Snow slab avalanches start with a failure in a weak snow layer buried below a cohesive snow slab. After failure, the very porous character of the weak layer leads to its volumetric …
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 …
A snow slab avalanche releases after failure initiation and crack propagation in a highly porous weak snow layer buried below a cohesive slab. While our knowledge of crack …
L Guillet, L Blatny, B Trottet, D Steffen… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Shallow landslides pose a significant threat to people and infrastructure. Despite significant progress in the understanding of such phenomena, the evaluation of the size of the …
Using the analytical model presented in Part 1 of this two-part paper, a new conceptual understanding of anticrack nucleation in weak layers is proposed. To obtain a sufficient …
Modeled snow stratigraphy and instability data are a promising source of information for avalanche forecasting. While instability indices describing the mechanical processes of dry …
F Herla, P Haegeli, P Mair - The Cryosphere, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
Snowpack models can provide detailed insight about the evolution of the snow stratigraphy in a way that is not possible with direct observations. However, the lack of suitable data …
For a slab avalanche to release, the system, consisting of a weak layer below a cohesive slab, must facilitate crack propagation over large distances–a process we call dynamic crack …
Consistency in assigning an avalanche danger level when forecasting or locally assessing avalanche hazard is essential but challenging to achieve, as relevant information is often …