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Martin Mergili

Martin Mergili

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Earth Science

D-Index
35
Citations
4899
World Ranking
7580
National Ranking
39

Overview

Martin Mergili is affiliated with BOKU University in Austria and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Engineering. Their research focuses on areas such as landslides and related hazards, cryospheric studies and observations, flood risk assessment and management, hydrology and sediment transport processes, climate change and permafrost, geotechnical engineering and analysis, and soil and unsaturated flow.

Mergili's recent publications encompass key topics in natural hazards and earth science. Notable papers include:

  • A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya (2021, Science)
  • Back calculation of the 2017 Piz Cengalo-Bondo landslide cascade with r.avaflow: what we can do and what we can learn (2020, Natural hazards and earth system sciences)
  • Reconstruction of the 1941 GLOF process chain at Lake Palcacocha (Cordillera Blanca, Peru) (2020, Hydrology and earth system sciences)
  • 70 years of lake evolution and glacial lake outburst floods in the Cordillera Blanca (Peru) and implications for the future (2020, Geomorphology)
  • The 2020 glacial lake outburst flood at Jinwuco, Tibet: causes, impacts, and implications for hazard and risk assessment (2021, The Cryosphere)

Their work has been published frequently in the following venues:

  • Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Geomorphology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Landslides
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface

Among frequent collaborators are:

  • Adam Emmer
  • Shiva P. Pudasaini
  • Simon Allen
  • Holger Frey
  • Pedro Lima

Mergili has also contributed to academic book publications, including the title "NoeMOTION" released by Springer International Publishing in 2024. This adds to their profile as an active contributor to both journal articles and scholarly books in their fields of expertise.

The subfields of study they focus on include management, monitoring, policy and law, atmospheric science, global and planetary change, civil and structural engineering, and ecology. This multidisciplinary approach supports an integrated perspective on environmental hazards and earth system processes.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • r.avaflow v1, an advanced open-source computational framework for the propagation and interaction of two-phase mass flows

    Martin Mergili;Martin Mergili;Jan-Thomas Fischer;Julia Krenn;Shiva P. Pudasaini

  • A Multi???Phase Mass Flow Model

    Shiva P. Pudasaini;Martin Mergili;Martin Mergili

  • Back calculation of the 2017 Piz Cengalo–Bondo landslide cascade with r.avaflow: what we can do and what we can learn

    Martin Mergili;Michel Jaboyedoff;José Pullarello;Shiva P. Pudasaini

  • 882 lakes of the Cordillera Blanca: An inventory, classification, evolution and assessment of susceptibility to outburst floods

    Adam Emmer;Adam Emmer;Jan Klimeš;Martin Mergili;Martin Mergili;Vít Vilímek

  • How well can we simulate complex hydro-geomorphic process chains? The 2012 multi-lake outburst flood in the Santa Cruz Valley (Cordillera Blanca, Perú).

    Martin Mergili;Martin Mergili;Adam Emmer;Adam Emmer;Anna Juřicová;Alejo Cochachin

  • Comparative analysis of statistical methods for landslide susceptibility mapping in the Bostanlik District, Uzbekistan.

    Mukhiddin Juliev;Martin Mergili;Ismail Mondal;Bakhtiar Nurtaev

  • Spatially distributed three-dimensional slope stability modelling in a raster GIS

    Martin Mergili;Ivan Marchesini;Mauro Rossi;Fausto Guzzetti

  • Interaction of two-phase debris flow with obstacles

    Parameshwari Kattel;Parameshwari Kattel;Jeevan Kafle;Jeevan Kafle;Jan-Thomas Fischer;Martin Mergili;Martin Mergili

  • Regional-scale analysis of lake outburst hazards in the southwestern Pamir, Tajikistan, based on remote sensing and GIS

    M. Mergili;J. F. Schneider

  • Reconstruction of the 1941 GLOF process chain at Lake Palcacocha (Cordillera Blanca, Peru)

    Martin Mergili;Shiva P. Pudasaini;Adam Emmer;Jan-Thomas Fischer

  • Spatio-temporal development of high-mountain lakes in the headwaters of the Amu Darya River (Central Asia)

    Martin Mergili;Johannes P. Müller;Jean F. Schneider

  • Computational experiments on the 1962 and 1970 landslide events at Huascarán (Peru) with r.avaflow: Lessons learned for predictive mass flow simulations

    Martin Mergili;Martin Mergili;Bernhard Frank;Jan-Thomas Fischer;Christian Huggel

  • A strategy for GIS-based 3-D slope stability modelling over large areas

    M. Mergili;I. Marchesini;M. Alvioli;M. Metz

  • Progress and challenges in glacial lake outburst flood research (2017–2021): a research community perspective

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  • The 2020 glacial lake outburst flood at Jinwuco, Tibet: causes, impacts, and implications for hazard and risk assessment

    Guoxiong Zheng;Guoxiong Zheng;Martin Mergili;Adam Emmer;Simon Allen;Simon Allen

  • 70 years of lake evolution and glacial lake outburst floods in the Cordillera Blanca (Peru) and implications for the future

    Adam Emmer;Stephan Harrison;Martin Mergili;Martin Mergili;Simon Allen

  • Characteristics and changes of glacial lakes and outburst floods

    Unknown

  • 160 glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) across the Tropical Andes since the Little Ice Age

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  • Regional-scale analysis of high-mountain multi-hazard and risk indicators in the Pamir (Tajikistan) with GRASS GIS

    F. E. Gruber;M. Mergili

  • Spatiotemporal patterns of high-mountain lakes and related hazards in western Austria

    Adam Emmer;Adam Emmer;Adam Emmer;Sarah Merkl;Martin Mergili;Martin Mergili

  • Physically-based modelling of granular flows with Open Source GIS

    M. Mergili;K. Schratz;A. Ostermann;W. Fellin

  • Advances in the simulation of debris flow erosion: The case study of the Rio Gere (Italy) event of the 4th August 2017

    Tommaso Baggio;Martin Mergili;Martin Mergili;Vincenzo D'Agostino

  • A mechanical erosion model for two-phase mass flows: Tackling a long standing dilemma of mass mobility

    Jan-Thomas Fischer;Shiva P. Pudasaini;Martin Mergili

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam Emmer
Adam Emmer University of Graz
Thomas Glade
Thomas Glade University of Vienna
Christian Huggel
Christian Huggel University of Zurich
Fausto Guzzetti
Fausto Guzzetti Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR
Holger Frey
Holger Frey University of Zurich
Simon J. Allen
Simon J. Allen University of Zurich
Mauro Cardinali
Mauro Cardinali National Research Council (CNR)
Alexander Ostermann
Alexander Ostermann University of Innsbruck
Gilles Grandjean
Gilles Grandjean French Geological Survey
Markus Stoffel
Markus Stoffel University of Geneva

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