Search Results - "Farinotti, D."
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A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (16-07-2021)“…A deadly cascade A catastrophic landslide in Uttarakhand state in India on February 2021 damaged two hydropower plants, and more than 200 people were killed or…”
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Ice‐Dynamical Glacier Evolution Modeling—A Review
Published in Reviews of geophysics (1985) (01-06-2022)“…Glaciers play a crucial role in the Earth System: they are important water suppliers to lower‐lying areas during hot and dry periods, and they are major…”
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A high-resolution bedrock map for the Antarctic Peninsula
Published in The cryosphere (18-07-2014)“…Assessing and projecting the dynamic response of glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula to changed atmospheric and oceanic forcing requires high-resolution ice…”
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Future high-mountain hydrology: a new parameterization of glacier retreat
Published in Hydrology and earth system sciences (26-05-2010)“…Global warming is expected to significantly affect the runoff regime of mountainous catchments. Simple methods for calculating future glacier change in…”
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The European mountain cryosphere: a review of its current state, trends, and future challenges
Published in The cryosphere (01-03-2018)“…The mountain cryosphere of mainland Europe is recognized to have important impacts on a range of environmental processes. In this paper, we provide an overview…”
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A Framework for Modeling Rock Glaciers and Permafrost at the Basin‐Scale in High Alpine Catchments
Published in Journal of advances in modeling earth systems (01-04-2021)“…Since rock glaciers are believed to be more resilient to climate change, water stores therein may become important water reservoirs in future, in particular in…”
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Ice volume distribution and implications on runoff projections in a glacierized catchment
Published in Hydrology and earth system sciences (03-12-2012)“…A dense network of helicopter-based ground-penetrating radar (GPR) measurements was used to determine the ice-thickness distribution in the Mauvoisin region…”
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Snow-cover reconstruction methodology for mountainous regions based on historic in situ observations and recent remote sensing data
Published in The cryosphere (04-03-2015)“…Spatially distributed snow-cover extent can be derived from remote sensing data with good accuracy. However, such data are available for recent decades only,…”
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An upper-bound estimate for the accuracy of glacier volume–area scaling
Published in The cryosphere (11-11-2013)“…Volume–area scaling is the most popular method for estimating the ice volume of large glacier samples. Here, a series of resampling experiments based on…”
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Investigating the dynamics of an Alpine glacier using probabilistic icequake locations: Triftgletscher, Switzerland
Published in Journal of geophysical research. Earth surface (01-12-2013)“…In order to improve our understanding of the dynamics of potentially unstable steep glacier tongues, we monitored during summer 2010 the micro seismicity of…”
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Modelling the future evolution of glaciers in the European Alps under the EURO-CORDEX RCM ensemble
Published in The cryosphere (09-04-2019)“…Glaciers in the European Alps play an important role in the hydrological cycle, act as a source for hydroelectricity and have a large touristic importance. The…”
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Future shifts in extreme flow regimes in Alpine regions
Published in Hydrology and earth system sciences (30-10-2019)“…Extreme low and high flows can have negative economic, social, and ecological effects and are expected to become more severe in many regions due to climate…”
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European heat waves 2022: contribution to extreme glacier melt in Switzerland inferred from automated ablation readings
Published in The cryosphere (09-05-2023)“…Accelerating glacier melt rates were observed during the last decades. Substantial ice loss occurs particularly during heat waves that are expected to…”
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Glacier runoff variations since 1955 in the Maipo River basin, in the semiarid Andes of central Chile
Published in The cryosphere (24-06-2020)“…As glaciers adjust their size in response to climate variations, long-term changes in meltwater production can be expected, affecting the local availability of…”
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An estimate of the glacier ice volume in the Swiss Alps
Published in Global and planetary change (01-08-2009)“…Changes in glacier volume are important for questions linked to sea-level rise, water resource management, and tourism industry. With the ongoing climate…”
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How accurate are estimates of glacier ice thickness? Results from ITMIX, the Ice Thickness Models Intercomparison eXperiment
Published in The cryosphere (18-04-2017)“…Knowledge of the ice thickness distribution of glaciers and ice caps is an important prerequisite for many glaciological and hydrological investigations. A…”
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Modelling supraglacial debris-cover evolution from the single-glacier to the regional scale: an application to High Mountain Asia
Published in The cryosphere (06-05-2022)“…Currently, about 12 %–13 % of High Mountain Asia’s glacier area is debris-covered, which alters its surface mass balance. However, in regional-scale modelling…”
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Halving of Swiss glacier volume since 1931 observed from terrestrial image photogrammetry
Published in The cryosphere (22-08-2022)“…The monitoring of glaciers in Switzerland has a long tradition, yet glacier changes during the 20th century are only known through sparse observations. Here,…”
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Brief communication: Do 1.0, 1.5, or 2.0 °C matter for the future evolution of Alpine glaciers?
Published in The cryosphere (15-06-2021)“…With the Paris Agreement, the urgency of limiting ongoing anthropogenic climate change has been recognised. More recent discussions have focused on the…”
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Volume, evolution, and sedimentation of future glacier lakes in Switzerland over the 21st century
Published in Earth surface dynamics (14-07-2022)“…Ongoing climate change and associated glacier retreat is causing rapid environmental change, including shifts in high-alpine landscapes. Glacier lakes, which…”
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