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Jürg Schweizer is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland. Their research spans several main fields including Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Medicine, with particular focus on subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's work concentrates on topics such as cryospheric studies and observations, landslides and related hazards, winter sports injuries and performance, climate change and permafrost, thermal regulation in medicine, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and hydrology and watershed management studies.

Selected recent papers demonstrate the scope of their research interests:

  • "Effects of Climate Change on Avalanche Accidents and Survival," 2021, Frontiers in Physiology
  • "On the relation between avalanche occurrence and avalanche danger level," 2020, The Cryosphere
  • "Modeling spatially distributed snow instability at a regional scale using Alpine3D," 2021, Journal of Glaciology
  • "Micromechanical modeling of snow failure," 2020, The Cryosphere
  • "Micro-mechanical insights into the dynamics of crack propagation in snow fracture experiments," 2021, Scientific Reports

Jürg Schweizer frequently collaborates with a group of researchers including Alec van Herwijnen, Grégoire Bobillier, Bastian Bergfeld, Frank Techel, and Jürg Dual.

The scientist has published extensively in notable venues such as The Cryosphere, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Journal of Glaciology, Annals of Glaciology, and Frontiers in Physiology. The highest number of publications appear in The Cryosphere, followed by Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences and Journal of Glaciology.

Best Publications

  • Snow avalanche formation

    Jürg Schweizer;J. Bruce Jamieson;Martin Schneebeli

  • Review of spatial variability of snowpack properties and its importance for avalanche formation

    Jürg Schweizer;Kalle Kronholm;J. Bruce Jamieson;Karl W. Birkeland

  • Characteristics of wet-snow avalanche activity: 20 years of observations from a high alpine valley (Dischma, Switzerland)

    Stefano Baggi;Jürg Schweizer

  • Characteristics of human-triggered avalanches

    Jürg Schweizer;Martina Lütschg

  • Review of dry snow slab avalanche release

    Jürg Schweizer

  • Snow cover properties for skier triggering of avalanches

    J. Schweizer;J.B. Jamieson

  • Verification of regional snowpack stability and avalanche danger

    Jürg Schweizer;Kalle Kronholm;Thomas Wiesinger

  • 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

  • Snowpack properties for snow profile analysis

    Jürg Schweizer;J.Bruce Jamieson

  • Texture and strength changes of buried surface-hoar layers with implications for dry snow-slab avalanche release

    J. Bruce Jamieson;Jürg Schweizer

  • Monitoring avalanche activity using a seismic sensor

    A. van Herwijnen;J. Schweizer

  • Snow profile interpretation for stability evaluation

    Jürg Schweizer;Thomas Wiesinger

  • A threshold sum approach to stability evaluation of manual snow profiles

    Jürg Schweizer;J. Bruce Jamieson

  • Critical energy release rates of weak snowpack layers determined in field experiments

    Christian Sigrist;Jürg Schweizer

  • On forecasting large and infrequent snow avalanches

    Jürg Schweizer;Christoph Mitterer;Lukas Stoffel

  • Evaluating and improving the stability predictions of the snow cover model SNOWPACK

    Jürg Schweizer;Sascha Bellaire;Charles Fierz;Michael Lehning

  • The skier's zone of influence in triggering slab avalanches

    Jürg Schweizer;Christian Camponovo

  • 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

  • Laboratory experiments on shear failure of snow

    Jürg Schweizer

  • Avalanche forecasting : an expert system approach

    Jürg Schweizer;Paul M. B. Föhn

  • Wet-snow instabilities: comparison of measured and modelled liquid water content and snow stratigraphy

    Christoph Mitterer;Hiroyuki Hirashima;Jürg Schweizer

  • A process-based approach to estimate point snow instability

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

  • Retrieval of Snow Water Equivalent, Liquid Water Content, and Snow Height of Dry and Wet Snow by Combining GPS Signal Attenuation and Time Delay

    Franziska Koch;Franziska Koch;Patrick Henkel;Florian Appel;Lino Schmid

  • Influence of snowpack layering on human-triggered snow slab avalanche release

    Marijke Habermann;Jürg Schweizer;J. Bruce Jamieson

Frequent Co-Authors

Alec van Herwijnen
Alec van Herwijnen Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Jürg Dual
Jürg Dual ETH Zurich
Olaf Eisen
Olaf Eisen University of Bremen
Karl W. Birkeland
Karl W. Birkeland US Forest Service
Charles Fierz
Charles Fierz Montana State University
Michael Lehning
Michael Lehning École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Martin Schneebeli
Martin Schneebeli WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
Wolfram Mauser
Wolfram Mauser Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Hans-Peter Marshall
Hans-Peter Marshall Boise State University

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