Alec van Herwijnen

Best Publications

• Dynamic anticrack propagation in snow

  Johan Gaume;T. Gast;J. Teran;A. van Herwijnen

  171
  Citations

• Monitoring and prediction in early warning systems for rapid mass movements

  M. Stähli;M. Sättele;C. Huggel;B.W. McArdell

  163
  Citations

• Snow fracture in relation to slab avalanche release: critical state for the onset of crack propagation

  Johan Gaume;Alec van Herwijnen;Guillaume Chambon;Nander Wever

  140
  Citations

• Monitoring avalanche activity using a seismic sensor

  A. van Herwijnen;J. Schweizer

  128
  Citations

• Snowpack properties associated with fracture initiation and propagation resulting in skier-triggered dry snow slab avalanches

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  118
  Citations

• Estimating the effective elastic modulus and specific fracture energy of snowpack layers from field experiments

  Alec van Herwijnen;Johan Gaume;Edward H. Bair;Benjamin Reuter

  105
  Citations

• Modeling of crack propagation in weak snowpack layers using the discrete element method

  J. Gaume;A. van Herwijnen;G. Chambon;K. W. Birkeland

  95
  Citations

• A process-based approach to estimate point snow instability

  B. Reuter;J. Schweizer;A. van Herwijnen

  92
  Citations

• Characterizing snow instability with avalanche problem types derived from snow cover simulations

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  92
  Citations

• A Poisson shot noise model for micro-penetration of snow

  H. Löwe;A. van Herwijnen

  92
  Citations

• High-speed photography of fractures in weak snowpack layers

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  85
  Citations

• Measurement of crack‐face friction in collapsed weak snow layers

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  82
  Citations

• Measuring the Elastic Modulus of Snow

  B. Gerling;H. Löwe;A. van Herwijnen

  77
  Citations

• On forecasting wet-snow avalanche activity using simulated snow cover data

  Sascha Bellaire;Alec van Herwijnen;Christoph Mitterer;Jürg Schweizer

  77
  Citations

• Measurement of the deformation field associated with fracture propagation in weak snowpack layers

  A. van Herwijnen;J. Schweizer;J. Heierli

  71
  Citations

• Fracture character in compression tests

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  69
  Citations

• Parameterizing surface wind speed over complex topography

  N. Helbig;R. Mott;A. van Herwijnen;A. Winstral

  69
  Citations

• Climate change impacts on snow avalanche activity and related risks

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  65
  Citations

• Investigating the release and flow of snow avalanches at the slope-scale using a unified model based on the material point method

  Johan Gaume;Alec van Herwijnen;Ted Gast;Joseph Teran

  65
  Citations

• Seismic sensor array for monitoring an avalanche start zone: design, deployment and preliminary results

  Alec Van Herwijnen;Jürg Schweizer

  62
  Citations