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Title: MOUNTAIN ROADS AND AVALANCHES: RISK ASSESSMENT
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Massimo Raviglione, Ludovico Raviglione
Description: Mountain roads, due to their nature, are constantly subject to natural hazards (landslides, rockfalls, debris flows, avalanches, ice, etc.) which, dur...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.25.pdf
Keywords: hazard, danger, risk, avalanches, roads
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Title: SLIDING SHORT: AN ARGUMENT FOR MISSION-ORIENTED AVALANCHE EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES MILITARY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Michael Ackerman, Mauri DiMeo
Description: Military units move through avalanche terrain under conditions that fall outside the scope of recreational avalanche education. Missions occur in fore...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.26.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, military curriculum, risk management, tactical training
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Title: UNDERSTANDING AND IMPROVING A PROFESSIONAL AVALANCHE TRAINING PROGRAM: INITIAL FINDINGS FROM THE AIARE PRO 1
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Anne St. Clair, Emma Walker, Sean Zimmerman-Wall
Description: Professional avalanche training plays a central role in preparing workers for avalanche operations, yet little research has examined its effectiveness...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.27.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, professional training, program evaluation
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Title: DRY-TO-WET TRANSITIONAL AVALANCHES: INFERENCE MADE USING INFRA SOUND SURVEILLANCE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jeffrey Johnson, Scott Havens, Timothy Glassett, Chris Stinson, Steven Clark, Jerry Mock, Hans Peter Marshall, Leighton Watson
Description: The maritime climate of Turnagain Arm, near Anchorage, Alaska, provides snow conditions conducive to the generation of frequent large avalanches, whic...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.28.pdf
Keywords: avalanche monitoring, infrasound, transitional avalanches
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Title: SEGMENTATION OF BACKCOUNTRY SKIERS AND SNOWBOARDERS IN JAPAN BASED ON RECREATION SPECIALIZATION: A CLUSTER ANALYSIS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Masashi Nagai, Nao Yoshizawa, Yasukazu Hama, Masanori Take
Description: Backcountry skiing and snowboarding (BCSS) involve serious mountain hazards such as avalanches and falls, requiring participants to manage risks appro...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.29.pdf
Keywords: backcountry skiing, recreation specialization, cluster analysis, participant segmentation, japan
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Title: AVALANCHE FORECASTING IN THE PEJO SKI AREA: A DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH USING A SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Christian Brida, Carlo Bee, Giorgio Rosatti
Description: Snow avalanches pose a major hazard in alpine ski areas, where reliable local forecasts are essential for operational decisions such as ski slope open...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.3.pdf
Keywords: artificial intelligence, avalanche forecasting, decision making, quantitative forecasting, ski resort management, local forecasting
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Title: FROM COMPACTION TO FAILURE: CREEP ACCELERATION AND BUCKLE FORMATION IN A GLIDING SNOW BEAM
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Grégoire Bobillier, Johan Gaume, Alec van Herwijnen, Christophe Ancey
Description: Glide-snow avalanches are difficult to predict and mitigate and can pose major challenges for the protection of roads, ski resorts, and buildings. The...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.30.pdf
Keywords: glide-snow avalanche release, tilt test, basal detachment
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Title: KNOW YOUR ENEMY. KNOW YOUR TECHNOLOGY – A PROCESS-ORIENTED APPROACH TO MITIGATING INTERFERENCE EFFECTS DURING AVALANCHE RESCUE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Dieter Kotlaba
Description: Electromagnetic interference can complicate avalanche rescue searches by reducing receiving range or causing unstable indications. Potential sources o...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.31.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, avalanche transceiver, electromagnetic interference
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Title: THE EVOLUTION OF VOICE NAVIGATION IN ORTOVOX AVALANCHE TRANSCEIVERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Dieter Kotlaba
Description: Voice navigation was first integrated into an avalanche transceiver by ORTOVOX during the 2021/22 season. Starting with the model DIRACT VOICE, voice ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.32.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, avalanche transceiver, voice navigation, verbal commands, user interface, stress
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Title: MACHINE LEARNING FOR AUTOMATED AVALANCHE TERRAIN EXPOSURE SCALE CLASSIFICATION – A COMPARISON OF TWO APPROACHES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Kalin Markov, Yves Bühler, Andreas Huber, Momchil Panayotov
Description: Backcountry travel in mountainous regions in Bulgaria has increased significantly in recent decades, heightening the need for effective avalanche risk...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.33.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, ates, machine learning, com4flowpy, ramms, bulgaria
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Title: EVALUATING SIMULATIONS AGAINST MEASURED RADAR SPECTRA FROM AN AVALANCHE EVENT
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Peter Gauer, Callum Tregaskis, Anselm Köhler, Anna Wirbel, Richard Koschuch
Description: One major purpose of avalanche test sites such as Ryggfonn is to obtain measurements that can be used to characterize avalanche dynamics and to suppor...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.34.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, measurements, radar velocity spectra, synthetic spectra
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Title: DYNAMIC CRACK PROPAGATION SPEED TRANSITION IN MULTILAYER SYSTEMS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Shubo Zhang, Nicola M. Pugno
Description: The dynamic propagation of cracks in solids is widely observed in nature, such as in snow avalanches. Pioneering studies have demonstrated that the up...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.35.pdf
Keywords: dynamic crack propagation, snow avalanche, multilayer system.
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Title: CONSISTENT (NUMERICAL) APPROACH FOR LARGE SCALE SNOW-AVALANCHE HAZARD UPDATE: APPLICATION TO A POORLY DOCUMENTED AREA LIKE CORSICA ISLAND (FR)
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Philippe Berthet-Rambaud, Stéphane Roudnitska, Jérôme Bock, Clément Belgodère
Description: The avalanche of Ortiporio (1934), village of Corsica (mountainous island situated in the Mediterranean Sea), caused the death of 37 persons. Despite ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.36.pdf
Keywords: corsican mountain range, large-scale indicative hazard map, ramms climate change, protective forest effect
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Title: A SURVEY OF TERMINOLOGY FACTORS RELATED TO AVALANCHE TRANS-CEIVER USE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Steve Conger
Description: A 15-question survey was disseminated to avalanche transceiver users of any experience level and in any country, including avalanche instructors, stud...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.37.pdf
Keywords: transceiver, search, standards, education, rescue training
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Title: A PRELIMINARY STATISTICAL ASSESSMENT OF INSTABILITY PREDICTABILITY IN OBSERVED SNOW PROFILES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Sondre Wold
Description: Observational recordings of snow conditions help avalanche forecasters assess snowpack instability over large areas. In Norway, trained observers subm...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.38.pdf
Keywords: instability tests, sequence modeling, data validation, machine learning
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