Articles | Volume 18, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-1891-2018
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-1891-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Determining the drivers for snow gliding
Reinhard Fromm
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape – BFW, Department of Natural Hazards, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Sonja Baumgärtner
Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Georg Leitinger
Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Erich Tasser
Institute for Alpine Environment, Eurac Research, 39100 Bozen, Italy
Peter Höller
Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape – BFW, Department of Natural Hazards, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Use of Sentinel-1 radar observations to evaluate snowmelt dynamics in alpine regions C. Marin et al. 10.5194/tc-14-935-2020
- Glaciers retreat-induced gravelization encroached alpine hillside grassland: A case study in Qilian Mountain, China T. Li et al. 10.1016/j.catena.2025.108905
- A method for imaging water transport in soil–snow systems with neutron radiography M. Lombardo et al. 10.1017/aog.2023.65
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Short summary
Snow gliding is a key factor for snow glide avalanche formation and soil erosion. This study considers atmospheric and snow variables, vegetation characteristics, and soil properties, and determines their relevance for snow gliding. The soil moisture, the soil temperature, the liquid water content of snow, the phytomass of mosses, and the friction coefficient have major influence.
However, further investigations may be focused on the freezing and melting processes in the uppermost soil layers.
Snow gliding is a key factor for snow glide avalanche formation and soil erosion. This study...
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