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Avalanches

Avalanches is a geological hazard characterized by the rapid downslope movement of snow, ice, and debris under the influence of gravity, distinguished from other mass wasting phenomena by its initiation in snow-covered mountainous regions and dependence on snowpack instability, meteorological conditions, and terrain steepness.

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Self-organized criticality

Per Bak, Chao Tang, Kurt Wiesenfeld · Physical review. A, General physics · 1988 · 4.7K citations

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The formation and failure of natural dams

John E. Costa, Robert L. Schuster · Geological Society of America Bulletin · 1988 · 1.2K citations

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RAMMS: Numerical simulation of dense snow avalanches in three-dimensional terrain

Marc Christen, Julia Kowalski, Perry Bartelt · Cold Regions Science and Technology · 2010 · 864 citations · Full text

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A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya

Dan H. Shugar, Mylène Jacquemart, David Shean et al. · Science · 2021 · 810 citations · Full text

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Gravity currents in the environment and the laboratory

Choice Reviews Online · 1998 · 797 citations

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  1. PB
    Perry Bartelt

    Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Switzerland

    47 publications · 3.4K citations

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  2. JM
    J. M. N. T. Gray

    University of Manchester, United Kingdom

    37 publications · 3.5K citations

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    Jürg Schweizer

    Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Switzerland

    43 publications · 2.6K citations

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    D. M. McClung

    University of British Columbia, Canada

    36 publications · 1.7K citations

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    Christian Huggel

    University of Zurich, Switzerland

    23 publications · 4.1K citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

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    399 publications

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  2. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

    Birmensdorf, Switzerland

    48 h-index

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  3. United States Geological Survey

    Reston, United States

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    89 publications

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  4. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

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    78 publications

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  5. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    31 h-index

    70 publications

    5.4K citations

  6. ETH Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    30 h-index

    130 publications

    9.2K citations

  7. University of Oslo

    Oslo, Norway

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    94 publications

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  8. Université Grenoble Alpes

    Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France

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    111 publications

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    PRL · 66 publications · 6.2K citations

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  2. Cold Regions Science and Technology

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  3. Journal of Glaciology

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  4. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

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