An inside look at how people trigger slab avalanches

This video outlines - for a wide audience - the current understanding of how rider-triggered and natural avalanches start. Bruce Jamieson, Karl Birkeland and Ron Simenhois, January 2023. #MoreScienceThanNecessary CC BY-ND.

Key sources:

Schweizer, J., B. Reuter, A. van Herwijnen, J. Gaume. 2016. Avalanche release 101, Proceedings of the 2016 International Snow Science Workshop in Breckenridge, CO, USA.

Gaume, J., van Herwijnen, A., Gast, T., Teran, J., Jiang, C. 2019. Investigating the release and flow of snow avalanches at the slope-scale using a unified model based on the material point method. Cold Region Science and Technology 168.

Trottet, B., Simenhois, R., Bobillier, G.; Bergfeld, B., van Herwijnen, A., Jiang, C., Gaume, J. 2022. Transition from sub-Rayleigh anticrack to supershear crack propagation in snow avalanches. Nature Physics 18.