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26 Sep 2014
Research article |
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Soil erosion by snow gliding – a first quantification attempt in a subalpine area in Switzerland
K. Meusburger
Environmental Geosciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
G. Leitinger
Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Soil and Water Management & Crop Nutrition Laboratory, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
M. H. Mueller
Environmental Geosciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
A. Walter
Environmental Geosciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
C. Alewell
Environmental Geosciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 17, 1661–1679, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-1661-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-1661-2013, 2013
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Jeffrey S. Munroe and Alexander L. Handwerger
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Rock glaciers are mixtures of ice and rock debris that are common landforms in high-mountain environments. We evaluated the role of rock glaciers as a component of mountain hydrology by collecting water samples during the summer and fall of 2021. Our results indicate that the water draining from rock glaciers late in the melt season is likely derived from old buried ice; they further demonstrate that this water collectively makes up about a quarter of streamflow during the month of September.
Andrea Rücker, Stefan Boss, James W. Kirchner, and Jana von Freyberg
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Enrique Morán-Tejeda, Jorge Luis Ceballos, Katherine Peña, Jorge Lorenzo-Lacruz, and Juan Ignacio López-Moreno
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We studied the recent evolution of a small glacier in the Colombian Andes that is close to extinction, focusing on the water release from the glacier. For this we used hydro-climatological data collected at the the glacier surroundings at an hourly resolution. Our results indicate that water from glacier melt increased as a consequence of accelerated glacier retreat, but up to a certain point (mid-2016) it started to decrease, with glacier melt becoming decreasingly important.
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Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 517–528, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-16-517-2012, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-16-517-2012, 2012
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