Université de Fribourg

On the morphological characteristics of overdeepenings in high‐mountain glacier beds

Haeberli, Wilfried ; Linsbauer, Andreas ; Cochachin, Alejo ; Salazar, Cesar ; Fischer, Urs H.

In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2016, vol. 41, no. 13, p. 1980–1990

Overdeepenings, i.e. closed topographic depressions with adverse slopes in the direction of flow, are characteristic for glacier beds and glacially sculpted landscapes. Quantitative information about their morphological characteristics, however, has so far hardly been available. The present study provides such information by combining the analysis of (a) numerous bed overdeepenings below...

Université de Fribourg

Climate trends and glacier retreat in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, revisited

Schauwecker, S. ; Rohrer, M. ; Acuña, D. ; Cochachin, A. ; Dávila, L. ; Frey, H. ; Giráldez, C. ; Gómez, J. ; Huggel, C. ; Jacques-Coper, M. ; Loarte, E. ; Salzmann, Nadine ; Vuille, M.

In: Global and Planetary Change, 2014, vol. 119, p. 85–97

The total glacial area of the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, has shrunk by more than 30% in the period of 1930 to the present with a marked glacier retreat also in the recent decades. The aim of this paper is to assess local air temperature and precipitation changes in the Cordillera Blanca and to discuss how these variables could have affected the observed glacier retreat between the 1980s and...

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