European heat waves 2022: contribution to extreme glacier melt in Switzerland inferred from automated ablation readings [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2023 Accelerating glacier melt rates were observed during the last decades. Substantial ice loss occurs particularly during heat waves that are expected to intensify in the future.
A. Cremona +11 more
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Scientific Data, 2022 Measurement(s) ((18)O)water • deuterium(.) • waterflux • Relative Humidity • Air temperature • Snow depth Technology Type(s) wavelength scanned cavity ring-down spectrometer • off-axis integrated cavity output spectrometry • stream gauge, rain gauge ...
Jana von Freyberg +5 more
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Drainage of an ice-dammed lake through a supraglacial stream: hydraulics and thermodynamics [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2021 The glacier-dammed Lac des Faverges, located on Glacier de la Plaine Morte (Swiss Alps), has drained annually as a glacier lake outburst flood since 2011. In 2018, the lake volume reached more than 2 × 106 m3, and the resulting flood caused damage to the
C. Ogier +10 more
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Characterising englacial R-channels using artificial moulins
Journal of Glaciology, 2022 The englacial and subglacial drainage systems exert key controls on glacier dynamics. However, due to their inaccessibility, they are still only poorly understood and more detailed observations are important, particularly to validate and tune physical ...
Annegret Pohle +3 more
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Bedload Transport Monitoring in Alpine Rivers: Variability in Swiss Plate Geophone Response
Sensors, 2020 Acoustic sensors are increasingly used to measure bedload transport in Alpine streams, notably the Swiss plate geophone (SPG) system. An impact experiment using artificial weights is developed in this paper to assess the variability in individual plate ...
Gilles Antoniazza +4 more
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Brief communication: Do 1.0, 1.5, or 2.0 °C matter for the future evolution of Alpine glaciers? [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2021 With the Paris Agreement, the urgency of limiting ongoing anthropogenic climate change has been recognised. More recent discussions have focused on the difference of limiting the increase in global average temperatures below 1.0, 1.5, or 2.0 ∘C compared ...
L. Compagno +12 more
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Hatching phenology is lagging behind an advancing snowmelt pattern in a high-alpine bird
Scientific Reports, 2021 To track peaks in resource abundance, temperate-zone animals use predictive environmental cues to rear their offspring when conditions are most favourable.
Christian Schano +3 more
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Editorial: Advances in observations and modeling of snow, forest-snow processes and snow hydrology
Frontiers in Water, 2023 Ning Sun, Nicoleta Cristea
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Decoupling of warming mountain snowpacks from hydrological regimes
Environmental Research Letters, 2020 Climate warming will reduce the duration of mountain snowpacks and spring runoff, impacting the timing, volume, reliability, and sources of water supplies to mountain headwaters of rivers that support a large proportion of humanity.
J I López-Moreno +4 more
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Toward Snow Cover Estimation in Mountainous Areas Using Modern Data Assimilation Methods: A Review
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020 The snow cover is a key component of land surface hydrology, especially in mountain areas where it governs the amount and timing of water availability in downstream areas.
Chloé Largeron +10 more
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