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Michael Krautblatter is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research predominantly spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Engineering, focusing on specialized subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials, and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.

The scientist's work centers on several main topics, including:

  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis
  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling

Michael Krautblatter has contributed extensively to multiple publication venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Earth Surface Dynamics
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Near Surface Geophysics
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Geomechanics and Tunnelling

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored include:

  • Current glacier recession causes significant rockfall increase: the immediate paraglacial response of deglaciating cirque walls, 2020, Earth Surface Dynamics
  • A temperature-dependent mechanical model to assess the stability of degrading permafrost rock slopes, 2021, Earth Surface Dynamics
  • A 6-year lidar survey reveals enhanced rockwall retreat and modified rockfall magnitudes/frequencies in deglaciating cirques, 2020, Earth Surface Dynamics
  • Permafrost in monitored unstable rock slopes in Norway - new insights from temperature and surface velocity measurements, geophysical surveying, and ground temperature modelling, 2022, Earth Surface Dynamics
  • 4D quantification of alpine permafrost degradation in steep rock walls using a laboratory-calibrated electrical resistivity tomography approach, 2021, Near Surface Geophysics

Michael Krautblatter's research collaborations include frequent co-authors such as:

  • Samuel Weber
  • Markus Keuschnig
  • Benjamin Jacobs
  • Johannes Leinauer
  • Riccardo Scandroglio

Best Publications

  • Why permafrost rocks become unstable: a rock-ice-mechanical model in time and space

    Michael Krautblatter;Daniel Funk;Friederike K. Günzel

  • Mountain permafrost: development and challenges of a young research field

    Wilfried Haeberli;Jeannette Noetzli;Lukas Arenson;Reynald Delaloye

  • Ice Loss and Slope Stability in High-Mountain Regions

    Philip Deline;Stephan Gruber;Reynald Delaloye;Luzia Fischer

  • Temperature‐calibrated imaging of seasonal changes in permafrost rock walls by quantitative electrical resistivity tomography (Zugspitze, German/Austrian Alps)

    Michael Krautblatter;Sarah Verleysdonk;Adrián Flores-Orozco;Andreas Kemna

  • A two-phase mechanical model for rock-ice avalanches

    Shiva P. Pudasaini;Michael Krautblatter

  • Electrical resistivity tomography monitoring of permafrost in solid rock walls

    Michael Krautblatter;Christian Hauck

  • Debris flow-dominated and rockfall-dominated talus slopes: Genetic models derived from GPR measurements

    Oliver Sass;Michael Krautblatter

  • Quantifying Rock Fatigue and Decreasing Compressive and Tensile Strength after Repeated Freeze‐Thaw Cycles

    Hailiang Jia;Hailiang Jia;Wei Xiang;Michael Krautblatter

  • The mechanics of landslide mobility with erosion.

    Shiva P. Pudasaini;Shiva P. Pudasaini;Michael Krautblatter

  • State of the art in rockfall – forest interactions

    Luuk Dorren;Frédéric Berger;Martin J. Jonsson;Michael Krautblatter

  • A nonlinear model coupling rockfall and rainfall intensity based ewline on a four year measurement in a high Alpine rock wall (Reintal, German Alps)

    M. Krautblatter;M. Moser

  • The Efficacy of Frost Weathering Processes in Alpine Rockwalls

    Daniel Draebing;Daniel Draebing;Michael Krautblatter

  • TOWARDS A UNIFORM CONCEPT FOR THE COMPARISON AND EXTRAPOLATION OF ROCKWALL RETREAT AND ROCKFALL SUPPLY

    Michael Krautblatter;Richard Dikau

  • Significance of rockfall magnitude and carbonate dissolution for rock slope erosion and geomorphic work on Alpine limestone cliffs (Reintal, German Alps)

    M. Krautblatter;M. Krautblatter;M. Moser;L. Schrott;J. Wolf

  • P-wave velocity changes in freezing hard low-porosity rocks: a laboratory-based time-average model

    D. Draebing;M. Krautblatter

  • Current glacier recession causes significant rockfall increase: the immediate paraglacial response of deglaciating cirque walls

    Ingo Hartmeyer;Robert Delleske;Markus Keuschnig;Michael Krautblatter

  • Biogeomorphic interactions in the Turtmann glacier forefield, Switzerland

    Jana Eichel;Michael Krautblatter;Sebastian Schmidtlein;Richard Dikau

  • Thermo-cryogenic controls of fracture kinematics in permafrost rockwalls

    D. Draebing;M. Krautblatter;T. Hoffmann

  • Ice loss from glaciers and permafrost and related slope instability in high-mountain regions

    Philip Deline;Stephan Gruber;Florian Amann;Xavier Bodin

  • From geotechnical analysis to quantification and modelling using LiDAR data: a study on rockfall in the Reintal catchment, Bavarian Alps, Germany

    Tobias Heckmann;Martin Bimböse;Michael Krautblatter;Florian Haas

  • Research Perspectives on Unstable High‐alpine Bedrock Permafrost: Measurement, Modelling and Process Understanding

    Michael Krautblatter;Christian Huggel;Philip Deline;Andreas Hasler

  • Interaction of thermal and mechanical processes in steep permafrost rock walls: A conceptual approach

    D. Draebing;M. Krautblatter;R. Dikau

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan Gruber
Stephan Gruber Carleton University
Hugues Lantuit
Hugues Lantuit University of Potsdam
Andreas Kemna
Andreas Kemna University of Bonn
Julian B. Murton
Julian B. Murton University of Sussex
Daniel Straub
Daniel Straub Technical University of Munich
Reynald Delaloye
Reynald Delaloye University of Fribourg
Bernd Etzelmüller
Bernd Etzelmüller University of Oslo
Flavio S. Anselmetti
Flavio S. Anselmetti University of Bern
Wayne H. Pollard
Wayne H. Pollard McGill University
Sebastian Westermann
Sebastian Westermann University of Oslo

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