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Title: REVISING THE EUROPEAN AVALANCHE DANGER SCALE: PROCESS, FINAL PROPOSAL, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC COMMUNICATION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Karsten Müller, Frank Techel, Christoph Mitterer, Philip A. Ebert, Ben Reuter, Veronika Krieger, Igor Chiambretti, Anne Dufour, Guillem M. Bellido, Lorenzo Bertranda
Description: The European Avalanche Danger Scale (EADS) is the central framework for communicating regional avalanche danger in Europe. Since its introduction in 1...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O3.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger scale; avalanche hazard; risk communication; avalanche forecasting; eaws; european avalanche warning services
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Title: CONSIDERATIONS FOR EFFECTIVE UNCERTAINTY COMMUNICATION IN PUBLIC AVALANCHE FORECASTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Eeva Latosuo, Pascal Haegeli, Julie Demuth, Stan Nowak, Ethan Greene
Description: Uncertainty is fundamental to avalanche risk management, yet public avalanche forecasts have not communicated it as consistently as other hazard chara...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O3.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk communication, uncertainty, public avalanche forecasting, user research
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Title: A SYSTEMATIC FRAMEWORK FOR DESIGNING AND EVALUATING AVALANCHE RISK REDUCTION INTERVENTIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Anne St. Clair, Pascal Haegeli, Kelly McNeil
Description: In response to emerging problems or opportunities, such as avalanche incidents or technological advances, avalanche safety service providers face deci...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O3.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk reduction; intervention design and evaluation; decision-making
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Title: HOW DO PEOPLE READ THE FORECAST? TWO SEASONS OF SECTION-LEVEL DIGITAL ANALYTICS IN CANADA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Stan Nowak, Nick Rigby, Eeva Latosuo, Pascal Haegeli
Description: Understanding how recreationists use avalanche forecasts is critical to ensure their effectiveness. While previous research has largely relied on self...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O3.6.pdf
Keywords: behavioural telemetry, information foraging, risk communication, public avalanche forecasts
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Title: 20 YEARS OF VIDEOS FROM THE FIELD: USING THE POWER OF VIDEO TO SUPPORT PUBLIC AVALANCHE FORECASTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ian Hoyer, Alex Marienthal, David Zinn, Mark Staples, Doug Chabot
Description: In the winter of 2006–2007, riding the earliest wave of YouTube and armed with gear that would embarrass us now, forecasters at the Gallatin Nationa...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O3.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche communication, social media, video production, public outreach
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Title: MORE ARS WHAT NOW? ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS AND THE CHANGING REALITY OF AVALANCHE FORECASTING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Matt MacDonald, Wren McElroy
Description: Historically, avalanche mitigation programs have been focused on snow avalanche forecasting and control. In this paper, we explore the shifting scope ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O4.1.pdf
Keywords: atmospheric river, rain-on-snow, landslide, debris flow
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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
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Title: FORECASTING STORM-SNOW AVALANCHES USING A COMBINED SHEAR AND ANTICRACK INSTABILITY MATRIX
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Benjamin H. Silberman, Eric R. Pardyjak, Dhiraj K. Singh, Jim Steenburgh, Steven Clark, Travis Morrison, Jack Eskeland
Description: Forecasting storm-snow avalanches remain challenging due to limited access to the mechanical properties of snow during active snowfall and the lack of...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O4.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, storm-snow, anticrack, shear strength, stability index, densification
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Title: GLIDE-SNOW AVALANCHE MECHANICS: VELOCITY-DEPENDENT SNOW-GROUND INTERFACIAL FRICTION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Grégoire Bobillier, Rosa Schnebli, Miguel Cabrera, James Glover, Alec van Herwijnen, Johan Gaume, Christophe Ancey, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Glide-snow avalanches occur when the entire snow cover slowly slides downslope and suddenly releases and forms an avalanche. The physical processes co...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O4.4.pdf
Keywords: glide-snow avalanche, snow-ground interface, rate-dependent friction
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Title: A PRACTITIONER'S PERSPECTIVE ON TOOLS FOR UNDERSTANDING WIND FIELDS, SNOW DRIFT, AND SNOW DISTRIBUTION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Holt Hancock, Kjersti Gisnås, Peter Gauer, Nikolas Aksamit, Anna Poltronieri, Christian Jaedicke, Anders Kleiven
Description: Understanding how, where, and when snow accumulates due to blowing and drifting snow processes plays a key role in avalanche forecasting, hazard mappi...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O4.5.pdf
Keywords: snow drift, blowing snow, wind, avalanche forecasting, planning.
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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
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Title: AVALANCHE PATH-SPECIFIC CRITICAL WIND ENVELOPES FOR START-ZONE LOADING IN COMPLEX TERRAIN
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Seth Hewie, Eirik Sharp
Description: Wind loading is a key mechanism of slab avalanche formation, and forecasting requires detailed local terrain and climatological knowledge. Models of w...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O4.7.pdf
Keywords: weather forecasting and climate, avalanche forecasting, avalanche formation, terrain
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Title: TESTING OF DRONE AVALANCHE CONTROL IN JASPER NATIONAL PARK
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Amanda Bischke
Description: Recent technological and regulatory advances in drones have enabled the technology to become a new avalanche control tool. The flexible use of drones ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O5.1.pdf
Keywords: drone, avalanche control, rpas, uas
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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: TOWARDS AUTOMATIC AVALANCHE DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION USING SEISMIC AND INFRASOUND ARRAY DATA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Christine Seupel, Patrick Düggelin, Andri Simeon, Cristina Pérez-Guillén, Andreas Fichtner, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Reliable avalanche detection and localization are essential for effective hazard mitigation. They support avalanche forecasting, risk management, and ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O5.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, seismic, infrasound, array processing, instrumentation and remote sensing
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