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Overview

Perry Bartelt is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with particular attention to management, monitoring, policy and law, and atmospheric science.

The scientist has a significant publication record that spans topics such as landslides and related hazards, cryospheric studies and observations, fire effects on ecosystems, tree root and stability studies, hydrology and sediment transport processes, winter sports injuries and performance, and rock mechanics and modeling.

Bartelt's recent papers include:

  • Automated avalanche hazard indication mapping on a statewide scale (2022) published in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
  • The relevance of rock shape over mass-implications for rockfall hazard assessments (2021) published in Nature Communications
  • Mitigation effects of trees on rockfall hazards: does rock shape matter? (2020) published in Landslides
  • Seismic signature of the deadly snow avalanche of January 18, 2017, at Rigopiano (Italy) (2020) published in Scientific Reports
  • A dilatant, two-layer debris flow model validated by flow density measurements at the Swiss illgraben test site (2021) published in Landslides

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Yves Bühler
  • Andrin Caviezel
  • Marc Christen
  • Andreas Stoffel
  • Brian W. McArdell

Bartelt often publishes in the following venues:

  • Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
  • Landslides
  • E3S Web of Conferences
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • COMPDYN Proceedings

The scientist has contributed to book publications, including a work published by WSL-Berichte/WSL Berichte titled Rockfall barrier service loads for rock impacts with spin. Theory and experiments (2022).

Best Publications

  • A physical SNOWPACK model for the Swiss avalanche warning: Part I: numerical model

    Perry Bartelt;Michael Lehning

  • RAMMS: numerical simulation of dense snow avalanches in three-dimensional terrain

    M. Christen;J. Kowalski;P. Bartelt

  • A physical SNOWPACK model for the Swiss avalanche warning: Part II. Snow microstructure

    Michael Lehning;Perry Bartelt;Bob Brown;Charles Fierz

  • A physical SNOWPACK model for the Swiss avalanche warning Part III: meteorological forcing, thin layer formation and evaluation

    Michael Lehning;Perry Bartelt;Bob Brown;Charles Fierz

  • snowpack model calculations for avalanche warning based upon a new network of weather and snow stations

    Michael Lehning;Perry Bartelt;Bob Brown;Tom Russi

  • Field observations of basal forces and fluid pore pressure in a debris flow

    Brian W. McArdell;Perry Bartelt;Julia Kowalski

  • Massive collapse of two glaciers in western Tibet in 2016 after surge-like instability

    Andreas Kääb;Silvan Leinss;Adrien Gilbert;Yves Bühler

  • Field experiments and numerical modeling of mass entrainment in snow avalanches

    Betty Sovilla;Paolo Burlando;P. Bartelt

  • Measurements of hillslope debris flow impact pressure on obstacles

    Louis Bugnion;Brian W. McArdell;Perry Bartelt;Corinna Wendeler

  • Calculating dense-snow avalanche runout using a Voellmy-fluid model with active/passive longitudinal straining

    P. Bartelt;B. Salm;U. Gruber

  • Simulation of rockfall trajectories with consideration of rock shape

    R. I. Leine;A. Schweizer;M. Christen;J. Glover

  • Snow avalanche hazard modelling of large areas using shallow water numerical methods and GIS

    U. Gruber;P. Bartelt

  • Impact pressures and flow regimes in dense snow avalanches observed at the Vallée de la Sionne test site

    Betty Sovilla;M. Schaer;M. Kern;P. Bartelt

  • Insights into rock-ice avalanche dynamics by combined analysis of seismic recordings and a numerical avalanche model

    Demian Schneider;Perry Bartelt;Jacqueline Caplan-Auerbach;Marc Christen

  • Back calculation of the In den Arelen avalanche with RAMMS: interpretation of model results

    Marc Christen;Perry Bartelt;Julia Kowalski

  • Production and decay of random kinetic energy in granular snow avalanches

    Othmar Buser;Perry Bartelt

  • Modeling mass‐dependent flow regime transitions to predict the stopping and depositional behavior of snow avalanches

    P. Bartelt;Y. Bühler;O. Buser;M. Christen

  • Granulometric investigations of snow avalanches

    Perry Bartelt;Brian W. McArdell

  • A snowdrift index based on SNOWPACK model calculations

    Michael Lehning;Judith Doorschot;Perry Bartelt

  • Fluctuation-dissipation relations for granular snow avalanches

    Perry Bartelt;Othmar Buser;Katharina Platzer

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Lehning
Michael Lehning École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Brian W. McArdell
Brian W. McArdell Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Bernardino Chiaia
Bernardino Chiaia Polytechnic University of Turin
Eleni Chatzi
Eleni Chatzi ETH Zurich
Charles Fierz
Charles Fierz Montana State University
Joachim Wassermann
Joachim Wassermann Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Christian Huggel
Christian Huggel University of Zurich
Michele Magno
Michele Magno ETH Zurich
Luca Benini
Luca Benini ETH Zurich

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