About the Authors

Dominik Kulakowski

dkulakowski@clarku.edu

Affiliations Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA, United States of America, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland

Thomas T. Veblen

Affiliation Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States of America

Peter Bebi

Affiliation WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DK TTV PB. Performed the experiments: DK TTV PB. Analyzed the data: DK TTV PB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DK TTV PB. Wrote the paper: DK TTV PB.