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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the changing state of European permafrost within a spatial zone that includes the continuous high latitude arctic permfrost of Svalbard and the discontinuous high altitude mountain permaffrost of Iceland, Fennoscandia and the Alps.

TL;DR: In this paper, the potential response of rockglacier creep to a change in surface temperature is simulated using a one-dimensional thermomechanically coupled numerical model, and the authors conclude that increasing rock glacier temperatures may lead to a marked, but both spatially and temporally highly variablespeed-up, before asignificantlossoficecontentbymelt-outisabletoreducethedeformationrateofthefrozenmasstowardsits

TL;DR: In this article, the authors considered that the anthropogenic influences on the atmosphere could now and for the first time represent a major contributing factor to the observed glacier shrinkage at a global scale.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study was carried out in the Swiss Alps using two different approaches: (1) kinematic analysis of specific active rock glaciers, and (2) description of the altitudinal distribution of relict rock glaciers.

TL;DR: In this paper, three different techniques for detecting and quantifying mountain permafrost creep are compared: (1) rock glacier inventory and characterization from in situ indicators, (2) space-borne radar interferometry, and (3) digital processing of repeated airborne imagery.