Snow in the environment acts as a host to rich chemistry and provides a matrix for physical
exchange of contaminants within the ecosystem. The goal of this review is to summarise the …

Powder snow avalanches (PSAs) are destructive flows as high as 200 m descending at
frontal speeds of up to 100 ms− 1. Dry snow PSAs typically develop a dilute frontal region …

The failure of a weak snow layer buried below cohesive slab layers is a necessary, but
insufficient, condition for the release of a dry-snow slab avalanche. The size of the crack in …

Snow avalanches cause fatalities and economic loss worldwide and are one of the most
dangerous gravitational hazards in mountainous regions. Various flow behaviors have been …

New measurements have been made of the friction coefficient of freshwater polycrystalline
ice sliding slowly (5× 10− 8 to 1× 10− 3 ms− 1) upon itself at temperatures from 98 to 263 K …

In the present work, the distribution of fragments that result from a normal impact of a
temperature-controlled ice particle onto a dry, heated and rigid wall is investigated. For the …

Measurements of the mechanical properties of snow are essential for improving our
understanding and the prediction of snow failure and hence avalanche release. We …

Dry-snow slab avalanches are generally caused by a sequence of fracture processes
including (1) failure initiation in a weak snow layer underlying a cohesive slab,(2) crack …

Some materials are strong in response to a slowly applied deformation, yet weak when
subject to rapid deformations—a materials property known as strain-rate softening. Snow …

Despite the significance of snow in various cryospheric, polar, and construction contexts,
more comprehensive studies are required on its mechanical properties. In recent years, the …