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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: 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.
- View additional details about A REVIEW OF AVALANCHE RELEASE MECHANISMS: FROM ANTICRACK PROPAGATION TO SUPERSHEAR FRACTURE
- 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
- View additional details about REPLICATING SLAB AVALANCHE INITIATION: A FIELD TEST FOR CONTROLLED ANTICRACK NUCLEATION
- 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: FROM WARMING TO FAILURE: TEMPERATURE EFFECTS IN SNOW-SLAB AVALANCHE RELEASE
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Claudia Binetti, Giuseppe Puglisi, Nicola M. Pugno
- Description: Temperature is widely recognized as a key factor in snow-slab avalanche release, and field observations frequently associate warming with reduced snow...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O4.2.pdf
- Keywords: snow-slab avalanche, weak layer, mode-ii fracture, temperature, statistical mechanics
- View additional details about FROM WARMING TO FAILURE: TEMPERATURE EFFECTS IN SNOW-SLAB AVALANCHE RELEASE
- Title: ON HOW THE TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF SLAB AND WEAK LAYER PROPERTIES AFFECTS FAILURE INITIATION AND CRACK PROPAGATION IN DRY-SNOW SLAB AVALANCHE FORMATION
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Benjamin Reuter, Christoph Mitterer
- Description: In the European Alps, the avalanche situation in winter 2025/26 was dominated by persistent weak layers. Very many dry-snow slab avalanches were trigg...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O4.6.pdf
- Keywords: dry-snow slab avalanche, failure initiation, crack propagation, snow stability, weak layer, strength, toughness
- View additional details about ON HOW THE TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF SLAB AND WEAK LAYER PROPERTIES AFFECTS FAILURE INITIATION AND CRACK PROPAGATION IN DRY-SNOW SLAB AVALANCHE FORMATION
- Title: A STUDY OF REPEATING PERSISTENT SLAB AVALANCHES ALONG THE PARK CITY RIDGELINE: THE EFFECTS OF REMOVING NEW SNOW ABOVE A WEAK LAYER
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Michael Craig
- Description: Slide paths containing shallow snow depths can present a more unpredictable hazard. When a thick slab is unable to form above a persistent weak layer ...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.11.pdf
- Keywords: slab formation, shallow snowpack, repeater slide-path, persistent weak layer
- View additional details about A STUDY OF REPEATING PERSISTENT SLAB AVALANCHES ALONG THE PARK CITY RIDGELINE: THE EFFECTS OF REMOVING NEW SNOW ABOVE A WEAK LAYER
- Title: TOWARDS A MICROSTRUCTURE-INFORMED REPRESENTATION OF STRENGTH AND STIFFNESS OF WEAK SNOW LAYERS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jakob Schöttner, Melin Walet, Valentin Adam, Francesca Carletti, Philipp Weißgraeber, Philipp Rosendahl, Florian Rheinschmidt, Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: Compilations of the mechanical properties of snow often exhibit scatter spanning orders of magnitude. The resulting uncertainty poses a significant ch...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.41.pdf
- Keywords: snow slab avalanches, snow mechanics, weak layers, microstructure, strength, stiffness
- View additional details about TOWARDS A MICROSTRUCTURE-INFORMED REPRESENTATION OF STRENGTH AND STIFFNESS OF WEAK SNOW LAYERS
- 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
- View additional details about START-ZONE TERRAIN AND THE OCCURRENCE AND TIMING OF WET SLAB AVALANCHES IN COLORADO
- Title: MID-WINTER WET SLABS IN INTERMOUNTAIN SNOWPACKS: HOW "UNUSUAL" IS THIS REALLY?
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Brooke Maushund, Ben VandenBos
- Description: Mid-winter wet slab avalanche cycles are most often thought of as phenomena associated with rain-on-snow events in maritime snow climates. Intermounta...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.29.pdf
- Keywords: wet slab; mid-winter; intermountain snowpack; avalanche forecasting; utah; wasatch
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- Title: WHAT IS A WIND SLAB? A REVIEW OF VARIABLE DEFINITIONS IN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Nata de Leeuw, Karl Birkeland, Jordy Hendrikx
- Description: Despite widespread use in both research and practice, the definition of the term wind slab varies throughout snow and avalanche literature. Publicatio...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.45.pdf
- Keywords: wind slab, avalanche problems, avalanche problem types, review article
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- Title: PINPOINTING THE TIMING OF WEAK LAYER FAILURE: A CASE STUDY OF A LARGE, WIDESPREAD NATURAL AVALANCHE CYCLE IN THE BITTERROOT MOUNTAINS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: James Peabody, Nathalie de Leeuw, Ben VandenBos
- Description: In March 2026, a multi-day storm deposited over 180 mm of snow water equivalent (SWE) across the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana and Idaho. Prior to t...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.61.pdf
- Keywords: timing of weak layer failure, avalanche forecasting, geospatial analysis, deep slab instability, case study
- View additional details about PINPOINTING THE TIMING OF WEAK LAYER FAILURE: A CASE STUDY OF A LARGE, WIDESPREAD NATURAL AVALANCHE CYCLE IN THE BITTERROOT MOUNTAINS
- Title: DIGITAL IMAGE CORRELATION (DIC) IN SNOW MECHANICS: PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND APPLICATIONS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jakob Schöttner, Melin Walet, Valentin Adam, Michael J. Kohler, Bastian Bergfeld, Marcus Muhonen, Daan Leeflang, Florian Rheinschmidt, Philipp Rosendahl, Philipp Weißgraeber, Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: In snow mechanics experiments, complex loading configurations and layered snow can produce highly non-uniform deformation, including strain localizati...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.35.pdf
- Keywords: digital image correlation, dic, snow mechanics, snow slab avalanches, avalanche dynamics
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- Title: PREDICTION OF THE DESTRUCTIVE SIZE OF DRY SLAB AVALANCHES FROM FIELD MEASUREMENTS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: DM McClung, Nicola Pugno
- Description: In this paper we present estimates of the Destructive Size of dry snow slab avalanches based on field measurements of initial dimensions. The dimensio...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.51.pdf
- Keywords: dry slab avalanche, destructive size, statistical prediction
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- Title: GRAUPEL, CRUSTS, PERSISTENT INSTABILITY, AND UNUSUAL SLAB BEHAVIOR: TWO CASE STUDIES FROM MOUNT SHASTA, CALIFORNIA, USA
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Christian Jordan, Eric Falconer, Hayden MacArthur, Jeremy J. Axelrod, Zach Guy, Nick Meyers
- Description: These case studies examine two large natural avalanches attributed to graupel/crust combinations on Mount Shasta, California. The first case study det...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.13.pdf
- Keywords: graupel; persistent weak layer; persistent slab; melt-freeze crust
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