Best practices for using electrical resistivity tomography to investigate permafrost

T Herring, AG Lewkowicz, C Hauck… - Permafrost and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) is a minimally invasive geophysical method that
produces a model of subsurface resistivity from a large number of electrical resistance …

Short-term cooling, drying, and deceleration of an ice-rich rock glacier

A Bast, R Kenner, M Phillips - The Cryosphere, 2024 - tc.copernicus.org
Observations in the European Alps show a long-term rise in rock glacier velocities, which is
often associated with increased air and ground temperatures and, more recently, water …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of rock glaciers environments combining structurally-coupled and petrophysically-coupled joint inversions of electrical resistivity and seismic …

M Pavoni, J Boaga, FM Wagner, A Bast… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
The degradation of mountain permafrost is well documented at many Alpine sites.
Geophysical techniques have been intensively used to monitor these sites, since permafrost …

Brief communication: Mountain permafrost acts as an aquitard during an infiltration experiment monitored with electrical resistivity tomography time-lapse …

M Pavoni, J Boaga, A Carrera, G Zuecco… - The …, 2023 - tc.copernicus.org
Frozen layers within the subsurface of rock glaciers are generally assumed to act as
aquicludes or aquitards. So far, this behavior has been mainly defined by analyzing the …

Pressurised water flow in fractured permafrost rocks revealed by joint electrical resistivity monitoring and borehole temperature analysis

M Offer, S Weber, M Krautblatter, I Hartmeyer… - …, 2024 - egusphere.copernicus.org
Rock slope instabilities and failures from permafrost are among the most significant alpine
hazards in a changing climate and represent considerable threats to high-alpine …

Pressurised water flow in fractured permafrost rocks revealed by borehole temperature, electrical resistivity tomography, and piezometric pressure

M Offer, S Weber, M Krautblatter, I Hartmeyer… - The …, 2025 - tc.copernicus.org
Rock slope instabilities and failures from permafrost rocks are among the most significant
alpine hazards in a changing climate and represent considerable threats to high-alpine …

Spectral induced polarization survey for the estimation of hydrogeological parameters in an active rock glacier

C Moser, U Morra di Cella, C Hauck… - The …, 2025 - tc.copernicus.org
Degrading permafrost in rock glaciers has been reported from several sites in the European
Alps. Changes in ground temperature and ice content are expected to affect the …

An empirically-derived hydraulic head model controlling water storage and outflow over a decade in degraded permafrost rock slopes (Zugspitze, D/A)

R Scandroglio, S Weber, T Rehm… - …, 2024 - egusphere.copernicus.org
While recent permafrost degradation in Alpine peri-and paraglacial slopes has been
documented in several studies, only restricted information is available on the respective …

Brief communication: On the potential of seismic polarity reversal to identify a thin low-velocity layer above a high-velocity layer in ice-rich rock glaciers

J Boaga, M Pavoni, A Bast, S Weber - The Cryosphere, 2024 - tc.copernicus.org
Seismic refraction tomography is a commonly used technique to characterise rock glaciers,
as the boundary between unfrozen and ice-bearing layers represents a strong impedance …

The Use of Textile Electrodes for Electrical Resistivity Tomography in Periglacial, Coarse Blocky Terrain: A Comparison With Conventional Steel Electrodes

A Bast, M Pavoni, M Lichtenegger… - Permafrost and …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) is widely used to map, characterize, and monitor the
ground in alpine and periglacial environments, where coarse blocky surfaces are often …