Snow entrainment alters the speed and hence the run‐out distance of avalanches, yet little
is known about this significant process. We studied entrainment in snow avalanches using …

A fundamental problem in avalanche engineering is to determine the impact pressures
exerted on structures. This task is complicated because snow avalanches flow in a variety of …

Lawinen treten in vielen Gebirgsregionen der Erde als lebensbedrohende Naturgefahr in
Erscheinung und werden in den Alpen treffend als" Weißer Tod" bezeichnet. Für die …

Pulsed Doppler radar measurements from several avalanche releases are analyzed to gain
an in-depth understanding of avalanche dynamics. A pulsed Doppler radar emits short …

We present estimates of internal shear rates of real-scale avalanches that are based on
velocity measurements. Optical velocity sensors installed on the instrument pylon at the …

Powder snow avalanches are typically composed of several regions characterized by
different flow regimes. These include a turbulent suspension cloud of fine particles, a dense …

The snow surface height was precisely measured, with a laser scanner, before and after the
passage of two dry‐mixed avalanches in Vallée de la Sionne during the winter of 2005 …

This paper is a first step towards a synoptic analysis of the experimental information on snow
avalanche flow provided by field observations and dedicated experiments over the past 60 …

Velocities of mixed dense-flow/powder-snow avalanches have been measured by means of
pulsed Doppler radar and by continuous wave radar at the full scale avalanche test site …

Since 1993 the Avalanche Centre of Arabba has managed a test site to determine
avalanche-dynamics parameters (Sommavilla and others, 1997; Sommavilla and Sovilla …