Sustainability

Water

Ice and glaciers

Glaciorisk

This is a research project promoted by the EC, with the participation of France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, which will last three years and which involves research institutes in the glaciology sector (for Italy CNR and Società Meteorologica Italiana). The aim of the project is to identify the dangers and risks connected with glaciers, identifying the most dangerous glaciers in the Alpine range. The major risks connected with glaciers are, besides the mentioned surge and jökulhlaup,, also the collapse of seracs or extensive parts of ice and avalanches consisting of ice deposits, that in the case of LIA lateral moraines, can even be dozens of metres high.