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Research article
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18 Mar 2019
Research article |
| 18 Mar 2019
| 18 Mar 2019
Resolving the influence of temperature forcing through heat conduction on rock glacier dynamics: a numerical modelling approach
Alessandro Cicoira
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Jan Beutel
Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Jérome Faillettaz
Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Isabelle Gärtner-Roer
Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Andreas Vieli
Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Short summary
Rock glacier flow varies on multiple timescales. The variations have been linked to climatic forcing, but a quantitative understanding is still missing.
We use a 1-D numerical modelling approach coupling heat conduction to a creep model in order to study the influence of temperature variations on rock glacier flow. Our results show that heat conduction alone cannot explain the observed variations. Other processes, likely linked to water, must dominate the short-term velocity signal.
Rock glacier flow varies on multiple timescales. The variations have been linked to climatic...
