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

M Beniston, D Farinotti, M Stoffel, LM Andreassen… - The …, 2018 - tc.copernicus.org
The mountain cryosphere of mainland Europe is recognized to have important impacts on a
range of environmental processes. In this paper, we provide an overview on the current …

Interpreting historical, botanical, and geological evidence to aid preparations for future floods

B Wilhelm, JA Ballesteros Cánovas… - Wiley …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
River flooding is among the most destructive of natural hazards globally, causing
widespread loss of life, damage to infrastructure and economic deprivation. Societies are …

Climate warming enhances snow avalanche risk in the Western Himalayas

JA Ballesteros-Cánovas… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Ongoing climate warming has been demonstrated to impact the cryosphere in the Indian
Himalayas, with substantial consequences for the risk of disasters, human well-being, and …

Dendroecological dating of geomorphic disturbance in trees

M Stoffel, C Corona - Tree-ring research, 2014 - BioOne
The initial employment of tree rings in geomorphic studies was simply as a dating tool and
only rarely were other environmental information and records of damage contained within …

Climate change impacts on snow avalanche activity and related risks

N Eckert, C Corona, F Giacona, J Gaume… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
In the rapidly evolving mountain cryosphere, snow avalanches threaten livelihoods,
settlements and infrastructure. In this Review, we analyse past and projected impacts of …

A review of flood records from tree rings

JA Ballesteros-Cánovas, M Stoffel… - Progress in …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Palaeohydrology is now recognized as a valuable approach to characterize the hazards
posed by flooding. Tree rings have emerged as an important source of evidence for …

Mass movements and tree rings: A guide to dendrogeomorphic field sampling and dating

M Stoffel, DR Butler, C Corona - Geomorphology, 2013 - Elsevier
Trees affected by mass movements record the evidence of geomorphic disturbance in the
growth-ring series, and thereby provide a precise geochronological tool for the …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying and interpreting regional signals in tree-ring based reconstructions of snow avalanche activity in the Goms valley (Swiss Alps)

A Favillier, S Guillet, J Lopez-Saez, F Giacona… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
One of the purposes of dendrogeomorphic studies is to provide long and continuous
reconstructions of mass movements and to detect climate-induced trends in process activity …

Climate drivers of large magnitude snow avalanche years in the US northern Rocky Mountains

EH Peitzsch, GT Pederson, KW Birkeland, J Hendrikx… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Large magnitude snow avalanches pose a hazard to humans and infrastructure worldwide.
Analyzing the spatiotemporal behavior of avalanches and the contributory climate factors is …

Impacts of age-dependent tree sensitivity and dating approaches on dendrogeomorphic time series of landslides

K Šilhán, M Stoffel - Geomorphology, 2015 - Elsevier
Different approaches and thresholds have been utilized in the past to date landslides with
growth ring series of disturbed trees. Past work was mostly based on conifer species …