Jürg Schweizer

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Switzerland

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Jürg Schweizer is the Head of the Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt WSL in Switzerland. His research areas include avalanche dynamics, particularly focusing on glide-snow avalanches, crack propagation in snow, and the impacts of climate change on snow avalanche activity. He has contributed to recent articles discussing advanced numerical simulations, field measurements, and innovative imaging techniques related to snow and soil systems.

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Peter Lehmann

ETH Zurich

SWITZERLAND

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Stephanie Mayer

WSL-Institut für Schnee- und Lawinenforschung SLF

SWITZERLAND

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Alec van Herwijnen

Head research group

WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF

SWITZERLAND

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Michele Volpi

Senior Scientist and Lecturer

ETH Zurich

SWITZERLAND

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Philipp Weissgraeber

Full professor

University of Rostock

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Jurg Dual

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ETH Zürich

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Articles (17)

On the compressive strength of weak snow layers of depth hoar

The source, quantity, and spatial distribution of interfacial water during glide-snow avalanche release: experimental evidence from field monitoring

Supershear crack propagation in snow slab avalanche release: new insights from numerical simulations and field measurements

Towards deep-learning solutions for classification of automated snow height measurements (CleanSnow v1.0.2)

Capillary suction across the soil–snow interface as a mechanism for the formation of wet basal layers under gliding snowpacks

Numerical investigation of crack propagation regimes in snow fracture experiments

Glide-snow avalanches: a mechanical, threshold-based release area model

Impact of climate change on snow avalanche activity in the Swiss Alps

Temporal evolution of crack propagation characteristics in a weak snowpack layer: conditions of crack arrest and sustained propagation

Automated prediction of wet-snow avalanche activity in the Swiss Alps

Glide-snow avalanche characteristics at different timescales extracted from time-lapse photography

Prediction of natural dry-snow avalanche activity using physics-based snowpack simulations

A method for imaging water transport in soil–snow systems with neutron radiography

A random forest model to assess snow instability from simulated snow stratigraphy

Data-driven automated predictions of the avalanche danger level for dry-snow conditions in Switzerland

Crack propagation speeds in weak snowpack layers

GNSS signal-based snow water equivalent determination for different snowpack conditions along a steep elevation gradient

Collaborators (6)

Peter Lehmann

Stephanie Mayer

Alec van Herwijnen

Michele Volpi

Philipp Weissgraeber

Jurg Dual

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