In the rapidly evolving mountain cryosphere, snow avalanches threaten livelihoods,
settlements and infrastructure. In this Review, we analyse past and projected impacts of …

Anthropogenic climate change is rapidly altering high mountain environments, including
changing the frequency, dynamic behavior, location, and magnitude of alpine mass …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …