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Earth Science

D-Index
41
Citations
6682
World Ranking
5501
National Ranking
403

Best Publications

  • Global glacier mass changes and their contributions to sea-level rise from 1961 to 2016

    Michael Zemp;Matthias Huss;E Thibert;N Eckert

  • The European mountain cryosphere: a review of its current state, trends, and future challenges

    Martin Beniston;Daniel Farinotti;Daniel Farinotti;Markus Stoffel;Liss M. Andreassen

  • Climate warming enhances snow avalanche risk in the Western Himalayas.

    J. A. Ballesteros-Cánovas;D. Trappmann;J. Madrigal-González;J. Madrigal-González;N. Eckert

  • Glaciological and volumetric mass-balance measurements: error analysis over 51 years for Glacier de Sarennes, French Alps

    Emmanuel Thibert;R. Blanc;Christian Vincent;Nicolas Eckert

  • Climate response to the Samalas volcanic eruption in 1257 revealed by proxy records

    Sébastien Guillet;Christophe Corona;Markus Stoffel;Myriam Khodri

  • Changes in glacier equilibrium-line altitude in the western Alps from 1984 to 2010: evaluation by remote sensing and modeling of the morpho-topographic and climate controls

    A. Rabatel;A. Letréguilly;J.P. Dedieu;Nicolas Eckert

  • Projected changes of snow conditions and avalanche activity in a warming climate: the French Alps over the 2020–2050 and 2070–2100 periods

    H. Castebrunet;H. Castebrunet;H. Castebrunet;N. Eckert;G. Giraud;Y. Durand

  • Temporal trends in avalanche activity in the French Alps and subregions: from occurrences and runout altitudes to unsteady return periods

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  • Uncertainty Analysis of Digital Elevation Models by Spatial Inference From Stable Terrain

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  • Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023

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  • Multi-component ensembles of future meteorological and natural snow conditions for 1500 m altitude in the Chartreuse mountain range, Northern French Alps

    Deborah Verfaillie;Matthieu Lafaysse;Michel Déqué;Nicolas Eckert

  • Dense avalanche friction coefficients: influence of physical properties of snow

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  • Snow and weather climatic control on snow avalanche occurrence fluctuations over 50 yr in the French Alps

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  • Mapping extreme snowfalls in the French Alps using max-stable processes

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  • Long-term avalanche hazard assessment with a Bayesian depth-averaged propagation model

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  • A spatio-temporal modelling framework for assessing the fluctuations of avalanche occurrence resulting from climate change: application to 60 years of data in the northern French Alps

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  • Climate controls on snow reliability in French Alps ski resorts.

    P. Spandre;H. François;Deborah Verfaillie;M. Lafaysse

  • Bayesian stochastic modelling for avalanche predetermination: from a general system framework to return period computations

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  • Rainfall control of debris-flow triggering in the Réal Torrent, Southern French Prealps

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  • Assessing the effects of earlier snow melt-out on Alpine shrub growth: the sooner the better?

    Loïc Francon;Christophe Corona;I. Till-Bottraud;P. Choler

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel Morin
Samuel Morin Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Christophe Corona
Christophe Corona Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Markus Stoffel
Markus Stoffel University of Geneva
Matthias Huss
Matthias Huss University of Fribourg
Vincent Jomelli
Vincent Jomelli Aix-Marseille University
Matthieu Lafaysse
Matthieu Lafaysse Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques
Horst Machguth
Horst Machguth University of Fribourg
Frank Paul
Frank Paul University of Zurich
Michael Zemp
Michael Zemp University of Zurich
Michel Déqué
Michel Déqué Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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