Article: Louge MY, Turnbull B, Carroll C, (2013) Volume Growth of a Powder Snow Avalanche. Annals of Glaciology, 53 (61):57-60
Abstract: We contrast the frontal dynamics of dilute powder snow avalanches with the behavior of their tail. While the former can be regarded as a fast-moving eruption current dominated by synergistic material injection into a short head, the latter behaves as a nearly arrested dilute cloud of particles expanding by progressive incorporation of ambient air, or by entrainment of snow-cover material by late avalanches trailing well behind the front.