Modeling snow slab avalanches caused by weak-layer failure – Part 2: Coupled mixed-mode criterion for skier-triggered anticracks

Rosendahl, Philipp L.; Weißgraeber, Philipp

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-131-2020

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-131-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-131-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

Research article

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17 Jan 2020

Research article |

| 17 Jan 2020

Modeling snow slab avalanches caused by weak-layer failure – Part 2: Coupled mixed-mode criterion for skier-triggered anticracks

Philipp L. Rosendahl and Philipp Weißgraeber

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RC1: 'On a coupled stress and energy based criterion for snow failure', Michael Zaiser, 02 Jul 2019
- AC1: 'Response to referee', Philipp Weissgraeber, 08 Aug 2019
RC2: 'Review of Modeling snow slab avalanches caused by weak layer failure – Part II: Coupled mixed-mode criterion for skier-triggered anticracks by Rosendahl and Weissgraeber', Jürg Schweizer, 03 Jul 2019
- AC2: 'Response to referee', Philipp Weissgraeber, 08 Aug 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (18 Aug 2019) by Guillaume Chambon

AR by Philipp Weißgraeber on behalf of the Authors (20 Aug 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (24 Sep 2019) by Guillaume Chambon

RR by Jürg Schweizer (03 Nov 2019)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (18 Nov 2019) by Guillaume Chambon

AR by Philipp Weißgraeber on behalf of the Authors (20 Nov 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (27 Nov 2019) by Guillaume Chambon

AR by Philipp Weißgraeber on behalf of the Authors (01 Dec 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

Dry-snow slab avalanche release is preceded by a fracture process within the snowpack. Recognizing weak layer collapse as an integral part of the fracture process is crucial and explains phenomena such as whumpf sounds and remote triggering of avalanches from low-angle terrain. In this second part of the two-part work we propose a novel mixed-mode coupled stress and energy failure criterion for nucleation of weak layer failure due to external loading of the snowpack.