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Title: FROM SNOW TO SEDIMENT: MAPPING AND QUANTIFYING DIRTY SNOW AVALANCHE DEPOSITS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Magdalena Koschmieder, Johanna Mascher, Lukas Winiwarter, Arnaud Temme
Description: Avalanches have the potential to harm people and livestock as well as damage or destroy infrastructure. Furthermore, avalanches can erode and transpor...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.12.pdf
Keywords: dirty snow avalanches, uav photogrammetry, remote sensing, spring avalanches, sfm, wet-snow avalanches
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Title: SAHARAN DUST DEPOSITION AND AVALANCHES: HOW MINERAL PARTICLES AFFECT THE SNOWPACK
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: C. Artoni, G. Lorenzoni, M.A.C. Potenza, B. Delmonte, C. Mangili, L. Teruzzi, V. Raspagni, V. Maggi
Description: Saharan dust intrusions are recurring events across the European Alps and other mid-latitude mountain ranges, depositing mineral particles onto season...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.43.pdf
Keywords: saharan dust, red snow, melt-freeze crust, faceted crystals, persistent weak layers, wet-snow avalanches, snowpack metamorphism, avalanche forecasting
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Title: UNDERSTANDING THE ACTIONABILITY OF FUTURE SNOW AVALANCHE HAZARD MAPS IN ALASKA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Kristin M. F. Timm, Patrick O. Ansah, Gabriel J. Wolken, Katreen W. Jones
Description: Climate change is altering snow and weather conditions in Alaska, creating new challenges for avalanche risk management. Researchers are developing fu...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.54.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, actionable science, hazard maps, decision-making, uncertainty, risk communication
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Title: ASSESSING THE DRIVERS CONTROLLING THE DEVELOPMENT OF AIRBORNE LAYERS IN POWDER SNOW AVALANCHES THROUGH INFRASOUND ANALYSIS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Betty Sovilla, Cristina Pérez-Guillén, Anselm Köhler, Emanuele Marchetti, Emma Surinach
Description: Powder snow avalanches (PSAs) with high-energy airborne layers pose a significant threat to buildings and facilities intended to be protected by infra...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O2.3.pdf
Keywords: powder snow avalanches, infrasound, turbulent particle-laden flow, turbulent multiphase flow
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Title: LARGE POWDER SNOW AVALANCHES IN SOUTH TYROL IN JANUARY 2019: COMPARISON WITH SCENARIO-BASED AVALANCHE SIMULATIONS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Christoph Oberschmied, Lukas Stoffel, Stefan Margreth, Perry Bartelt
Description: Between January 6 and 15, 2019, South Tyrol, Italy, experienced a series of remarkably large and infrequent powder snow avalanches, marking some of ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P2.6.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamic calculations, powder snow avalanches, powder avalanche pressure.
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Title: FROM DEBRIS IN LAKE SEDIMENTS TO BACK-CALCULATION OF SNOW AVALANCHES ON LAKE ICE OF ANESTØLSVATNET, NORWAY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Denise Rüther, Torgeir Opeland Røthe, Simon de Villiers
Description: Situated at 439 m a.s.l. in northernmost Sogndalsdalen, Western Norway, lake Anestølen has a known history for snow avalanches which primarily origin...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P2.7.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches on lake ice, lacustrine record, avalanche modelling
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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: LOADING ON STRUCTURES FROM FLUIDIZED AVALANCHE FRONTS OVERFLOWING DEFLECTING DAMS AT FLATEYRI, ICELAND, JANUARY 2020
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Kristín Martha Hákonardóttir, Ragnar Lárusson, Árni Kristjánsson, Gunnlaugur Pétursson
Description: This study back-calculates impact pressures in two dry slab avalanches that were released on a 700 m high mountain above the village of Flateyri in No...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P7.10.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches; powder-snow avalanches; snow avalanche deposit; fluidized front; field observations
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Title: ON THE INFLUENCE OF SNOW DEPTH ON SURFACE SHAPE AND ROUGHNESS IN THE RELEASE AREAS OF OBSERVED SKIER-TRIGGERED AVALANCHES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Andreas Stoffel, Stephan Harvey, Yves Bühler
Description: The snow-covered winter surface differs significantly from its snow-free equivalent due to the smoothing caused by progressive snow accumulation and e...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P9.1.pdf
Keywords: snow depth, surface shape, surface roughness, snow avalanches, remote sensing
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Title: PROJECTED IMPACT OF CLIMATE WARMING ON AVALANCHE ACTIVITY AT TWO SITES IN THE SWISS ALPS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Stephanie Mayer, Martin Hendrick, Adrien Michel, Bettina Richter, Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Climate change strongly affects the seasonal snow cover in mountainous areas worldwide. Warming-induced changes of snowfall and snow cover are expecte...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O6.05.pdf
Keywords: climate change, snow avalanches, climate projections, snow stratigraphy
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Title: RECENT ADVANCES IN MODELING SNOW AND AVALANCHES WITH THE MATERIAL POINT METHOD AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Johan Gaume, Lars Blatny, Grégoire Bobillier, Louis Guillet, Michael J. Kohler, Michael Kyburz, Xingyue Li, Francis Meloche, Betty Sovilla, Bertil Trottet, Louis Védrine
Description: The Material Point Method (MPM) is an Eulerian-Lagrangian numerical technique used to solve partial differential equations in continuum mechanics. It...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.48.pdf
Keywords: snow, avalanches, material point method, simulation, avalanche formation, avalanche dynamics
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Title: SNOFOX: FULLY AUTOMATED GLIDE-SNOW MONITORING BASED ON HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGE ANALYSIS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Severin Stähly, Susanne Wahlen, Felix Blumenschein
Description: The operators of roads, railways and recreational areas are increasingly confronted with glide snow avalanches. The often very local phenomenon is dif...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.51.pdf
Keywords: image analysis, natural hazard monitoring, deformation camera, glide snow, avalanches
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Title: Avalanches on Mt. Fuji, Japan: Seismic detection and tracking combined with numerical simulations
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Pérez-Guillén Cristina, Tsunematsu Kae, Nishimura Kouichi, Issler Dieter
Description: Avalanches from Mt. Fuji may attain run-out distances of up to 3km and represent a major natural hazard. These avalanches exhibit different flow types...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O01.3.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, seismic detection, avalanche location, numerical simulations.
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Title: Avalanche pressure at the Vallée de la Sionne test site: Comparison of maximum measured loads with design loads
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Betty Sovilla, Micheal Kyburz, Mark Schaer, Stefan Margreth
Description: The assessment of the impact pressure exerted by avalanches on structures is an important task in avalanche engineering. Impact pressures of more than...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O01.5.pdf
Keywords: maximum impact pressure, maximum bending moment, snow avalanches.
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Title: Snow and soil-mixed avalanches induced by a large earthquake
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Yoichi Ito, Satoru Yamaguchi, Naoto Abe
Description: A large earthquake hit heavy snowfall regions of Japan on March 12, 2011. A large number of snow and soil-mixed avalanches were observed after the ear...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P01.7.pdf
Keywords: earthquake, snow avalanches, soil-mixed avalanches.
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