{"id":79253,"date":"2025-03-05T14:56:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T13:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geographie.nat.fau.de\/?page_id=79253"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:49:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:49:53","slug":"ag-gletscher-fuerst","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.geographie.nat.fau.de\/en\/ag-gletscher-fuerst\/","title":{"rendered":"JRG Glacier Systems & Natural Hazards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Worldwide glacier retreat is increasingly tangible and the associated ice-loss has dominated the cryospheric contribution to sea-level change for many decades. Therefore, the interest of the Glacier Systems & Natural Hazards Group is to understand and describe processes that control glacier evolution in the past and future.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The anticipated glacier retreat calls for an appropriate assessment of glacier-related risks such as seasonal water availability, flank instabilities and glacial lake outburst floods. Adequate modelling strategies therefore require a holistic view on the whole glacier system including hydrologic, geomorphologic and atmospheric processes. We consider processes such as iceberg calving, meltwater routing beneath glaciers, debris flows as well as insulation of permafrost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group further pursues the vision of a systematic utilisation of the rapidly growing body of information from satellite remote sensing to maximise the information flow into geophysical models. In this way, we hope to better constrain unknown parameters such as basal friction, calving or the basal topography. Ultimately the purpose is to increase the confidence in transient simulations of glacier evolution for the past and future. Applications reach from single glaciers to regional studies as well as to ice-sheet wide scales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, we are ice-loving scientists and we consider ourselves supportive and friendly people.<\/p>\n\n\n

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