Anthropogenic climate change is rapidly altering high mountain environments, including changing the frequency, dynamic behavior, location, and magnitude of alpine mass …
B Reuter, L Viallon-Galinier, S Horton… - Cold Regions Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Snow cover models support avalanche forecasting. However, despite much development to derive snow instability from snow cover model output, snow cover models presently do not …
J Schweizer, C Mitterer, F Techel, A Stoffel… - The …, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
In many countries with seasonally snow-covered mountain ranges warnings are issued to alert the public about imminent avalanche danger, mostly employing an ordinal, five-level …
Modeled snow stratigraphy and instability data are a promising source of information for avalanche forecasting. While instability indices describing the mechanical processes of dry …
B Reuter, J Schweizer - Geophysical Research Letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Snow instability is a generic term describing the propensity of a snow slope to avalanche. In need of a concise mechanics‐based concept we suggest a framework based on failure …
Our understanding of dry-snow slab avalanche release improved over the last decade–not the least by consistently following a fracture mechanical approach. Whether we consider …
Snow avalanches are a natural hazard in mountainous areas worldwide with severe impacts that include fatalities, damage to infrastructure, disruption to commerce, and landscape …
F Meloche, F Gauthier, A Langlois - The Cryosphere, 2024 - tc.copernicus.org
Snow avalanches represent a natural hazard to infrastructure and backcountry recreationists. Risk assessment of avalanche hazard is difficult due to the sparse nature of …
Avalanche danger levels are described in qualitative terms that mostly are not amenable to measurements or observations. However, estimating and improving forecast consistency …