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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: 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: 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: 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: 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
- View additional details about PREDICTION OF THE DESTRUCTIVE SIZE OF DRY SLAB AVALANCHES FROM FIELD MEASUREMENTS
- Title: HUNTING MACH CONES IN SNOW:SUPERSHEAR FRACTURE & SHOCK FRONT REFRACTION IN LAYERED SLABS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Alexandre Pellet, Bastian Bergfeld, Alec van Herwijnen, Johan Gaume
- Description: Supershear crack propagation has recently been identified as an important mechanism in snow slab avalanche release. In this regime, the crack in the w...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.16.pdf
- Keywords: snow slab avalanche, crack propagation, supershear fracture, mach cone, weak layer, propagation saw test, snow stratigraphy.
- View additional details about HUNTING MACH CONES IN SNOW:SUPERSHEAR FRACTURE & SHOCK FRONT REFRACTION IN LAYERED SLABS
- Title: METEOROLOGICAL AND SNOWPACK PROPERTIES ASSOCIATED WITH CRUST-ADJACENT PERSISTENT WEAK LAYERS - PART 1: A REVIEW OF PREVIOUS RESEARCH
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Andy Moderow, Andrew Schauer, Aleph Johnston-Bloom
- Description: Previous research has explored the mechanisms - in theory, field studies, and lab experiments - that explain the formation of faceted grains at crust/...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.10.pdf
- Keywords: crusts, melt-freeze layers, persistent weak layer, deep slab, avalanche forecasting
- View additional details about METEOROLOGICAL AND SNOWPACK PROPERTIES ASSOCIATED WITH CRUST-ADJACENT PERSISTENT WEAK LAYERS - PART 1: A REVIEW OF PREVIOUS RESEARCH
- Title: A CASE STUDY AND COMPARISON OF MID-WINTER WARMING AND SOLAR DRIVEN WET SLAB AVALANCHE CYCLES
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Erich Peitzsch
- Description: Wet slab avalanches are poorly understood and often difficult to forecast. Yet, wet slab avalanches can be destructive and may become more common in a...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_O5.4.pdf
- Keywords: wet slab avalanche, climate, case study
- View additional details about A CASE STUDY AND COMPARISON OF MID-WINTER WARMING AND SOLAR DRIVEN WET SLAB AVALANCHE CYCLES
- Title: HISTORIC WET SLAB AVALANCHE IN POST SEASON AT YELLOWSTONE CLUB: TIMING, RESPONSE, ANALYSIS, AND IMPLICATIONS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Doug McCabe
- Description: In May of 2020, a very large, natural wet slab avalanche occurred in-bounds at the Yellowstone Club Ski Area after the ski area had ceased operations ...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.18.pdf
- Keywords: wet slab avalanche, avalanche forecasting, ski area operations.
- View additional details about HISTORIC WET SLAB AVALANCHE IN POST SEASON AT YELLOWSTONE CLUB: TIMING, RESPONSE, ANALYSIS, AND IMPLICATIONS
- Title: TERRAIN SELECTION TACTICS FOR HELICOPTER SKIING - MANAGING AVALANCHE RISK DURING THE 2022-23 SEASON
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Scott Thumlert, Criag McGee, Carl Trescher
- Description: Managing snow avalanche risk during guided helicopter skiing operations is critical for guest and worker safety. The 2022-23 winter snowpack in Britis...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O14.04.pdf
- Keywords: guided helicopter skiing, terrain selection tactics, avalanche risk management, deep persistent slab avalanche problem.
- View additional details about TERRAIN SELECTION TACTICS FOR HELICOPTER SKIING - MANAGING AVALANCHE RISK DURING THE 2022-23 SEASON
- Title: NEW PERSPECTIVE ON DRIFTING SNOW SLAB AVALANCHE
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Yusuke Harada, Ryuzo Wakabayashi, Kengo Moriyama
- Description: We introduce the idea that the top of the snowpack on a slope composed of wind-broken precipitation particles by creep and saltation of blowing snow (...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O16.03.pdf
- Keywords: drifting snow, side-loading, slab avalanche, densification of snowpack
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- Title: SUPERSHEAR CRACK PROPAGATION IN SNOW SLAB AVALANCHE RELEASE: NEW INSIGHTS FROM NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS AND FIELD MEASUREMENTS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Grégoire Bobillier, Bertil Trottet, Bastian Bergfeld, Ron Simenhois, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Schweizer, Johan Gaume
- Description: The release process of dry-snow slab avalanches begins with a localized failure within a porous, weak snow layer that lies beneath a cohesive slab. Su...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O2.01.pdf
- Keywords: supershear crack propagation, numerical modeling, dry-snow slab avalanche release
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- Title: COMPARING STABILITY TESTS AND UNDERSTANDING THEIR LIMITATIONS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Alec van Herwijnen, Frank Techel, Edward H. Bair, Benjamin Reuter, Ron Simenhois, Bruce Jamieson, Alex Marienthal, Doug Chabot, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Our paper focuses on four popular snowpack tests, the Rutschblock Test (RB), Compression
Test (CT), Extended Column Test (ECT), and Propagation Saw T...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O2.05.pdf
- Keywords: dry slab avalanche, snow stability test, snow stability, avalanche forecasting
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