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Title: AN INTEGRATED MULTI-INSTRUMENT FRAMEWORK FOR OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT: THE MILANO CORTINA 2026 WINTER OLYMPICS IN LIVIGNO, ITALY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Fabiano Monti, Alberto Mariani, Martin Metzger, Luca Dellarole, Giacomo Villa, Diana Lazzeri
Description: Avalanche risk management in complex alpine environments increasingly relies on the integration of heterogeneous data sources and modelling approaches...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O5.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk management; multi-instrument monitoring; snowpack; prism; avaframe; sar remote sensing; winter olympics
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Title: METHODS FOR EVALUATING AVALANCHE LOADS ON BRIDGES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Greg Johnson, Alan Jones, Chris Wilbur, John Stimberis
Description: Transportation corridors crossing mountainous terrain frequently intersect avalanche paths capable of producing destructive snow avalanches. Avalanche...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O5.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche loads, avalanche bridges, bridge design, transportation infrastructure, structural loading, avalanche mitigation
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Title: PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES WITH THE OPEN-SOURCE AVALANCHE SIMULATION TOOL AVAFRAME
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Matthias Granig, Felix Oesterle, Engelbert Gleirscher
Description: Since 2023, the open-source avalanche simulation framework AvaFrame has been in operational use. Developed through a cooperation between the Austrian ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O5.6.pdf
Keywords: avalanche modelling, avaframe, open-source tool, natural hazards, practical use.
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Title: EXPERIENCES ON EFFECTIVE APPLICATIONS OF SITE-SPECIFIC AVALANCHE WARNING IN AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Holt Hancock, Piotr Kupiszewski, Steinar Bakkehøi
Description: Avalanche warning as a mitigation measure was introduced in Norway when the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute's (NGI) avalanche research station at Fon...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O5.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche warning, risk management, risk communication
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Title: USE OF HAZARD RATING SCALES WITHIN A SKI AREA OPERATIONAL CONTEXT
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Wendolyn C. Antibus
Description: Hazard rating scales are widely utilized in both public and operational forecasting contexts as a communication tool. While the output of the CMAH pro...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O6.1.pdf
Keywords: hazard ratings, operational forecasting, avalanche hazard, infoex, worker safety
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Title: HISTORICAL SNOWPACK REANALYSIS IN OBSERVATIONALLY SPARSE ENVIRONMENTS: A CASE STUDY FROM SLIDE MOUNTAIN, 1986
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Evan Leonard, Eric E. Lawrence, Wendolyn Antibus
Description: Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe lacked a formalized avalanche forecasting program until 2008, resulting in a critical observational gap spanning approximately 55 y...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O6.2.pdf
Keywords: snowpack, snowpack modeling, historical reanalysis, ski area operations
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Title: FOLLOWING THE DATA: LESSONS LEARNED FROM A DECADE OF MAPPING AVALANCHES AND EXPLOSIVE USE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Alex Mithoefer, Malia Reeves, Taos Ski Patrol
Description: Taos Ski Valley Ski Patrol has been using GIS mapping software to record explosive use and avalanche activity since 2015. In over a decade, we have d...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O6.3.pdf
Keywords: mapping, explosives, avalanches, ski resort, avalanche mitigation, gis
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Title: TRACKING WET SNOW AVALANCHE FREQUENCY AND SEASONAL PATTERNS AT ALYESKA RESORT, GIRDWOOD, ALASKA, FROM 1968 TO 2026
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Aleph Johnston-Bloom, Jeff Bristow
Description: This study uses 58 seasons (1968/69–2025/26) of avalanche records from Alyeska Resort in Girdwood, Alaska, to evaluate changes in the recorded frequ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O6.4.pdf
Keywords: wet snow, climate, avalanche forecasting, machine learning
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Title: IMPROVING WORKER SAFETY AND ACCESS TIMING WITH AVALANCHE RADAR IN A COMPLEX SKI RESORT: CRANS-MONTANA-AMINONA, SWITZERLAND
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Fabrice Meyer, Severin Stähly, Susanne Wahlen
Description: The Crans-Montana-Aminona (CMA) ski resort lies on the southern side of the Alpine main ridge in Valais, Switzerland, on predominantly south-facing te...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O6.6.pdf
Keywords: avalanche radar, doppler detection, remote avalanche control, worker safety, ski resort access management
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Title: THE CHALLENGES OF MANAGING GLACIATED AVALANCHE TERRAIN AT A SKI AREA: LESSONS FROM BLACKCOMB MOUNTAIN
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Koshure, Nicole, Gould, Brian, Campbell, Cam, Tessier, Alexis
Description: Whistler Blackcomb (WB), the largest ski resort in North America, contains glaciated avalanche terrain, including the Horstman and Blackcomb Glaciers....
Object ID: ISSW2026_O6.7.pdf
Keywords: glacial recession, climate change, avalanche terrain, avalanche hazard, risk management, remote sensing, adaptive risk management
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Title: Daily Avalanche Probability Indication Maps: First Operational Experience in Davos, Switzerland
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Julia Glaus, Pia Ruttner, Lukas Stoffel, Johan Gaume, Yves Bühler
Description: Avalanche risk management in ski resorts, along traffic routes, and for exposed buildings relies mainly on point-based measurements, field observation...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O7.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, road safety, forecasting, probability, hazard assessment
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Title: REMOTE SENSING FOR AVALANCHE PRACTICE AND SCIENCE: WHAT HAVE WE ACHIEVED, AND HOW CAN WE ADDRESS WHAT IS STILL MISSING?
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Yves Bühler, Andreas Stoffel, Andrea Manconi
Description: Over the past 50 years, remote sensing has evolved from a classified tool for military applications into a public and often freely available source of...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O7.2.pdf
Keywords: remote sensing, drones, satellites, photogrammetry, lidar, radar
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Title: FROM UAS SNOW DEPTH SURVEYS TO AVALANCHE RUNOUT: A MODEL CHAIN OF AVALANCHE RUNOUT FOR HIGHWAY FORECASTING OPERATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ron Simenhois, Ryan Zarter, Valerie Foley, John Snook, Mike Cooperstein, Ethan Greene
Description: Avalanche programs that protect highways need to know whether an avalanche in a specific path will reach the road. Forecasters estimate this from expe...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O7.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, runout modeling, uas, photogrammetry, snowpack modeling, crack propagation
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Title: FORECASTING AVALANCHES IN DATA-SPARSE CENTRAL ASIA USING SNOWPACK AND WEATHER MODELING WITH AVALANCHE OBSERVATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Itai Sheleg, Doug Chabot, John Snook, Jaime Peters, Walter Steinkogler, Ron Simenhois
Description: Avalanches in Central Asia, particularly in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Pakistan, are a persistent hazard, causing hundreds of fatalities in severe w...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O7.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snowpack, bayesian modeling, central asia
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Title: SAR REMOTE SENSING AS A SUPPORT TOOL FOR OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE FORECASTING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Alberto Mariani, Jacopo Borsotti, Martin Metzger, Giacomo Villa, Luca Dellarole, Martin Ahrland Stefan, Franz Livio, Fabiano Monti
Description: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) remote sensing has increasingly been exploited for snow and avalanche research to derive spatially explicit information...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O7.6.pdf
Keywords: synthetic aperture radar; remote sensing; wet snow; snow depth; avalanche deposits
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