Modelling Temperature Distribution in Alpine Glaciers

Alpine glaciers to disappear within decades ?

Temperature-index modelling of runoff from a declining Alpine glacier

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Evolution of rock glaciers and alpine glaciers: A model–model approach

The effects of horizontal stress transmission on the transient evolution of non-linear viscous bodies having aspects ratios similar to active alpine rock glaciers is investigated. This is done through a comparison between a shallow-ice model, which predicts material flux to be a local function of thickness and slope, and a finite-element model, which solves the full Stokes problem. For length-t...

Modelling Dynamics of Valley Glaciers

Surface Velocity of Swiss Alpine Glaciers from Ers Sar Interferometry

Differential SAR interferograms were computed over the Swiss Alps with ERS-1/2 Tandem data acquired between 1995 and 2000 from ascending and descending orbits and use of an external Digital Elevation Model (DEM). Comparison with the Swiss glacier inventory 2000 shows that winter interferograms with one day time interval have a generally high degree of coherence and are straightforward to identi...