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Articles | Volume 8, issue 3
Articles | Volume 8, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-729-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-729-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 8, issue 3
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11 Sep 2020
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Current glacier recession causes significant rockfall increase: the immediate paraglacial response of deglaciating cirque walls

Ingo Hartmeyer, Robert Delleske, Markus Keuschnig, Michael Krautblatter, Andreas Lang, Lothar Schrott, and Jan-Christoph Otto

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Climate warming is causing significant ice surface lowering even in the uppermost parts of alpine glaciers. Using terrestrial lidar, we quantify rockfall in freshly exposed cirque walls. During 6-year monitoring (2011–2017), an extensive dataset was established and over 600 rockfall events identified. Drastically increased rockfall activity following ice retreat can clearly be observed as 60 % of the rockfall volume detached from less than 10 m above the glacier surface.
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