Modelling rock wall permafrost degradation in the Mont Blanc massif from the LIA to the end of the 21st century.
22 pages International audience High alpine rock wall permafrost is extremely sensitive to climate change. Its degradation has a strong impact on landscape evolution and can trigger rockfalls constituting an increasing threat to socio-economical activities of highly frequented areas; quantitative un...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-01576217v1 2023-05-15T16:37:12+02:00 Modelling rock wall permafrost degradation in the Mont Blanc massif from the LIA to the end of the 21st century. Magnin, Florence Josnin, Jean-Yves Ravanel, Ludovic Pergaud, Julien Pohl, Benjamin Deline, Philip Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de la Montagne (EDYTEM) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry ) Biogéosciences UMR 6282 Dijon (BGS) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement Work founded by the EU Interreg V-A France-Italy ALCOTRA 2014-2020 no. 342 PrévRisk Haute Montagne project. ANR-14-CE03-0006,VIP-Mont-Blanc,VItesses des Processus contrôlant les évolutions morphologiques et environnementales du massif du Mont Blanc(2014) 2017-08-04 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01576217 https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1813-2017 en eng HAL CCSD Copernicus info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.5194/tc-11-1813-2017 hal-01576217 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01576217 doi:10.5194/tc-11-1813-2017 ISSN: 1994-0424 EISSN: 1994-0416 The Cryosphere https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01576217 The Cryosphere, Copernicus 2017, 11 (4), pp.1813-1834. ⟨10.5194/tc-11-1813-2017⟩ https://www.the-cryosphere.net/11/1813/2017/ [SDU.STU.GM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geomorphology [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology [SDU.STU.GL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology [SDE]Environmental Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2017 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1813-2017 2021-12-19T02:33:06Z 22 pages International audience High alpine rock wall permafrost is extremely sensitive to climate change. Its degradation has a strong impact on landscape evolution and can trigger rockfalls constituting an increasing threat to socio-economical activities of highly frequented areas; quantitative understanding of permafrost evolution is crucial for such communities. This study investigates the long-term evolution of permafrost in three vertical cross sections of rock wall sites between 3160 and 4300 m above sea level in the Mont Blanc massif, from the Little Ice Age (LIA) steady-state conditions to 2100. Simulations are forced with air temperature time series, including two contrasted air temperature scenarios for the 21st century representing possible lower and upper boundaries of future climate change according to the most recent models and climate change scenarios. The 2-D finite element model accounts for heat conduction and latent heat transfers, and the outputs for the current period (2010–2015) are evaluated against borehole temperature measurements and an electrical resistivity transect: permafrost conditions are remarkably well represented. Over the past two decades, permafrost has disappeared on faces with a southerly aspect up to 3300 m a.s.l. and possibly higher. Warm permafrost (i.e. > − 2 °C) has extended up to 3300 and 3850 m a.s.l. in N and S-exposed faces respectively. During the 21st century, warm permafrost is likely to extend at least up to 4300 m a.s.l. on S-exposed rock walls and up to 3850 m a.s.l. depth on the N-exposed faces. In the most pessimistic case, permafrost will disappear on the S-exposed rock walls at a depth of up to 4300 m a.s.l., whereas warm permafrost will extend at a depth of the N faces up to 3850 m a.s.l., but possibly disappearing at such elevation under the influence of a close S face. The results are site specific and extrapolation to other sites is limited by the imbrication of local topographical and transient effects. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice permafrost The Cryosphere Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Mont Blanc ENVELOPE(69.468,69.468,-49.461,-49.461) The Cryosphere 11 4 1813 1834 |
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22 pages International audience High alpine rock wall permafrost is extremely sensitive to climate change. Its degradation has a strong impact on landscape evolution and can trigger rockfalls constituting an increasing threat to socio-economical activities of highly frequented areas; quantitative understanding of permafrost evolution is crucial for such communities. This study investigates the long-term evolution of permafrost in three vertical cross sections of rock wall sites between 3160 and 4300 m above sea level in the Mont Blanc massif, from the Little Ice Age (LIA) steady-state conditions to 2100. Simulations are forced with air temperature time series, including two contrasted air temperature scenarios for the 21st century representing possible lower and upper boundaries of future climate change according to the most recent models and climate change scenarios. The 2-D finite element model accounts for heat conduction and latent heat transfers, and the outputs for the current period (2010–2015) are evaluated against borehole temperature measurements and an electrical resistivity transect: permafrost conditions are remarkably well represented. Over the past two decades, permafrost has disappeared on faces with a southerly aspect up to 3300 m a.s.l. and possibly higher. Warm permafrost (i.e. > − 2 °C) has extended up to 3300 and 3850 m a.s.l. in N and S-exposed faces respectively. During the 21st century, warm permafrost is likely to extend at least up to 4300 m a.s.l. on S-exposed rock walls and up to 3850 m a.s.l. depth on the N-exposed faces. In the most pessimistic case, permafrost will disappear on the S-exposed rock walls at a depth of up to 4300 m a.s.l., whereas warm permafrost will extend at a depth of the N faces up to 3850 m a.s.l., but possibly disappearing at such elevation under the influence of a close S face. The results are site specific and extrapolation to other sites is limited by the imbrication of local topographical and transient effects. |
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Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de la Montagne (EDYTEM) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry ) Biogéosciences UMR 6282 Dijon (BGS) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement Work founded by the EU Interreg V-A France-Italy ALCOTRA 2014-2020 no. 342 PrévRisk Haute Montagne project. ANR-14-CE03-0006,VIP-Mont-Blanc,VItesses des Processus contrôlant les évolutions morphologiques et environnementales du massif du Mont Blanc(2014) |
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Magnin, Florence Josnin, Jean-Yves Ravanel, Ludovic Pergaud, Julien Pohl, Benjamin Deline, Philip |
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Modelling rock wall permafrost degradation in the Mont Blanc massif from the LIA to the end of the 21st century. |
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Modelling rock wall permafrost degradation in the Mont Blanc massif from the LIA to the end of the 21st century. |
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Modelling rock wall permafrost degradation in the Mont Blanc massif from the LIA to the end of the 21st century. |
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Modelling rock wall permafrost degradation in the Mont Blanc massif from the LIA to the end of the 21st century. |
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Modelling rock wall permafrost degradation in the Mont Blanc massif from the LIA to the end of the 21st century. |
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modelling rock wall permafrost degradation in the mont blanc massif from the lia to the end of the 21st century. |
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