Climate-induced changes in the Alpine cryosphere and their geomorphic impacts
Date:
Location:
SLF Davos, Hörsaal, and Zoom-Webinar
Organised by:
WSL
Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Philip Deline
Moderators:
Marcia Phillips
Languages:
English
Type of event:
Distinguished Lectures
Audience:
everybody interested in this topic
MeetingID: 68906493366 / Kenncode: 990484
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As in all the mountains of the world, the snow, glaciers and permafrost of the European Alps are undergoing major changes in relation to the current global change. After presenting a picture of this evolution of the cryosphere, which has been accelerating since the 1990s, all the more so as the mountains are more affected by the global warming, we will show its effects on geomorphic processes such as rock fall, rock and ice avalanches, debris flows, moraine failure, or lake dynamics.