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Karl W. Birkeland

Karl W. Birkeland

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Earth Science

D-Index
32
Citations
3247
World Ranking
8766
National Ranking
2847

Overview

Karl W. Birkeland is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to the subfields of Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Global and Planetary Change, and Computational Mechanics.

The main topics of their work cover cryospheric studies and observations, landslides and related hazards, winter sports injuries and performance, tree-ring climate responses, fire effects on ecosystems, climate change and permafrost, and flood risk assessment and management.

Karl W. Birkeland has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • Climate drivers of large magnitude snow avalanche years in the U.S. northern Rocky Mountains, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Combining GPS tracking and survey data to better understand travel behavior of out-of-bounds skiers, 2020, Applied Geography
  • A regional spatiotemporal analysis of large magnitude snow avalanches using tree rings, 2021, Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Assessing the seasonal evolution of snow depth spatial variability and scaling in complex mountain terrain, 2022, The Cryosphere
  • Satellite detection of snow avalanches using Sentinel-1 in a transitional snow climate, 2022, Cold Regions Science and Technology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Karl W. Birkeland include:

  • Jordy Hendrikx
  • Erich Peitzsch
  • Daniel B. Fagre
  • Gregory T. Pederson
  • J. David Johnson

Their publications frequently appear in these venues:

  • Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • The Cryosphere
  • Cold Regions Science and Technology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Applied Geography

Best Publications

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

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

  • Snow Avalanche Climatology of the Western United States Mountain Ranges

    Cary J. Mock;Karl W. Birkeland

  • A conceptual model of avalanche hazard

    Grant Statham;Pascal Haegeli;Ethan Greene;Karl Birkeland

  • TERMINOLOGY AND PREDOMINANT PROCESSES ASSOCIATED WITH THE FORMATION OF WEAK LAYERS OF NEAR-SURFACE FACETED CRYSTALS IN THE MOUNTAIN SNOWPACK

    Karl W. Birkeland

  • The Extended Column Test: Test effectiveness, spatial variability, and comparison with the Propagation Saw Test

    Ron Simenhois;Karl W. Birkeland

  • Power‐laws and snow avalanches

    K. W. Birkeland;K. W. Birkeland;C. C. Landry

  • 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

  • The spatial variability of snow resistance on potential avalanche slopes

    K. W. Birkeland;K.J. Hansen;R. L. Brown

  • Spatial patterns of snow stability throughout a small mountain range

    K.W. Birkeland

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

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

  • Near-Surface Faceted Crystals Formed by Diurnal Recrystallization: A Case Study of Weak Layer Formation in the Mountain Snowpack and Its Contribution to Snow Avalanches

    Karl W. Birkeland;Ron F. Johnson;D. Scott Schmidt

  • The Extended Column Test: A Field Test for Fracture Initiation and Propagation

    Ron Simenhois;Karl Birkeland

  • Avalanche extremes and atmospheric circulation patterns

    K.W. Birkeland;C. J. Mock;J. J. Shinker

  • Variations in snow strength and stability on uniform slopes

    C. Landry;K. Birkeland;K. Birkeland;K. Hansen;J. Borkowski

  • ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION PATTERNS ASSOCIATED WITH HEAVY SNOWFALL EVENTS, BRIDGER BOWL, MONTANA, U.S.A.

    Karl W. Birkeland

  • Terminology and Predominant Processes Associated with the Formation of Weak Layers of Near-Surface Faceted Crystals in the Mountain Snowpack

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  • Integrating spatial patterns into a snow avalanche cellular automata model

    Kalle Kronholm;Kalle Kronholm;Karl W. Birkeland;Karl W. Birkeland

  • A statistical validation of the snowpack model in a Montana climate

    Christopher C Lundy;Robert L Brown;Edward E Adams;Karl W Birkeland

  • Integrating shear quality into stability test results

    Ron F. Johnson;Karl W. Birkeland

  • The stuffblock snow stability test: comparability with the rutschblock, usefulness in different snow climates, and repeatability between observers

    Karl W Birkeland;Ron F Johnson

  • Exploring multi-scale spatial patterns in historical avalanche data, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Wyoming

    C. McCollister;K. Birkeland;K. Birkeland;K. Hansen;R. Aspinall

  • THE NORTH AMERICAN PUBLIC AVALANCHE DANGER SCALE

    Grant Statham;Pascal Haegeli;Karl W. Birkeland;Ethan Greene

  • Climate drivers of large magnitude snow avalanche years in the U.S. northern Rocky Mountains

    Erich H. Peitzsch;Gregory T. Pederson;Karl W. Birkeland;Jordy Hendrikx

  • Changes in the shear strength and micro-penetration hardness of a buried surface-hoar layer

    Karl W. Birkeland;Kalle Kronholm;Martin Schneebeli;Christine Pielmeier

Frequent Co-Authors

Jürg Schweizer
Jürg Schweizer Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Alec van Herwijnen
Alec van Herwijnen Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Kelly Elder
Kelly Elder US Forest Service
Hans-Peter Marshall
Hans-Peter Marshall Boise State University
Jeff Dozier
Jeff Dozier University of California, Santa Barbara
Martyn P. Clark
Martyn P. Clark University of Saskatchewan
Martin Schneebeli
Martin Schneebeli WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
Michael Lehning
Michael Lehning École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Peter Gumbsch
Peter Gumbsch Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Thomas G. Huntington
Thomas G. Huntington United States Geological Survey

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