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Title: CHARACTERIZING DIFFERENCES AMONG AUTOMATED AVALANCHE TERRAIN MAPPING APPROACHES: A MULTI-INSTITUTION COMPARISON AT ROGERS PASS, CANADA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: John Sykes, Stephan Harvey, Paula Spannring, Christoph Hesselbach, Kalin Markov, Pascal Haegeli, Grant Statham
Description: Automated avalanche terrain mapping has become an established approach for communicating avalanche terrain exposure to public and professional backcou...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.7.pdf
Keywords: automated avalanche terrain mapping, avalanche terrain exposure scale (ates), runout simulation, model comparison
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Title: A PHYSICS-INFORMED DATA-DRIVEN FRAMEWORK FOR REAL-TIME AVALANCHE RUNOUT PREDICTION USING SNOWPACK SIMULATIONS AND VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Bettina Richter, Anselm Köhler, Pierre Huguenin, Nander Wever, Eloïse Bovet, Betty Sovilla
Description: As most mass movement model were calibrated to reproduce extreme avalanches, their link to daily snow cover remains poorly constraint. In this study, ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS4.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, runout predictions, data-driven model, snowpack
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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: FROM UAS SNOW DEPTH SURVEYS TO AVALANCHE RUNOUT: A MODEL CHAIN OF AVALANCHE RUNOUT FOR HIGHWAY FORECASTING OPERATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ron Simenhois, Ryan Zarter, Valerie Foley, John Snook, Mike Cooperstein, Ethan Greene
Description: Avalanche programs that protect highways need to know whether an avalanche in a specific path will reach the road. Forecasters estimate this from expe...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O7.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, runout modeling, uas, photogrammetry, snowpack modeling, crack propagation
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Title: MUCH ADO ABOUT SLUSHING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Susanne Eide Haug, Louise Vick, Alfred Hanssen, Yoichi Ito, Satoru Yamaguchi, Chris D'Amboise, Dieter Issler
Description: Slush, or soaked now, is a poorly understood endmember of the wet–dry snow continuum that can produce fast, damaging flows. A commonly cited thresho...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.66.pdf
Keywords: slushflow, soaked snow, snow laboratory experiments, rotating drum experiments, runout and hazard analysis.
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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: AN AUTOMATED METHOD FOR REGIONAL AVALANCHE ALPHA-ANGLE CHARACTERIZATION BASED IN WESTERN CANADA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Declan Knies, John Sykes, Pascal Haegeli
Description: The Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) is used to communicate spatial susceptibility to avalanche terrain (Statham and Campbell 2025). Historical...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.45.pdf
Keywords: automated avalanche terrain mapping; flowpy; runout simulation; model validation; alpha-angle
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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: INVESTIGATING DYNAMIC MODEL FRICTION PARAMETERS FOR LOW-VOLUME END-OF-SEASON AVALANCHES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Cam Campbell, Eirik Sharp, Alexis Tessier
Description: Operational avalanche risk management often relies on subjective assessments of potential avalanche runout extent to determine when the avalanche seas...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P2.12.pdf
Keywords: release volume, runout distance, model parameters, avalanche forecasting
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Title: DETECTING AVALANCHE PATH GROUND COVER AND VEGETATION CHANGE ACROSS MULTIPLE SCALES THROUGH TIME USING REMOTE SENSING TOOLS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Erich Peitzsch
Description: Large-magnitude avalanches often alter vegetation composition, avalanche path dimensions, and subsequent avalanche return periods. Understanding tempo...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P4.2.pdf
Keywords: land change, remote sensing, ndvi, avalanche runout
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Title: REMARKS ON THE UNCERTAINTY IN THE DELIMITATION OF HAZARD ZONES BASED ON HISTORICAL OBSERVATIONS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Peter Gauer, Krister Kristensen
Description: For the assessment of the quantitative hazard of avalanches reaching existing settlements only limited methods are available. Thus, historical observa...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.25.pdf
Keywords: hazard zones, return period, avalanche runout, probability estimates, uncertainty
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Title: AUTOATES AUSTRIA - TESTING AND APPLICATION OF AN AUTOMATED MODEL-CHAIN FOR AVALANCHE TERRAIN CLASSIFICATION IN THE AUSTRIAN ALPS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Andreas Huber, Christoph Hesselbach, Felix Oesterle, Michael Neuhauser, Marc Adams, Matthias Plörer, Laura Stephan, Havard B. Toft, John Sykes, Christoph Mitterer, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: The Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) has been widely adopted in Canada and also applied in different European mountain regions. Initial impleme...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.48.pdf
Keywords: ates, automated avalanche terrain classification, pra modeling, avalanche runout modeling
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Title: Modelled mass and temperature effects of entrained snow on the lubricated flow regime and implications for predicting avalanche runout distance
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Katreen Wikstrom Jones, Michael Loso, Perry Bartelt
Description: Understanding how the snow cover in an avalanche path may impact avalanche flow behavior is essential to predict an accurate avalanche runout. In aval...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P01.14.pdf
Keywords: snow entrainment, avalanche runout, flow regime, fluidization, lubrication.
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Title: Granular flow on a chute: avalanche simulations on a rough inclined plane
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Giovanna Caramuta, Ingrid Reiweger
Description: Although lots of scientific investigations have been already conducted in order to understand the physical laws that govern snow avalanche flow, the d...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P01.17.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche dynamics, ballotini, inclined chute, runout, velocity, roughness.
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Title: Design and Construction of an Avalanche Deflection Berm, Mount Kitchener Avalanche Path, Aoraki Mount Cook National Park, NewZealand
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Alan Jones, Donald Bogie
Description: The Mount Kitchener avalanche path produces large avalanches that have potential to affect parts of Aoraki Mount Cook Village, New Zealand. Numerous b...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P02.18.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk, hazard mapping, runout, dynamic model.
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