Climate change impacts on snow avalanche activity and related risks

N Eckert, C Corona, F Giacona, J Gaume… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
In the rapidly evolving mountain cryosphere, snow avalanches threaten livelihoods,
settlements and infrastructure. In this Review, we analyse past and projected impacts of …

Detecting the impact of climate change on alpine mass movements in observational records from the European Alps

M Jacquemart, S Weber, M Chiarle, M Chmiel… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic climate change is rapidly altering high mountain environments, including
changing the frequency, dynamic behavior, location, and magnitude of alpine mass …

Spatial heterogeneity and temporal tendency of channeled snow avalanche activity retrieved from Landsat images in the maritime snow climate of the Parlung …

H Wen, X Wu, X Shu, D Wang, S Zhao, G Zhou… - Cold Regions Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
The spatial heterogeneity and temporal tendency of snow avalanche (hereafter called
avalanche) activities are responses to variations in the inducing environment under climate …

A large wet snow avalanche cycle in West Greenland quantified using remote sensing and in situ observations

J Abermann, M Eckerstorfer, E Malnes, BU Hansen - Natural Hazards, 2019 - Springer
On 11 April 2016 we observed high slushflow and wet snow avalanche activity at the
environmental monitoring station Kobbefjord in W-Greenland. Snow avalanches released as …

Temporal trends in avalanche activity in the French Alps and subregions: from occurrences and runout altitudes to unsteady return periods

N Eckert, CJ Keylock, H Castebrunet, A Lavigne… - Journal of …, 2013 - cambridge.org
We present an analysis of temporal trends in∼ 55 000 avalanches recorded between 1946
and 2010 in the French Alps and two north/south subregions. First, Bayesian hierarchical …

Characterizing the nature and variability of avalanche hazard in western Canada

B Shandro, P Haegeli - Natural Hazards and Earth System …, 2018 - nhess.copernicus.org
The snow and avalanche climate types maritime, continental and transitional are well
established and have been used extensively to characterize the general nature of …

[HTML][HTML] Width of surface rupture zone for thrust earthquakes: implications for earthquake fault zoning

P Boncio, F Liberi, M Caldarella… - Natural Hazards and …, 2018 - nhess.copernicus.org
The criteria for zoning the surface fault rupture hazard (SFRH) along thrust faults are defined
by analysing the characteristics of the areas of coseismic surface faulting in thrust …

A spatio-temporal modelling framework for assessing the fluctuations of avalanche occurrence resulting from climate change: application to 60 years of data in the …

N Eckert, E Parent, R Kies, H Baya - Climatic change, 2010 - Springer
Based on a previous township-scale model, a spatio-temporal framework is proposed to
study the fluctuations of avalanche occurrence possibly resulting from climate change. The …

Snow and weather climatic control on snow avalanche occurrence fluctuations over 50 yr in the French Alps

H Castebrunet, N Eckert, G Giraud - Climate of the Past, 2012 - cp.copernicus.org
Snow avalanche activity is controlled to a large extent by snow and weather patterns.
However, its response to climate fluctuations remains poorly documented. Previous studies …

[HTML][HTML] Extreme snowfalls and atmospheric circulation patterns in the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain)

C García-Hernández, JI López-Moreno - Cold Regions Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
This research examines the atmospheric patterns associated with damages caused by
extreme snowfalls during a 115-year period, using newspapers as the source to document …