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Our team member Manu Tom published a paper about ice trends using Machine Learning! Depleting lake ice is a climate change indicator, just like sea-level rise or glacial retreat. Monitoring Lake Ice Phenology (LIP) is useful because long-term freezing and thawing patterns serve as sentinels to understand regional and global climate change. We report a […]

Our team member, Alina Motschmann, just published a paper from her PhD project in Geoenvironmental Disasters: “Towards integrated assessments of water risks in deglaciating mountain areas: water scarcity and GLOF risk in the Peruvian Andes“. Alina and her co-authors, Christian Huggel, Randy Muñoz and Angela Thür, assessed water scarcity and glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs) […]

In a recent study published in Climatic Change, Alina Motschmann, Christian Huggel, Randy Muñoz, and co-authors quantified loss and damage in the Cordillera Blanca, the largest and highest mountain range of Peru, now and under future scenarios. Using various methods such as literature review, glacial lake outburst flood, and hydrologic modeling, the authors analyzed impacts […]

In a recent study published in Geomorphology, Adam Emmer and co-authors assessed the evolution of glacial lakes in the Cordillera Blance in Peru during a 70-year period and investigated the links to glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs). The publication is a result of a research stay of Adam Emmer from Czech Academy of Sciences in […]