Search Results - "Rastner, P"

Lake outburst and debris flow disaster at Kedarnath, June 2013: hydrometeorological triggering and topographic predisposition by Allen, S. K., Rastner, P., Arora, M., Huggel, C., Stoffel, M.

“…Heavy rainfall in June 2013 triggered flash flooding and landslides throughout the Indian Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, killing more than 6000 people. The…”
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Mass loss of Greenland's glaciers and ice caps 2003-2008 revealed from ICESat laser altimetry data by Bolch, T., Sandberg Sørensen, L., Simonsen, S. B., Mölg, N., Machguth, H., Rastner, P., Paul, F.

“…The recently finalized inventory of Greenland's glaciers and ice caps (GIC) allows for the first time to determine the mass changes of the GIC separately from…”
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The first complete inventory of the local glaciers and ice caps on Greenland by Rastner, P, Bolch, T, Mölg, N, Machguth, H, Le Bris, R, Paul, F

“…Glacier inventories provide essential baseline information for the determination of water resources, glacier-specific changes in area and volume, climate…”
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Area and volume loss of the glaciers in the Ortles-Cevedale group (Eastern Italian Alps): controls and imbalance of the remaining glaciers by Carturan, L, Filippi, R, Seppi, R, Gabrielli, P, Notarnicola, C, Bertoldi, L, Paul, F, Rastner, P, Cazorzi, F, Dinale, R, Dalla Fontana, G

“…A widespread loss of glacier area and volume has been observed in the European Alps since the 1980s. In addition to differences among various regions of the…”
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The future sea-level rise contribution of Greenland's glaciers and ice caps by Machguth, H, Rastner, P, Bolch, T, Mölg, N, Sørensen, L Sandberg, Aðalgeirsdottir, G, van Angelen, J H, van den Broeke, M R, Fettweis, X

“…We calculate the future sea-level rise contribution from the surface mass balance of all of Greenland's glaciers and ice caps (GICs, ∼90 000 km2) using a…”
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A consistent glacier inventory for Karakoram and Pamir derived from Landsat data: distribution of debris cover and mapping challenges by Molg, Nico, Bolch, Tobias, Rastner, Philipp, Strozzi, Tazio, Paul, Frank

“…Knowledge about the coverage and characteristics of glaciers in High Mountain Asia (HMA) is still incomplete and heterogeneous. However, several applications,…”
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Glacier shrinkage in the Alps continues unabated as revealed by a new glacier inventory from Sentinel-2 by Paul, Frank, Rastner, Philipp, Azzoni, Roberto Sergio, Diolaiuti, Guglielmina, Fugazza, Davide, Le Bris, Raymond, Nemec, Johanna, Rabatel, Antoine, Ramusovic, Mélanie, Schwaizer, Gabriele, Smiraglia, Claudio

“…The ongoing glacier shrinkage in the Alps requires frequent updates of glacier outlines to provide an accurate database for monitoring, modelling purposes…”
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Historical analysis and visualization of the retreat of Findelengletscher, Switzerland, 1859–2010 by Rastner, P., Joerg, P.C., Huss, M., Zemp, M.

“…Since the end of the Little Ice Age around 1850, glaciers in Europe have strongly retreated. Thanks to early topographic surveys in Switzerland, accurate maps…”
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Annual to seasonal glacier mass balance in High Mountain Asia derived from Pléiades stereo images: examples from the Pamir and the Tibetan Plateau by Falaschi, Daniel, Bhattacharya, Atanu, Guillet, Gregoire, Huang, Lei, King, Owen, Mukherjee, Kriti, Rastner, Philipp, Yao, Tandong, Bolch, Tobias

“…Glaciers are crucial sources of freshwater in particular for the arid lowlands surrounding High Mountain Asia. To better constrain glacio-hydrological models,…”
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Semiautomatic classification procedure for updating landuse maps with high resolution optical images by Notarnicola, C., Frick, A., Kass, S., Rastner, P., Pulighe, G., Zebisch, M.

“…This paper presents a semi-automatic procedure for the classification of high resolution images in order to obtain a fast update of land cover - land use maps…”
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