Snow avalanches are a major natural hazard, endangering human life and infrastructure in
mountainous areas throughout the world. In many countries with seasonally snow‐covered …

The objective of this review is to examine how the concept of plasticity is used in
geophysical fluid dynamics. Rapid mass movements such as snow avalanches or debris …

Numerical avalanche dynamics models have become an essential part of snow
engineering. Coupled with field observations and historical records, they are especially …

The most powerful earthquake in 40 years occurred on 26th December 2004 off the west
coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The tsunami it generated turned into one of the worst known …

Snow avalanches can destroy lives and infrastructure and are very important phenomena in
some regions of the world. This study maps snow avalanche susceptibility in Sirvan …

Snow avalanches threaten settlements and roads in steep mountainous areas. Hazard
mitigation strategies apply numerical models in combination with GIS-based methods to …

This paper describes the implementation of topographic curvature effects within the RApid
Mass MovementS (RAMMS) snow avalanche simulation toolbox. RAMMS is based on a …

Predicting potential deposition areas of future debris-flow events is important for engineering
hazard assessment in alpine regions. To this end, numerical simulation models are …

The cryosphere in high mountain Asia (HMA) not only sustains the livelihoods of people
residing downstream through its capacity to store water but also holds the potential for …

Digital elevation models (DEMs), represent the three-dimensional terrain and are the basic
input for numerical snow avalanche dynamics simulations. DEMs can be acquired using …