Johan Gaume
Formation
2009 – 2012 University of Grenoble
2008 – 2008 Grenoble Institute of Technology
2005 – 2008 ENSE3, Grenoble Institute of Technology
2003 – 2005 Lycée Victor Hugo, Besançon
Expériences professionnelles
Publications représentatives
Stress concentrations in weak snowpack layers and condition for slab avalanche release
Gaume J, Chambon G, van Herwijnen A, Schweizer J.
Published in Geophys. Res. Lett. 45(16) 8363-8369 in
Scaling laws for the mechanics of loose and cohesive granular materials based on Baxter’s sticky hard spheres
Gaume J, Loewe H, Tan S, Tsang L.
Published in Physical Review E (in press). 2017 in
Assessing snow instability in skier-triggered snow slab avalanches by combining failure initiation and crack propagation
Gaume J and Reuter B
Published in Cold Reg. Sci. Technol. (in press). 2017 in
Fragmentation of wind-blown snow crystals
Comola F, Kok J, Gaume J, Paterna E, Lehning M.
Published in Geophys. Res. Lett. 44, doi:10.1002/2017GL073039. 2017. in
Snow fracture in relation to slab avalanche release: critical state for the onset of crack propagation
Gaume J, van Herwijnen A, Chambon G, Wever N, Schweizer J.
Published in The Cryosphere, 11, 217-228. 2017. in
Temporal evolution of crack propagation propensity in snow in relation to slab and weak layer properties
Schweizer J, Reuter B, van Herwijnen A, Richter B, Gaume J.
Published in The Cryosphere, 10, 2637-2653. 2016 in
Estimating the effective elastic modulus and specific fracture energy of snowpack layers from field experiments
van Herwijnen A, Gaume J, Bair E, Reuter B, Birkeland K, Schweizer J.
Published in J. Glaciol., 62(236), 997-1007, 2016 in
Snow instability evaluation: calculating the skier-induced stress in a multi-layered snowpack
Monti F*, Gaume J*, Schweizer J. (* co-first authors).
Published in Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 775-788. 2016 in
Modeling of crack propagation in weak snowpack layers using the discrete element method.
Gaume J, van Herwijnen A, Chambon G, Birkeland K, Schweizer J.
Published in The Cryosphere, 9, 1915-1932. 2015. in
Granulation of snow: From tumbler experiments to discrete element simulations.
Steinkogler W, Gaume J, Loewe H, Sovilla B, Lehning M.
Published in J. Geophys. Res., 120, 1107-1126. 2015 in
A new mixed mode failure criterion for weak snowpack layers.
Reiweger I*, Gaume J*, Schweizer J. (* co-first authors)
Published in Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 1427–1432, 2015 in
Influence of weak layer heterogeneity and slab properties on slab tensile failure propensity and avalanche release areas.,
Gaume J, Chambon G, Eckert N, Naaim M, Schweizer J.
Published in The Cryosphere, 9, 795-804, 2014 in
Evaluation of slope stability with respect to snowpack spatial variability.
Gaume J, Schweizer J, van Herwijnen A, Chambon G, Reuter B, Eckert N, Schweizer J.
Published in J. Geophys. Res, 119, 2014 in
Evaluation of rupture Mohr-Coulomb parameters through finite element modelling of shaking plateform experiments
Podolskiy E, Chambon G, Naaim M, Gaume J.
Published in Nat. Hazard Earth Syst. Sci. in
A review of finite element modelling in snow mechanics
Podolskiy E, Chambon G, Naaim M, Gaume J.
Published in J. Glaciol., 59(218), 1189-1201, 2013 in
Influence of weak layer heterogeneity on slab avalanche release: Application to the evaluation of avalanche release depths.
Gaume J, Chambon G, Eckert N, Naaim M.
Published in J. Glaciol., 59(215), 423-437, 2013. in
Mapping extreme snowfalls in the French Alps using max-stable processes
Gaume J, Eckert N, Bel L, Chambon G, Naaim M.
Published in Water Resour. Res., 49(2), 1079-1098, 2013 in
Relative influence of mechanical and meteorological factors on slab avalanche release depth distributions
Gaume J, Chambon G, Eckert N, Naaim M.
Published in Geophys. Res. Lett., 39(12), L12401, 2012. in
Cross comparison of meteorological and avalanche data for characterizing avalanche cycles: the example of December 2008 in the eastern part of the southern French Alps
Eckert N, Coleou C, Castebrunet H, Deschatres M, Giraud G, Gaume J.
Published in Cold Reg. Sci. Technol., 64, 119-136, 2011 in
Using spatial and spatial-extreme statistics to characterize snow avalanche cycles
Eckert N, Gaume J, Castebrunet H.
Published in Procedia Environmental sciences, 7, 224-229, 2011 in
Quasistatic to inertial transition in granular materials and the role of fluctuations
Gaume J, Chambon G, Naaim M.
Published in Phys. Rev. E., 84(5), 051304, 2011 in