Snow avalanche formation [PDF]
Reviews of Geophysics, 2003 Snow avalanches are a major natural hazard, endangering human life and infrastructure in mountainous areas throughout the world. In many countries with seasonally snow‐covered mountains, avalanche‐forecasting services reliably warn the public by issuing occurrence probabilities for a certain region.
Jürg Schweizer +2 more
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Climate warming enhances snow avalanche risk in the Western Himalayas. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2018 Ballesteros-Cánovas JA +4 more
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Reconstruction of four-dimensional rockfall trajectories using remote sensing and rock-based accelerometers and gyroscopes [PDF]
Earth Surface Dynamics, 2019 This work focuses on the in-depth reconstruction of the full set of parameters of interest in single-block rockfall trajectories. A comprehensive understanding of rockfall trajectories holds the promise to enhance the application of numerical models for ...
A. Caviezel +9 more
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Micro-mechanical insights into the dynamics of crack propagation in snow fracture experiments
Scientific Reports, 2021 Dry-snow slab avalanches result from crack propagation in a highly porous weak layer buried within a stratified and metastable snowpack. While our understanding of slab avalanche mechanisms improved with recent experimental and numerical advances ...
Grégoire Bobillier +5 more
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Operational snow-hydrological modeling for Switzerland
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 The seasonal evolution of snow cover has significant impacts on the hydrological cycle and microclimate in mountainous regions. However, snow processes also play a crucial role in triggering alpine mass movements and flooding, posing risks to people and ...
Rebecca Mott +12 more
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On snow stability interpretation of extended column test results [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2020 Snow instability tests provide valuable information regarding the stability of the snowpack. Test results are key data used to prepare public avalanche forecasts.
F. Techel +5 more
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Snow instability evaluation: calculating the skier-induced stress in a multi-layered snowpack [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2016 The process of dry-snow slab avalanche formation can be divided into two phases: failure initiation and crack propagation. Several approaches tried to quantify slab avalanche release probability in terms of failure initiation based on shear stress and ...
F. Monti +3 more
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Introducing CRYOWRF v1.0: multiscale atmospheric flow simulations with advanced snow cover modelling [PDF]
Geoscientific Model Development, 2023 Accurately simulating snow cover dynamics and the snow–atmosphere coupling is of major importance for topics as wide-ranging as water resources, natural hazards, and climate change impacts with consequences for sea level rise.
V. Sharma +6 more
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Mortality rates of the Alpine Chamois : the influence of snow-meteorological factors [PDF]
, 2008 Especially for animals inhabiting alpine areas, winter environmental conditions can be limiting. Cold temperatures, hampered food availability and natural perils are just three of many potential threats that mountain ungulates face in winter ...
Geiger, F., Jenny, H., Jonas, T.
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Snow avalanche susceptibility in the eastern hillside of the Aramo Range (Asturian Central Massif, Cantabrian Mountains, NW Spain) [PDF]
, 2018 A detailed snow avalanche susceptibility map of the eastern hillside in the Aramo Range (Cantabrian Mountains) is presented at a scale of 1:25,000. The Aramo Range is one of the major middle-altitude mountains of the Asturian Central Massif.
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