATION OF THE REVISED EAWS DANGER SCALE DESCRIPTORS: LESSONS FROM A LARGE-SCALE EUROPEAN END USER SURVEY ON AVALANCHE RISK PERCEPTION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Philip A. Ebert, Frank Techel, Matthias Walcher, Benjamin Reuter, Igor Chiambretti, Lorenzo Bertranda, Montse Bacardit Peñarroya, Jaka Ortar, Mark Diggins, Karsten Müller, Gerit Pfuhl
Description: The descriptors of the European avalanche danger scale, in use since 1993, are being revised. In June 2025 EAWS forecasters agreed on a new provisiona...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.11.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger scale, risk communication, risk perception, descriptors, multilingual communication
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Title: POWDER, PERCEPTION, & THE PATRIARCHY: A GENDERED LOOK AT BACKCOUNTRY BEHAVIOR
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Sarah Petelinsek, Kailey Mahoney, Nikki Champion, Rowan Kelner, Olivia Pearson, Boomer Olsen, Peilu Zhang, Patrick G. Hughes
Description: Gender may influence risk perception, decision-making, and participation in high-risk outdoor environments, yet gender differences among backcountry r...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.42.pdf
Keywords: gender; backcountry recreation; avalanche education; risk-taking behavior; risk perception; decision-making
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Title: APPLICATION AND EVALUATION OF THE EAWS GUIDELINES FOR SITE-SPECIFIC AVALANCHE WARNING
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Dr. Christian Jaedicke, Dr. Fabiano Monti, Paola Dellavedova, Lukas Stoffel, Sergio Azzarello, Toni Molné
Description: The EAWS (European Avalanche Warning Services) recommendations for site-specific avalanche warning were officially adopted in 2022. The guidelines pro...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.2.pdf
Keywords: avalanche warning, site-specific, risk management, eaws
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Title: PROJECT CAIROS: HARMONIZING AVALANCHE COMMISSIONS’ WORKFLOW, TRAINING AND TOOLS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Michael Winkler, Alice Gasperi, Jakob Schwarz, Christoph Hesselbach, Anne St. Clair, Silke Griesser, Sergio Benigni, Mauro Gaddo, Michela Munari, Manuel Genswein, Christoph Mitterer, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Marc Adams, Harald Riedl
Description: In many parts of the European Alps, local operational avalanche hazard management is understood as being avalanche commission work. In this context, n...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche commission, avalanche safety, risk management, dynamic avalanche modeling, cross-border collaboration
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Title: GENERATING MAPS FOR OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE WARNING WITH MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Reinhard Fromm, Christine Schönberger
Description: Snow avalanche warning services use a wide range of tools to ensure that users of their bulletins receive reliable and consistent information. This st...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.17.pdf
Keywords: prediction, risk assessment, random forest, support vector machine, nearest neighbor, multi-output classifier
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Title: AN AUTOMATIC AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (AVALARMS)
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Francesc Grau, Pere Oller
Description: Endesa, a gas and electricity company belonging to the Enel group, has dozens of roads leading to its hydropower assets, scattered in a wide area in t...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.19.pdf
Keywords: automatic avalanche risk management, road safety
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Title: FUZZY AVALANCHE PROBABLE RELEASE AREAS (PRA) AND HAZARD-RISK MATRIX IN THE LOMBARDIA REGION - ITALY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Valsecchi Ismaele Quinto, Cucchi Alessandro , Hagos Samuel, Negretti Alberto, Zaccone Andrea, Chiambretti Igor
Description: In this study, we propose a novel method for identifying Potential Release Areas (PRA) in the Lombardy region - Italy. Utilising topographic parameter...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.26.pdf
Keywords: probable release areas (pra), susceptibility map, hazard-risk matrix
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Title: A SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS TO QUANTIFY HOW ERRORS IN FOREST DATA AFFECT AVALANCHE HAZARD MAPS IN NORWAY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: J. Paul McLean, Dieter Issler, Kjersti G. Gisnås
Description: Forests play a major role in the mitigation of avalanche risk in Norway, but the regulations surrounding the management of “protection forests” ar...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O4.3.pdf
Keywords: protection forest, uncertainty, avalanche, risk analysis
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Title: CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON SNOW AVALANCHE ACTIVITY AND RELATED RISKS: OUTCOMES FROM A RECENT REVIEW
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Nicolas Eckert, Christophe Corona, Florie Giacona, Johan Gaume, Stephanie Mayer, Alec van Herwijnen, Pascal Hagenmuller, Markus Stoffel
Description: In a recent review of the available scientific literature, impacts of climate change on avalanche activity and the associated risks were analyzed. The...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O5.1.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, avalanche risk, climate change impact, review, research gaps
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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: CLASSIFICATION OF SLUSHFLOW RELEASE AREAS IN NORWAY AND ON ICELAND
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Monica Sund, Harpa Grímsdóttir, Jón Kristinn Helgason, Unnur Blær A. Bartsch, Frode Sandersen, Elise Morken
Description: Slushflows can be observed as a natural hazard in most areas with a seasonal snow cover. Intense melting or rain-on-snow events can lead to a mixture ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P6.9.pdf
Keywords: slushflow, hazard mapping, risk management, release area
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Title: CASE MOSJøEN - CHALLENGING RISK MITIGATION IN THE TOWN CENTER DUE TO POWDER CLOUD AND AVALANCHE GENERATED FLOOD WAVES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Priska Helene Hiller , Anne Bruland Høyen
Description: Parts of the center of the Norwegian town Mosjøen are prone to avalanche hazard. A river divides the town center from the steep slope of the mountain...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O7.2.pdf
Keywords: risk mitigation, powder cloud, flood wave, snow avalanche
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Title: LESSONS FROM SEVERAL AVALANCHES IMPACTING AVALANCHE PROTECTIVE STRUCTURES IN ICELAND IN JANUARY 2020 AND MARCH 2023
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Tómas Jóhannesson, Harpa Grímsdóttir, Kristín Martha Hákonardóttir, Sveinn Brynjólfsson, Óliver Hilmarsson, Alexander H. Jarosch
Description: Seven snow avalanches from two recent avalanche cycles in Iceland, that interacted with snow supporting structures, braking mounds, deflecting dams an...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O7.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche protection measures, avalanche dams, dam overflow, rest risk, fluidized flow
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Title: AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT IN LONGYEARBYEN, SVALBARD
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Holt Hancock, Martin Indreiten, Christian Jaedicke
Description: Snow avalanches have impacted human life and infrastructure in Longyearbyen, Svalbard since the settlement’s inception as a mining town in the early...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O7.6.pdf
Keywords: climate change, risk management, arctic, avalanche history
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