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Degradation of buried ice and permafrost in the Veleta cirque (Sierra Nevada, Spain) from 2006 to 2013 as a response to recent climate trends
A. Gómez-Ortiz
Department for Physical and Regional Geography, University of Barcelona, Montalegre, 6–8, 08001 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214, Lisbon, Portugal
F. Salvador-Franch
Department for Physical and Regional Geography, University of Barcelona, Montalegre, 6–8, 08001 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
M. Salvà-Catarineu
Department for Physical and Regional Geography, University of Barcelona, Montalegre, 6–8, 08001 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
D. Palacios
Department for Regional and Physical Geography, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
J. J. de Sanjosé-Blasco
Departmento de Expresión Gráfica, University of Extremadura, 10071 Cáceres, Spain
L. M. Tanarro-García
Department for Regional and Physical Geography, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
J. Galindo-Zaldívar
Department of Geodynamics, University of Granada, Spain
C. Sanz de Galdeano
Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, CSIC, University of Granada, Spain
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Josep Bonsoms, Juan I. López-Moreno, Esteban Alonso-González, César Deschamps-Berger, and Marc Oliva
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 245–264, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-245-2024, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-245-2024, 2024
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Climate warming is changing mountain snowpack patterns, leading in some cases to rain-on-snow (ROS) events. Here we analyzed near-present ROS and its sensitivity to climate warming across the Pyrenees. ROS increases during the coldest months of the year but decreases in the warmest months and areas under severe warming due to snow cover depletion. Faster snow ablation is anticipated in the coldest and northern slopes of the range. Relevant implications in mountain ecosystem are anticipated.
A. Martínez-Fernández, E. Serrano, J. J. Sanjosé, M. Gómez-Lende, A. Pisabarro, and M. Sánchez
Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLII-2-W13, 1771–1775, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-1771-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-1771-2019, 2019
M. Fritz, B. N. Deshpande, F. Bouchard, E. Högström, J. Malenfant-Lepage, A. Morgenstern, A. Nieuwendam, M. Oliva, M. Paquette, A. C. A. Rudy, M. B. Siewert, Y. Sjöberg, and S. Weege
The Cryosphere, 9, 1715–1720, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-1715-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-1715-2015, 2015
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This is a contribution about the future of permafrost research to the 3rd International Conference on Arctic Research Planning 2015 (ICARP III).
We summarize the top five research questions for the next decade of permafrost science from the perspective of early career researchers (ECRs).
We highlight the pathways and structural preconditions to address these research priorities.
This manuscript is an outcome of a community consultation conducted for and by ECRs on a global level.
M. Oliva, G. Vieira, P. Pina, P. Pereira, M. Neves, and M. C. Freitas
Solid Earth, 5, 901–914, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-5-901-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-5-901-2014, 2014
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Solid Earth, 14, 333–351, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-14-333-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-14-333-2023, 2023
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We discuss collapse sinkholes occuring since 2004 on the sports field of Münsterdorf, a village north of Hamburg. The sinkholes, 2–5 m in size and about 3–5 m deep, develop in peri-glacial sand, with a likely origin in the Cretaceous chalk, present at about 20 m depth. The area has been analyzed with geophysical and direct-push-based methods, from which material properties of the subsurface have been derived. The properties have been used for mechanical models, predicting the subsidence.
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Solid Earth, 13, 1631–1647, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-1631-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-1631-2022, 2022
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Marianne Métois, Jean-Emmanuel Martelat, Jérémy Billant, Muriel Andreani, Javier Escartín, Frédérique Leclerc, and the ICAP team
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