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Overview

Christian Huggel is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a substantial body of work contributing to atmospheric science and global and planetary change.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad range of areas within cryospheric studies and observations, landslides and related hazards, climate change and permafrost, as well as flood risk assessment and management. Additional topics include winter sports injuries and performance, hydrology and watershed management studies, and the interplay between climate change, adaptation, and migration.

Christian Huggel's frequent co-authors include Veruska Muccione, Simon Allen, Holger Frey, Saeid Ashraf Vaghefi, and Fabián Drenkhan. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary approaches and a network of researchers working on related environmental and earth science issues.

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Geomorphology
  • Mountain Research and Development
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Selected recent papers illustrate the scope and thematic focus of their research:

  • A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya (2021, Science)
  • Sudden large-volume detachments of low-angle mountain glaciers - more frequent than thought? (2021, The Cryosphere)
  • Loss and Damage and limits to adaptation: recent IPCC insights and implications for climate science and policy (2020, Sustainability Science)
  • 70 years of lake evolution and glacial lake outburst floods in the Cordillera Blanca (Peru) and implications for the future (2020, Geomorphology)
  • Future Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) hazard of the South Lhonak Lake, Sikkim Himalaya (2021, Geomorphology)

Best Publications

  • Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment.

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Neville Nicholls;David Easterling;Clare M. Goodess

  • The state and fate of Himalayan glaciers

    Tobias Bolch;Tobias Bolch;A Kulkarni;Andreas Kääb;Christian Huggel;Christian Huggel

  • A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya

    D. H. Shugar;M. Jacquemart;M. Jacquemart;M. Jacquemart;D. Shean;S. Bhushan

  • Current state of glaciers in the tropical Andes: a multi-century perspective on glacier evolution and climate change

    A. Rabatel;Bernard Francou;A. Soruco;J. Gomez

  • Remote sensing based assessment of hazards from glacier lake outbursts: a case study in the Swiss Alps

    Christian Huggel;Andreas Kääb;Wilfried Haeberli;Philippe Teysseire

  • Combining satellite multispectral image data and a digital elevation model for mapping debris-covered glaciers

    Frank Paul;Christian Huggel;Andreas Kääb

  • Toward mountains without permanent snow and ice

    Matthias Huss;Matthias Huss;B Bookhagen;Christian Huggel;Dean Jacobsen

  • Is climate change responsible for changing landslide activity in high mountains

    Christian Huggel;John J. Clague;Oliver Korup

  • Increasing risks related to landslides from degrading permafrost into new lakes in de-glaciating mountain ranges

    Wilfried Haeberli;Yvonne Schaub;Christian Huggel

  • An assessment procedure for glacial hazards in the Swiss Alps

    Christian Huggel;Wilfried Haeberli;Andreas Kääb;Daniel Bieri

  • Climate Change and the Global Pattern of Moraine-Dammed Glacial Lake Outburst Floods

    Stephan Harrison;Jeffrey S. Kargel;Christian Huggel;John M. Reynolds

  • Effects of climate change on mass movements in mountain environments

    Markus Stoffel;Christian Huggel

  • Rapid decline of snow and ice in the tropical Andes – Impacts, uncertainties and challenges ahead

    Mathias Vuille;Mark Carey;Christian Huggel;Wouter Buytaert

  • The 2002 rock/ice avalanche at Kolka/Karmadon, Russian Caucasus: assessment of extraordinary avalanche formation and mobility, and application of QuickBird satellite imagery

    C. Huggel;S. Zgraggen-Oswald;W. Haeberli;A. Kääb

  • Massive collapse of two glaciers in western Tibet in 2016 after surge-like instability

    Andreas Kääb;Silvan Leinss;Adrien Gilbert;Yves Bühler

  • Remote sensing of glacier- and permafrost-related hazards in high mountains: an overview

    A. Kääb;C. Huggel;L. Fischer;S. Guex

  • Estimating the volume of glaciers in the Himalayan–Karakoram region using different methods

    H. Frey;Horst Machguth;Matthias Huss;C. Huggel

  • Lake outburst and debris flow disaster at Kedarnath, June 2013: hydrometeorological triggering and topographic predisposition

    Simon Keith Allen;Simon Keith Allen;P. Rastner;M. Arora;C. Huggel

  • Glacial lakes in the Indian Himalayas — From an area-wide glacial lake inventory to on-site and modeling based risk assessment of critical glacial lakes

    Raphaël Philipp Worni;Raphaël Philipp Worni;Christian Huggel;Christian Huggel;Markus Stoffel;Markus Stoffel

  • An integrated socio-environmental framework for glacier hazard management and climate change adaptation: lessons from Lake 513, Cordillera Blanca, Peru

    Mark Carey;Christian Huggel;Jeffrey Bury;César Portocarrero

Frequent Co-Authors

Nadine Salzmann
Nadine Salzmann University of Fribourg
Holger Frey
Holger Frey University of Zurich
Wilfried Haeberli
Wilfried Haeberli University of Zurich
Andreas Kääb
Andreas Kääb University of Oslo
Markus Stoffel
Markus Stoffel University of Geneva
Frank Paul
Frank Paul University of Zurich
Brian W. McArdell
Brian W. McArdell Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Jeffrey S. Kargel
Jeffrey S. Kargel Planetary Science Institute
Oliver Korup
Oliver Korup University of Potsdam
Adam Emmer
Adam Emmer University of Graz

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