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Swiss glacier monitoring network

Glacier Hazards
Inventory of hazardous glaciers in Switzerland

Live pictures from swiss glaciers

Weekly Glaciology Seminar

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Ongoing Projects

Accelerated release of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from Alpine glaciers
ACQWA Project (Assessing Climate impacts on the Quantity and quality of WAter)
Future glacier evolution and consequences for the hydrology (FUGE)
Glaciological Investigations at Glacier du Giétro and Glacier de Corbassière
Hazard assessment investigations in connection with the formation of a lake on the tongue of the Unterer Grindelwaldgletscher, Bernese Alps, Switzerland
Klimaänderung und Hydrologie (Projekt CCHydro)
Mass Balance Studies on Griesgletscher and Silvrettagletscher
Monitoring Changes of Allalingletscher in Connection with the Danger of Large Ice Falls from its Tongue
Subglacial Controls on the Short Term Dynamics at the Margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Subglacial Controls on the Short Term Dynamics at the Margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet: Seismic experiments
Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network
The impact of proglacial lakes on the retreat of mountain glaciers: Rhonegletscher, Switzerland
Understanding the causes and future direction of the present rapid thinning of Jakobshavn Isbræ, Greenland
Variations of Grosser Aletschgletscher
Wasserkraft Wallis (Projekt WWK)
Zukunft der Wasserkraft für Stauanlagen der ALPIQ

Archived Projects

3-D Pattern of Stress and Velocity in Glaciers: Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland
BigLink: Biosphere-Geosphere interactions: Linking climate change, weathering, soil formation and ecosystem evolution
Calving of Tidewater Glaciers
Collaborative Research on the Basal Motion of Glaciers: Field Studies of Debris/Bed Friction and Bed Deformation, Engabreen, Norway
Effects of Climatic Fluctuations on Runoff Production and Water Resources Management in highly glacierized Alpine Basins
Flow Modeling of Alpine and Rock Glaciers
Flow Modelling of a Temperate Ice Cap: Vatnajökull, Iceland
Flow-Modelling of Firn-Covered Cold Glaciers
Geophysical Methods for Detecting Permafrost in High Mountains
Glacier Outburst Floods: A Study of the Processes controlling the Drainage of Glacier-dammed Lakes
Glaciological and Hydraulic Investigations in Connection with the Danger of Ice Avalanches falling in a recently formed Proglacial Lake
Glaciological Investigations for the Construction of a Chair Lift on a Glacier
Ice-Bed Coupling of Sediment-Based Glaciers: a Laboratory Study of Basal Processes
Inventory of Hazardous Glaciers in Switzerland
Inverting ice dynamics from internal structures
Mass Balance Determination using Photogrammetric Methods and Numerical Flow Modeling
Measurements and Modeling of the Internal Ice Deformation of an Alpine Glacier: Unteraargletscher, Switzerland
Mechanisms of Fast Flow in Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland
Modeling of the Destabilization of Ice Chunks in Hanging Glaciers.
Modelling the Flow and Englacial Temperatures on a Cold Firn covered Glacier: Colle Gnifetti, Monte Rosa
Numerical Modelling Investigations of the Conditions under the Southern Laurentide Ice Sheet
Participative Procedure for the Risk Management of Glacier Hazards
Permafrost Changes in Rock Walls
Permafrost Distribution in Eastern Tibet: Variation of the Active Layer Thickness and its Effect on the Soil Drought
Permafrost Temperature Monitoring in Alpine Rock Walls: Borehole Temperature Measurement in the East Ridge of Jungfrau
Regional differences of mass balance and their impact on the past and future evolution of glaciers in Switzerland
The Basal Boundary Condition of an Alpine Glacier: a Hydro-Mechanical Approach, Unteraargletscher, Switzerland
The Role of Basal Control on the Flow of the Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica: an Inverse Modeling Approach
Unstable Alpine Permafrost: a potentially important Natural Hazard - Boreholes in Permafrost: Internal Structure, Monitoring and Modelling
 

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