Causing an Avalanche to Explain How They Work | Veritasium
Avalanches are beautiful, majestic, and completely terrifying – this is a video all about the science of avalanches.
References:
Tremper, B. (2001). Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain. Mountaineers Books. -
McClung, D. & Schaerer, P. (2006). The Avalanche Handbook. Mountaineers Books. -
Hopfinger, E. J. (1983). Snow Avalanche Motion and Related Phenomena. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. -
Schweizer, J. et al. (2003). Snow avalanche formation. Reviews of Geophysics. -
Schweizer, J. et al. (2008). Review of spatial variability of snowpack properties and its importance for avalanche formation. Cold Regions Science and Technology. -
Jamieson, B. (2006). Formation of refrozen snowpack layers and their role in slab avalanche release. Reviews of Geophysics. -
Schweizer, J. et al. (2016). Avalance release 101. International Snow Science Workshop Proceeding. -
Schweizer, J. (2008). Snow avalanche formation and dynamics. Cold Regions Science and Technology. -
Images & Video:
Skiing and snowboarding footage by Niko Schirmer -
World’s Biggest Avalanche (c)Thom Goddard/All Star Films Ltd 2015. Thank you to the Thom Goddard Channel for use -
Newspaper clippings via –
Video of a snow slab avalanche via Trottet, B. et al. (2022). Transition from sub-Rayleigh anticrack to supershear crack propagation in snow avalanches. Nature Physics. -
Remote Triggered Avalanche via Henry’s Avalanche Talk - Remote Triggering of an Avalanche
WW1 images via Brugnara, Y. et al. (2016). December 1916: Deadly Wartime Weather. Geographica Bernensia -
Major Avalanches via Geomorphological Hazards -
White Friday avalanche illustration via Avalanches WIllow -
White Friday aftermath via Lost In History -
Field mass on Marmolada via Austrian National Library -
Yungay disaster via NOAA -
Yungay aftermath via AMC Museum -
Bruce Tremper Image via utavy -
Snowpack via -
Snowpack via -
Snow crystals via Reiweger, I. (2011). Failure of weak snow layers. ETH. -
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