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How far can we trust climate change predictions?
Francois Louchet
Current techniques for predicting climate change are mainly based on "massive" deterministic numerical modeling. However, the ocean-atmosphere system is a so-called "complex system…
Full-depth snow avalanches
Francois Louchet
On the basis of field observations and of a tentative classification of the different types of snow, a modeling of the different possible types of full-depth avalanches is proposed…
Weather instabilities as a warning sign for a nearby climatic tipping point?
Francois Louchet
Using in a simple way the theory of non linear dynamical systems, we show that increasing climatic instabilities may be a qualitative warning sign for the occurrence of a nearby bi…
Modeling a fluid to solid phase transition in snow weak-layers. Application to slab avalanche release
Francois Louchet
Snow slab avalanche release usually results from failure of weak layers made of loose ice crystals. In previous field experiments, we evidenced for the first time an interesting st…
On the role of long range internal stresses on grain nucleation during discontinuous recrystallization
Paul Duval, Francois Louchet, Jerome Weiss +1
The essential role of long range elastic interactions in recrystallization is demonstrated using a simple analytical model: pileup rearrangements following absorption of leading di…
On the critical character of plasticity in metallic single crystals
Thiebaud Richeton, Patrik Dobron, Frantisek Chmelik +2
Previous acoustic emission (AE) experiments on ice single crystals, as well as numerical simulations, called for the possible occurrence of self-organized criticality (SOC) in coll…
A Two-Threshold Model for Scaling Laws of Non-Interacting Snow Avalanches
Jerome Faillettaz, Francois Louchet, Jean-Robert Grasso
The sizes of snow slab failure that trigger snow avalanches are power-law distributed. Such a power-law probability distribution function has also been proposed to characterize dif…