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Université de Fribourg

Twenty years of European mountain permafrost dynamics—the PACE legacy

Etzelmüller, Bernd ; Guglielmin, Mauro ; Hauck, Christian ; Hilbich, Christin ; Hoelzle, Martin ; Isaksen, Ketil ; Noetzli, Jeanette ; Oliva, Marc ; Ramos, Miguel

In: Environmental Research Letters, 2020, vol. 15, no. 10, p. 104070

This paper reviews and analyses the past 20 years of change and variability of European mountain permafrost in response to climate change based on time series of ground temperatures along a south–north transect of deep boreholes from Sierra Nevada in Spain (37°N) to Svalbard (78°N), established between 1998 and 2000 during the EU-funded PACE (Permafrost and Climate in Europe) project. In...

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A monitoring system for spatiotemporal electrical self-potential measurements in cryospheric environments

Weigand, Maximilian ; Wagner, Florian M. ; Limbrock, Jonas K. ; Hilbich, Christin ; Hauck, Christian ; Kemna, Andreas

In: Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems, 2020, vol. 9, no. 2020-2, p. 317–336

Climate-induced warming increasingly leads to degradation of high-alpine permafrost. In order to develop early warning systems for imminent slope destabilization, knowledge about hydrological flow processes in the subsurface is urgently needed. Due to the fast dynamics associated with slope failures, non- or minimally invasive methods are required for inexpensive and timely characterization...

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Petrophysical joint inversion applied to alpine permafrost field sites to image subsurface ice, water, air, and rock contents

Mollaret, Coline ; Wagner, Florian M. ; Hilbich, Christin ; Scapozza, Cristian ; Hauck, Christian

In: Frontiers in Earth Sc-ience, 2020, vol. 8, p. -

Quantification of ground ice is crucial for understanding permafrost systems and modeling their ongoing degradation. The volumetric ice content is however rarely estimated in permafrost studies, as it is particularly difficult to retrieve. Standard borehole temperature monitoring is unable to provide any ice content estimation, whereas non-invasive geophysical techniques, such as refraction ...

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Detailed detection of active layer freeze-thaw dynamics using quasi-continuous electrical resistivity tomography (Deception Island, Antarctica)

Farzamian, Mohammad ; Vieira, Gonçalo ; Santos, Fernando A. Monteiro ; Tabar, Borhan Yaghoobi ; Hauck, Christian ; Paz, Maria Catarina ; Bernardo, Ivo ; Ramos, Miguel ; Pablo, Miguel Angel de

In: The Cryosphere, 2020, vol. 14, no. 3, p. 1105–1120

Climate-induced warming of permafrost soils is a global phenomenon, with regional and site-specific variations which are not fully understood. In this context, a 2-D automated electrical resistivity tomography (A-ERT) system was installed for the first time in Antarctica at Deception Island, associated to the existing Crater Lake site of the Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring – South ...

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Assessing the potential of soil moisture measurements for regional landslide early warning

Wicki, Adrian ; Lehmann, Peter ; Hauck, Christian ; Seneviratne, Sonia I. ; Waldner, Peter ; Stähli, Manfred

In: Landslides, 2020, p. -

In mountainous terrain, rainfall-induced landslides pose a serious risk to people and infrastructure. Regional landslide early warning systems (LEWS) have proven to be a cost-efficient tool to inform the public about the imminent landslide danger. While most operational LEWS are based on rainfall exceedance thresholds only, recent studies have demonstrated an improvement of the forecast...

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Two-dimensional inversion of wideband spectral data from the capacitively coupled resistivity method – first applications in periglacial environments

Mudler, Jan ; Hördt, Andreas ; Przyklenk, Anita ; Fiandaca, Gianluca ; Maurya, Pradip Kumar ; Hauck, Christian

In: The Cryosphere, 2019, vol. 13, no. 9, p. 2439–2456

The DC resistivity method is a common tool in periglacial research because it can delineate zones of large resistivities, which are often associated with frozen water. The interpretation can be ambiguous, however, because large resistivities may also have other causes, like solid dry rock. One possibility to reduce the ambiguity is to measure the frequency-dependent resistivity. At low...

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Mountain permafrost degradation documented through a network of permanent electrical resistivity tomography sites

Mollaret, Coline ; Hilbich, Christin ; Pellet, Cécile ; Flores-Orozco, Adrian ; Delaloye, Reynald ; Hauck, Christian

In: The Cryosphere, 2019, vol. 13, no. 10, p. 2557–2578

Mountain permafrost is sensitive to climate change and is expected to gradually degrade in response to the ongoing atmospheric warming trend. Long-term monitoring of the permafrost thermal state is a key task, but problematic where temperatures are close to 0 ∘C because the energy exchange is then dominantly related to latent heat effects associated with phase change (ice–water), rather...

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The European mountain cryosphere: a review of its current state, trends, and future challenges

Beniston, Martin ; Farinotti, Daniel ; Stoffel, Markus ; Andreassen, Liss M. ; Coppola, Erika ; Eckert, Nicolas ; Fantini, Adriano ; Giacona, Florie ; Hauck, Christian ; Huss, Matthias ; Huwald, Hendrik ; Lehning, Michael ; López-Moreno, Juan-Ignacio ; Magnusson, Jan ; Marty, Christoph ; Morán-Tejéda, Enrique ; Morin, Samuel ; Naaim, Mohamed ; Provenzale, Antonello ; Rabatel, Antoine ; Six, Delphine ; Stötter, Johann ; Strasser, Ulrich ; Terzago, Silvia ; Vincent, Christian

In: The Cryosphere, 2018, vol. 12, no. 2, p. 759–794

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 on the current knowledge on snow, glacier, and permafrost processes, as well as their past, current, and future evolution. We additionally provide an assessment of current cryosphere research in Europe and point to the different...

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Resolution capacity of geophysical monitoring regarding permafrost degradation induced by hydrological processes

Mewes, Benjamin ; Hilbich, Christin ; Delaloye, Reynald ; Hauck, Christian

In: The Cryosphere, 2017, vol. 11, no. 6, p. 2957–2974

Geophysical methods are often used to characterize and monitor the subsurface composition of permafrost. The resolution capacity of standard methods, i.e. electrical resistivity tomography and refraction seismic tomography, depends not only on static parameters such as measurement geometry, but also on the temporal variability in the contrast of the geophysical target variables (electrical...