Brief communication: Combining borehole temperature, borehole piezometer and cross-borehole electrical resistivity tomography measurements to investigate seasonal changes in ice-rich mountain permafrost

Phillips, Marcia; Buchli, Chasper; Weber, Samuel; Boaga, Jacopo; Pavoni, Mirko; Bast, Alexander

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-753-2023

Articles | Volume 17, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-753-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-753-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 2

Brief communication

|

14 Feb 2023

Brief communication |

| 14 Feb 2023

Brief communication: Combining borehole temperature, borehole piezometer and cross-borehole electrical resistivity tomography measurements to investigate seasonal changes in ice-rich mountain permafrost

Marcia Phillips, Chasper Buchli, Samuel Weber, Jacopo Boaga, Mirko Pavoni, and Alexander Bast

Data sets

PERMOS Database, Swiss Permafrost Monitoring Network, Fribourg and Davos, Switzerland PERMOS https://doi.org/10.13093/permos-2022-01

Short summary

A new combination of temperature, water pressure and cross-borehole electrical resistivity data is used to investigate ice/water contents in an ice-rich rock glacier. The landform is close to 0°C and has locally heterogeneous characteristics, ice/water contents and temperatures. The techniques presented continuously monitor temporal and spatial phase changes to a depth of 12 m and provide the basis for a better understanding of accelerating rock glacier movements and future water availability.