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Marcel Hürlimann is affiliated with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Spain. Their body of research centers primarily on environmental science, engineering, and earth and planetary sciences, with a significant focus on landslides and related hazards. Their work also spans areas including cryospheric studies and observations, flood risk assessment and management, soil erosion and sediment transport, fire effects on ecosystems, geotechnical engineering and analysis, and tree root and stability studies.

Hürlimann has contributed extensively to scientific literature, with recent papers covering regional and future climate impacts on landslide susceptibility. Notable publications include:

  • Fast physically-based model for rainfall-induced landslide susceptibility assessment at regional scale, 2021, CATENA
  • Impacts of future climate and land cover changes on landslide susceptibility: regional scale modelling in the Val d'Aran region (Pyrenees, Spain), 2021, Landslides
  • Shallow landslide susceptibility assessment under future climate and land cover changes: A case study from southwest China, 2023, Geoscience Frontiers
  • FSLAM: A QGIS plugin for fast regional susceptibility assessment of rainfall-induced landslides, 2022, Environmental Modelling & Software
  • Influence of the mapping unit for regional landslide early warning systems: comparison between pixels and polygons in Catalonia (NE Spain), 2020, Landslides

Their frequent co-authors include Vicente Medina, Càrol Puig i Polo, Zizheng Guo, Silvia Cocuccioni, and Philipp Marr, indicating ongoing collaborative work within the disciplines of environmental hazard assessment and geotechnical research.

Marcel Hürlimann's publications are often featured in journals dedicated to environmental and geoscientific research. The most common venues include:

  • Landslides
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • CATENA
  • Environmental Modelling & Software
  • Water

Their research also covers several subfields, particularly management, monitoring, policy and law, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, soil science, and civil and structural engineering. This breadth provides a multidisciplinary approach that integrates modeling, monitoring, and policy considerations related to landslide phenomena and environmental hazards.

Best Publications

  • Field and monitoring data of debris-flow events in the Swiss Alps

    M Hürlimann;D Rickenmann;C Graf

  • Application of FLATModel, a 2D finite volume code, to debris flows in the northeastern part of the Iberian Peninsula

    Vicente Medina;Marcel Hürlimann;Allen Bateman

  • Debris-flow monitoring and warning: review and examples

    Marcel Hürlimann;Velio Coviello;Coraline Bel;Xiaojun Guo

  • Vertical and lateral collapses on Tenerife (Canary Islands) and other volcanic ocean islands

    Joan Martí;Marcel Hurlimann;Giray J. Ablay;Agust Gudmundsson

  • Evaluation of approaches to calculate debris-flow parameters for hazard assessment

    Marcel Hürlimann;Dieter Rickenmann;Vicente Medina;Allen Bateman

  • Detailed debris flow hazard assessment in Andorra: A multidisciplinary approach

    Marcel Hürlimann;Ramon Copons;Joan Altimir

  • Fast physically-based model for rainfall-induced landslide susceptibility assessment at regional scale

    Vicente Medina;Marcel Hürlimann;Zizheng Guo;Zizheng Guo;Antonio Lloret

  • Evolution of the north flank of Tenerife by recurrent giant landslides

    G Ablay;M Hürlimann

  • Field and laboratory analysis of the runout characteristics of hillslope debris flows in Switzerland

    Marcel Hürlimann;Brian W. McArdell;Christian Rickli

  • Relation between land cover and landslide susceptibility in Val d'Aran, Pyrenees (Spain): historical aspects, present situation and forward prediction

    Heping Shu;Marcel Hürlimann;Roberto Molowny-Horas;Marta González

  • Impacts of future climate and land cover changes on landslide susceptibility: regional scale modelling in the Val d’Aran region (Pyrenees, Spain)

    Marcel Hürlimann;Zizheng Guo;Zizheng Guo;Carol Puig-Polo;Vicente Medina

  • Geotechnical classification and characterisation of materials for stability analyses of large volcanic slopes

    Rodrigo del Potro;Marcel Hürlimann

  • Results and experiences gathered at the Rebaixader debris-flow monitoring site, Central Pyrenees, Spain

    M. Hürlimann;C. Abancó;J. Moya;I. Vilajosana

  • FSLAM: A QGIS plugin for fast regional susceptibility assessment of rainfall-induced landslides

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  • Shallow landslide susceptibility assessment under future climate and land cover changes: A case study from southwest China

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  • The decrease in the shear strength of volcanic materials with argillic hydrothermal alteration, insights from the summit region of Teide stratovolcano, Tenerife

    Rodrigo del Potro;Marcel Hürlimann

  • Characterisation of a volcanic residual soil and its implications for large landslide phenomena : application to Tenerife, Canary Islands

    M Hürlimann;M Hürlimann;A Ledesma;J Martı́

  • Causes and mobility of large volcanic landslides: application to Tenerife, Canary Islands

    M. Hürlimann;M. Hürlimann;J.O. Garcia-Piera;A. Ledesma

  • Critical rainfall conditions for the initiation of torrential flows: results from the Rebaixader catchment (Central Pyrenees)

    Clàudia Abancó;Marcel Hürlimann;José Moya;Marc Berenguer

  • Conditions favouring catastrophic landslides on Tenerife (Canary Islands)

    M. Hürlimann;A. Ledesma;J. Martí

  • Morphological and geological aspects related to large slope failures on oceanic islands: The huge La Orotava landslides on Tenerife, Canary Islands

    Marcel Hürlimann;Joan Martı́;Alberto Ledesma

  • The deep-seated slope deformation at Encampadana, Andorra: Representation of morphologic features by numerical modelling

    Marcel Hürlimann;Alberto Ledesma;Jordi Corominas;Pere C. Prat

Frequent Co-Authors

Dieter Rickenmann
Dieter Rickenmann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Joan Martí
Joan Martí Spanish National Research Council
Brian W. McArdell
Brian W. McArdell Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Jordi Corominas
Jordi Corominas Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Jens M. Turowski
Jens M. Turowski University of Potsdam
Harry Pinkerton
Harry Pinkerton Lancaster University
Marco Borga
Marco Borga University of Padua
Jonathan J. Gourley
Jonathan J. Gourley National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Massimiliano Zappa
Massimiliano Zappa Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

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